How do you make Sametime 7.5 look like a really fast application?
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It's easy, you load the latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. It came out last week and I was pleasantly surprised by a copy arriving in the post for my birthday from my brother and his wife (still feels a little weird saying that). Flight Simulator whilst categorized by Microsoft as a game is still very much a simulator at heart and has some stunning graphics. These graphics come at a price though, and you'll need some stonking hardware to really see them (I don't have that hardware), the FSX website says you need:
Before Flight Simulator is even installed, you know it's going to be a beasty, it comes on two DVDs and takes a good 45 minutes to install. My machine is a AMD 64 2800, with 1.25 Gb of ram, and Flight Simulator sits at the welcome screen for about 2 minutes before anything else appears. Then when choosing an option it takes a few minutes more to load scenery, planes etc. etc. and I have no where near all the graphics options turned on. So don't be expecting this thing to fly speedily on much of your existing hardware.
Now having said that, if you have the hardware to run this baby, then go run it, it looks superb, has some fun missions, and is still a fantastic way to practise flying.
It's easy, you load the latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. It came out last week and I was pleasantly surprised by a copy arriving in the post for my birthday from my brother and his wife (still feels a little weird saying that). Flight Simulator whilst categorized by Microsoft as a game is still very much a simulator at heart and has some stunning graphics. These graphics come at a price though, and you'll need some stonking hardware to really see them (I don't have that hardware), the FSX website says you need:
- Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 / Vista
- PC with 1 GHz equivalent or higher processor
- 256 MB of system RAM for Windows XP SP2 / 512 MB Vista
- 14 GB available hard disk space
- DVD-ROM drive
- 32 MB DirectX 9 compatible video card required
Before Flight Simulator is even installed, you know it's going to be a beasty, it comes on two DVDs and takes a good 45 minutes to install. My machine is a AMD 64 2800, with 1.25 Gb of ram, and Flight Simulator sits at the welcome screen for about 2 minutes before anything else appears. Then when choosing an option it takes a few minutes more to load scenery, planes etc. etc. and I have no where near all the graphics options turned on. So don't be expecting this thing to fly speedily on much of your existing hardware.
Now having said that, if you have the hardware to run this baby, then go run it, it looks superb, has some fun missions, and is still a fantastic way to practise flying.
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Posted by Richard Tyler At 04:40:04 PM On 10/25/2006 | - Website - |