HelloI would like to buy FS. Hovewer, I don't know which version will run acceptably (let's say around 20fps in medium quality, 1024x768 resolution) on my system. I have a Celeron M 1.3 laptop (roughly equivalent of PIV 1.7-2.0) with 256 RAM. The worst thing is my graphics card - as it is integrated ViA S3 Unichrome Pro chip. It has up to 64mb of shared memory and it is crap. What is more, as it is in a laptop, I cannot replace it. I already know that it won't run fs2004 as it has no T&L or shader suport. I am considering FS 98, 2000 or 2002. So maybe someone has an idea what can I expect from these games on my computer?kind regardsPawel

Welcome to the forum(s). To me, it looks like FS98 should work fairly well. Avoid FS2000 as it's the worst performer of the three. And FS2002 isn't going to run well at all with the RAM and video card limitations. I'd recommend FS98.Doug

I agree, I would run FS98 on that. You could run FS2000, but in my opinion, FS2000 is in some respects inferior to FS98.There are LOTS of add-ons still around for FS98, too.Rhett

Thank you very much for your reply. Can you give some more detail on in what respect fs2000 is inferior to fs98?Pawel

The STUTTERING issue. The stuttering was worse in FS2000 than it was in FS98, and that was a known big issue back in those days. FS2002 was a major improvement in this regard.And that is the primary thing you want in a flight simulator--smoothness. FS98 will have it on the hardware you described, far more than FS2000.Rhett