Flight Simulator 2004 questions

[AndrewJ]

Would I stand a chance of running this on high detail settings for everyone on a

Athlon 64 3000
512mb Ram
Ati X700 Pci-E
XP Home

I run fs2004 with frame lock at 29fps and ultra high on everything now at 1152 by 768.

[McGraw]

Yes but get an extra 512mb.

The VFR stuff doesn't really affect frame rates.

[AndrewJ]

The extra 512mb is planned soon, tft coming first.

(see my thread in computers could use some advice )

[Caspar]

I just bought VFR PHOTOGRAPHIC SCENERY. (Wales & South West England) for £4 on ebay!


Will get VFR Terrain and will see how Wales and Cornwall fair...

[McGraw]

Wales looks fantastic. Let me know if you need any help setting it up.

If you have at least 2 drives, try to put all scenery on a separate physical drive/controller.

[Caspar]

Thanks ...but erm...don't I just slap in the CDs and install and it's installed ready to fly [over]?

What do you mean setting it up? ...do I have to some special jiggerypokery???


Also, what recommendations do you have for a good quality joystick?

Originally Posted by Caspar

Thanks ...but erm...don't I just slap in the CDs and install and it's installed ready to fly [over]?

You have to keep disk 4 in the drive, but you have to do the usual stuff like graphics + sound settings etc. Then just click on Create Flight and then select what you want

[McGraw]

To get things running as well as possible, you need the game on one hard drive and all the scenery you buy on another.

The install appears not to like it but you will be ok.

Afterwards you have to manually add each area you have installed to the scenery library.

There are terrain mesh settings that you need to change too.

http://www.visualflight.co.uk/forums...asp?FORUM_ID=5

[Caspar]

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

You have to keep disk 4 in the drive, but you have to do the usual stuff like graphics + sound settings etc. Then just click on Create Flight and then select what you want

What has that got to do with installing terrain and scenery for fs2004?????? I thought it would given that I was able to get the standard game running!
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Originally Posted by McGraw

To get things running as well as possible, you need the game on one hard drive and all the scenery you buy on another.

The install appears not to like it but you will be ok.

Afterwards you have to manually add each area you have installed to the scenery library.

There are terrain mesh settings that you need to change too.

http://www.visualflight.co.uk/forums...asp?FORUM_ID=5

More like it

Thanks McGraw I will install the scenery onto a seperate physical drive

[Caspar]

Where are screenshots (F12) and the video (recorded inflight) stored on the PC?

[McGraw]

I'm not sure about instant replays to be honest. What do you want to do with them? Fair enough if you want to back them up but I don't think you can package them to a viewer.

Use a program called FSScreen to do your screenshots. It's free and great.

The normal F12 route stores one picture at a time which you must then paste into another program.

Just use FSScreen

[Caspar]

Originally Posted by McGraw

I'm not sure about instant replays to be honest. What do you want to do with them? Fair enough if you want to back them up but I don't think you can package them to a viewer.

I wanted to post a link to a video of when my fs2004 goes ape My planes and choppers just jump about the place, hardly very realisitc. I was flying from Heathrow to Manchester last night on a 747... on autopilot (hold pattern, not worked out how to do much else!)...and went to watch BB. tbh, I forgot I was flying aswell and didn't come back (moral of the story don't fly with me cause I get easily sidetracked! are there laws against flying a 747 whilst watching BigBrother!)

...anyway, when I came back I was over Iceland somewhere and my place was upside down going 50 mph (or whatever speed gauge it is?..nautical knotts maybe?) at 11k ft. Looking at the flight path, the red line thing, my plane had been doing that sometime...and had earlier over Scotland, but had recovered from it..... it's hard to deascribe this unnatural BUG! so wanted to post a video

What happens is basically the plane loses all understanding of the laws of physics and just jumps about at varying speed and altitude.

What's going on!

p.s. also my clouds were purple last night!

[McGraw]

www.avsim.com or www.justflight.com forums are the best places to post these queries.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Caspar

I wanted to post a link to a video of when my fs2004 goes ape My planes and choppers just jump about the place, hardly very realisitc. I was flying from Heathrow to Manchester last night on a 747... on autopilot (hold pattern, not worked out how to do much else!)...and went to watch BB. tbh, I forgot I was flying aswell and didn't come back (moral of the story don't fly with me cause I get easily sidetracked! are there laws against flying a 747 whilst watching BigBrother!)

...anyway, when I came back I was over Iceland somewhere and my place was upside down going 50 mph (or whatever speed gauge it is?..nautical knotts maybe?) at 11k ft. Looking at the flight path, the red line thing, my plane had been doing that sometime...and had earlier over Scotland, but had recovered from it..... it's hard to deascribe this unnatural BUG! so wanted to post a video

What happens is basically the plane loses all understanding of the laws of physics and just jumps about at varying speed and altitude.

What's going on!

p.s. also my clouds were purple last night!

You should really be flying with full realism set, otherwise you'll just bounce off the ground

[Caspar]

Originally Posted by Bifta

You should really be flying with full realism set, otherwise you'll just bounce off the ground

So you are saying that during flight...I had some problems...and crashed...and then bounced up??? nice!

..fair point, but I've experienced this problem just after take off in a chopper, there was no mechanical reason, that I can think of, for it to do this.