Good Enough To Run FS9?

[ViperPilot]

Howdy!

My 'old school' P4 Desktop, which I've had FS9 installed on for years, has finally Gone West.

I've now been contemplating installing FS9 on my Dell laptop, but was wondering if it has enough firepower to run FS9 with:

- Default Setup (AI, FSRealWX, ATC).

- Freeware Scenery Enhancements (Basic Water, a couple of small Mesh Areas for Denver, Canyonlands & Alaska, but not on the order of Taburet or Holger)

- Default Aircraft, Freeware (Shupe, Gladden, MJ's C-47, etc.), Payware A/C (Carenado C-206, C-182, Virtavia Long EZ, for example).

Now, the 411 on the Laptop:

Dell Studio 1558 (Vostro 3700)
Core I5 M240 2.4GHz
4Gb RAM
ATI Radeon 5000HD 1Gb GPU (standalone)
200Gb HD for FS (500Gb HD with 2 partitions; 240Gb - O/S, 240Gb - Data)
Win 7 Pro 64 bit

I would like to hear your Comments and Recommendations, but please go easy on me!

Thanks for looking!

Alan

[OldAirmail]

Just going be the year that FX9 & the Dell laptop were released I'd say that there would be no problem at all.

Someone back in 2004 would have said that you had a high end gaming computer.


It probably doesn't need it, but you could get a very nice boost by swapping out the hard drive with a sub $100 SSD.

Right now you could get a NEW Kingston Digital 240GB SSD drive for $85.

And as you have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, you could replace the memory with two 4GB simms.

FS9 can't use that much memory, but it would be available for other programs outside of the flight sim.

Also, that Radeon in the laptop will be able to run your Laptop screen AND your old monitor for instruments or Plan-G.


At that point the people back in 2004 would all agree that you had a very high end gamming laptop.


But just as it is should be good enough. Still, get that Kingston SSD.

[Fozzer]

Like most things, Alan....

You could always give it a try!

Dear old FS 2004 will run on almost anything!

My previous Dell P4, dual core, 2.8 GHz, Tower Computer ran my FS 2004 as smooth as a baby's bottom!... ...!

Paul... ...!

Mind you...I still wouldn't be without my big-old, super-dooper, Tower Computer and Monitor, for all my many games!.... ...!

[ViperPilot]

Paul,

Thanks for the good word! The rig that gave up the ghost was a Single Core 3.0, with 2Gb of RAM and XP SP3; it ran FS9 very well.

'Give it a go' is the phrase of the day, so be it!

Alan