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Who's using which video cards

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Bill Kestell

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Just throwing this out for my edification ... who's using what ... kinda like .... who's doing who ... thanks!:isadizzy:
 
Hi Bill,
Am using a Saphire X800XT. Getting about 90 fps with a CFS2 ac, around 45fps with a converted FS9 ac.

Shessi

ps Maybe do a poll for Nvidia or ATi/AMD cards, with a selection of speeds??
 
I am using a 512mb Diamond Radeon X1550 pro AGP 8x card and am having real good luck with it using the latest drivers from ATI.
 
I too have nVidia 6200 with 256Mb. I have two different ones from different manufacturers, and they both run pretty much the same.... ~35 fps on high-ish density scenery with modern a/c.

SD
 
Nvidia ..........if your computer supports it

Since they came out......................Nvidia cards have been what I run.

Currently.............my relatives have the 7000 series..........not sure which.

Screen shot I posted lately are produced by a Nvidia card.

$55.00 US to $60.00 on last years old models of the 7000 series at your local big house computer store.

Just make sure you have enough cpu and ram and mother board get all the juice from the video card.....etc....

My relatives kids did burn up the first Nvidia card...................so this is the second one in two years.......but they did alot of gaming. Get one with a built in fan............thats what they think killed the first card.........no fan.............these new computers are so fast .............but they are so frick'in hot..............
 
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS, AGP 8X card, 512 meg. Frame rates are through the roof. External view in Free Flight I have had frame rates as high as 200, VC view frame rates have hit close to 300....depending on the plane and the scenery complexity.

Keep in mind that the video card is just 1 part of the frame rate equation.

High Frame Rates = Video card + Ram + Processor + Minimal Running Processes + Clean Windows + Hard Drive size + % of free space on Hard Drive + % of fragmentation on HD + System Operation Temperatures + Monitor Refresh Rate. And that is just the computer elements that effect frame rates. Then there are all the facets of the sim and the aircraft that have influence on frame rates.

I recently rebuilt my nephew's computer. Cleaned all the dust out of it, added 256 meg of DDR333 Ram, added in the ATI Radeon 9600 Atlantis Pro video card from my old system and the 500 watt power supply from my old system. When using the video card in the old system (1.8 gig AMD Duron processor, 512 meg Ram, Windows ME) I got frame rates as high as 200 in VC view with some of the older Alpha Sim planes. Flying the same planes in VC mode on his rebuilt system (2.4gig P4, 756meg RAM, Win XP SP2), frame rates were in the 250 to 275 FPS range.

OBIO
 
NVIDIA Geforce 8500 GT 512Mb.

I'm not very happy with the result in old games (most of what I used to play). At least CFS2 works (with strange black thingies when text is displayed on screen), but I had to give up Silent Hunter 2 and Destroyer Command. Wouldn't recommend it :banghead:.
 
Nvidia..............some are now having problems

On the nvidia.............read up before you buy.

I guess some of the quality control has gone down on the world wide mfg......

Some cards series are reporting problems with artifacts..........and lines...etc......................

not sure if its just the extreme range of video graphics that drivers just cant keep up ...........or the code.......or what..........overclocking.........

Directx10.r524525252526211515.........or what??? its getting hard to find a standard with the complexity of computers.......
 
.............until i upgrade to PCI
..........RADEON 9800XT AGP 256.....works great
 
Using a 256MB RADEON X700. Just updated with the latest drivers.

Everything seems to be running okay so far.

voyager
 
Video Mania


Twin BFG Tech nVidia 7600 GT/OCs in SLI mode [256 meg each, PCIe x16 times two] attached to a 3 year old Asus Gamer MoBo with an AMD x64 CPU, a big Western Digital HD, and tons of memory...

Let's just say I don't worry much about frame rates.... cooling is a challenge, tho.

SC
:kilroy:
 
8800GTS 512MB with a Thermaltake DuOrb cooler.:d

Frame rate through the roof with AF set to 16x and AA set to 8xQ, and AA transparency set to multisampling.

Only things that gives me a hard time is Bruno's Malta.

My E8400 @3.0GHZ and 2GB of RAM help to tho!:d
 
Radeon HD 2400 Pro....with everything maxed and whatever the scenario I get a consistent 58.8-62.5 FR.
Only con was in low light conditions with parallel lines of light artifact most noticeable in the water textures. Since I like to fly at dawn or dusk it was kind of a big deal. Went so far as to dl ATITOOL but was doubtful it was an overclocking issue.
Turned out decreasing DEM density from high to medium solved the problem. :d Thought I had tried all internal sim adjustments but guess not.
 
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