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JonnyKoala
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:24 pm 
I have just bought FS2004 - triffic. I am running it on a Dell 2.66GHz with a 128MB graphics card and 512MB RAM. I want to increase my resolution of scenery and weather effects, but it's really slowing my frame rate down.

I was wondering whether slapping in another 256MB or even 512MB of RAM would make a substantial difference? Look forward to some advice from you experts!
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:55 pm 
As long as your motherboard can take more, use it.
Bump it up as much as possible, 1 gig with that CPU would be great. I've seen many "home built" machines listed with 2 gig's of ram, that's pushing it but it's a cheap investment compared to others.
What 128mb card do you have.

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JonnyKoala
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:27 pm 
Thanks RadarMan.

Graphics card is a NVidia GeForce FX5200. Not sure if this is any good, but am hoping it's got enough power to handle FS2004.
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:32 pm 
Part of this and another post deal with that card.
http://flyawaysimulation.com/postt1558.html

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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:34 pm 
Anonymous wrote:
Part of this and another post deal with that card.
http://flyawaysimulation.com/postt1558.html

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Thats me, I forgot to sign back in.

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Turtle5x5
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:10 pm 
That video card "fx 5200" is really poor. I had a geforce 4 4200Ti and replaced it with a 5200 thinking it would be better. It's not! It was slower! I then got a 5700 ultra which is faster than the 4200Ti. Now I have a ATI 9800 pro which I'm pretty happy with.

The point is, That card will give you poor frame rates no matter how much RAM you have.
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tomthetank
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:01 am 
Laughing Before you bin the card have a read of this earlier post regarding a fx5200 Arrow

http://flyawaysimulation.com/postt1121.html

These exact settings may not work on your pc ......but try and start there and lower things bit by bit if its not right

I hope it helps(as it may save you £££$$$)
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Scondy1
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:18 am 
JonnyKoala wrote:
I have just bought FS2004 - triffic. I am running it on a Dell 2.66GHz with a 128MB graphics card and 512MB RAM. I want to increase my resolution of scenery and weather effects, but it's really slowing my frame rate down.

I was wondering whether slapping in another 256MB or even 512MB of RAM would make a substantial difference? Look forward to some advice from you experts!




YES THAT should MAKE THE FRAME RATE BETTER BUT WHAT I DO IS WHENEVER I'M WORKING WITH WATER I MAKE THE WATER RES BETTER AND THE SAME WITH LAND.
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The-GPS-Kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:38 am 
HI there - Guarantee you'll find a positive difference with 1024Mb ... My friend upgraded from 512 to 1024 DDR RAM and Flight Sim rund amazingly on his system
David.

i7 2600k, 8GB DDR3 RAM, HD 5770 1GB, Win 7 64bit
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