Paul Duncan asked > > I know ATI aren't the flavour of the month regarding > graphics chipsets on here, but can someone give me > their opinions of this laptop? It has the ATI Radeon > Mobility X1600. If I'm reading the specs correctly, it > appears to have 128MB of its own RAM, and is not > sharing it with the main processor. > > Here's the spec: > http://www.targa.co.uk/index.jsp?SID=0&NAV=236&DOC=&PAGE=1486&PCAT=2&PROD= > 274&PTUBE=12&PARAMS=undefined&PARAMS2=undefined&SPCAREA=undefined > > So, if I turn clouds off, will this run flightgear? > Its a shame if it won't because apart from the lack of > a serial port, it has everything I desire - including > an XD card reader :-) >
The trouble is with the ATI drivers and OpenGL. At the moment only nVidia seem to have this hacked. While this laptop seems nicely speced, the ATI video card would make me suspect that this one will not do for Flightgear. Note that the specs only mention DirectX. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
