Hardware requirements to run this game The Disc-Flight-Sim game simply requires a Windows PC to play. The drivers on your PC should be up-to-date in order to get the best gaming experience. This page contains information that might help this game (and other games) run better. This game uses the OpenGL graphics standard. The most up-to-date OpenGL drivers are not always shipped with a new PC. You may need to update your video drivers for this game to run nicely. The information that follows on this page can be used to trouble-shoot your own PC. It is recommended that you close unnecessary Windows programs while playing the DiscFlightSim. Over-clocking your processors can make your system unstable, and is not recommended. nVidia drivers can be updated here Mother-board drivers can be found here Game Performance... Here are some PC configurations, and the frames-per-second performance on each: Pentium E6850 3.0GHz + 400-Memory + 8800GT-video 400-800 fps Pentium E2160 1.2GHz + 333-Memory + 8400GS-video 60 fps Celeron Northwood 2.4GHz + 133-Memory + no video card 17-24 fps Intel Core Duo 1GHz + 133-Memory + unknown-video 58-63 fps Intel Pentium-D 3GHz + 133-Memory + Intel 82945G 45 fps All the computer configurations listed above run the game nicely. We've had reports of 1 or 5 frames-per-second performance from people trying the game demo. Please try the game demo first, before purchasing the full game, then make your decision. Here are some things you can do to speed up the game. 1. update your video drivers, and especially the OpenGL drivers provided by your card manufacturer 2. buy a graphics card that has 3D acceleration (AGP or PCI) is recommended 3. check the preference box: Hard shadows for discs only 4. check the preference box: Reduce terrain resolution in the distance 5. run the game full-screen at a 640x480 16-bit color mode 6. reduce your Windows desktop resolution to its lowest, then try running the game not-full-screen 7. change baskets to pole-holes (F1,F2) 8. check the preference box: Set graphics resolution to Low Upgrading your video drivers can help!!! One game player was getting about 2 frames-per-second. So he upgraded his video drivers, and his frame-rate went from 2 to 42. Here's how he did it: My computer info (computer and video card are several years old): ------------------------------------------------------------------ Compaq Pentium 4, 2.0 gHz 512 mb ram nVIDIA GeForce2ti video card w/ 64 mb video ram Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 installed ------------------------------------------------------------------ Most recent driver version for the nVIDIA card is 7.1.8.9 I found the driver on the nvidia site but had to go thru Google to find it since nVIDIA's own search engine takes you to the wrong one: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.89.html Update driver before installing game. This driver version lets you select high video quality or high performance mode; I chose performance and it still looks fine. Thanks Tim. Motherboards... Check and see if your motherboard chipset drivers are up to date. Since everything runs through your motherboard, the motherboard chipset drivers should be installed and up to date. Otherwise, this can lead to system instability. Here are the links to the most common motherboard chipset manufacturers:     AMD / ATI - www.amd.com Intel - www.intel.com NVIDIA - www.nvidia.com  (for nForce Platform Processor only) SiS - www.sis.com Via - www.viaarena.com Notes about screen resolutions Thanks. Home