RE: Does Real Flight 6.5 have TF Giant Corsair
As with all laptops, the problem lies with the graphics adapters.
The average laptop buyer goes into a vendor's store and states... "I'm looking for a laptop/netbook/ultrabook to do work, I don't care about games ".
So for a long time the manufacturers have catered to this.
To save manufacturing costs they put in the cheapest, least expensive graphics adapter they can, namely the "integrated" single chip video adapters that use "shared memory" ( memory borrowed from the main system memory ).
That helps to keep the costs down, but really impact programs that try to perform 3D rendering.
Desktop computers on the other hand can be easily equipped with aftermarket rip snorting 3D graphic rendering beasts of graphic cards with a lot of built in video ram ( vram ). Which makes them the cost/performance leader when it comes to 3D rendering on PC's.
To combat this in part, graphic card manufacturers came out with "mobility" versions of their graphic chips. These are less capable 3D rendering chipsets often called "Mobility" or having an "M" designation in the name. These are a bit better than Integrated chipsets and sometimes even feature dedicated VRAM ( something you want ), but they are not on par with the desktop machine dedicated adapter performance.
So what to do?
Your best bet is to seek what is called a "gaming laptop".
You'll notice that the price will seem to be significantly higher than other non-gaming devices... and that is because of the added cost of giving you a high performance 3D capable graphics adapter in the small form factor.
Don't go for ANY Laptop/Netbook/Ultrabook that doesn't specifically state the graphic adapter chipset used. Look for Nvidia or ATI in the list of features. Avoid "Intel HD", "Intel Integrated" etc... ( note JUST in the graphic adapter/video area ).
Get at least 4 gigs of RAM and a big HDD... a big SSD drive ( somewhat expensive! ) will make the machine REALLY "fly".
Oh yes... some newer "gaming" laptops feature both the Intel Integrated adapters and a secondary Nvidia or ATI adapter.
Suprisingly these are less than optimal. To get good performance the Nvidia or ATI adapter only kicks in when the 3D program ( Realflight in this case ) is run soley in full screen mode.
While you can do this in Realflight, it's annoying at times having to switch in and out of full screen mode to say, pick a different plane.
On single display laptops, the Nvidia or ATI device is the main graphics adapter. That lets you open a regular "window" in Windows, and see the simulator running in it at full speed.
With the dual display chip setup the simulator will run at a VERY GREATLY reduced speed ( much lower FPS ) in a window, and typically with lower display features.