Is my system up to spec?

[greenhorn]

Hi people,

Ordered FS2004 the other day, should be in the post by now.  However, I've got a question for you.
Being realistic, what are the minimum system specs to achieve an acceptable framerate in FS2004?

My computer in its current form has 2.7GHz processor with 256MB DDR, and a memory size of 80GB.  The graphics card is the one that came with the machine, an 'Integrated Intel Extreme' with 'up to 64MB dynamically shared video memory' whatever that means! (I'm not THAT much of a computer whizz!)

In case it matters, my hard drive is a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion model, dating from about 2004, running Windows XP.

Ta Muchly,

Seb

[wealthysoup]

Get a DEDICATED graphics card, 6600gt atleast id reccommend and another 512mb of ram

[mistercoffee1]

I originally had FS9 installed (in '03) in a system with a 1.4 Ghz Athlon and a Geforce 3 Ti500 video card (dedicated AGP card).
Then later, I installed it in a system with a 3.0 Ghz Pentium4 and integrated Intel graphics.

The game actually ran reasonably well in the latter (and in some cases better, which made me believe that the FS series are always processor hungry).

[greenhorn]

So I'm looking at RAM upgrades that are available, how on earth do I know which are compatible with my computer?

PC World has the following on offer...

- VALUE 512MB PC3200 DDR MEMORY
- VALUE 512MB PC2100 DDR DIMM MEMORY
- PNY 512MB PC2700 DDR DIMM MEMORY
- PNY512MB PC3200 512MB PC3200 DDR DIMM MEMORY
- VALUE 512MB PC2-4300 DDR2 DIMM MEMORY
- VALUE 512MB PC2-4300 DDR2 SODIMM MEMORY
- COMPONENT SHOP 512MB PC2100 DDR DIMM MEMORY
- COMPONENT SHOP 512MB PC2700 DDR DIMM MEMORY
- COMPONENT SHOP 512MB PC3200 DDR DIMM MEMORY
- PNY 512MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SODIMM MEMORY MODULE
- COMPONENT SHOP 512MB PC2-4300 DDR2 DIMM MEMORY

AAAGHH!!!  Bearing in mind that I've never done more than change a CD drive, I'm beginning to get that horrible feeling that this may be beyond me.  (And thats before graphics cards...)

:-?

Help please?  Please also bear in mind I don't really want to spend more than

[FlyinSolo]

[quote]

My computer in its current form has 2.7GHz processor with 256MB DDR, and a memory size of 80GB.

[ashaman]

My PC is in my sig, and as you can see we'0re more or less on an even keel. Basically, you lack on the graphic and memory side. Bring (or make a technician bring for you, if you know nothing about it) the main memory at at least 1Gb and add an as good as you can afford graphic card and your PC will give you only satisfactions in FS9.