Hi, it's me Jetman...it's has been like 2 years since I have really been into FlightGear. I have gone away from FG mainly because my laptop couldn't keep up with the changing graphical and performance improvements. (Best running FG version on my laptop was 1.9.1.)
I am purchasing a computer in about 2 weeks from now. I have the New Computer I am purchasing and its specs vs current laptop's specs:
New Computer: /Current computer:
AMD Quad-Core A8-5500 Accelerated Processor (3.20GHz, 4MB L2 Cache) / Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 @ 2.1Ghz
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit /Windows 8 Professional 64-Bit
AMD Radeon HD 7560D Graphics /Intel GMA 4500MHD (LOL no Win8 drivers for it that supports OpenGL, aka no FlightGear).
8GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz / 4GB RAM DDR3
1TB HD 7200rpm /320GB HD 5200rpm
This new computer has an integrated chip that is embedded with the CPU, but it is a very powerful chip. It can share up to 4GB of Shared System Memory; 512MB Dedicated. I have seen it run Battlefield 3 and Arma 2--two graphic-intensive games, Arma 2 being also CPU-intensive--without any problems. Again, I want to stress that it is an integrated chip. It does come with OpenGL support (OpenGL 4.1), though I don't know much about OpenGL, moreover OpenGL 4.1.
Anyways, I wonder how this system will fair against FlightGear 2.10. Are there any FlightGear users that have experience with AMD's APU family? If so, how does FlightGear run for you? If neither, do you think it could run FG well?