James A. Treacy schrieb: .. > For example, I'd love to get away with a Radeon 3450 (low power, > fanless and only about $50) but will get something more powerful if > needed. > > > .. > *MOST IMPORTANT* > What is the cpu and graphics card in your system and what frame rates > do you get in flightgear? Also give your OS. > > Hopefully we'll get enough information from this thread so I can > update the wiki with something more useful. > >
1. Don't buy an ATI graphic card at the moment. Not the hardware but the drivers are a big problem (not only) with FlightGear. AMD - the new owner of ATI - hopefully will improve this bad point in the future but actually you'll find a lot of users who are disappointed - more details see the International FlightGear Forum or the mailing list archve. 2. I am using a NVidia 6600 GT with 256 MB together with an AMD Athlon 3700 on an OpenSUSE 10.2/10.3 64bit Linux system with 1 GB main RAM and FlightGear OSG CVS Head with all patches applied (trees, rain, stutter). Under "normal" circumstances the framerate is clipped by the "Sync to VBlanc" activation to get an optimized smoothed display, that will be with a LCD display 75 Hertz. On heavy populated sceneries (3-D-models, graphics) together with a more demanding (graphic and 3-D-model) aircraft I get something around 45 to 55 frames/sec. The actually most demanding scenery - at the moment only available by a link to "Helija's" homepage (Emmanuel Baranger) is the ground-phototextured Paris scenery together with tons of 3-D models. I get framerates from 16 to 22 at the heavy 3D areas and up to 45+ at the only phototextured (with only some 3D objects) areas of this extraordinary scenery. Even with 16 frames the BO105 helicopter can be used - not only flying but also hovering (!!!) and landings - this is the result of the latest FG patches (sorry I forget the author). Hope this helps you a little together with other posts to find a matching hardware. Have fun with FlightGear Georg "Heliflyer" EDDW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
