Running FS9 on a laptop

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Running FS9 on a laptop

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Would like to know if anybody is running FS9 on a laptop and if so how it is performing and what specs it has.

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I'm not but if you have a fast enough laptop it should work just fine. A buddy of mine runs Unreal Tournament 2005 with no problems.
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Thanks for the reply. I have been doing some research and it seems that if you get a laptop with a video card by nvadia or ATI it will run just fine. If and when I do get one I'll post my results with it.
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Well I guess I'll have to answer my own question. Got a dell inspiron 6000
with 2 gig pentium and 1 gig of ram and from what I have observed so far is that with the frame rate set at 30 it runs at 30. No complaints so far.
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Good Al. I'm sure you'll have plenty of portable simming power with that laptop.

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Can anyone help me with saving long flights? I know how to save the flight on FS, but how do you keep FASCARS in sinc? Can FASCARS be saved or do I have to restart it? Thanks for your input. Jim Tilley
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Re: Long Flights

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Jim Tilley wrote:Can anyone help me with saving long flights? I know how to save the flight on FS, but how do you keep FASCARS in sinc? Can FASCARS be saved or do I have to restart it? Thanks for your input. Jim Tilley
Sorry Jim, FSACARS does not allow you to resume a "saved flight". You can still save a flight on Flight Sim and resume it later. But you will need to keep track of your flight time manually and then manually log your flight to the POC.
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Post by Nate R »

hey im running fs on my laptop, works better than my desktop at the moment lol but specs arent anythign special and i still use Active Sky and have they graphics cranked. Its a toshiba satellite with an intel celeron processor at 1.50 GHz 448 mb or ram w/ like 80 gig hard drive nothign special im savin money for a new desktop that im building
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