Which version of FS should I get?

[Gray Malkin 1057648]

I have a laptop and want to know if an older vesion of FS will run better than FSX.

 

My setup:

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  Dual core 1.73GHz Intel Pentium Processor
  2GB Ram
  SATA Hard Drive (It may hold some relevance?!)
  256MB Graphics card
  

 

At the highest quality FSX gives me 1.2fps

 

I apriciate your help

 

 

 

Regards,

Gray Malkin

[Alex Vainer 929287]

I have slightly higher equipment than that, 1.8ghz processor, 512 mb vid car, and about 3 gigs of RAM. FS2004 I get about 40 locked not online, and about 30-40 online. Textures load kind of slow, ONLY in high traffic areas.

 

I like the setup.

[Erhan Atesoglu 1050499]

Definitely FS9.. you should get at least 20 fps locked...

[Garry Morris 920567]

I'd third the suggestion for trying FS9.

[Joshua Black]

Your laptop certainly won't be able to handle FSX very well. FS9 should do fine.

[Michael Pare 925029]

Stick with FS9 until you can get a serious machine as FSX is very demanding. I fly FS9 on a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 1.8 gig processor and mine runs pretty well.

[Gray Malkin 1057648]

Now you see I have FSX, and am quite dissapointed I didn't get FS2004 instead. Thanks anyway guys, I'll have to spend some more money![/i]

 

Also, will it run on Vista?

[Paul Heaney 879309]

OUCH! That happens when you ignore the advice people give

 

FS9 Runs on VISTA. Good Luck.

[Gray Malkin 1057648]

OUCH! That happens when you ignore the advice people give

 

FS9 Runs on VISTA. Good Luck.

Ahhh ahh ahh... Now I had FSX before I posted this thread, I wondered if I should downgrade, and I think perhaps I should

[Larry James 901346]

OUCH! That happens when you ignore the advice people give

 

FS9 Runs on VISTA. Good Luck.

Ahhh ahh ahh... Now I had FSX before I posted this thread, I wondered if I should downgrade, and I think perhaps I should

 

Hi, Gary. If you’re concerned about spending them money to downgrade, maybe you should consider looking at some of the FSX forums for suggestions on how to get the best out of what you have. We don’t have a forum specifically for FSX on VATSIM. It’s kind of hard to discuss FSX without the FS9 enthusiast bashing it. Looking at your specs, you can get substantially better performance than what you’ve indicated. Did you install the service packs? My performance more than doubled from the FSX stock to SP2.

 

Turn most of your sliders far to the left. Then pick various components to increase based on some of your visual preference.

 

Because a forum like avsim.com has both an FS9 and an FSX forum, most of the FS9 users share their experience in the FS9 forum. Your FSX [Mod - Happy Thoughts]istance will be more likely to come from FSX users.

 

I understand that your question was to both FS9 and FSX users, in this thread. But again, I don’t want to debate which is better, but to tell you that I have good experience with FSX, and you might consider spending some time optimizing what you have.

 

Many FS9 users would probably tell you to ditch FSX even if you had a computer with the power of a CRAY.

 

-- L. James

 

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[tom van der elst]

 

Many FS9 users would probably tell you to ditch FSX even if you had a computer with the power of a CRAY.

 

No,I'd tell him I like FS9 best but that it really comes down to what he likes.

That definately is not something I decide.

 

cheers

 

Tom.

[Gray Malkin 1057648]

Thanks guys, as it turns out I have 386 MB graphic, yay a whole 128 MB, and I have tweaked FSX to death, so I think i may get away with my sins I have the service packs and use normal FSX planes as I have heard that some of them are comebersome :/ Thanks again, and stop bashing FSX, its good (I think)

 

Perhaps I should just get X-Plane