On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:38:00 +1000, Jonathan wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 3/3/06, John Matro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My system is about 4 years old and runs Windows XP with an Athlon 1
> > Mhz processor, 512 MB ram, and an nVidia GeForce2 MX AGP graphics
> > card.
..stuff in all the ram it can take.
> > Problem: I've tried FlightGear 0.9.6 and 0.9.9 and they both run
> > extremely slowly. (Interestingly, until I recently upgraded
> > Windows, FG 0.9.6 ran okay under Windows ME.)
> >
> > I assume that just upgrading my graphics card will solve the
> > problem. Do you agree?
> >
> > If so, I've seen a fairly inexpensive nVidia GeForce MX 4000 AGP
> > card (128 MB). Do you know if that is sufficient? If not, are
> > there any (not too expensive) cards that do work? (I'm pretty sure
> > my ASUS motherboard is AGP 2.0 compliant and the slot will also
> > physically take an AGP Pro card.)
>
> Well, for comparison, I have an Athlon 2600+ with the same 512MB of
..there are Sempron about that quick for Socket A, but grab what cou can
find, AMD has phased out Socket A and is phasing out Socket 754 for the
939'er.
> RAM as you, running Linux. I threw away my GeForced2 MX when games
> much simpler graphically than FG ran choppily and with low resolution,
> replacing it with an MX 4000 and NVidia's supplied Linux drivers. FG
..if you were running Linux, I'd say go for a _fairly_ recent ATI, up to
X850 or earlier and run the GPL "ati" driver in X.org.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/groklaw $ cat /var/log/Xorg.1.log |grep X85
ATI Radeon X850 5D4C (PCIE),
ATI Radeon FireGL (R480) GL 5D50 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 SE (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 XT (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (AGP),
ATI Radeon X850 SE (R480) (AGP),
ATI Radeon X850 XT (R480) (AGP),
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (AGP)
> runs smoothly for me so long as nothing else wants much attention from
> the CPU, but there will occasionally be moments of stutter or
> stalling, possibly related to caching, but not otherwise explained
> where I've seen it (pointers welcome!)
>
> It will of course come down to other issues such as quality of
> componentry and the resolution you try and run your monitor and FG at,
> but the card itself should keep you happy for a while.
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