Greetings all,

I ask this question here because fgfs is the single most
graphics-intensive program on my system, so I may as well ask people
in the same situation.

I have only just added a 1GB stick of RAM to the 512 already present,
after discovering that 0.9.10 made the leap over 0.9.9 of running
choppily at best in an engined aircraft and roughly for a glider,
after 0.9.9 ran basically okay everywhere.

This extra RAM has solved that problem for the time being, making swap
space unnecessary, even if I can't get my motherboard to recognise
both DDR400 sticks at the same time (it's supposed to be possible, it
says so in the manual), but it's never enough, is it?

So I need a new graphics card.

I have:
Debian testing, with current-release X.org and all the DRI goodness
that this implies.
Athlon 2600+, 32 bit
1-1.5GB RAM, depending on if I can get them working together properly.
Currently, an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400, 128MB RAM

I've had bad experiences with ATI drivers in the past, both DRI and
FGLRX, but that was three years ago and I think the problem may have
been lingering traces of NVidia GL libraries that weren't properly
uninstalled.

I would prefer to support ATI and DRI, but I don't really care. I just
have no idea what the card classifications mean anymore, and how to
compare between brands.

So my question is: What's the current equivalent of an MX400, from
NVidia or ATI, and what's one step up? I'm not really in a position to
go much over about $150 Australian, call it $115US or 90Euro at
current rates, but I've got no problems trawling eBay for
shrink-wrapped bargains.

Thanks in advance,
JH


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