On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Georg Vollnhals wrote:
> 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.
I'd like to qualify this statement slightly. This is good advice for linux
users, but as far as I know, the ATI windows drivers are just fine. So
folks that run windows shouldn't have a problem with ATI cards and
flightgear.
Regards,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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