A Brand New FS2002

[georgethetee]

Yeah, who needs FS2004!   My Fs2002 is a whole new game now, with trucks and cars and all kind of details I never thought I;d see before FS2004 - only it's all on the stable 2002 platform, with no colour problems and bridges that actually go across rivers!

What happened was, having updated my system in preparation for 2004, I though I'd just try turning up all of the sliders inside 2002 - well, all accept auto-gen which I think is way OTT at max, so I set that at one below max.

Whole sim is now transformed, like a brand new game

[ozzy72]

Good for you George. When I got my Ti4600 a while back I maxed the sliders, and was amazed at the difference

Ozzy

[RollerBall]

OK chaps, errrrrrrr... I'll leave you to sort this out. I'm off for a cup of tea

[overandout]

 :o

Screenshot from FS 2004

             :o

[Scottler]

I've also been toying around with my sliders, and I was quite surprised when I didn't experience much of a frame hit....

In fact, I changed my fps settings from locked at 20 to locked at 40, and I'm still getting 40 FPS with most of the sliders at max!  I'm going to do some more tweaking tonight and see what I can get without taking too much of a hit.

George, which sliders have you maxed out?  Perhaps a screenshot of your settings screen might help here?

[ozzy72]

I think that landing was caused by either elastic band arrestor cables, or too much gin. Or possibly both Roger

Mark

[georgethetee]

Hyperion, I have maxed everything except as I mentioned auto-gen.  Even clouds now maxed.  Ooh, sorry - I always keep min view distance at 60, seeing as the horizon is only 16 miles away, I think that that is enough

[Scottler]

Thanks George, I can't wait to get home and check it out.  What are your system specs?

[RollerBall]

I think that landing was caused by either elastic band arrestor cables, or too much gin. Or possibly both Roger

Mark

Can't see the yardarm from that view

PS I doubt whether anyone who's not English will understand what that means at all!

[georgethetee]

Hyperion, sorry I forgot (and it always so annoys me when others do!)

I have an Athlon 2400 o/c to 2600 level

512Mb DDR 3200

Win98se

and just got an XFX 4200Turbo, now running at 301/696

[Scottler]

Cool...I should be able to get pretty decent performance out of mine:

2.0Ghz P4
640mb RAM
standard POS Dell Crappy Video Card


Thanks!

[overandout]

Wow!!
What a difference.  I have been tweaking too.  Raised frame rate (locked to 40) and flew with Radar Contact, Flt Keeper and FS Meteo.  Everything maxed except auto gen and visibility.   Even in heavy cloud (in France) rates didn't drop below 35-38fps.

Packard Bell P4 2.66 GHz, 512 Mb ram  Radeon 9000 128Mb.

I particularly liked the water set to max.  The reflections actually make waterways look like real water.

Regards
Roger

[logjam]

What a difference! I loaded FS 2K2 on my business Dell 2.6, has 1gb ram and NVIDEA 4. Whole new experience, I even loaded up the Beverley and had lots of fun at Brize Norton with frame rates up to 27.

[georgethetee]

Glad you skyhawks are finding same as I did.  I also find that, since I upgraded a little, I can now try not setting the Nvidia panel not to Performance, but to Quality, which makes an improvement on it's own.   Also, I now turn the Loss-of-Detail slider down to about -5.

Yup, I dont doubt FS2004 is a great game, but knowing my own perfectionist nature I think I would cringe every time I flew over one of those half-bridges and wrong coloured  sea would really bug me.   Theres nothing wrong with my FS2002 now