On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:36:19 +0100, Didier wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Le vendredi 17 novembre 2006 21:30, Vivian Meazza a écrit : > > The absolute minimum is a 64Mb 3d card, preferably nVidia (ATI and > > others dont always support Open GL too well). As for the rest of > > the machine 1.8 Ghz CPU with 0.5 Gb of RAM. FlightGear is requiring > > better and better machines nowadays, so that spec wouldnt be > > future-proof. > > it's not the minimum. i had only 10 FPS with a athlon xp1800, 768Mo > RAM and nVidia gForce FX5700 (with 256Mo RAM) ..uhuh. 5-8 fps around KOSH, 18-20 over water, on a 7 year old AMD k6-2 450MHz with an AGP 1x slot with a 2 yr old 128bit 128MB ATI 9250 clone running xorg-7.1.1's GPL licensed radeon v 4.2.0 on top of Debian Sid at (**) RADEON(0): Setting up initial surfaces (**) RADEON(0): Initializing fb layer (**) RADEON(0): Setting up accel memmap (II) RADEON(0): CP in BM mode (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB GART aperture (II) RADEON(0): Using 1 MB for the ring buffer (II) RADEON(0): Using 2 MB for vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for GART textures (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (2048,8191) (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1536) to (2048,1538) (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 2048 x 6653 (II) RADEON(0): Will use back buffer at offset 0x2400000 (II) RADEON(0): Will use depth buffer at offset 0x3000000 (II) RADEON(0): Will use 69632 kb for textures at offset 0x3c00000 ...and running FG-0.9.10 in various window sizes, with absolutely _no_ effect on frame rates on trying "big ass" FG windows, I usually run it windowed at 1920x1440x24bpp. This box has 384MB sdram. ..all this speaks volumes on GPL vs closed source code quality. ..what size FG window did you run? > but now i have more than one hundred with a athlon 4200 (eq 3500 but > double core), 2Go RAM and nVidia gForce 6800GS. ..anyone with ATI's on radeon in this kinda iron? ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
