James A. Treacy wrote > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Graphics cards for flightgear > > > I am going to upgrade my system soon (my current system is so > outdated I can't use flightgear well on it). Even cheap > recent cpu's are more than capable of handling desktop tasks > but what about graphics? I don't need much power in a > graphics card, except for flightgear, and it is not clear how > much I need for that. > > The flightgear web site and wiki mention that any recent > graphics card should be fine for flightgear. Is that really > the case if you want to have all the bells and whistles > turned on and have a decent frame rate? I'm talking about > shadows, fires, etc, while flying one of the larger planes > (lots of triangles and textures). > > For example, I'd love to get away with a Radeon 3450 (low > power, fanless and only about $50) but will get something > more powerful if needed. > > On to the questions: > > What are the hardware requirements for flightgear at its most > demanding? > > Are there any features in development that will require more > powerful graphics? > > *MOST IMPORTANT* > What is the cpu and graphics card in your system and what > frame rates do you get in flightgear? Also give your OS. > > Hopefully we'll get enough information from this thread so I > can update the wiki with something more useful. >
Right now, I would strongly advise against ATI cards - their OpenGl implementation is dodgy, to say the least. Better in their Windows driver than in Linux. I recently upgraded from a nVidia fx6200/256 to a nVidia 7600gs, and got no improvement in performance using fg/osg - 25 - 30 at KSFO with everything on except MP, 18-20 with. Turns out that the cpu is the limitation here - P4 2.8Ghz 1.5gb RAM. So I would say that P4 2.8Ghz 1.5gb + fx6200 was probably the bottom line for fg/osg. On the other hand fg/plib flies along here, but I still wouldn't recommend anything less capable than fx6200. I hope that the osg implementation will improve so that in the future we may get frame rates comparable with plib. Hth Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
