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    Flight simulator 2004 works well

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by kevinscotland, Mar 9, 2009.

  1. kevinscotland

    kevinscotland Notebook Consultant

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    works great in fact on my 766 alienware. I have 3 laptops but use this for the flight sim as i havent had any problems with it. However, when i go on multiplayer networks online the memory use in cnt alt del processes goes to 250,000k and the game slows down and doesnt sync in time. WOuld upgrading my ram from 1gig to 2 gig solve this problem?
     
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    kevinscotland Notebook Consultant

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    bump son :)
     
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    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What are your complete system specifications?
     
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    Alienware Area 51m 766 laptops

    CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Hyper-Threading CPU
    · Front Side Bus: 800 Mhz

    · Memory: 1GB RAM

    · Display: 16.1” Screen

    · Hard Drive: 100GB

    · Optical Drive: DVD/RW (also burns CDs)

    · Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 w/ 128MB RAM

    · Networking: 10/100MB Ethernet (wired)
    802.11 A/B/G Ethernet (wireless)

    · Modem: 56Kbps

    · Alien Eyes – The eyes on the chassis light up

    · Operating System: Windows XP Professional
    PCMCIA
    Line In
    Headphones
    Microphone
    Parallel
    VGA
    PS/2
    S-Video
    USB (3)
    Ethernet (RJ-45)
    Modem (RJ-11)
     
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    I guess more ram will help but not that much.
     
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    250,000k is about 250mb so it does not seem like it's a RAM issue, most likely it's a connection issue. The online component of every flight simulator game has always been very buggy.

    You might get better responses here.
     
    usapatriot, Mar 10, 2009
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