Thinking of buying a faster CPU.

[Charlie Bravo]

Laptop graphics chips usually come after the desktop counterparts but there have been several desktop LE chips in the past. They're all crippled with slow memory/

[LeeC]

Yep, shop baught systems aren't all what they apear to be. Don't be pursueded by figures as these mean little if the components aren't up to scratch... which is generally the case with 'off the shelf' systems.

Quality over quantity is my rule of thumb!


Lee

[jonesey2k]

Heh, I remember the good old days of my overclocked 9200 128mb walking all over my mates 256mb FX5200

With the low end cards, larger memory is usually slower memory to keep the cost down.

[cstorey]

I have a Dell similar to yours , although mine is 3.2 GHZ P4, with a Radeon X 600 and it handles virtually any situation with framerates in th 20s, and more usually 40+. I should give your setup a thorough checkout as i feel sure you should get better performance than this

[JimCooper]

Charlie is right when he says to avoid shop bought machines, this is what im running:

Dell Dimension 9150 Purchased April 06

P4 630 HT (3ghz, 800FSB, 2mb Cache)
2048 mb 533mhz DDR2 RAM
160Gb 7200rpm HD
256mb Geforce 7300LE Graphics

and it still chokes up to around 5 FPS if there's loads of clouds or your flying out of EGLL or EHAM etc with the sliders on max!!!!!!!!!!! any ideas? personally i think an AMD would be a good idea.......

Regards

Your processor and memory are perfectly good for FS2004. Its definitely your graphics card. You can upgrade to the 7300GT for about £55, this will just about double the performance, but you'd see a massive difference by going for a 7900GT for £180.

Regards

Jim

[phantom_fgr2]

cheers for all your help guys that has been great