Phil930

Well my desktop has served me well for the past 4 years, but the AMD64 3200 is starting to show its age. FM08 really highlighted this, but I pursued for a while, but never really got a serious game running. My old specs were the AMD 64 3200, 2gb Ram, 160Gb 7200rpm HDD and Win XP Pro.

This weekend my Dell XPS M1330 arrived, along with its T7500 2.2Ghz Dual Core 2 processor. The notebook also has 3gb RAM, 250Gb 5400rpm HD, dedicated graphics and Vista Home Premium.

After a clean install of Vista to remove the bloatware, I installed FM with no problems, although was ready and waiting with the Vista hints thread. As a test I loaded a game, Eng, Ita & Spa top leagues from all on medium detail. I went on holiday and after 30 mins the old desktop was on Oct 10th 2007. The notebook had already reached the new year, on Jan 9th 2008.

All of the above to say, threading on this game has made a huge difference and hopefully now I have a machine that runs with more than adequate pace I will enjoy this game a lot more. I feel back to the fun speeds of CM 01/02, which I never put down as I was always playing and not watching.

bytheway

i have a dual core processor and 2gb of ram on my laptop and i play with every possible league playable on a large database and it runs fine for me so you should have no problem if ya fancy giving it a go.
so much more fun!!!! :thup:

Neji

Just finished building my new quad core (boasting :cool: ). FM will have to wait as I have Crysis sat next to me. BUT I'm glad to hear that it makes such a difference :thup:

Dappen

Put my new mobo and 2.6ghz dual core in last week. It flys along, never seen an FM game run so smooth

proder

My computer is blue!

DjScotProject

out of interest how do you found out what your specs for your computer are. Im not really into computers (family computer) im just happy to play fm. cheers

Chris Waddle

If you are using XP, the easy (but not detailed way) is to click start / settings / control panel
When this wondow opens, double click the system icon. The screen that opens should give you your computer details.

If you want a more detailed spec, then download Cpu-z which you can get from here: Cpu-z

DjScotProject

If you are using XP, the easy (but not detailed way) is to click start / settings / control panel
When this wondow opens, double click the system icon. The screen that opens should give you your computer details.

If you want a more detailed spec, then download Cpu-z which you can get from here: Cpu-z </BLOCKQUOTE>

thanks for the info

cafe_latte

I have an Inspiron 530s from Dell and my specs are:

Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E6750
320 HDD
Windows Vista Premium.

I have to agree that dual core rocks. It only takes me a few minutes to 'holiday' a whole season with a shed-load of leagues running. Dunno what I would do without it really!

Starr_Man5

My computer is Guff.

I'd be embarrassed to reveal the specs.