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Old January 20th 04, 09:09 AM
Darthy
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On 19 Jan 2004 11:26:39 -0800, (John W.) wrote:

He is using the Microsoft Train Simulator. He said that when you have
a task it drops down to like 3-4 FPS when there is a lot of scenery.
He likes simulators in general. Has the Microsoft Flight Simulator as
well.

What is meant by a low spec machine? I know is computer is not new.


Means LOW Specifications... ie: SLOW.

AMD, 1.4Ghz or lower is kinda low
P4 - Anything lower than 2.2ghz
P4-Celeron - All of them.

I don't know your specs. you pasted 60pages of gibberish goo.

Dont care to spend spend half an hour looking at it, who does?

Just use Aida32
www.aida32.hu - and a general summery is needed..

CPU
Video card
RAM
Mobo
etc. etc


Example:

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft
Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 1
Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106
(IE 6.0 SP1)
Computer Name ****
User Name ***
Logon Domain ****

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon
XP-A, 1850 MHz (5.5 x 336) 2500+
Motherboard Name Asus A7N8X
Deluxe (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 3 DIMM, Audio, Dual LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce2
SPP
System Memory 512 MB (DDR
SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award
(10/14/03)
Communication Port Communications
Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer
Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter RADEON 9800
PRO - Secondary (128 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 9800
PRO (128 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon
9800 Pro (R350)
Monitor Samsung
SyncMaster 900NF/909NF/959NF/MagicSyncMaster CN199A(P) (H2RTB04932)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 -
Audio Codec Interface
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2 -
Audio Processing Unit (Dolby Digital)

Storage:
Floppy Drive Floppy disk
drive
Disk Drive IOMEGA ZIP 100
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y120L0
(120 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y120L0
(120 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive TDK CDRW4800B
(48x/24x/48x CD-RW)

I cut out the rest....

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