The good news is, FG is running splendidly now on my G5, so I can live with my disappointment. ;-)
Fran
On Dec 17, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
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.
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