On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:12:31 -0600, Curtis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dave Martin wrote: > > > Unfortunately, FG is pretty graphics-intensive and needs a > > recent-ish card to run well. (I've heard of it running okay on TNT > > class cards). > > > > I'd guess that the 8meg card would struggle with the texture sizes > > in FG too - some of them being fairly large. ..ugh. Ok, my old 8MB ATI rage IIC could not do OpenGL, so I bought a new cheapo 128bit Sapphire 9250 128 MB, and get 1-5 fps regardless of window size in the 800x600 thru 1280x1024 on my 5 yr old AMD k6-2 450MHz rig, this card is run on DRI accelleration. > > If you ask around here as to what the lowest spec card that runs FG > > resonably is, hopefully you can find one to buy second hand :) > > > > If the Mac version uses command line args like the Linux version, > > you could run it (from the CLI) with --geometry=320x200 and see if > > that gets everything loaded (in a small window). > > I have been fortunate to be able to upgrade my computers around here, > so the weakest card I have to test on is a 64Mb nvidia card. I would > recommend a card with at least 32Mb of video ram, but 64 or 128 (or > more) if you can get it. I don't know if you can just buy and swap > video cards on the mac platform like you can on the pc platform, but > between bargin basement retailers and ebay, you ought to be able to > get a low end 64Mb nvidia (or ati) card really cheap these days. ..true, I have 85MB avaiable for textures. ..there are more ways to run code on video cards: ..another way to run code: http://gpgpu.org/ , for a wee quick intro, chk out: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~jowens/talks/owens-hpec04-gpgpu.pdf ..note how they waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaail for killer apps. ;-) .."formation flight": http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~tgamblin/gpgp/ ;-) ...more gory details: http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GPGP/ http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mosegard/GPGPU_E04 ..and, ahem, an app: http://flightgear.org/ ;-) ..so, if I cheat by stuffing in 5 pci nVidea "math" cards beside my new 1xAGP 9250, my trusty 5 yr old AMD K6-2 450MHz can run in circles around anything on the market for another 5 years? ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...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. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
