![]() ![]() All the views have to be adjusted to the same zoom, even the top hat switch, when I do this I treat it as part of the pre-flight checks and setup, unless it is a saved flight which has the zooms saved with it. (Typically for a wide screen its fully zoom out then in one). Zoom out to 0.50 using the + - top/right main key board. If you are running a multi monitor surround vision or just a wide monitors of any size, it’s the wide bit FS9 can’t cope with, the default zoom displays too close and you can see very little of the virtual cockpit and scenery is to close. ![]() Terrain Detail : Land Only (enables water effects)īitmap set to 4, or 5 or higher on a high spec, really high spec can handle can handle 7 without shimmering but I find to maintain that it needs plenty of defrags but the effect is stunning.įrame Rates =Unlimited : Unlimited seem to allow FS to render at full throttle I do it for a few weeks really opens thing up, knock it back to something over 30įS2004 was written for 14, 15 to 17 inch CRT displays with a resolution of 1024X768 and a aspect ratios of 4.3, this is one area of FS9 that does show its age and to date there is no real permanent fix. cfg file entries you do later providing your PC can handle it. Settings within FS9, do this bit this first as clicking OK in here will reset some of the. (The main draw back after completing all the tasks is all the limitations Microsoft incorporated in FS2004 to protect the hardware of the time). Depending on your hardware and software configuration these setting will need to be tweaked to suit These setting are based on a low to medium spec PC / running Win7 32bit/64bit PC's, running a 64bit OS has lots of problems as FS9 is a 32bit program. I will split this down into sections, to save wading through a whole lot of typing to find what you want OK we will need to do a little work to get thing opened up to take advantage of faster computers with graphics cards that have more on-board Ram than the old PC’s had on the mother boards, plus the norm now is large wide screens which again upsets things in flightsim 2004. I certainly can’t fault Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 which can run and look really good even if it’s well over 10 years old. Given the advances in computers since FS9 SP1 was released by Microsoft, it’s no longer the case now we need to really open things up. All the tweaks in the past were geared towards getting FS2004 to run on PC's that were not quite up to the task and the tweaks did the job well. One of the main drawbacks of running older software is that the software was written for Pc's that were widely available at affordable prices at that time with differing drivers, and of cause a different version of Windows. Tips compiled By Howard for running FS2004 on modern PC's The imformation on this page must remain free to all users. No warranty is offered or implyed with these Tips and Tweaks. Sorry no support can be given to none registered users. ![]()
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