To upgrade now or ..................L8R

[Rifleman]

Well its just about time for me to ask,....are there many on here with less than I am using.....I see all the wonderful, clean, straight lines of guys screenshots and want some for myself....I think the upgrade is in the works..........
Presently I drive an AMD K6-II 450 with 320 megs of RAM and a 32 meg TNT card.....tons of free drive space too...surely there are some on here who don't make me feel inferior with this syster......Waddaya got ?

[BFMF]

I've got an AMD Athlon 1.4 with 514 mb of DDR PC2100 ram and a GeForce3 ti 500 video card.

I hope to upgrade soon

[ozzy72]

Compaq 3200 series - 766 Mhz PIII - 192 Mb RAM
Intergrated Intel 82810e Graphics card.
RAM cannot be increased as they don't make the strips for this anymore (If someone can explain this for me I'd be grateful). Something to do with old type and new type RAM strips (single and double sided?, maybe?)

The graphics are not suitable for CFS3, however I didn't find this out until I went to install (something that M$ forgat to tell us - CFS3 won't work on "shared memory" cards).

CFS2 will operate on the lower settings quite well, except for some downloaded missions which have heaps of activity. CFS1 & FS2000 are fine on top settings. Most of the time!!

There you go. I think yours is better than mine.  ;D ;D ;)

According to the recommended requirements on the CFS3 box, mine is well above the minimum (once again, of course, no mention of graphics being no good).  >:(

[ozzy72]

Hmm, PIII 1Ghz, 512mb RAM, 40Gig HD, some kinda soundcard (makes noise anyways!), a GeForce 2 (Ti4400 here any day now, its only a week late!)

Mark

[OakRaiders]

AMD-K6 (OLD SCHOOL) 350 MHZ Slow but it works for now ,I still am in the prosess of getting the latest version of AMD- CPU machine  :'(

[HawkerTempest5]

2Ghz Pentium 4 with 512mb ram, 40gb master and 10gb slave hdd, 64mb Kyro II graphics card. Eats the minimum CFS3 specs for brekfast, but won't run it at all
Runs CFS2 like a dream, especially since I added an extra 256mb just before Christmas.
As soon as I have enough spare cash, I'm getting a G-Force 4.

[Professor Brensec]

2Ghz Pentium 4 with 512mb ram, 40gb master and 10gb slave hdd, 64mb Kyro II graphics card. Eats the minimum CFS3 specs for brekfast, but won't run it at all
Runs CFS2 like a dream, especially since I added an extra 256mb just before Christmas.
As soon as I have enough spare cash, I'm getting a G-Force 4.

This could just be my complete computer illiteracy speaking, but I have CFS3 and have had CFS2 for 12 months, plus I've heard all the guff about the difficulties people are having, even with highend machines.

It seems to me, that with CFS2, apart from that extra bit of graphics quality that everyone seems to chase, the secret with CFS2, from a performance point of view is simply more RAM, the more the better.

My P.C is nowhere near highend but it's not crap either. The only questionable part of it is the Intel card and with more RAM I could handle any amount of activity on screen at high frame rates. I can get up to 60FPS in freeflight.  ;D

Whoops, this is really a Hardware comment, but then so is the topic, I suppose.

[HawkerTempest5]

It seems to me, that with CFS2, apart from that extra bit of graphics quality that everyone seems to chase, the secret with CFS2, from a performance point of view is simply more RAM, the more the better.

Hi brensec old pal! All M$ sims are a bit memory hungry. Since adding more ram, it just seams to run smoother.
I'm not a real expert on the subject (I built this PC though, with a lot of help and advice from a clever mate) but I often do little upgrades like adding a network card for my cable modem or adding ram and it is dead easy.

[Whitey]

OK:

P4, 1.9Ghz.
GeForce 3 Ti200.
Some sort of sound card...
768Mb od RAM
45Gb HD with a 26Gb backup drive and a 4Gb recover drive.

RAM is the key.  I used to have 256Mb...FS2002 ran at a maximum of 15fps...now I sometimes see 50fps, full settings and the largest screen resolution with 16bit colour.

[Woodlouse2002]

700mhz duron (heap of crap... going to get an athalon XP2000 next week... I hope...)
gF4 ti 4200
a noisy soundcard
256mb RAM (Gonna be doubled as soon as I recover from the new proccesor)
18.6gb HD (With under 500mb left)

[BFMF]

I just found out that AMD is coming out with an AMD AthlonXP 3000+!!!

[BMan1113VR]

okay here is the POS i am working with



P3, GenuineIntel 1.65 Ghz. Stepping 3
P780 on 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 Ver. 4.0
TBS Montego II MPU-401 (i think )
528Mb od RAM
98.7(100 they say)Gb HD

considering i got the actual computer in 96 its not that bad

the main advantage of my computer is it has a lot o memory

[Woodlouse2002]

I just found out that AMD is coming out with an AMD AthlonXP 3000+!!!

And how much will it be? I might save up and get one... but wait.... it ain't been released yet... sod it i'll get the XP2000... Still better than a P4 2.2 ghz!

[BFMF]

And how much will it be? I might save up and get one... but wait.... it ain't been released yet... sod it i'll get the XP2000... Still better than a P4 2.2 ghz!

I'm not sure how much it will be, although it'll probably be quite expensive at first. Hopefully I'll be able to get atleast an AthlonXP 2200 this summer

[Professor Brensec]

700mhz duron (heap of crap... going to get an athalon XP2000 next week... I hope...)
gF4 ti 4200
a noisy soundcard
256mb RAM (Gonna be doubled as soon as I recover from the new proccesor)
18.6gb HD (With under 500mb left)

Hey Woody,

How does your setup handle CFS3?

When you say "noisy" card, what exactly is noisy. Is it just the scratchy, clickering sound you get from the PCU when it's "working"? or something else.

P.S. With all the people on this and other threads that are updating whole systems or Graphics cards or processors, there should be alot of 2nd hand stuff around soon....................lol. But I'm in Aust.  >:(  
 ;D