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"GeoffC" <geoff_noise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:25:59 +0100
Some things I'll pay for if it's good.
Yes I totally agree. Although I really hate it when you pay for it and
the developer drops support like a hot potato. That seems to happen to
me a lot. Or the software or service is just terrible.
BTW, I just saw your signature and wonder how you manage to run FS.
Is this a different machine?
While I have 5 machines here running Windows (many others that don't).
But no, this is my FS2004 and FS2002 machine. Some believe that you need
a beefy system to run FS9. And some with many times more powerful
machine sometimes complain here that they need help because their frame
rate has dropped down to 4 or 5 FPS.
Well I can't fly with that low of a frame rate. And I am not sure how
they got those powerful machines into that much trouble. But I always
had this knack for tweaking things out and have the ability to do the
same with less than most people. As my frame rates with FS9 are
generally 15 to 20 in high congestion areas. Although I don't use fancy
weather conditions which hurts a lot here. Although everything else runs
fine, including traffic and all.
Not long ago, I was using a HP PIII 533MHZ with a SiS315E video card
with just 256MB of computer RAM with FS9. While FS2002 ran very well on
this machine, FS9 would only run well in low congestion areas. So I am
not any magician or anything, as when you get too underpowered, there
are just so many tweaks you could pull off. <grin>
My Celeron 400MHZ laptops can't run anything higher than FS98 (aka
v6.1). The frame rate is generally 20FPS or higher. Although if they
used a better video card, I could improve this a lot. But most laptops
aren't upgradeable. Including these I have unless I want to use an
external monitor and a PC Video Card. But a Celeron 400MHZ running
FS2002 or FS2004? No I don't think so. I'm good, but not that good!
<grin>
Although you now have me curious. And I love to hear about your machine.
Cheers!
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Bill (using a HP AMD 1.2GHZ & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000