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Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: muffdvr on May 31, 2004, 06:07:57 PM
Going to be doing a comupter upgrade, actually overhaul and wanted to know if it would run AH2.  Since I know nothing about the new version of Aces High.

Here's what i'm building......

N Force 2 Ultra 400 (ASUS A7N8X-X) main board

AMD CPU, Athlon XP 2800 (2.0 GHz) processor

512 MB pc3200  

Radeon 9800 pro

20Gb HDD.


My old machine, will this work also?

Athlon M817LMR

AMD cpu, MMX 3D now 800Mhz

Nivida N force 4 (PCI) 128 mb

Sound blaster live(ordered new drives, not working)

10 Gb HDD.
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: nopoop on May 31, 2004, 07:10:15 PM
I'd get an extra 512 of ram, and go with a nvidia card of the same relative price with the problems the game has "now" with the ATI's.

Should run just fine.
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: muffdvr on May 31, 2004, 07:53:57 PM
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Originally posted by nopoop
I'd get an extra 512 of ram, and go with a nvidia card of the same relative price with the problems the game has "now" with the ATI's.

Should run just fine.


I'll have to look into getting a Nvidia then, want everything right so I can jump right in.:)

What are the problems with the ATI cards?  

Don't think 512 Mb of ram will be enough for this game?  :(
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: Morpheus on May 31, 2004, 08:48:23 PM
With computers, remember one thing.

Bigger is better.
Title: Big Computers
Post by: kamori on June 02, 2004, 08:30:50 PM
Thats what you call thoses now days......In my day we Called them B@@Bs.....

Kalamori
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: MOSQ on June 03, 2004, 11:08:34 AM
The one you are building will work fine. I can't comment on the Nvidia vs ATI problems with AHII because I run Nvidia and have no experience on the ATI oproblem.

My system works fine in AHII:
5 year old Dell Intel 440-BX MB with Powerleap Celeron 1.4 upgrade
384 MB RAM
Win98 se
Nvidia FX-5200 Ultra
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: muffdvr on June 03, 2004, 02:48:58 PM
Quote
Originally posted by MOSQ
The one you are building will work fine. I can't comment on the Nvidia vs ATI problems with AHII because I run Nvidia and have no experience on the ATI oproblem.

My system works fine in AHII:
5 year old Dell Intel 440-BX MB with Powerleap Celeron 1.4 upgrade
384 MB RAM
Win98 se
Nvidia FX-5200 Ultra



Glad tp hear my the new machine sounds fas enough for the new game.  I'll have to ask around about the ATI problems, wouldn't want to buy this card and find out I don't work with this game.
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: SpitLead on June 05, 2004, 09:38:37 PM
So where can I find the tech requirements for AH2??  I'm sure HiTech must have them posted somewhere.
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: Roscoroo on June 05, 2004, 10:13:03 PM
800 mhz
gf2 64mb  is the min requirements

My slowest pc ive been beta testing with is a

1.0ghz amd  64mb L-2 cache  (Duron)
256 ram
gf 2 mx 400 64mb
win 98se

the lowest frame rate has been 19 fps  with the performance sliders  centered  ...  it picks up 5-7 fps if i move them all the way to the right .
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: muffdvr on June 06, 2004, 04:02:37 AM
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
800 mhz
gf2 64mb  is the min requirements

My slowest pc ive been beta testing with is a

1.0ghz amd  64mb L-2 cache  (Duron)
256 ram
gf 2 mx 400 64mb
win 98se

the lowest frame rate has been 19 fps  with the performance sliders  centered  ...  it picks up 5-7 fps if i move them all the way to the right .


Hell now if I can get the drivers for my sound card i'll be set for AH and try out AHII.  I just hate it when you got to resort to f-disking your computer.
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: nopoop on June 06, 2004, 10:19:32 AM
After I got my new box up and running. XP for the first time, ran ME in my old boxs, I hated the onboard sound, you couldn't crank it.

For some reason my soundblaster 512 card had quit working in the old box, reinstalled drivers etc. etc. So I stuck it in the new box, got the driver CD already to go and fired up the computer.

XP said, recognize new hardware - soundblaster 512 - hardware is ready to use...

WHOOT !!

Plugged in my brand new CH USB flight system and XP said, recognize new hardware - CH products flightstick - hardware is ready to use..

Why it took me so long to give up Windows 98 I'll never know.
Title: Upgrade, can it run AH2?
Post by: MOSQ on June 06, 2004, 01:30:56 PM
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Originally posted by nopoop

Why it took me so long to give up Windows 98 I'll never know.


For me,

1) Because I'd really need a new computer to handle XP, it's a resource hog. In the least I'd need more memory, and the old type memory I need is no longer cheap.

2) Because I have CH analog Stick, Throttle, and Pedals.  It is my understanding they won't work correctly in XP, that I would need to switch to all USB.

Does anyone here have experience running CH analog on Win XP?

So the switch for me would mean not only a new computer, but $300 for all new CH setup.

It's gonna be awhile till that happens....Win 98 for the next year at least.