FSX and Radeon 8500

[Henri Arsenault]

The specs say that FSX requires a 32 mb video card. I have an AGP
Radeon 8500 on my 2 GHz P4 with 512 Mb of memory, which should satisfy
the requirements, but the program tells me that my video card does not
satisfy the requirements - that I need to update the drivers (I think
that it has the latest update, which is somewhat old since ATI does not
support the card any more).

When I run the diagnostics suggested by the pop-up, it says that my
total video memory is 64 Mb, which should be enough. Does this mean that
the demo requires a better video card than the demo will require, or is
the requirements info wrong?

The demo runs just fine and very smoothly under Windows XP on My
dual-core Intel Mac Powerbook.

I wonder why they don't use Google Earth for the terrain? Everyone could
fly over their own favorite terrain, and it would save a lot of disk
space...

Henri

[Garrot[_1_]]

Henri Arsenault wrote:
> The specs say that FSX requires a 32 mb video card. I have an AGP
> Radeon 8500 on my 2 GHz P4 with 512 Mb of memory, which should satisfy
> the requirements, but the program tells me that my video card does not
> satisfy the requirements - that I need to update the drivers (I think
> that it has the latest update, which is somewhat old since ATI does not
> support the card any more).
>
> When I run the diagnostics suggested by the pop-up, it says that my
> total video memory is 64 Mb, which should be enough. Does this mean that
> the demo requires a better video card than the demo will require, or is
> the requirements info wrong?
>
> The demo runs just fine and very smoothly under Windows XP on My
> dual-core Intel Mac Powerbook.
>
> I wonder why they don't use Google Earth for the terrain? Everyone could
> fly over their own favorite terrain, and it would save a lot of disk
> space...
>
> Henri

Your card probably doesn't support features it needs to run. Time to
upgrade as it would be quite slow on that card anyway.