phoenix and windows vista

[mattydred]

im starting this thread for my uncle tony (tonyheliman).
he bought fms and a esky usb transmitter and we have had trouble getting it to work. we downloaded the d3drm.d11 and it now works. we got the models working perfect but the background was flashing so we turned the textures off. the flashing has stopped but now the background graphics are rubbish - like an atari 2800 from 30 years ago.

anyway, he has read about the phoenix sim on here and has ask me if the phoenix would work on his pc with vista but i dont know so i thought id ask you lot and we would be greatfull for some advice.

he has got a blade cx2 with the 2.4ghz tx so hes half way there.

i told him to buy it anyway and if it dont work he can give it to me - any guess's to his reply?

cheers matty and tony.

[robgt]

Yes, Phoenix works with Vista
Cheers,
Rob

[Chippy]

Works fine for me with vista premium.

[mattydred]

who is using phoenix on a a basic pc package with vista and onboard graphics etc. i think the pc has about 800mb ram and is duel core. sorry but im very computer illiterate - and cant spell either.

[mattydred]

thanks rob and andy - i think his vista is the home edition.

do you know which vista you got tony?

[robgt]

Onboard graphics will usually be the issue that stops stuff like this working well, or at all.
A vista machine with less than 1 to 1.5 gigs of RAM is asking for trouble

Cheers,
Rob

[Chippy]

As Rob said,I got 2 gig of ram and a seperate graphics card (8600 nvidia) and dual core processor 3.02 amd and phoenix runs fine with all settings on high.

[Made2Fade]

Matty ideally u need at least 1gb of memory just to keep the vista resources at bay. ya definately want to upgrade the graphics card to get phoenix working smoothly also. Onboard graphics are no good for sims of this age.
Lee

[Philimon]

I run Phoenix at max settings on my lenovo vista ultimate laptop. Granted, its got 2GB RAM, but the graphics card is a bog-standard job.

Works for me

[Made2Fade]

Could depend on how much memory you have allocated to the graphics card as they share system memory. Problem is not all onboard graphics allow so much memory to be shared, they are limited.
Lee

[mattydred]

thanks for info guys

[Mogster]

Those lenovo laptops have quite decent Nvidia mobile gfx cards included, not exactly bog standard

There'll be about 256mb of dedicated gfx memory so it should work OK.

[mattydred]

tony just had his phoenix delivered today. i went to his house to help him install it and set it up which was really very easy to do. everything works perfect and ive just had my first ever go on the phoenix and doing so will push me to get my own even sooner.

tried to join a multiplayer seesion and it said we cant because the server is running a different version of phoenix or something???

very pleased for tony that it installed ok and works on his pc without having to upgrade rams and graphic cards.

matty

[robgt]

Download and install the updates - most people playing online seem to always run the latest (beta) version.

Cheers,
Rob

[mattydred]

tony just phoned me and has ordered me the phoenix. should get it in a couple of days.
nice1 tony - roll on multiplayer sessions