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Yeah Bill,
<BR>I tried to install a 128 video board in my unit and the Motherboard
wouldn't support it. Had to drop back to a 64!
<BR>Rats!!!
<P>Bill Glaze wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Problems, Problems, problems. I just
bought a new Adobe program, (Elements) for movie making. I had easily
exceeded all the listed requirments as far as computer and peripherals,
but the program wouldn't run. A visit to the "help" site, (help in
this case being a real oxymoron) told me that my motherboard was lacking
something required (SSE abbreviation, I believe) to run the program.
They (Adobe) had stated it nowhere else. You don't even learn about
it until after the purchase. What a rip-off. Stuff like that
is what keeps me from getting into the Great Planes Simulator. Apparently
there are a lot of difficulties; for every person who is running the program
directly after installation, seems as if there are at least 5 who have
to put Band-Aids of one kind or another on their system, (graphics card,
audio card, more memory, etc. etc.) or, in extreme cases, buy a new computer.
<BR>Bill Glaze
<P>Chuck Wagoner wrote:
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<PRE wrap="">There is more to consider than just the video card itself. OMP/IKARUS warns
that with AFPDeluxe the right COMBINATION of CPU and 3D graphic card is very
important. They recommend a CPU with at least 1.0Ghz. See
<A HREF="http://www.aerofly.com/requirements.html" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.aerofly.com/requirements.html
</A>for new program details. There are major differences in requirements between
AFP and AFPDeluxe. RF3 and RF2 also have different requirements. For
example, the RealFlight 3 tech notes say for BEST results it is strongly
recommended that the operating system have a processor speed of at least 2.0
GHz combined with at least 512 MB RAM. The requirements for the REFLEX XTR
sim also are quite significant.
I THINK I FEEL A NEW COMPUTER COMING ON!!
Chuck, NSRCA 115, KA8IZZ
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</A>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Video card to support new AFP Delux flight simulator
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<PRE wrap="">I concur . . a card based on the nVidia 5200 w 128meg
is plenty for Realflight, you will be able to crank
everything up and enjoy smooth graphics. They run
about $50.
If on the otherhand, you want to play Doom 3 or Far
Cry along with Realflight, get a card based on the
nVidia 6800GT or 6800 Ultra ;)
--- Randy <A HREF="mailto:randy10926@comcast.net" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><randy10926@comcast.net></A> wrote:
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<PRE wrap="">They may be newer, but if your video current card
still rocks with Realflight a newer one may not rock
any better. Just more expense. Overkill is
overkill. Once you have more video card that the
program needs, most likely a better video card will
not give you any better performance, just cost you
more money. Realflight is not the most demanding
program around from a video point of view, so if it
is the most demanding program you run, then not
running the latest and greatest is not problem.
I recently moved from a Geforce 5200 128MB video to
GeForce 5700 256MB video card. I do not believe I
saw any better performance with realflight. Our
flight sims do not have very many moving objects to
handle. I upgraded for a different program that did
needed the larger video ram.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Black
To: <A HREF="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">discussion@nsrca.org
</A> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Video card to support new AFP Delux
flight simulator
I have the ATI "All-In-Wonder" RADEON 9700 APG
with 128 mb and it absolutely ROCKS with RealFlight
G2. I can run full detail everything at 1600 x 1200
and there's no hesitation at all. This card is
probably about a year or more old so there are
probably newer ones out there that are better.
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Pastorello
To: <A HREF="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">discussion@nsrca.org
</A> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Video card to support new AFP Delux
flight simulator
Dion Cini at Ohio Model Products (US distributor
for AFP Deluxe) has told me that my FX 5200 w/64mb
will be fine...I'm still eyeballing a ATI9600,
though....seems the higher processor speed and 128mb
is really what makes the 3D engine sing...
nVidia processors now are up to 5900-series,
if I've read price-watch.com correctly.
Bob Pastorello
NSRCA 199 AMA 46373
<A HREF="mailto:rcaerobob@cox.net" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">rcaerobob@cox.net
</A> <A HREF="http://www.rcaerobats.net" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">www.rcaerobats.net
</A> ----- Original Message -----
From: Randy
To: <A HREF="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">discussion@nsrca.org
</A> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Video card to support new AFP
Delux flight simulator
You can geta used NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 off
ebay for around $40 plus shipping. These are 128MB
APG 4+ video cards. Same company was the card you
are using and at least 2 generations newer.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve & Cindy Kessler
To: <A HREF="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">discussion@nsrca.org
</A> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:55 AM
Subject: Video card to support new AFP Delux
flight simulator
I need help from the computer literate. I
would like to purchase the new AFP Delux flight
simulator program. It appears my computer's video
card will not support the program.
I pulled the spec sheet on my Sony computer.
It is a Sony Vaio PCV-RX560 computer with:
1.7GHz, 256MB RAM, NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (32MB)
graphics acceleration.
Do I need to both upgrade the RAM and the
graphics card?
What is a good "plug-in" graphics card that
will do the job but is still fairly inexpensive?
Thanks - Steve
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