Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support |
Upgrading to FS2004 |
DVA3051
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on April 11 2006
Eastern Canada
3 legs, 9.7 hours
|
Posted onPost created on
April 13 2006 15:00 ET by Paulo Pereira
|
Hi Everyone! So, I'm generating flight plans in Super Flight Planner. I enjoy using the SFP, and it did it's part. But when I go to load the .pln file that contained my flight plan, FS2002 freezes up.
I'm even thinking that it's not FS2002 that is the issue, maybe my CPU. I know that once I hit load, FS2002 uses 100% of my CPU. I let it run all last night, 8 hours later, nothing had changed.
Si I'm thinking of moving up to FS2004....I'm thinking the components that would most impact the usage of FS2004 would be the Processor (CPU), Memory, and Graphics Card. These are the components I'm thinking of upgrading first. Am I right? Would a fast CPU, 1GB of memory, and a solid Graphics Card with 256mb DDR3 (XFXGF6800GS) do the trick to run FS2004 nice and smoothly?
Paulo PereiraFirst Officer, B757-200
|
|
DVA1427
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on December 14 2003
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Globetrotter
Moose Club
US Capital Club
Everett 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Livin' in the Dog Pound!" Kannapolis, NC
558 legs, 1,984.3 hours
250 legs,
611.8 hours online 384 legs,
1,530.5 hours ACARS 38 legs,
82.7 hours event
|
Posted onPost created on
April 13 2006 15:57 ET by Lewis Gregory
|
Yes, Paulo, that should work well. I have an Athlon XP 2500, 1 GB PC2700 RAM, and a 128 MB GF6600GT 8x AGP, and while I can't always run FS2004 smoothly, I can run it. However, I think you'll find that FS2004 will use 100% of your CPU time as well, it does on mine.
Lewis GregorySenior Captain, MD-11
|
|
DVA3051
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on April 11 2006
Eastern Canada
3 legs, 9.7 hours
|
Posted onPost created on
April 13 2006 16:18 ET by Paulo Pereira
|
Thanks Lewis!
I'm thinking along the lines of an Intel Pentium 4 650 3.4GHz CPU, 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz RAM, and the ATI All-In-Wonder 2006 256mb AGP graphics card. Although, I'm so eyeing the BFG GeForcePX7800GS OC!
Paulo PereiraFirst Officer, B757-200
|
|
DVA2960
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 17 2005
"Hey! Watch out for that ...." Southeastern United States
21 legs, 17.7 hours
20 legs,
16.5 hours online 18 legs,
13.6 hours ACARS
|
Posted onPost created on
April 13 2006 16:57 ET by Ken Jones
|
im running a 3.4 gig intel with 1 gig of ram and it ran my fs2k4 fine with my pci-e 6800gt until i put my other two cards in it should work for you.
My other two vid cards are pci 5200 duel head cards. I use them for guages. ( building a flightsim )
|
DVA3051
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on April 11 2006
Eastern Canada
3 legs, 9.7 hours
|
Posted onPost created on
April 13 2006 17:06 ET by Paulo Pereira
|
Wow, Ken! That's becoming quite the power house there!!
I'd be happy right now with just getting FS2004, downloading some nice payware AC, scenery, AFCADs and weather (and of course them pesky flight plans!!!) and still have FS2004 run smoothly.
Paulo PereiraFirst Officer, B757-200
|
|
DVA2749
Captain, CRJ-200
E-MAIL
Joined on December 16 2005
"If you can't beat em, join em MD80s!" Eastern Canada
11 legs, 9.4 hours
7 legs,
5.0 hours online
|
Posted onPost created on
April 15 2006 23:23 ET by Max Udaskin
|
wait for FSX
Max UdaskinCaptain, CRJ-200
|
|
DVA1763
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on June 29 2004
Everett 250 Club
Online Six Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Seven Century Club
Oklahoma City, OK
723 legs, 2,015.0 hours
645 legs,
1,824.0 hours online 585 legs,
1,608.7 hours ACARS 10 legs,
44.8 hours event 740 legs, 2,044.9 hours total
|
Posted onPost created on
April 15 2006 23:28 ET by Steve Pickle
|
I say don't wait. If you don't like things running SLOW... then you will hate FSX.
|
DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
|
Posted onPost created on
April 15 2006 23:36 ET by George Lewis
|
I'm running a 3.4 GHz with a 7800 GT card and 2GB of RAM and I rarely have frame rate issues. I am usually in the 45-70 fps range and I run the active sky 6 program which is frame rate intensive. I can even use the add-on airports that are usually frame rate killers with really no issues.
|