phoenix sim on a netbook

[Merlin spit]

hi ive been thinking of buying a netbook and i saw this  youtube vid of a guy using it on a Asus EEE 1000HE,any advice would be very welcome as i need to replace my soaking wet £800 laptop with somthing alot cheaper and if it runs phoenix all the better

[michael birks]

unfortunately a netbook wont run phoenix,its the lack of a decent spec graphics card thats causes this,you can download the demo off their website to check if it will run on your system,you can get a really good refurb high end laptop for 200quid with a guarantee, we use netbooks but they are a pain if you try and load them up so to speak FMS works ok and several other sims but you have to sacrifice graphic detail ,i.e smoke,shadows and clouds to name a few,hope this helps

[michael birks]

i purposely bought a decent second hand pc just so i could run phoenix,it's a brilliant sim.

[Merlin spit]

correct link to youtube seems to run well

[birdy]

Depends on the netbook - I doubt that it would run on anything worse then an Atom 330.

[michael birks]

i have the Atom1.6 and it's a no go (unfortunately) (Toshiba NB100) it can just manage FMS lol,my p3 450mhz can runprograms that my Toshiba NB100 cannot possibly due to its Nvidia 64mb GFX card, My Toshiba has 1gb of ram 1.6mhz pro 64mb shared GFX its ok for surfing odd work document excel etc but anything heavy just stalls it forgive the pun.

[Merlin spit]

hi guys just got a asus eee pc 1005p and loaded up the sim and it works at around 20-30 frames per second on medium settings ,this is out of the box i was going to upgrade the ram to 2gb not sure if il bother now ,its a quick machine for broswing the web and watching i player i even converted mp3s and watched i player with no slow down  not bad for 250 quid and the battery still half full after 4hours use to night.