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| 377247 | 2005-08-01 07:32:00 | A friend of mine is thinking of loaning me his MS Flight Sim 2004 discs so I can check out the game, and use it for a week or so. I am wondering, will my grafix card (nVidia GeForce4 MX440) handle the game ok? The MS site says yes, but I was wondering has anyone used this grafix card with this type of game? My mate has also offered the short term use of his joystick, should I use it, or is the keyboard better? My system also has a 2.6 P4 with 512MB RAM on a MSI P4MAM mobo |
Myth (110) | ||
| 377248 | 2005-08-01 08:06:00 | Shuld run fine.The boy has it running on an 800Mhz pc. And the joystick is easier to use. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 377249 | 2005-08-01 09:50:00 | Joystick is necessary. Keyboard is completely and utterly useless for the game. Your comp. will run it OK, but you will not get anyway near good graphics. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 377250 | 2005-08-01 10:08:00 | So I take it that this is a borrowed copy? MSFlightSim is not shareware for your information. Those of us who go down to the shop and BUY MS Software pay the retail price and install it after very carefully checking the fine print on the outside of the box before we buy it. Microsoft have been known to understate the REAL specifications you need to play the game and ENJOY it. However I do not condone software piracy which is what I think you are trying to do with a friends' copy. If all people actually bought the software then there is a chance that the price will actually come down. At this place I run MS Flight Sim (an older version) on a AMD3200+ with 1 Gig RAM and on board graphics for the moment. Two other Microsoft Games I run quite happily are Links2001 and Crimson Skies. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 377251 | 2005-08-01 10:13:00 | However I do not condone software piracy which is what I think you are trying to do with a friends' copy.If I was going to rip it, I wouldn't rip my mates copy. I know that its not shareware, but if hes uninstalled it, and I use it for a short time then uninstall it, then theres no harm done. I had intended (if all had gone well) to find a copy on TradeMe Microsoft have been known to understate the REAL specifications you need to play the game and ENJOY it.I know this, they did it with their O/S's. This is why I asked the question Thanx JJJJ and Neil Mc |
Myth (110) | ||
| 377252 | 2005-08-01 10:24:00 | If I was going to rip it, I wouldn't rip my mates copy. I know that its not shareware, but if hes uninstalled it, and I use it for a short time then uninstall it, then theres no harm done. I had intended (if all had gone well) to find a copy on TradeMe I know this, they did it with their O/S's. This is why I asked the question Thanx JJJJ and Neil Mc Yes but you had not mentioned what your intentions were in the first post which is why I asked the question. Nowhere in your post did you say that your Mate was going to uninstall did you? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 377253 | 2005-08-01 10:26:00 | Yes but you had not mentioned what your intentions were in the first post which is why I asked the question. Nowhere in your post did you say that your Mate was going to uninstall did you?This is true, but then you assumed before I made myself clear. A wise man once say... assumption is the mother of all cock-ups |
Myth (110) | ||
| 377254 | 2005-08-01 12:16:00 | So, having established that Tazz is operating on try-before-you-buy and is not in fact, running an MSFS bulk pirating operation out of his garage, we move on to the important stuff .... i12.photobucket.com .... namely that to crank up FS and enjoy it, you've got to spend a bit of dosh. The MX440 will work - I used to run it on a Ti4400 until it died quite recently -- but you won't enjoy hight frame rates, high resolution or anti-aliasing. Also, you'll want to install at least the free NZ mesh files from Christian Stock/Geographx: www.geographx.co.nz to make the countryside have proper features. Plus you'll want Stock's Landclass files, which make the defacto terrain textures match up better with the actual features of NZ (forests where there are forests, for exmaple): www.redbarent.com |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 377255 | 2005-08-01 20:53:00 | Just looking at your article in PC World,Bruce. I assume that the 20 meter(?) options are better than 40 etc, in that the detail is better closer up,correct? And I assume the web sites give instructions on where to save these files to? Thanks. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 377256 | 2005-08-01 21:27:00 | The RedBaron 75m Mesh is free, and there are instructions in the file where to put it. The 40 and 20 metre meshs are payware. The figure (150 / 75 / 40 etc relates to the accuracy of the contours on horizontal points, ie the elevation is sampled every 150 / 75 / 40 metres across the ground, so you are more likely to get sharper points on mountains the smaller the mesh is. Heres a shot looking down on Taranaki with the 75m mesh and Godzone scenery. i2.photobucket.com And some of my pics, that need updating: Gallery (www.mattz.co.nz) |
Jester (13) | ||
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