On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:36:17 -0400, Tim wrote in message <col113-w20e86a58256ba55360491bbf...@phx.gbl>:
> > Hi > > My name Tim: > > I'm running Window7 Home Premium. ..hum. Microsoft has an history of resorting even to litigation, to try stall their competition. > I have a Dell Studio XPS 8100 with an i5CPU 64 bit - 16Gigs of DDR3 > RAM - an ATI Radeon 5450 Video Graphics Card. ..this hardware should run at least 8 times quicker than mine. > I have, for about a month now, been trying various ways to get Flight > Gear 2.0-64Bit to show me nice terrain, Airports that are Marked and > Gray in color instead of being black or green or brown, and Aircraft > that shows instrumentation instead of vague shadows. ..you see anything like these?: https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/Debians-fg-2.0.0-2 https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/Debians-fg-2.0.0-3 https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/737-100 https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/ATI-nite_warriors https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/c172p https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/nite_warriors https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/shadyshadows-n-c https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/smoke-sheen https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/sopwith https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/Cub https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/a26+iar80 ..we have a few shader bugs, both with ATI and Nvidia hw: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=264 http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=262 ..as you see from my screen shot pile, some bugs are getting fixed. > Thinking it might be my ATI Radeon 5450 Video Graphics Card, I > downloaded another Flight Simulator to check my Card out. I tried the > XPlane Demo and was instantly impressed. Excellent Terrain - Marked & > Gray Colored Runways - Detailed Instrumentation for the Aircraft. I > loved it so much - I bought it and plan to buy The > Yoke/Throttle/Pedals in the near future. > > I still wish I could get FlightGear to co-operate. Unfortunately, I'm > out of ideas. ..first I'd like you to try http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html, you want the latest version, cd, dvd or on an usb, and you boot it with "knoppix64 toram " to run it from ram disk. Once it's up, open a xterm (command line interface window) from the menu, in that, become root with "sudo su - ", there was no passwd last time I did this. ..then you install FG onto the ram disk with: "aptitude update ;aptitude install flightgear ;aptitude clean ;exit ", then fire it up and compare. ..parallel to the released version, you can also install FG-git from: http://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgmeta/blobs/raw/master/download_and_compile.sh and run it as knoppix in /home/knoppix/FG-git with e.g.: "./download_and_compile.sh -s -a y -p y -c y -d y -r y -j8 ALL ", you have 4 cpu cores that can do 2 "HyperThreads" per core. ..otherwise just follow the cookbook recipes at: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Scripted_Compilation_on_Linux_Debian/Ubuntu or http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Building_FlightGear_-_Linux ..with FG-git you may want to keep the 10GB of aircraft etc data on disk or an usb-stick, to speed up your next compile, fun part is, you _can_ do it all on "just" 16GB of ramdisk. 8o) ..FG-git also works on Wintendo7, but Microsoft tools suck, I hear, my last Wintendo was W95. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
