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Viable System Specifications

Postby Mass » Mon May 09, 2011 9:22 am

Hey all.

A few years ago I used to be a strong member here under a different name, I used to love FS too, especially around exam time! Nothing like some good old procrastination!

Anyway, I used to run FS2004 on my old system which crashed and burned in serious style a while ago. I think an issue with the motherboard occured and then my hard drive became corrupted. At a hefty cost I managed to get the stuff off it but since then I have been laptop based so lost touch with FS

My dad dropped a fairly dated desktop with me a while ago, he has just updated the computers at his office so it was going free.
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Re: Viable System Specifications

Postby Mass » Mon May 09, 2011 10:59 am

So I decide to have a look at the desktop we currently use at home... This seems A LOT more promising...

Motherboard - Packard Bell FIH57
CPU - Intel Core i3 CPU 530 @ 3GHz
RAM - 3GB
Graphics Card - Intel HD Graphics, 733MHz, 32MB
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium

Graphics card replacement maybe all I need?
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Re: Viable System Specifications

Postby F35LightningII » Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:47 pm

Graphics card replacement maybe all I need?


That's exactly what I would suggest. Everything else should be fine for FSX.
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