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Hi there,
I was just looking for some input with regards to the effectiveness of switching to a new sound card opposed to my onboard sound.

I have a celeron 1.7g, 384mg ram and a gforce mx440 64 mg video card. I get acceptable performance bordering on good in FS2002, but I am going to be upgrading to FS2004 and it sounds like I will need all the help I can get.

Now before you say more ram instead, I know, I just can't. I have a PCI slot and that is all it will take.

I get stuttering sound around clouds sometimes in FS2002 and I was wondering if a new sound card would help my current situation and possibly my situation when I get FS2004.

Basically, will it make much of a difference?

Thanks
Eric

Does your framerate drop when you are getting stuttered sound? If it does open the game and disable the audio.. go near some clouds where the sound would normally stutter and see if the framerate drops.
And also see if your overall performance improves with the sound disabled. That will probably verify if you need a new soundcard or not.

Also I recemend a newer video card.

good luck.

Onboard sound takes processor performance.. no wonder it stutters when there are a lot of clouds

the mx440 isnt horrible, I would kill myself if I had one but they arent the worst card around.