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Thanks John. So far so good.. Went with new flushed OS. Mad Onion 3dmarks are sweet!!! She's looking good all around. Went for the PC2700 DDR ram and Abit kx7-333 mobo. Show prices were same or less then Muliwave online.

I was at work yesterday reading all of these great comments about adding a second monitor for FS2002, so I picked up a PCI video card on the way home from work. Problems.First off, I'm starting with a AMD Athlon 1800XP on an Asus A7V-266E motherboard. My AGP card is a Leadtek GF3 Ti200. I have 512mb of RAM. The PCI video card I tried to add is the COMPUSA generic 64mb SiS 305 chipset. I'm running Windows XP Home.When I dropped the card in and fired up the system, it found the new card, recognized it as a PCI VGA card, recognized the SiS 305 chipset and then anounced that the installation had failed and that there was "an error in the data". I tried the installation …

Blatantly :) ripped from Paul01's post in 2002 forum.Cheers,bthttp://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...rumID8&archive=

Good Day,I want to know , with of the following processor it's the best: (Please remind that's for Flight Simulator , I mean > Gaming System)--- Intel Pentium 4 Processor @ 2.26 GHz 533MHz FSB w/512 Cache.OR --- AMD

I could really do with some bench marks.I currently have a Athlon 1.3ghz on a PC 133mhz mobo and 512mb mem, with a GF2 GTS 32mb card.And although frame rates in FS2002 are okay I would like to run consistently above 15 with everything on.The system I would like to get isP4 2.26 512ddr ram (266mhz mobo) with a gf4 Ti4200.Can anyone tell me if my dream of 15+ frames is achieveable??P.S. it's a Dell PC if people need bette specs!!Thanks for help!

I have never run into this situation before. I bought another HD 60g so now have 5 devices to install, 3 hardrives and 2 CDRom's. My mbo is a A7V133. Currently I have the 2 15g HD's on ATA100 primary and the DVD and burner on the 40 pin secondary.How should I best install the new HD ?Steve

Duh...a few weeks ago, I made a plea for help with my CHProducts USB joysticks, and WinXP. You may not remember, but the issue was setting the "number one" id for specific joysticks as needed for various games. XP has a lot of problems in this department, much like it does for Screen Refresh Rates, two CRITICAL capabilities missing from Bill's Uber-Gaming Platform, but I digress...Bob Church was kind enough to point me in the right direction and I picked up CHProducts "Control Manager" for their USB products. It allowed me to enable/disable my joysticks on the fly, effectively solving my issues with ControllerID 01. I had already thanked him privately, but such chival…

Hi,I can't find CH Pro Pedals combo driver on the CH site anymore. Does anyone has them so I can downlaod them from somewhere or can you please send them to me via email? my email is [email protected] allot!Michel

Well call me a sucker, i recently bought a MSI G4MX440 TV card as part of an upgrade to my computer (everything in it is new except the OS). Unable to run any games on except for Fleet Commander (ain't that a blip!). Anything else that i've loaded on will crash if i start the game. Has anybody with this particular card had the same problem? Dont wan't to put in the old Voodoo card to make it work so repsond soon!

I'm just curious about something. Why dose a Geforce 3 or Geforce 4 vid card that is 64mb provide better performance than a Geforce 2 64mb card?In other words, the 2,3 and 4's are all 64mb cards, yet each one provides better performance as you move up the food chain from 2 to 3 to 4. Why?ThanksTim13

Amd xp2100, abit kx7-333, 512 ddr2700 ram. Went to a show today. Nice prices.. PLAN TO DO THE DEED ON FARTHERS DAY. Got the processor and ram on the MOBO...From a 1400 t-bird, 512 sdram@133. Will be saving for a daughters comp. as needed. Been backing up files for awhile. Any insite would be cool. I guess, if a flush is needed, 4 in 1 drivers needed still??? . Will be sticking with win98SE as OS.

Hi folks,I would like to know what is the best option for flightsim:1) have many MB of DDR RAM2) have less MB of RDRAMI know RDRAM is faster. What is better, more slow memory or little but fast memory?Thankshttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3cb5d105220dc1ae.jpg

Yes, it may sound weird, but how can I find out which one? I'm not extactly an expert when it comes to PCs.Thanks,Greg

I have ordered this following graphic card Creative VGA-Card Geforce 4 MX420 64MB AGP TV-Out Retail... I'm just wondering if someone has this card, and if yes, could tell me how are the graphics con FS2002? Is it really a good card? Without any problems? Do i have to update the drivers, the monitors drivers? If not, which ones? I NEED REALLY HELP.. Thank you very muchSincerely, Fawzi

I am new to XP and the idea of dual monitors. I have a 21" monitor connected to my standard VGA output, how do I connect a seconf monitor to the S Video output. Is there an adapter I need and where do you get them.... The set up in XP looks pretty straight forward and Radeon (ATI) provides software for the configuration.Thanks in advance.

