We bought Flight Simulator X for our son for Christmas. This was his first gift on his list.we can’t play the game on our window XP..we installed Forsa Geforce FX5500 AGP 8X 256 MB Graphics card..To our son and our dissapointement it the game wouldn’t work. So we took out the card until we know what to do. Please, help me find the solution..Our computer is: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2
Acer Incorporated
ADM Sempron ™
Processor 3300+
2.01 GHz
448MB of RAM
Physical Adress Extension
Here are the requirement for Flight XMicrosoft® Windows® XP SP2 / Vista
PC with 1 GHz equivalent or higher processor
256 MB of system RAM for Windows XP SP2 / 512 MB Vista
14 GB available hard disk space
DVD-ROM drive
32 MB DirectX 9 compatible video card requiredSound card, speakers or headphones required for audio
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
56.6 Kbps or better modem for online play
That’s weird, it shouldn’t be the video card that’s the problem.
Your problem most likely are the drivers. Start with the most updated drivers for the video card, then try updating your system BIOS.
Flight sim X is a very power hungry game. For you to get good performance from that game you need a big system. Dual Core and atleast a 7900 or 8 series card to play the game decent. I would put atleast 2 gigs of memory also.