system specs.

[paintballkidz]

I am looking to get pheonix, i currently run a g3.5 real crappy, i have to run it with out any good graphics. i have an HP pavillion 1012x stock machine. any idea if i can get good graphics out of phoenix?

XP SV. PACK 2
AMD ATHLON 64
3200+
2.21 GHz, 348 of Ram (should be 512mb)

[sparx-]

Isn't this why they offer a Demo for you to download?

Try downloading it and trying it out/

SPaRX

[TheBum]

Is it possible to fit any more RAM in your machine. 512MB is marginal and that's probably one of your big bottlenecks.

[zagiman]

Try the demo and if you still have problems, e-mail Phoenix with your system specs. The response time has been great! As well as the help.

[rvsixer]

The 1012x uses integrated graphics (which probably uses 128MB of system memory which is why you are only seeing 384MB).

Both your lack of system memory and very slow graphics will not allow any flight sim to run properly. I'd suggest upping your memory to at least 1GB, and more importantly you need an AGP graphics card to replace the onboard video (I am running an overclocked 6600GT AGP card I picked up for $30USD and it does okay).

[Pinecone]

The basic machine is fine. The video may be margial, but I run it on a couple of laptops with integrated video fine.

One is Pentium 1.7 G, 512MB and integrated ATI video. Phoenix is fine on that.

Download the demo and see how it runs.

[nerdo5953]

I run mine smoothly on a 5 years old Dell Inspiron 8200 1.7MHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce4 440 Go 64 MB video (was 32 MB which also worked fine with Phoenix).

I also had a very lousy experience running RealFlight G 3.5 on the same laptop compared to Phoenix. One of the unique features about Phoenix from my experience so far is that it doesn’t require too much resources when running, so it can run surprisingly well on PCs with some humble specs.

So just like the other guys here advised you; download the demo and give it a shot. But upgrading to 1 GB is almost a must nowadays for many other applications and of course for the resource-hungry Windows.

Good luck with your new sim ;)