Help me with my graphics...PLEASE!!!

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Micah Captain
Joined: Mar 06, 2004 Posts: 512 Location: West Sussex, England
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Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:57 am

I have a sony vaio laptop, 2.6gig, 64mb graphics card - radeon shared memory, 512ddram and i cant upgrade at the mo so please help me get the best from my computer for flight sim as getting v low frame rates.
Desktop settings and settings within the gane would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Steve (whittingthong airlines) 😎

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Micah Captain
Joined: Mar 06, 2004 Posts: 512 Location: West Sussex, England
Answered
Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:05 am

I am allowing a friend to use my password etc as hasn't got time to set up his but will be joining soon!!
Off Topic!

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horrgakx First Officer
Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 297
Answered
Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:17 am

You'll need to check the spec of the graphics card, it may not be 3D Hardware Accelerated.

It's also essential to have the latest DirectX drivers and your card drivers installed.

D.

Stevewhittingthong Guest
Answered
Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:09 pm

My harddrive has a partition, and has 2 lots of 20gig. I have run flight sim on this machine fine before. However, the first half of my harddrive is nearly full to bursting, would this cause the sim to run slowly??

Cheers

Steve

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horrgakx First Officer
Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 297
Answered
Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:58 pm

Your drive being full could affect the swap file. Try getting rid of stuff - run Disk Cleanup and then Disk Defragmenter.

D.

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
Answered
Thu Jul 01, 2004 3:25 pm

I agree, the h/d has to be at least 20% free to defrag and at least half that amount of free space (swap space) to run the sim

Your card isn't the best to run the sim especially in a laptop.
Read this thread, it should help you.

https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/1680/optimal-graphics-settings/

Let us know how you do.

Radar

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