craig schrieb: > Thanks Georg, > I have exhausted the possibilities with this card so will probably get a > replacement nVidia or something. Any suggestions on what reasonably > priced card gives the best bang for the buck? > > Craig > > > Craig, within the last year I bought two Nvidia 6600 GT 256 MB (one for me, PCIe combined with AMD64 3700 and one for my son (AGP combined with AMD 2500). After my opinion these card had a good price (about 140 EUR here in Germany) and a good performance in it's class. I built a complete new system with the AMD64 3700 so I have no comparison but as my son got my old PC with an NVidia 5700? 128 MB and wished a better card as a birthday present I was a little in doubt whether this could improve performance with the older AMD 2500. But his 3D-games (no sim) with high-end graphics got a lot more speed so he could turn on many graphic options compared to the old card. It is very difficult to talk about framerates as it depends on the used aircraft, scenery, objects, textures and checked options - but to give you an idea how FG runs on my system: default scenery (KSFO, Cessna) with nearly all options checked (only bumped mapped clouds unchecked) and visibility increased (I don't love much fog) I get between 80 to 85 frames/sec when airborne. Sitting at the runway there is an decreased rate of 45 which I cannot understand - once accelerating on the runway it immediatley goes up to 85 although the same objects and scenery is visible. This framerate is also the same when I fly a scenery I am just creating with many textured objects and a lot of trees. Naturally, flying the Paris scenery is a heavy workload for my processor/card combination, I don't remember the exact framerates but I think it was partially down to 25. These numbers are for FlightGear onWindows. I was very astonished that I got a lot more frames with my new Linux installation (KSFO >> 100) but I have to check this more thoroughly due to the fact that I just installed all that stuff. I thought about the difference of the 64bit SuSE Linux against the 32bit WinXP system, but I am not sure. Some people on the German FlightGear Forum posted that FG runs slower on their Linux system than on Windows, therefore I really was/am astonished and a little doubtful, so I will check it further. Craig, I hope these very personal informations help you a little, but I cannot give you more precise and neutral observations. Regards Georg EDDW
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