Running FS2002 and FS2004 on a Gateway MX6124 laptop (X-Plane too)
BillW50
this laptop for almost 2 years now and I started to get back into flight
sims once again. Although FS2004 installs but won't run (not even in
FS2004 safe mode). Any tricks to make it run? Had FS2004 running on my
older HP desktop, although it could have used a bit more power from what
I remember. FS2002 runs fine on each computer.
I also tried X-Plane v9 (demo) on this Gateway and it seems fine as
well. Although X-Plane seems to be much harder to fly, especially the
helicopters. And I can't get those RC aircraft to fly worth a darn under
X-Plane either (RealFlight G2 is far better). And I am an experienced RC
pilot too. The flock of birds is a nice touch under X-Plane, btw.
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Bill
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Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ) ('06 era)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)
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HP AMD Athlon 1.2 GHZ ('01 era)
512MB of RAM
Windows XP Home SP2
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (64MB installed)
Danny
a bit more information about FS9 other than 'won't run'.
Does it start then quit?
Do you get error message? If so, what does it say?
Did you leave disk 4 in the drive?
I have run FS9 on a laptop with slightly less specs than you show. It
should work on that laptop.
Danny
"BillW50" <Bil...@aol.kom> wrote in message
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Brett I. Holcomb
For X-Plane you are going to have to adjust the sliders on the control
setup. There is a page with what corresponds to sensitivity and null in
FSX but I can't remember what X-Plane calls them and I'm not where I can
start it. If you don't you will have a lot of difficulty controlling
the aircraft. However, this is true of any sim - you have to adjust the
control settings to get things working. Most of the time out of the box
doesn't work for everybody.
BillW50
Brett I. Holcomb typed on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:00:52 -0500:
Hi Danny and Brett! Oh sorry... I click on FS9 and it goes to load
(hourglass and hard drive activity) and then nothing. If I have the Task
Manager open looking at processes, it will show up in the list for a
second and then disappears. I have the no CD patch, so I don't have any
CD in the drive.
As for X-Plane, I have the demo version (thinking about buying it
though). And I don't have a problem with it per se, but the two RC
aircraft are awful! The frame rate is ok, but the yaw and the ailerons
are terrible. Can you try yours Brett? As the plane will start yawing
and swinging back and forth for no reason. Yes with a huge tail rudder,
you can make a real RC plane do this too. But it doesn't do this unless
you actually cause it to do this with the rudder control. But X-Plane
does this for no reason at all.
As for the ailerons, the roll works well and then suddenly the plane
will snap in different roll positions. And then in about 5 seconds the
ailerons becomes unresponsive. Thus a crash is inevitable. I haven't
worked enough with the RC helicopter yet, but something is wrong with
this too. All of the non-RC aircraft seems to work fine.
Say Brett, on another subject... once you have the X-Plane DVD, do you
need it to run X-Plane? Or can you install it on the hard drive?
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Bill
2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu
Danny
I believe. You might try that. If you have not added bunches of planes and
scenery to your FS9, you might want to use the uninstaller on Disk 1 then
reinstall.
Danny
"BillW50" <Bil...@aol.kom> wrote in message
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Brett I. Holcomb
I have for it. I had to adjust control sensitivity a lot.
You need the DVD but I run VirtualCD Clone and have an Iso image that
mounts as a CD so that keeps it happy.
Danny wrote:
> Yikes! I never had that problem before. There is a repair feature on
> Disk 1 I believe. You might try that. If you have not added bunches of
> planes and scenery to your FS9, you might want to use the uninstaller on
> Disk 1 then reinstall.
BillW50
Brett I. Holcomb typed on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:55:20 -0500:
> Per X-Plane I haven't tried the RC - just the flyable and mainly a
> DC-3 I have for it. I had to adjust control sensitivity a lot.
It would be nice if somebody can check out the RC Great Planes PT60 I
believe it was and see if the yaw goes crazy for no reason and the roll
suddenly pops to different positions. It happens for sure in the cockpit
view (default view) and the RC view (Shift-3).
> You need the DVD but I run VirtualCD Clone and have an Iso image that
> mounts as a CD so that keeps it happy.
Oh that is also nice to know. Say I just read it includes six DVDs. That
would be a real pain. Are the rest only required for far away lands?
BillW50
Danny typed on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:36:52 -0500:
Hi Danny! Thanks for the info, as I didn't know that. I also have
another copy of FS9 in storage somewhere. Maybe I should go through the
boxes and try to find it and see if this copy I have at the house is
somehow corrupt.
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Bill
Brett I. Holcomb
I'm not sure what's on all the DVDs but you can select the scenery areas
you want to install.
BillW50
Brett I. Holcomb typed on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:11:49 -0500:
Hi Brett! I got my X-Plane DVDs yesterday and I figured out what the
problem with the RC aircrafts. It appears my poor computer is too
overwhelmed. As it works fine with just blue skies on the screen.
Say, those X-Plane DVDs must be dual layered. As I was going to burn a
copy of the first DVD (so I don't have to keep the original in the
drive) and Nero told me to insert a DL DVD. I don't have any blank DL
DVDs. Luckily my laptop has a DL drive, but how come nobody mentions
this? No mention of this on the box either.