On Thursday 04 May 2006 02:18, Jonathan Hepburn wrote: > 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
There still appear to be problems with ATI's OpenGL support - not just with FG but with other applications as well. Nvidia 6600 based 256MB AGP cards (what I currently use and which works) are available in the UK for around 70 UKP - this should be in your price range. Incidentally, the latest Nvidia driver - 8756 - works with Xorg 7 (the 'modular' version). I had to build a debian package for nvidia-kernel from source but it worked on a GeForce 4MX based system - haven't updated my main workstation, with the 6600, yet. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
