How good is my computer?

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jetsmell

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When I finally solve my joy stick issue ( see prior post ) I was wondering how good my computer is to handle the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. From a scale of 1-10 how would you rate it?
 
it has no graphics card listed do it's a 0-2, not sure how it plays with intel HD but won't be getting good settings
 
jonny, did you look up the game?

You should be able to max it out even with integrated graphics. It calls for 450Mhz processor and 8MB 3D GPU, which would put it back to a MX2 or the like (maybe before). HD3000 is along the lines of a 8400GT iirc, which is well over thrice the power it is asking for.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823627
 
Yeah 2004 should be fine. I ran that on my old piece of crap computer with an 8400GS and a Pentium 4.
 
They all were really demanding (as for the versions, there have been quite a few. I know I played a DOS/95 based one back in elementary school.). For 2004 to max it, you probably need something along the lines of a Pentium 4 3GHz or so and a G80/R600 based GPU (or an upper end G71/R520), which is pretty high for 2004. For sure it is single threaded, so count that as easy.
 
As far as I know there was 95, 98, 2004, and FSX. FSX is really demanding even today (my guess is just badly optimized). 2004 would run on any semi modern computer out today without any issues.
 
not even close. The original version was 1.0 back in the mid 80s. It has ran up to version 10 (fsX) which was released in 2006ish.
 
wolfeking said:
not even close. The original version was 1.0 back in the mid 80s. It has ran up to version 10 (fsX) which was released in 2006ish.
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Let me emphasize AS FAR AS I KNOW. I know there are way more than what I listed. But those are the ones I knew off the top of my head.
 
I've run FS 2004 on a 8400 GS and it was all right. Should run OK.

As for maxxing FS 2004. I've got a custom built PC which was built specifically for FS 2004. It has an Athlon 64 3700+, 1GB of DDR RAM and it did have a Radeon X800 XT Platinum before it died. That setup maxxed out FS 2004.
 
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