Hello peepsI would appreciate some help with this one I have a notebook that I would like to hook up to my desktop and use in conjuction with FS2002. Iwas thinking about using one for the panels and the other for say an outside view map etc.I have both machines networked succesfully but cant for the life of me figure out how to use 2 computers for one flight.Any feedback would be glady appreciated.Kindest ReagrdsMuzz

Hi all,Could someone please explain to me the difference between vertical (refresh rate) and horizontal (scan rate) frequencies? What does each do?

Has anyone who uses WinXP created a separate instance to run FS2002 only, and been able to successfully disable processes that aren't required for other tasks except a network connection and FS itself? I'd be interested in what the minimum processes are, and if there were any issues caused by the activation of the 2nd instance on the same machine.Thanks,Bruce.

Hey Everyone My current system I have a shuttle A161 motherboard with a 950 mhz Amd Slot A Proccessor. with 765 mb of ram. My current Video card is an ATI 7200 64mb. The Motherboard I was looking to get is a Gigabyte GA-7DX with a 1800+ xp Processor and plan to buy 512mb of ram from crucial.com also I'm planning on switching from a slot a to a socket A motherboard. Would this be a good setup, I don't play to many other games, mostly all are simulation, I currently use Flight Simulator 2000, Fly, and X-Plane. I also play the space simulator called orbiter. Is anyone here also using gigabyte motherboards in there systems, how are they working out. I would especially li…

IN View of the eyestrain / refresh rates issue I am thinking of keeping my WIn 98SE and upgrading to a geforce4 4600 Ti. I was just wondering can I do this, and secondly will it work OK with PIC 767 ?, I had to remove my Geforce3 500 Ti with FSAA enabled I had blurs on my screen.Many thanks, Best Wishes to allChris EGBB

I''m looking to build a new system, as my old one can't be upgraded w/o basically costing the same.And so, I arrive at the always interesting issue regarding what Graphics card I should get.According to Roy Chaffin, a switch to GeForce 4 doubled his framerates in FS2002, however it should miss some of the features from GeForce 3 - some of which are more or less usefull in the other 3D games I play every now and then (DoD rings a bell, anyone?).

ok, so I decided to get a pc just for flight sims and flight sims only. The key is that I know nothing about pcs. I know buying all the parts and putting it together myself would be cheaper, but I just can't attempt that. So, that said, I checked out the prices at 3 online stores: PCclub, Alienware, and dell. hopefully someone out there can help with these questions: I've noticed that there are quite a bit of options with these things, such as mobo, power supply, and cooling fan. How important is it to get a certain brand? Also, it seems that Athlon is better than a P4? I would assume that the GeForce 4600 is the way to go as far as video card is concerned. Also, is what…

I have a new system, which has a G3 Ti200 video card (LeadTek). I have loaded drivers from the CD that came with the card. Looking at DM, they appear to be: 2.1.83 dated 9/14/01, or 5.13.01.2183. Is there a whole lot to be gained from upgrading these drivers? Most GeForce cards appear to have a sweet spot in driver development, beyod which little gain is realized unless you have a later model card.Thanks for any information.Bruce.

I have AMD 1.2Ghz 266FSB and Soyo K7ADA - Alimagic Chipset Mabo.When Vcore and Multiplier are set to Auto - it works as it should 1.76V and 1.2Ghz.I disabled auto multiplier and setted it to 1.0, 1.2, 1.333, and 1.4 Ghz.When I set to 1.4Ghz, windows Xp would show diskread error when trying to acces the HD.When on 1.333Ghz, everything runs fine.So, I decided to change Vcore, and here's what happened (Multiplier to 10.5 - running at 1.4Ghz):1.750 (run at 1.760) - Diskread error before Xp starts loading.1.775 (run at 1.790) - Windows Xp would show blue scereen right before the logo shows up.1.800 (run at 1.815) - Windows Xp would load, but right before Log-in screen shows up…

Howdy :-waveAs I mentioned in an earlier post I tried upgrading to XP1900+ last week. Put it on a MSI k7V turbo2 or somethng like that because it would take the 768 mb's of sdram I already had. Didn't think I could really afford the DDR stuff. I found however that I didn't get much of a performance boost in FS as compared to my original 1.333. In fact I didn't notice much differance at all. I ran out and bought it because of the performance hit I got using the new TTools and WorldAI plans. So I took it back.Any ideas as to why I might not have seen an improvement?If I were to give it another shot and get the new DDR ram what MBO would you recommend ?Your help would be muc…