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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:18 am Post subject: My video card good enough?

ok i've been playing FS2004 for about a month (still troulbe landing)

any its a Nividia GeForce2 MX 100/200.0

(sorry dont know much about computer hardware

im asking because the game skips and sounds go skippy at times (especilly on landing)

but if more info is needed then ill find it out.

ps..im new here!

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject:

Its a majorly outdated card you need a new 1 and it might be ram 2, right click on my computer icon and click properties post system info here

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:19 am Post subject:

What are you system specs?

And yes, that card is soooooo obsolete. I'm surprised that card still functions today.

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

MY computer INformation:

Window XP professional

Intel (R)

Pentium (R) 4 CPU 1700MHz
1.71 GHz 256MB of RAM

hope this helps

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:01 am Post subject:

well, that card is really old. 256mb of RAM is not a whole lot either. How old is this computer and who is the maufacturer? Ram, proccessor, and graphics card are contributing factors to your problem. Turn down your settings in the game, usually traffic and weather are the frame rate killers. Also get a program called SmartClose, it is free and will close all not needed tasks that the computer is running even though you can't see them. Also if you were thinking about getting a computer wait, the new Windows Vista, along with directX 10 incorperated systems should be here around April or May.(give or take a month)

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:09 am Post subject:

Ye ram is major drag!!!! I suggest get at least a 1gb stick its around 39.99 and upgrade it the card itslef is not 2 great but if you upgrade ram you can run it good

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:28 am Post subject:

Well...price really depends on the type of RAM. There is a big difference in price and performance between PC133 and PC3200 RAM. Yet there is a HUGE difference between DDR and DDR2 RAM.

So...I don't know what RAM is begin referred to.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:05 am Post subject:

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

Not to disrespect your mother, but VISTA is not out yet, so she cannot make a serious statement concerning it. Only the Beta version is out, and it WILL and does have bugs. So untill you have the released version, it is better to say nothing than to look........!!

As for your system, it depends. Do you know how to build one??? If so, then expect to spend about $1,000 for a very decent system from the ground up. And that is making it available for future upgrades.

If not, or you don't know anybody that can, then your stuck with buying a system built to your wants and desires. Or buy a prebuilt. Either way, your looking at close to $2,000 plus for one. ( and this considering a "gamers" must have style system ).

RD

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject:

Check out this link. I have never dealt with this company. Therefore, I can not tell you if they are good or bad. However, one of the contributors to Computer Pilot (my favorite magazine) wrote an excellent article in the November issue documenting what he thought are good requirements for a FSX machine.

I will provide my usual word of caution. The word on the street is not to run out to the bank or Daddy's bedroom to get money for a new computer until Vista and DX10 are out on the market and evaluated. A different contributor to Computer Pilot magazine (Navman) confers with these recommendations in the December issue.

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

PS: We have a beta version of Vista in our computer lab. These guys have been advising me to consider at least 2GB of RAM. RD made a very wise statement above when he stated that there is only a Beta version available and they are working to remove the bugs. As a Beta Team tester for FSX, I saw a lot of bugs and most of these bugs were removed before the final version was release. Cool

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

we payed about 2400 bucks on this machine now. We are probably not gonna be ordering a computer (especilly from CA when in live in canada) but those computer are off the wall!! they look futuristic.

I doubt a "new" one is in the future just an upgrade of this one.

im just asking what specs i "need" for a gaming computer.

my mom wont buy me fspassengers untill we get an upgrade Sad

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject:

I provided you with a link to Cyberpower so that you could check out the specifications listed for their "Gaming Computers". I realize that you were not planning to buy a new computer. This link will give you an idea of various configurations that they list for "Gaming Computers". My suggestion is for you to click on the box for "Custom Build Desktop Configuration" or "Configurators" and proceed from there by answering the various questions or by checking on the various hardware options to get a feel for the differences in the prices. Cool

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

http://www.alienware.com/promotion_pages/ultimateholiday/desktops.aspx

This is another site that caters to the gamers. You can use the information on the hardware as a source of reference as to what they use for their systems, and compare them to ones such as the one by Skipper.

Find a common bond between system hardware, and then find them at Tigerdirect, zipzoomfly, Toms Hardware, Newegg, etc. Then you can find out what it will cost to build your own, if that is an option.

RD