Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator System Requirements

My test rig was a totally average gaming system: Pentium 233MMX with 64 MEG RAM and a 16 Meg Creative 3D Blaster Banshee.

The frame rate ranged from 10 fps to 60 fps, but probably averaged around 14-20 in combat.

Turning the cockpit off gave as much as a 2 x increase in framerate. This wasn't a problem for me as I usually alternate between padlock view and no-cockpit view in combat.

Running in 600 x 400 and 1024 x 768 made no difference at all to the framerate! ( Credit the Banshee card. )

A 15" monitor at 600 x 400 gave as much detail as I needed ( see the screen shots in this diary ). As you turn up the resolution the screen fonts get smaller so I would probably only use the higher resolutions with a larger monitor.