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teeceeveecee · 05-22-2008, 10:33 AM

Folgado:

Your experience may be due more to VISTA than G4.

I have G4 running on my "E" drive in VISTA environment. I am not happy with many aspects of the presentation or responsiveness of G4. I have the environment very clean on "E" drive , no 15 different programs running in background or heavy processor loading.

I also have G4 running on my "C" drive in Windows XP-Professional environment and find it to be excellent. Much better presentation and responsiveness. I have a much heavier load on my system on the "C" drive and it still performs better.

I have had all versions of Real Flight moving thru various upgrades and then finally bought the complete G3.0 software and controller, then did the online upgrade to 3.5. They have all been excellent. As for your feeling that the menus, etc all look the same, THAT'S A GOOD THING ! I am a retired systems analyst and have designed quite a bit of company propriatary software (internal use only) and I can tell you that change for change sake only causes user confusion.

My system is middle of the road, Celeron-D processor 2.66 gHz, 2.0 gb ram 60 ns, nVidia GeForce 7600GT w/512 mb dedicated ram, Westinghouse 19" LCD set at 1440 X 900 w/32 bit data stream. My box has a AGP slot not even PCIe and the graphics are excellent.

I don't recall if you stated you dedicated video ram, you really need at least 512 MB, if your box has PCIe slots go for broke on the video ram at 64 bit.

In any event if you retained your previous operating system on a separeate drive you may want to load up your G4 on that system and see how it performs. VISTA is still going thru the early release problems that all software has. When one considers the absolutely mountain of work that windows performs for us it is a wonder to behold. When I started, we talked directly to DOS and 640-kb of ram was monumental. My first compter had 64-kb and two 320-kb floppy drives, NO HARD DRIVE AT ALL !

So those are my observations for what they are worth (free), hope you can arrive at at a better situation.

Best,
E T

Milton, WI USA

05-22-2008, 10:33 AM	#42
teeceeveecee Flyin' Around Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5	Re: REAL FLIGHT G4 !!!!!FIASCO!!!!! Folgado: Your experience may be due more to VISTA than G4. I have G4 running on my "E" drive in VISTA environment. I am not happy with many aspects of the presentation or responsiveness of G4. I have the environment very clean on "E" drive , no 15 different programs running in background or heavy processor loading. I also have G4 running on my "C" drive in Windows XP-Professional environment and find it to be excellent. Much better presentation and responsiveness. I have a much heavier load on my system on the "C" drive and it still performs better. I have had all versions of Real Flight moving thru various upgrades and then finally bought the complete G3.0 software and controller, then did the online upgrade to 3.5. They have all been excellent. As for your feeling that the menus, etc all look the same, THAT'S A GOOD THING ! I am a retired systems analyst and have designed quite a bit of company propriatary software (internal use only) and I can tell you that change for change sake only causes user confusion. My system is middle of the road, Celeron-D processor 2.66 gHz, 2.0 gb ram 60 ns, nVidia GeForce 7600GT w/512 mb dedicated ram, Westinghouse 19" LCD set at 1440 X 900 w/32 bit data stream. My box has a AGP slot not even PCIe and the graphics are excellent. I don't recall if you stated you dedicated video ram, you really need at least 512 MB, if your box has PCIe slots go for broke on the video ram at 64 bit. In any event if you retained your previous operating system on a separeate drive you may want to load up your G4 on that system and see how it performs. VISTA is still going thru the early release problems that all software has. When one considers the absolutely mountain of work that windows performs for us it is a wonder to behold. When I started, we talked directly to DOS and 640-kb of ram was monumental. My first compter had 64-kb and two 320-kb floppy drives, NO HARD DRIVE AT ALL ! So those are my observations for what they are worth (free), hope you can arrive at at a better situation. Best, E T Milton, WI USA