CPU Recommended: Pentium 4/Athlon XP or better You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz PASS CPU Speed Recommended: 2.4 GHz You Have: 2.79 GHz Performance Rated at 7.33 GHz PASS System RAM Recommended: 512 MB You Have: 2.0 GB PASS Operating System Recommended: Windows XP You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition, 32-bit (Build Service Pack 16001) PASS Video Card Recommended: 256 MB 100% DirectX 9.0c video card (NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better) You Have: Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset (Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family) FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this recommended requirement. Upgrading to a more powerful video card will make all your applications look better. Click the 'We Recommend' button to see some great options. Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 256 MB , You have - 686 MB Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes Video HW Rasterization: Required - Yes , You have - Yes Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 4.0 Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 4.0 DirectX Version Recommended: 9.0c You Have: 10.0 PASS Sound Card Recommended: Yes You Have: Speakers (Realtek High Definition) PASS Free Disk Space Recommended: 14 GB You Have: 199.2 GB PASS DVD Recommended: Yes You Have: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653F PASS, but the Speed could NOT be analyzed. Okay those are the recommended stats that I ran on http://www.systemrequirementslab.com for Microsoft Flight simulator X. Now it looks to me like i will need a better video card so i was wondering if you guys had any suggestions or have seen any great deals lately on video cards. I have pci slots.
Is this a prebuilt PC? If so it will have a weak power supply, therefore you won't be able to plug in a high powered graphics card. Flight Sim X is pretty much strictly available to nVidia users, so something like the 9500GT is about as good as you can do without causing power issues.
You do not even have a video card; what it found was your onboard video. You might not even have a slot to add a video card. Without knowing what mainboard or PC model you have, it is hard to make any recomendations.
True, but with a CPU as powerful as a E7400, I reckon there's a good chance of there being a PCIe 16x slot there.
Sorry, yes I do have a pci x16 slot. And I might upgrade powersupply if needed. Any suggestions on those?
PCI was only ever 1x. Only PCI express allows 16x. For basic graphics cards, a 400W Corsair CX or 450W Corsair VX will do nicely. For more powerful ones, the 520W HX, or if you're going really high end, a 620HX.
