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From: "John R. Ramberg" <hgu@connect.ab.ca>
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Well, the min. requirements for CFS is a P133 which puts your system almost
at the far end of the curve. The only thing to try is to take all of the
scenery and game settings and put them at the minimum settings. Next you
should try running in 640x480x256 making sure that your windows desk-top
settings are that as well. If you have windows running at a higher
resolution and color depth, it'll steal performance from the game. That's
about all I can suggest as most new games are coming out with the high end
P2 in mind, this one included. Just for your info, I am running a celeron
300A OC'd to 375 with 128MB's ram, Diamond Viper V550 16meg AGP video card,
and CFS settings at max. at 1020x768x16bit and am getting frame rates
between 30-50fps.

Hope this helps,

John

eddunn wrote:

> I bought the new combat flight sim last month and I get frame rates of
> 3.1 all the time. which is frustrating, I can't even shoot down a C-47!
>
> MS Flight sim 98 is fine, coming in around 20+.
>
> I have:
>
> 150hz
> 512KB cashe
> 32mb ram
> 24X CD rom
> S3 video card w/4mb video ram
> Win 95 os, sr2
> Yamaha 32 bit sound card
> 33.6 newcom internal modem
> normal video is 800x600 256 colors
> 3.2 gb hard drive
>
> My roomate also has zillions of dirty pics somewhere in this computer,
> and all kinds of extra web junk and free programs.
>
> It can do 3d, but that is not possible right now for obvious reasons!
>
> What can I do to get the frame rates to an acceptable 15+?
>
> Thank you for your help.

