Rob R. Ainscough wrote:
> Are you serious??
>
> You'd be lucky to play solitaire on that laptop. Come on leo, Pentium III
> 750Mhz 256MB RAM 16MB video card and you think this should work on a flight
> simulation program?? If you read the side of the box for FS2004 or if you
> read the Readme for FS2004, you'll notice that your laptop does NOT meet the
> minimum requirements to run FS2004.
>
> That laptop is almost 4 years old.
>
> Rob
>
>
> "leo" <leo.1xrbf3@no-mx.game-tricks.net> wrote in message
> news:leo.1xrbf3@no-mx.game-tricks.net...
>
>>Hi, I have a toshiba Portege 2000 with Trident Cyberblade video card and I
>>have the same proble. Drivers updated, DirectX 9.0c, but still video card
>>not recognised by fs2004 and everything works under software acceleration,
>>which is impossible to play with. I tried also other drivers for the
>>videocard, but nothing. Did u managed to make it work?
>>
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Rob A., what box are you reading? My "collector's tin box says 128 MB
main RAM (with XP OS. 64 MB for 98/ME)450 Mhz CPU with 8 MB on a DirectX
9 video card. I realize thst configuration doesn't permit high scenery
or AI aircraft settings, but it DOES work. Don't even BEGIN to claim it
doesn't, because I can run FS 2004 on my 450 Mhz Pentium III. Frame
rates can be on the low side in high detail areas like Seatac, but video
acceleration DOES work with its ATI Rage 128 video card. I don't have
the settings so low that it looks like FS 98 either (and I HAVE run FS
versions 95 through 2004 on that machine). Funny when the frame rates on
the earlier versions are so high the frame rate counter can't display
enough digits!

BTW, I normally run FS 2004 on a more powerfull system. I haven't
downloaded the noCD patch, so the original CD #4 follows the simulator
around to wherever I'm running it.

If Leo is short on hardware it could only be the compatability of his
particular video accelerator and/or driver with DirectX 9. Running the
video and sound tests in the DirectX diagnostic (DXDIAG) probably
wouldn't hurt.