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Parky
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Installed OFF/P2 on a friend's system Thursday night. Took a quick peek at his basic hardware array. Gateway desktop sporting an Athlon 5000 Dualcore, 20" LCD, 2 Gig of RAM, and an Nvidia 6200LE GPU. I was also thrilled to see he was running Vista Premium...32bit.
With my eyes mostly on the video card (which I think can justifiably be considered LOW end) I told him right up front that I expected his system to struggle even at lower settings. (Frankly I thought we'd be in for a bit of a slideshow). Was also a bit nervous about installing on Vista for the first time.
We killed his UAC and proceeded with the install. I took the precaution of making sure we ran everything as admin (just in case his UAC wasn't quite deceased). The install was a breeze. Didn't even have to worry about registering the dreaded dynamic library link....was already present on the system. Tweaked out his cfg to exactly the same way I have mine set up at home, left all sliders on 2 (could have bumped these up a bit probably but just didn't have time) and with baited breath, took OFF on a freeflight.
His first comment was "wow....this is the best looking flightsim I've ever seen. The detail level is just amazing". Just for the record, he owns a slew of similar software. FSX, FS2004, IL2 etc.
In the final analysis, the game ran slicker than shyt and looked fabulous. Average of 30FPS, crisp graphics and not even a single stutter.
Sooooo.......if anybody is hesitant to put their name on the waiting list for Phase III due to suspect hardware, you might want to reconsider. If you have a system that is somewhere close to the one we just tested out, you should be good to go. You don't NEED an Intel Quadcore Extreme 9770, 16 Gig of DDR3 and a GTX280 Superclocked SLI setup.
As per Murray's suggestion in another thread, you still may just have to buy your wife some jewellery though
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Cheers,
Parky
With my eyes mostly on the video card (which I think can justifiably be considered LOW end) I told him right up front that I expected his system to struggle even at lower settings. (Frankly I thought we'd be in for a bit of a slideshow). Was also a bit nervous about installing on Vista for the first time.
We killed his UAC and proceeded with the install. I took the precaution of making sure we ran everything as admin (just in case his UAC wasn't quite deceased). The install was a breeze. Didn't even have to worry about registering the dreaded dynamic library link....was already present on the system. Tweaked out his cfg to exactly the same way I have mine set up at home, left all sliders on 2 (could have bumped these up a bit probably but just didn't have time) and with baited breath, took OFF on a freeflight.
His first comment was "wow....this is the best looking flightsim I've ever seen. The detail level is just amazing". Just for the record, he owns a slew of similar software. FSX, FS2004, IL2 etc.
In the final analysis, the game ran slicker than shyt and looked fabulous. Average of 30FPS, crisp graphics and not even a single stutter.
Sooooo.......if anybody is hesitant to put their name on the waiting list for Phase III due to suspect hardware, you might want to reconsider. If you have a system that is somewhere close to the one we just tested out, you should be good to go. You don't NEED an Intel Quadcore Extreme 9770, 16 Gig of DDR3 and a GTX280 Superclocked SLI setup.
As per Murray's suggestion in another thread, you still may just have to buy your wife some jewellery though
.Cheers,
Parky