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17th Jan 2009, 08:29

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I had exactly the same problem with my old laptop - no video card! So I just bought another one - Acer 6935G. It wasn't cheap, but it runs Microsoft Flight Sim X beautifully.

Some points from my personal research: you'd need a gaming laptop with a good video card (preferably 9600m and not below 512Mb). Try to get DDR3 (at least 2GB). Processor doesn't really matter that much as long as you stay at around 2.4GHz (try to get at least P8600, but no need for T9600 as you will hardly feel any difference). Lastly, remember that if the laptop has 32bit Vista, then max ram that will be useful to you is 3Gb (that is, if you have 4Gb ram on a 32bit Vista, Windows will only use 3Gb). It's a different story with the 64bit Vista, but I am not 100% sure Flight Sim will run on it as not many applications are yet compatible with a 64bit Vista. Nevertheless, be assured that Flight Sim runs nicely on 32bit. Hope this helps

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