phoenix on laptop

[wiseman]

Down loaded the demo of the phoenix but the screen said some thing like computor requires upgrading, my lap top is only 5 months old thought it would have worked, my lap top has windows 7,intel corei3, its a ASUS model X52F, any ideas,,,,, this could be expensive before i even get to use phoenix.

[Darwil]

More info needed, has it got shared graphics (not good) or dedicated graphics (good); how much memory 2Gb (not good) 3Gb + (good) Win7 32 bit (good) Win7 64 bit (may be a problem).
Hope that helps but really when you go shopping for that sort of thing questions should be asked first!

[electricsceadu]

when i bought my acer laptop i had to stop the salesman trying to palm me off with the wrong spec model
my magic letter was g at the end of the model number
and the salesman's jaw dropped when he realised the difference in spec of the two models
the graphics on my laptop are better than my pc

[wiseman]

after checking out the spec, looks like the phoenix isnt going to work on my lap top, have to reconsider which to buy now cant get another laptop too much may be a upgrade might work

[SmileyMan]

Hi

I run Phoenix V3 at max settings on a 2007 (5 year old) Toshiba Satellite Pro A100. Only upgrade is 2GB memory.
Shows the benefits of getting dedicated graphics on a laptop (Radeon X1400)

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.c...E-008002EN.pdf

I also have got it running on a 2006 (6 year old) Advent 7000a with integrated graphics
(upgraded with 1.25GB). Ok it runs poor. 20fps on lowest settings on flying field only. But it works.

UKT Support - Advent 7000A Laptop

Basically my 5 year old (mid range) laptop is still better than the current crop of bottom range laptops on sale.

Based on this I find it shocking a new (2011-2012) laptop can not run it.

So no need for me to look into a upgrade at this moment lol.

[joe.lel]

Ive used it on a Netbook too Not on max but still very useable

[gary911]

I have been using version 2.5 on my laptop toshiba satellite pro A100 with no problems, however I have uninstalled version 2.5 and loaded version 3 new disk which has loaded successfully ,but I can't open it and when I click on the phoenix icon it is trying to open the 2.5 version which is not there. I now hate this simulator.

[joe.lel]

Have you tried looking for the executable program file in the C; drive or whatever?

[gary911]

No I have not , I thought once it loaded it would just go to my desktop as the 2.5 version did . At the end of loading it suggests going to the phoenix site to check the graphics card for upgrades but I could not find anything, so I gave up late last night.

[SmileyMan]

I have been using version 2.5 on my laptop toshiba satellite pro A100 with no problems, however I have uninstalled version 2.5 and loaded version 3 new disk which has loaded successfully ,but I can't open it and when I click on the phoenix icon it is trying to open the 2.5 version which is not there. I now hate this simulator.

Not all of them had dedicated graphics. Mine is the PSAACE-008002EN which did. Maybe why. But if it launches on my Advent 7000A it should work.

Oh I run it in compatibly mode Windows 2000. Will not launch otherwise.

[Darwil]

No I have not , I thought once it loaded it would just go to my desktop as the 2.5 version did . At the end of loading it suggests going to the phoenix site to check the graphics card for upgrades but I could not find anything so I gave late last night.

Sounds like your shortcut to the executable is no longer valid - do a search for the Phoenix executable and then create a new shortcut.

[Darwil]

Further to my previous advice you may be able to run Phoenix on your Laptop but with reduced quality which still may be ok for you. The machine I'm running it on is a 5 year old HP media centre, Core2 duo, 2Gb ram, ATI 512mb graphics - it's not too bad; your laptop has a much faster processor so it might just run ok.

[wiseman]

hey good news, tried to down load the demo again last night clicked on the update the program was asking for then,,,,,, bingo whistles bells and helis floating around my screen all looks great, happy days, going to order the real thing now,

[MarkG_R1]

My year old HP asked me to update the directx version which i did and it works a treat

[Adzski]

Phoenix has very specific DirectX requirements for the older V9 files.

Mine is running on a 4 year old Amilo Pro on Win 7 with DX11, but still had to install some DX9 files.

Glad you got it working....it's a blast :-)