Ok here goes.

Looks like you have plenty of RAM and a plenty fast enough CPU as Flight sim X seems to be quite an old game.

You do however appear to be using on board Graphics. ie. you aren't using a graphics card (most likely because you don't have one.) You need to install a direct x 9 compatible card with at least 128mb of RAM and all will be ok.

Next thing you need to do is find out what type of card you need to get. There will be two choices. AGP or PCI Express. Do you have any idea which you may need?

One way to tell is open the side of the computer case so you can see the mother board. You will have somewhere between 3-5 white expansion slots where you might put a Sound card or a USB card or something these are the PCI slots just above this there is the graphics card slot. If it's brown it's AGP if it's another colour it's PCI express. The other way is to find the instructions that came with the PC and look it up.

You can pick a graphics card up capable of playing that for less than 30 squids.

As for the wrong colours on the Sims 2. I don't know could be a compatability issue with the game and the graphics chip set and a similar upgrade may be required.

Posted By: cookpassbabtridge on August 28th 2008 at 09:08:05

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Early Tech help required please (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Aug 28, 08:00:26
- Thick as mince.... (General Chat) - snowman, Aug 28, 11:15:06
- m8.... I know you head is probably (General Chat) - Pixelman, Aug 28, 09:51:23
  - ^^^ works with/for Anglian Internet! (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Aug 28, 10:15:56
- Following on from 'what type of card' (General Chat) - fleckmatic, Aug 28, 09:48:27
- Have you asked Barry? (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Aug 28, 08:51:58
- depends on lots of things. (General Chat) - cookpassbabtridge, Aug 28, 08:14:23
  - ok bear with me on this - but is this what you mean (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Aug 28, 08:31:05
    - Intel chip sets are crap for gaming (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Aug 28, 09:09:06
    - Ok here goes. (General Chat) - cookpassbabtridge, Aug 28, 09:08:05
      - also appears that not all AGP slots are brown so (General Chat) - cookpassbabtridge, Aug 28, 09:23:24
      - Looking at it I'm going to go out on a limb and say you need (General Chat) - cookpassbabtridge, Aug 28, 09:15:43
    - RE: (General Chat) - BB_King, Aug 28, 08:54:26
    - Over to you Cookspassbabtridge, not familiar with gaming (General Chat) - sixthgo, Aug 28, 08:34:33
      - thanks anyway sixthgo - i am just crap with computers (n/m) (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Aug 28, 08:38:53
        
        If Cooks doesn't come back, keep this thread alive as their are (General Chat) - sixthgo, Aug 28, 08:45:13
        
        battery went dead on my laptop and left my fecking charger at home (n/m) (General Chat) - cookpassbabtridge, Aug 28, 08:58:50
        
        You do need more RAM, probably 2 X 1GB sticks, but what (General Chat) - sixthgo, Aug 28, 08:55:15
        
        best way to get memory is (General Chat) - Dave in France, Aug 28, 09:13:53
        
        Would you really buy RAM off eBay? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Aug 28, 09:45:21
        
        Ebuyer is good and one of the cheapest.... (General Chat) - sixthgo, Aug 28, 09:49:14
        
        *go (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave in France, Aug 28, 09:14:01
- Right click on the My Computer Icon on the blank screen, (General Chat) - sixthgo, Aug 28, 08:09:47
  - that too. (n/m) (General Chat) - cookpassbabtridge, Aug 28, 08:15:42
    - right then standby - i'll be back hopefully and many thanx (n/m) (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Aug 28, 08:17:52

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