Fs 2004

I have an AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core, 4gb ram and a GeForce 9600GT Graphics Card, I can run FSX with the sliders maxed out. As you can see my system is not the best, or the latest on the market but it can handle it fine.

The graphics are good. This is a Bell UH1 and some scenery. I think the frame rate is about 20. The differential brakes in the bottom left corner is an anomaly of the rudder pedals.

Define…”is great”…?

I spent £600 (Convert to $ as you wish!) and it runs FSX terribly. I know people who spent twice that and it runs acceptably.

I suppose it depends in whether you want it to look good or not 🙂

Go for the upgrade if you can afford it. I paid a little over $500 for a new computer (maybe it will be a bit more in the UK). Later I added a Radeon video card. FSX works at the maximum settings and is great.

Hi
Thinking of FS2004 because I have heard that X needs a powerfull PC and I would have to spend a lot up grading my PC.
Thanks for all the replys to my post.
Cheers
Jeff.

Yes, it’s not a resource hog! It’s like Windows XP to Vista, Vista was newer, but didn’t run on low-end PC’s like XP did 🙂

Just curious as to why the OP isn’t using the latest version and if I am missing something, i.e. is there something is FS2004 that I don’t know about?

Not sure if that question was directed at me or the OP, but I’ll give my answer! Because I have about 100FPS in FS9, to have those setting in FSX I get…ermmm…12 🙂

FSX has stunning graphics if you turn them up, but you need a powerful processor, a lot of memory and a fast graphics card to run it!

Why don’t you try FSX?

Yes, it does.

Looks something like this, too.

http://chrisglobe.com/hosting/images/sky3cpc.png

I think it should run fine on windows 7, however I would advise visiting the AVSIM forums to get a definite answer

http://www.avsim.com/

Regards

Nic

FS9

its slightly more complicated than that. you put the downloaded folder into FS9/Aircraft. copy the sound, gauges and panel subfolders into their folders on the FS9 (FS2004) index. textures should be ok to stay there although i stand to be corrected on that. sound, gauges and pael may only have one iten in that folders which means they dont have to be copied

hope this helps
alex (spock)

Shack zip file

I have twice downloaded this file from the FS site and it will not load.Says “Air file”damaged or corrupted,there are a couple of years between downloads so something is not quite right,can anyone help with this?After downloading do you simply put it in FS2004 and thats it or is it more complicated?

http://www.flightsim.com
Go to search files
Look under Paul Foster

Hi to those who have been trying to help me with my computer freezing on 2004 problem, I think I have found out why it does it. I have done a complete re-install of the program and let the installation set the default setting for my machine and sure enought it froze within a minute. I took all the graphic settings down to the absolute minimum and so far it has been going for over 4 hours with no proglems. So I am now increasing it in steps to find out where I can get the best settings without locking up. Now to learn how to fly the thing.
Cheers.

Hi and thanks for the advice you have been trying to help me with, A new Graphics card is on my list especially when MSX is released as I am looking forward to the improved scenery and planes. I am still messing about with FS 2002 which seems to run fine on both machines and still learning to fly as best as can. I think I am going to re-install 2004 on again and try the very lowest settings and see what that happens there. I was looking at the GFX cards that was recomended in the PC Pilot mag but the prices are a bit steep even for me at the moment. I can never seem to get as good detail on the screen as seen in the magazines. Although I usually get ATI cards I think I might try an Nvidia next time. I will also try removing the MS Joystick and see what that does.

4MB Video??? That must have struggled.

Surley you mean 64MB?

Nope, I really had 4MB. It dit work, quite well. Scenery was the lowest settings possible and the aircraft had the highest settings possible. It still ran at 30-40 fps 😎

it may be, as you said, something to do with the graphics card. the motherboard, being an ‘SLI’ (i.e. designed to take two graphics cards) may not like the single x700 card that you have.

its annoying that your old graphics card (the 9600) is an ‘AGP’ card – if it was PCI-Express (which your new card is, and which your new motherboard accepts) then you could test your old card on your new motherboard. that would have been the solution – or atleast it would have highlighted the problem.

i would suggest looking into a new graphics card but be careful on your choice, ensuring that the new card likes your new motherboard and vice versa – look on the net (try computer hardware forums) to see which cards are known to work well with your ‘MSI KN8 neo 4 sli’ board, and cards which are not. but do your research to avoid making an expensive mistake.

on top of that, i don’t think that your hard drive is the problem – being the size that it is (250gb) it suggests that its a fairly new drive (model), and most certainly should not have problems running FS.

hope that helps 🙂

FS2004 also worked on my old pc – 1GHz, 384mb RAM, 4mb video and 10GB HD.

4MB Video??? That must have struggled.

Surley you mean 64MB?

I think a new harddrive doesn’t change anything. This is my 3rd (!) harddisk in my laptop and FS2k4 has worked on all 3 (I had a couple of rotten harddisks). They were all 40GB and now I have a 60GB with a 250GB external.

FS2004 also worked on my old pc – 1GHz, 384mb RAM, 4mb video and 10GB HD.

Anyway, good luck with finding a solution.