4unlimited

Dear all,

I have just received my AeroFly Professional DeLuxe with USB Game Controller from and through Ikarus.
On the internet and in the Simulator Manual I can find a lot of information concerning the MINIMUM system requirements for my computer.
I am about to buy a new computer system SPECIALLY for this flight simulator.

Can someone inform me what the OPTIMUM system configuration would be, in which I can expect the highest level of simulator options.
In short I want to switch ON all the game options like photogenerated background, clouds, smoke, highest texture level and so on.

I would mostly appriciate specialized advice !

Kind regards,
Rick
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Here I have some additional information which some "Gamers" gave me:

System A.
Midi Aopen QF50A
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum 54G S939
Asus ATI AX800Pro TVD 256mb AGP
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ S-939 BOX
1024MB PC-400 Dual Channel kit
Hitachi 160Gb 8mb 7200rpm SATA
Aopen DVD+- R/RW DUW1608 Chame
Soundblaster LIVE 7.1 Bulk
1000Mbit Ethernet & 54G Wireless
Diskdrive 1.44 NEC 3.5``
Samsung 913N 19`` zilver 8ms
Labtec Spin 75
Benq Multimedia Desktop
Windows XP Professional NL

System B.
Asus A8V DeLuxe moederbord
AMD Athlon64 3000+ S939 processor
DDR PC400 512Mb geheugen
Maxtor 160.0Gb 7200rpm 8Mb harde schijf
1.44Mb Floppy Disk Drive
DVD R/RW +/- 16x DoubleLayer DVD brander
ATI Radeon X800Pro 256MB videokaart
Windows XP Home Edition NL

System C.
ASUS P5GD1-PRO moederbord
Intel PIV 530 Skt 775 (3.0GHz - 800MHz - 1Mb) processor
DDR PC400 512Mb memory
Maxtor 160.0Gb 7200rpm 8Mb
1.44Mb Floppy Disk Drive
DVD R/RW +/- 16x DoubleLayer DVD
Nvidia GeForce 6800 256MB PCIe videokaart
Windows XP Home Edition NL

System D.
Antec TX635-EC 350W
Gigabyte 8I955X Royal, DDR2, PCI-E, Soc775
Intel P4 (630) 3,00 GHz 800fsb 2MB BOX -Soc775-
512mb DDR2-533 PC4200 Brand/3rd memory
Maxtor 160 GB SATA 7200rpm 8mb p/n 6L160M0
Floppy drive NEC 1,44MB 3,5inch
DVD-Rom NEC 16x48 speed Beige bulk
DVD brander NEC ND-3540 +/-R(W) 16x
Gigabyte PCX6600 GT Turbo Passief 128mb PCI-E

I could use all the info from the experts !

Regards,
Rick
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matt3D

I would go with asus mb and a lian-li case, (there awsome.) I think Intel and AMD are good but I have a p4. Also, get a 10k rpm harddrive. (aka raptor) Its very fast, get two and run a raid 0! Super fast!!!! Also, I would go with the BFG 7800gtx if you can afford it. My bro has a 6600gt 128mb and it can run BF2 on medium settings! It looks awsome. Just think if you got the 6800 ultra or 7800gt(x). Also, corsair ddr2 pc 5400 1 gig for ram. Samsung 913N 19`` zilver 8ms<<<< that is good! 8ms response time! NICE. Lastly, I reccomed windows xp professional with sp2.


Regards,

Mateo

4unlimited

Mateo thanks,

This is the respons I hope to get in this forum !
Always appriciate the (proven) input off experts.

Regards,
Rick

naamanf

My Feedback: (3)

If money is unlimited then get the best you can. But if all your looking to do is play AFPD then you really don't have to have super top of the line system. As far as drives go all they are going to do is speed up your load time and it minimal anyway. Raptors in raid 0 are way overkill. a good 7200 drive should do just fine. Or two in raid 0 would do very well.
If your using a LCD monitor up to 19" the max resolution is going to be 1280x1024 so a X800 or 6800 are going to play every game out there at over 60 FPS. AFPD will be getting more in the range of 100+FPS. For the sound card take a look at the new Creative X-Fi cards.

I am running AFPD on a Dell XPS gen 2 laptop. Is running at 1920x1200 with 4x AA and 8x anso and its getting 200+FPS. Way over kill. I was running it before on a Acer 3200 with a 9700 64MB and it was still gettting over 30 FPS at 1024x768.

matt3D

If you get a good mother board you don't need a sound card. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131516 My bro has that one and everything sounds awsome, with his logitech speakers, which I have a set also. Some motherboards even have 7.1 audio. As for the hard drive, you can never go overkill on them because if you want stuff to load fast you'll be better off with a fast hd. If you rather have storage go with a big 250gig hd, (7,200 rpm.) The speed is still good too.

Quote from newegg, "Heat and Noise in Hard Drives
Also, heat might not mean much to you unless you live in a warm climate. However, it can impact the lifespan of your system. If your computer case doesn't have enough ventilation around it, your hard drive can fail prematurely.

If you will be installing a hard drive on your computer, there are three interfaces to know about: SCSI, IDE and Serial ATA. SCSI is used mainly for server systems and is not often found in home computers. The IDE interface is most common in home computers. Serial ATA drives relatively new and are easier to install because they have fewer cables and less configuration required."

I would go with serial ATA.

Matthew

PickeringRC

http://aeroflypro.com/requirements/ look on the AFPD optimum

Martin