On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:09:05 +0000 (UTC), "Quilljar"
wrote:

I think your difficulty lies in your definition of fairly capable.
For running MS word perhaps, but for flight simming that amount of RAM and
that chip, would have not been capable even three years ago. The problem all
along with MS Flight Sim is that the requirements of the players have forced
Microsoft to put in capabilities such as more and more realistic weather and
scenery that only a top rated PC will run it properly and that has meant
1024Mb RAM and 2.6Ghz CPU for the last two years. As for video cards, there
seem to be only one or two around that people are truly pleased with. My 128
Mb Matrox Parhelia is now very old hat I gather.


Hi Quilly

S'funny you mention three-year-old PCs as my own machine is just about
that age.

AMD XP1800+ (1.54G clock speed, I beleive), 512 MB DDR RAM, GeForce3
Ti 200 video - and all else pretty much as one would expect for a
machine three years old.

On the plus side, I use FS8 which, I'd guess, requires a lesser PC
than FS9. FS8 runs acceptably well. The only problems I have (other
than forgetting that my AV does its daily check at 18:00) is when
landing at a large airport and when I have all sliders set well
towards max.

James