On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Brian Fahrlander <wheeldwel...@gmail.com> wrote: > J Bickhard wrote: >> Needless to say, my computer isn't bleeding edge. 800MHz PIII with >> ~700MB RAM, ATi Radeon 7200 32MB video card. I can run flightgear, but >> it's like watching a slideshow (a very realistic slideshow, >> nonetheless). Is there some way that I can get FG running at an >> acceptable speed on this computer (don't say upgrade ;-))? I'm >> replacing the mobo with a pentium 4 pretty soon, 3.9GHz, but I would >> like to know if I can get it working with what I have. >> > I'm guessing you have Windows, 'cause ATI hasn't been Linux > friendly for some time. But I, too, am running the tail-skid of > computers around here. I get what I get from trades, risking > broken/smoking parts and the kindness of strangers. Yep, I've got a triple-boot of XP, Vista, and 7. > > The P3 might not be as much a problem as the video card; FG is very > visually oriented. That P4 should be more than enough; try to get the > best card you can afford to fit the AGP (or hope against hope) PCI > Express card that comes on it. A 32MB card isn't enough? Geez. I'm getting a similar-spec NVIDIA card soon, but I don't think I'll be able to find anything much more powerful. > > And you might lean the direction of Nvidia; that's a card that can > work in both environments. You'd be surprised what you can do when > you're not swatting bugs. Seriously; I started in CP/M, then DOS, then > all the Windows versions. After setting it up configuring FG the way I > like it, I'll never have to take a machine in to get a flush-n-fill. > And it still has everything else I need like OpenOffice and all that. Same here, I still have my old 486DX-2 with MS-DOS. My computer is configured how I like it, two graphics cards, duel-monitors, three OSes, one that is totally pimped-out. That thing is rock-solid. > > Should you get interested, try out Ubuntu's Karmic. (9.10) it's > still new, so the repos are really busy. But it's so simple; so > uncomplicated- so soild. And it does a great job of running FG! I'm gonna download the .iso pretty soon, anyway. I've liked Ubuntu for quite a while. I'd just like to run it in the same OS that I do everything else in. Namely, XP. > > How many FPS are we talking about? I get about 9FPS. 15 or so when I'm pointing at the ground or sky ;-)
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