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What FS would work on this system?

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OBIO

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I am rebuilding a computer for my neighbor's sons. It's a Celeron 1.6g based system, with 512meg of Ram, shared video memory with onboard graphics chip. This is one of those HP Pavillion Slimline systems....about the size of a shoe box...so adding a video card is out of the question. Increasing the RAM is possible if I can find some for a cheap enough price.

The boys are interested in flight simming...I have hooked them up with Wings Over Vietnam for now, but they are more interested in a pure flight sim....I know that FS2004 is out of the question...so would FS2002 or FS2000 be the better sim to look for a copy of given this system's current specs?

OBIO
 
That's pretty close to what my system was brand new 8 years ago, but I had 64g Geforce 440MX video card. Mine was built based on tripling the pre-release CFS 3 specs and had a Athlon XP 2000 running at 1.7g, 512mg RAM and the 440MX card. I've done some upgrades to it since then, but it's still running that same CPU.

Although built for it, I never could get CFS 3 to run smoothly on it, so I started flying FS9. Out of the box, it was fairly smooth with my old specs.

Any idea on what the graphics chip is?
 
Hey Obio,

Looking at the specs on the FS 2002 box you should be able to run FS 2002. I used to run FS 2000 on a Pentium III with a S3 Savage video card, if I remember correctly.

Regards,
Stratobat
 
Willy

The graphics chipset is the Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Express. Currently set to use a max of 128meg of system RAM.

Once I can find some PC3200 DDR2 mem sticks for a decent enough price, I will take the system memory up to at least a Gig from the current 512meg...that should enhance performance a bit.

HD is a SATA 160gig...so plenty of room for FS2002 and a nice collection of add ons. I found FS2002 on Newegg for $9.99 with free shipping.

I have a spare joystick sitting in the closet for the boys to use. A Saitek Cyborg Graphite. Used for less than 2 weeks. No twist grip for rudder control...but definitely good enough to get them started flight simming.

OBIO
 
Hey All,

I'd suggest you try FS9. Don't "turn em off" with old graphics. They've seen what other games can look like. FS9 is up to speed enough that they hopefully don't lose interest (they might anyway) as it's not much of a 1st person shooter. So I'd try FS9 and see.

-Ed-
 
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