Flight Simulator X performance on a Inspiron E1505

Hey everyone,

I am thinking of getting a E1505 with a 2.0 GHx Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, and a ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 256 MB graphics card. I dont play that many games except for Flight Simulator X. My laptop is the only computer that I have. Can anybody please tell me if Flight Simulator X runs efficiently on the E1505, or should I get the E1705? I really want to get the E1505, though. Thank you very much.

 

this is a great website to see if you can run games or not
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
just click the selection box and scroll through till you find flight simulator 10
then click can you run it then you can see what the minimum requirements are

 

you'd have better luck asking that in the gaming forum

 

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hahfdas

 

Well, considering there was a review containing FSX, 2x 7950s couldnt push it at max settings. I couldn't imagine the poor little 128MB X1400 running it very well.

 

The game is also pretty new (Fair amount of performance bugs) and so far it does not look very optimized.

 

Hi junior
FSX was the first program I installed in my laptop which is Inspiron 6400.the performance was better than what I was expected. Try to reduce the setting for your ATI to "balanced" or "performance" and I am sure it will be ok for flying. Although this lappy can't handle fsx if you set too many options. The CPU and RAM are ok for me. The only draw back is ATI X1400 which in my idea is a low end GPU.
And don't forget FSX has lot of performance BUG which needs to be fixed.

 

Well that sager had a serious CPU bottle neck. Anyway most games will run on a newer GPU (ATI x1000 series or Go7000 series) its just a matter of how low settings, resolution and FPS you can stand.

 

Hi,

I think i t will run, but only at low detail settings w/o AA. I tried the Demo on my 9400 and I have to use medium details and resolutions and even then it doesn't run smoothely when there are a lot of scenery objects in sight. When flying over boring texture, water or very high, it's smooth even at high resolutions.
But I think, there isn't much improvement to FS 2004, which has much lower hardware requirements. I'll wait until this one gets really cheap and then buy it.

Greets
Tobi

 

FSX ran like crap on my M1710 with a 7950GTX so do the math.

 

I run FSX on my system.

I run a tweaked CFG and custom performance settings.

Looks a little bit better than FS2004 at high settings and runs 15-35fps.

 

I run FSX on my notebook with a Go7400. The game runs ok, with acceptable frame rates, nothing great.

 

There probably must be bugs in FSX then.