Flight Simulator – capable of running on windows 7 laptop

Hi all,

My old man wants to run flight simulation software on his laptop just for fun. He is more into the authentic experience over an action type game.

Can anyone recommend some for consideration that will run on a windows 7 laptop. Toshiba, 4GB ram, Intel core M380 2.53 GHz processor probably with on board graphics. Its windows experience rating is at 4 so not a powerhouse.

Cheers,

Sid

MS Flight Sim was always the benchmark, I know they’re not doing new versions since their games arm folded, but it must work on Windows 7.

X plane should run fine, http://www.x-plane.com/

Runs on my notebook fine. Graphics might not be up there with Flight Sim, but it’s probably slightly more authentic from pilot’s point of view.

A look at the website says it needs a DirectX 9.0c-capable video card with 128 MB of on-board, dedicated video RAM (VRAM). So it won’t work if it’s a laptop which shares video memory with main memory like some budget ones do.

FSX will run fine (although you’ll need to play around with the graphics settings).

MS Flight (the new version but a bit dumbed down) is free to play on Steam also.

X-Plane for some reason wins awards but to be honest I have no idea why since the “experience” of flight that it offers is completely unlike anything I’ve experienced in several thousand hours in the real thing.

Try MS Flight Sim with one of the aftermarket aircraft, which do the simulation model themselves and only tie into Flight Sim for scenery.

Flight Sim x is very computer intensive and like a high clock speed rather than as many processor cores. So a 3.2 Ghz dual core is better than a 2.5 ghz quad core.

Before upgrading my comp i used Fs9 (flight sim 2004) with no problems on windows 7

Loads of add ons for both fs2004 and fsx now mostly need to be bought online tho.

I have Manchester xtreme scenary for fsx and its a brillian replica of my local Aiport

bugger just downloading MS Flight now after seeing this. Tried playing some online army games when I got my new laptop but discovered I am too rubbish these days so maybe this will be more my speed.

The recommended specs for MS flight are:

CPU: Dual Core 3.0 GHz
GPU: 1024 MB ATI Radeon HD 5670 or 1024 MB NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GT or equivalent
HD: 30 GB hard drive space
OS : Win7 SP1 64-bit operating system
RAM: 6.0GB

my laptop is an Ivy Bridge I5 with 8gb ram and 1gb GT 630m so hopefully okay.