Hi all,

I have decided to use my PC as a flight sim/gaming machine and was wondering what I can disable / delete to make my sims run better. I am led to beleive, its all down to memory and graphics cards, but then, I'm no computer whiz kid.

I have a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 processor, 1 Gig memory, 120 Gig HD, GeForce 4 128MB Graphics card.

I won't be using the PC for surfing the net (laptop for that) so I know I can disable Norton.

Cheers

Andy

Hi Andy

disableing /deleting won't improve your running of flight sim / gaming your main ingredients for this are processor, RAM and graphics card, your processor and RAM look just fine, however your graphics card is way too small for modern games, you will need to look into what graphics cards your mother board can accept, then get the largest one you can afford and replace your old one.
Hope this helps

Pete

Removing Norton will also free up valuable resources... especially memory. Norton is also a bugger to remove, but if you hunt round their website, you can find a removal tool that takes all the junk off your PC.

Anyone here using Norton should remove it the instant their subscription expires (if not sooner) & get NOD32 from Eset.

Oh, and when Pete says largest, he means bestest... modern quick graphics processor (GPU), and preferably 256mb of Graphics RAM.

If your Motherboard supports PCI Express (PCI-E), you're in luck, but check your board for compatibility with new cards, as there are a few types of PCI-E slot (aren't there?)... if it's AGP, you've still got a reasonable range of cards to choose from.

So Andy
The first thing is, find out which motherboard you've got in that beastie of yours! Is it a Gigabyte?

Pete

A little program called enditall 2 is what you need. It closes down all the unneeded aplications and resources you don't need when gaming.
Go here to download it.

Nigel.

Thanks for the gen guys.

I have seen a XFX GeForce 7300GT 512Mb PCI-E DDR2 VO Video card, hows this for simming ?

Cheers

Andy