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Teetorbilt

A buddy of mine flew F-4's in Vietnam and has decided to game, he also has limited income (disabled vet) and I'm trying to help him out.

I have an old HP Pavillion 6350, 333 processor, 512 mem.+, HD has been cleaned.

The questions. Can this be used for flight simulation as a dedicated unit? I have the XP backups, can this be installed (he will never be online)? I think that I can find Win98 too.

If all of the above is possible, what games are available? He'd really like to step up to an F-16, F-14, F-15, F-18, F-22. No Su anythings please. He has a bit of an attitude about them. TIA.

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ProWallGuy

Nope. That pc doesn't sound as if it would handle the memory and graphics required. I doubt it would even handle the XP.

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mickeyco

I'm not really a "gamer" but I used to use Microsoft Flight simulator on an old HP 133MHz with 128 MB Ram and it was fine. The Microsoft Flight simulator I had included commercial planes (awesome), some small planes and a stunt plane (never able to fly that on well), but they made one that had war planes, it might have been old war planes not new ones but I'm not sure. You can probably find a cheap copy of an old one on eBay.

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I would use Windows 95 on the older machine if you have it, 98 and XP are resource hogs and will really slow down an old machine. The older version of Microsoft Flight simulator work fine on Windows 95. If you have to upgrade the OS, I'd go with XP if it will work, 98 sucked, I was using 95 until 2 years ago. To install XP you have to "validate" it online or call them and get a number.

JNLP

Just looking at the system requirements of a flight simulation game released within the past year, and they say 1GHz processor, 14GB of space, and 256MB RAM. That's the lowest you would probably want to have. More is always better.

Teetorbilt

Micky, I used to run an old F-16 sim on it, program long gone. I think that I have Win 95 somewhere, I'm sure that I could get it.

Everybody, I was hoping to get this guy in on the cheap. He's one of our 'good guys', has a bad knee due to a bullet and the VA won't do much for him. Also has cancer attributed to Agent Orange used around the airbase. He just wants to fly again and I'm trying to help him out. Have my son looking for old X-boxes, Nintendo's, they should handle it, yes?

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AAPaint

If you can find an old copy of Jane's USAF that would probably run pretty good on there and give him a ton of the aircraft he wants.

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dayspring

I have a copy of Microsofts Flight Simulator for windows 95, I never use it. I'd be happy to send it to ya Teetor if ya want it. I used it on less than a 333 way back, it'll run on 98.

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Teetorbilt

Jane's is the best!

I am finding hard to believe how fast hardware is being deleted. I'd think that this thing could, at least, run a game. There was a time when I ran 3-D graphics and CAD-CAM on it.

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tgeb

I googled "janes usaf" and came up with some links to the game.

You can download a demo at http://www.download.com/Jane-s-USAF-..._4-916821.html

The requirements Sounds like the old HP you have will run it fine. A little more ram or a graphics card might help it. But I'm not a gamer.

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Tscarborough

You do not state the graphics card, and that is the most important part for flight sims. Janes USAF should run fine, and you should be able to pick up a 64 meg TNT graphics card for about 10 bucks. LOMAC would be the ideal game for him, it sounds like, but it won't run on double that system.