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Running FSX on a laptop

Postby Daycab » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:49 pm

I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips for running FSX on my laptop, It's a 1,73 gig Dual Core with 3 gigs of ram and I'm not sure about the video card, but I don't think it's much.

Any suggestions would be helpful...


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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby Wii » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:51 pm

I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips for running FSX on my laptop, It's a 1,73 gig Dual Core with 3 gigs of ram and I'm not sure about the video card, but I don't think it's much.

Any suggestions would be helpful...


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I suggest FS9 ;) Will run much more smooth and there are plenty of addons out there that surpass fsx for fs9. Do find out what your graphics set is. You can find it under Device Manage>Display Adapters.
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby Meck » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:28 am

I'm running FSX on a Laptop (2GHz SingleCore and 1Gig RAM, X700 ATI Card); it works but I bet FS2004 would be better - since your system is far better than mine I'd give FSX a try!  ;)
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby expat » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:16 am

I run it on both desktop and lappy. My laptop is Acer TravelMate 7720, Duel core 2.2 Ghz with 2 Gig and a ATI 2400 XT graphic card. I run FSX at about 18 FPS with very reasonable graphic settings.

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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby tcco94 » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:37 pm

I also run fsx on a HP Pavilion dv2700..
Sometimes its skitchy most of the time its fine ;)
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby Rich H » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:03 am

I wouldn't overload FSX with add ons though, don't get too many.
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby Milo1272 » Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:01 am

I can run FSX on my laptop (Core Duo 1.66 GHz, 1 G Ram) but not very well.  I could not run Acceleration, however.  My integrated graphic card couldn't handle it.  Things are much better on my desktop.
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby RVA Fleet Manager » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:05 am

hey

I run FSX on a laptop and it works GREAT!

it's a HP DV-5
2.40GHz 2 Core(S) 4GB with nvidia card. i get 80FPS
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby FerrariF40lm » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:35 pm

i run fsx on my laptop on max settings except for like ground vehicals and i get no lag at all. I also got my catalyst control center settings to max on everything. The results are very pleasing and i do the same with every game except crysis which i have to run on low medium and some high settings.


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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby Flying Mouse » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:23 am

hey

I run FSX on a laptop and it works GREAT!

it's a HP DV-5
2.40GHz 2 Core(S) 4GB with nvidia card. i get 80FPS


80fps?

Lol must be having your sliders all to the left huh?

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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby flavio » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:02 am

hey

I run FSX on a laptop and it works GREAT!

it's a HP DV-5
2.40GHz 2 Core(S) 4GB with nvidia card. i get 80FPS


80FPS. mmm, that must be in the middle of the atlantic with the default cessna, no clouds, and most sliders around medium.


[quote]i run fsx on my laptop on max settings except for like ground vehicals and i get no lag at all. I also got my catalyst control center settings to max on everything. The results are very pleasing and i do the same with every game except crysis which i have to run on low medium and some high settings.


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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby FerrariF40lm » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:14 pm

its not a joke i run fsx on high settings, my graphics are set to max and aircraft detail is set to max, except weather, traffic and scenery is set to custom and ground objects like cars i set to min because im flying not driving and yes not everything is to the right and no the custom settings are actually at medium high settings and it just went to custom because i took off crap i dont want. i run about 15-30 fps depending on what im doing, and i dont need to run anything more than 25 fps for this type of game.

when i play games i want to look at a clear crisp picture not some blocky, edgy bs.  I dont know its just my laptop is just that good and it plays everything i throw at it. When i bought my laptop it had ATI's top of the line laptop graphics card which is now probably obsolete, but it does the job well.

i never wrote that i play crysis at max settings what i wrote was i "run on low, medium and some high settings."
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Re: Running FSX on a laptop

Postby flavio » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:43 am

[quote]its not a joke i run fsx on high settings, my graphics are set to max and aircraft detail is set to max, except weather, traffic and scenery is set to custom and ground objects like cars i set to min because im flying not driving and yes not everything is to the right and no the custom settings are actually at medium high settings and it just went to custom because i took off crap i dont want. i run about 15-30 fps depending on what im doing, and i dont need to run anything more than 25 fps for this type of game.

when i play games i want to look at a clear crisp picture not some blocky, edgy bs.
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