MS Flight 2004

[Jeff7181]

Anyone know what the system requirements will be for this? I couldn't find them on the home page. My dad is really into the Flight Sim series, so I want to get this for him, but I'm wondering what type of hardware it's going to require since it's got quite a bit more detail than the last version... and the clouds are so much more realistic, I'm assuming it requires a pretty powerful video card... more powerful than my GeForce4 Ti4600.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

"P2 450, 128MB ram, 8MB video, 1.8GB hdd space, dx9"

Hmm..thats what I saw posted but I imagine it would be a slideshow on those specs

Edit: Official ones off the webpage

Windows PC
2000/XP ? 128 MB Ram
98/Me ? 64 MB Ram
Processor:450 MHz minimum
Available hard drive space:1.8 GB
DirectX 9 or later (included with Microsoft Flight Simulator: A Century of Flight)
Video card: 8 MB/3D with DirectX 7.0 or later drivers
Other: mouse, joystick/yoke, sound card, speakers/headphones
Online/multiplayer: 56.6 kbps modem or LAN

 

[kursplat]

"P2 450, 128MB ram, 8MB video, 1.8GB hdd space, dx9"

he he he , ya just like combat flight 3. sure you can play the game , you just won't see anything.

 

[Liviathan]

I can't wait. For the first time I have a super rig...Radeon 9800...p4-3g. 1gig ram. I am dying to see this game.

 

[Tikerz]

My dad is really into the Flight Sim series

My dad is too! He goes and buys and downloads the mods for new airliners and all that. He also prints out these 500 page instruction manuals to fly the modded aircraft. He's got all the flight yokes and pedals and even has 2 21" Sony monitors on his desk so he can actually fly on one monitor and put some cockpit controls on the other. Crazy stuff! But the funny thing is, he's scared of flying in real planes 😕

I've had to upgrade his computer everytime a new flight sim comes out. He's currently running an overclocked XP1800+ with a 128MB GF4 4200 and 512MB RAM. I think I might have to give him a little more boost once this new one comes out.

 

[Jeff7181]

Replied to your PM.
My dad use to fly small planes, he actually learned to fly in a Cessna 182 like the one in the game. He's completely obsessed with planes... every time a plane goes overhead he stops whatever he's doing to look up at it... looks like a moron sometimes, lol. And watch out driving past Metro Airport... he's watching planes more than he's watching the road.
My dad doesn't buy a whole lot of add-ons... I've downloaded a few for him, and made a couple of the AI planes in the game flyable that aren't normally. He's more into the simulation aspect of it... he does intrument flights, makes use of the ATC that was built into the game. And he recently bought an expansion pack called Flight Deck Companion... basically it ads a co-pilot who calls out the altitude and speed and whatnot when taking off and landing, and even ads the announcements made by the flight attendants like "fasten your seatbelts" and the whole bit. He really enjoys it. Sometimes a little too much =) He'll watch a replay of himself landing for about a half hour, lol.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
"P2 450, 128MB ram, 8MB video, 1.8GB hdd space, dx9"

Hmm..thats what I saw posted but I imagine it would be a slideshow on those specs

Edit: Official ones off the webpage

Windows PC
2000/XP ? 128 MB Ram
98/Me ? 64 MB Ram
Processor:450 MHz minimum
Available hard drive space:1.8 GB
DirectX 9 or later (included with Microsoft Flight Simulator: A Century of Flight)
Video card: 8 MB/3D with DirectX 7.0 or later drivers
Other: mouse, joystick/yoke, sound card, speakers/headphones
Online/multiplayer: 56.6 kbps modem or LAN

Yeah... major slideshow... 128 MB of RAM is barely enough for Windows XP to run by itself, let alone any other programs, not even taking into consideration a GAME! =) The specs they list as the optimal ones are what I would consider the bare minimum for even a half way decent gaming experience.

 

[Tikerz]

He's more into the simulation aspect of it... he does intrument flights, makes use of the ATC that was built into the game. And he recently bought an expansion pack called Flight Deck Companion... basically it ads a co-pilot who calls out the altitude and speed and whatnot when taking off and landing, and even ads the announcements made by the flight attendants like "fasten your seatbelts" and the whole bit. He really enjoys it. Sometimes a little too much =) He'll watch a replay of himself landing for about a half hour, lol.

LOL, that's exactly what my dad does too! Too funny! 🙂

 

[Sniper82]

I don't know the specs MS FS2004 calls for but I would bet on it that a GF4 Ti will be enough to run the game at highest detail 1024x768.

I am guessing around 2100+,512mb,GF4 Ti series would be enough for it to run the game good and it look great. For ppl that runs games in 1600x resolution would need 9700 or better and a beefed up CPU(2.4gig+)/gig ram.

 

[TechnoGuRu]

Originally posted by: ^Sniper^
I don't know the specs MS FS2004 calls for but I would bet on it that a GF4 Ti will be enough to run the game at highest detail 1024x768.

I am guessing around 2100+,512mb,GF4 Ti series would be enough for it to run the game good and it look great. For ppl that runs games in 1600x resolution would need 9700 or better and a beefed up CPU(2.4gig+)/gig ram.

System memory doesn't really affect video performance. Frame rates would be about the same with either 512MB RAM or 1024MB RAM.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

don't flight sims generally need very fast processors?