> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 October 2005 02:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs on AMD64 status? Mobo > suggestions/warnings? > > > > Hi, > > I've been out of the fgfs development loop for an annoyingly > long time. At > first, I had to adjust to a big drop in free time after > (thankfully) finally > getting employed. Then I had a video card failure that > forced me back to an > old card I had lying around which had no 3D acceleration. > And then, at the > end of July, problems with my motherboard started, and > worsened through the > month until it became basically unusable by September. > > I'm secure enough now that I'm shopping to build a new > machine. I'm looking > at AMD64 motherboards and one of the newer nvidia cards. And what I'm > wondering is whether any fgfs developers can speak to > building and running > fgfs, on linux, on an AMD64 box, and/or with the nv 6600's/6800's etc. > I've seen some threads that people are running it on AMD64 OK; but I'm > wondering if there are any suggestions, recommendations, or > warnings that > are worth hearing before I start shelling out the big $ (e.g. > mobos you're > happy with or had nothing but trouble with). I wanna get > back to this stuff. > > Cheers, > > -c >
I build and run FG on an AMD64 3000, on a Gigabyte motherboard (GA-K8VNXP maybe?) in W2K and Linux (FC3, 32 bit). HD is on the SATA port which works seamlessly. Video is an NVidia 5200 (I think) and that is no problem in either OS. I am using the onboard sound, which I now cannot get working with OpenAL under Windows, although it has worked in the past. It works fine in Linux though, and I am moving that way, so I have stopped worrying about that :-) Saitek USB joystick works fine in both OSs (once I had it plugged in while kudzu ran) but the axis numbers are different in Linux and Windows. I will post a patch to the joystick file at some point to fix that one properly. Welcome back. Richard ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for Bede Scientific Instruments for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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