Cant afford PC upgrade. G2 better than nothin?

[aerospot]

I'm contemplating purchasing G2 off of Ebay due to the fact that my 1.2 gig machine wont handle G3.
Would this be a good alternative in my case?
I want to use it to teach my 8 year old grandson. He has a couple hours on the buddie chord with a Kadet Sr. He has video game fingers and has caught on fast! I only had to take over a couple times before he 'gotit'.
At any rate, I'd like to use a simulator to help him through the winter so that he could learn take off & landings.
I'd love to upgrade my PC and get G3 but, not enough $$ to go around !!
What'ya think, G2 work for him??
Dave

[rutat]

Sure it'll do fine. But for next to nothing you could install FMS.

[bluesky123]

Dave,

You don't have to upgarde "the whole" PC, upgarding just a video card may well be sufficient. Check what video card you have now and if there are provisions (AGP slot) to install a new card.

Depending on what video your PC has now, it may run G2 quite well. For anything but 3D flight (i.e. slow flying at past-critical angles of attack with the vertical component of the motor thrust keeping the craft airborn) RealFlight G2 is quite adequate. You don't need G3 for learning take-offs and landings. Even reqular aerobatics is quite accurately modeled in G2.

Boris

[aerospot]

Thanks Boris. Sounds like G2 is just the ticket!
Now to catch a low auction...

[aerospot]

I've downloaded and played with fms using a joystick. Yea I thought about just getting a link for my transmitter to run it. But from what I've seen of G2 the whole program looks much better. I'd like to project it onto a wall like Justin Chi :)

[rutat]

G2 is definitely better than FMS. But you can't beat the price. But an 8 yr old won't care. BTDT

[Malc C]

G2 is better than FMS by far. Yes I know FMS is free, and it has its good points, but FMS lacks the physics that G2 has, especially the helicopters, so I would always recommend G2 over FMS for that reason.

[jdbercic]

Well just for info sake. I am running a pentium 800 computer with a ATI 7500 video card and 768mb of ram. The reflex sim run great on it. I just had to uninstall service pack 2 then install the program then reinstall service pack 2. What a pain but it works great.