Video Card Compatability Question

[newg3pilot]

Below is a question I posted on an RC Group thread.

I have a one year old Toshiba Satellite Pro M15 Centrino Laptop that has the Pentium M 1.4 GHz processor with 512 Mb of RAM. It has the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go 32 MB DDR RAM Video card. What Performance issues can I expect to have with this configuration?


Here is the answer I received.

You are better off with G3 than G2, I think, but you will have to run at reduced quality. Unfortunately, I think there is a compatibility problem with your card. We just got some reports of some GeForce4 cards having troubles. We've ordered some sample cards (not easy to find!) and will have a patch out next week.

Do you have any clarification to the issues that involve the video card I have. The answer I got said there will be a patch out this week? I see that others are using a similar card and are having object color problems (no color). I have a laptop so upgrading the video card is a no-go solution. Will my system ever be able to run G3 in an acceptable manner? I cannot afford to try it and find out that it will never run correctly as I will not be able to return it for G2 once I open and install the software. Can you please advise me on these issues.

Paul

[ramora]

I'm running it on a Toshiba Satelite with a Nvidia GeForce 4 460 Go, object colors are either white with shadeing or the color of the object, but in a checker board type pattern, this can be a little annoying, and can sometimes make it a little hard to see it is still quite functional and usable. :(

[ramora]

I just got off the phone with tech support and they are in the process now of generating a patch for these cards and it should be in the update area this afternoon or tomorrow morning. :)

[navyav8tr]

I am sure this has already been answered so I am preparing for the beatings and am hoping for an answer in between. I have a NVida GeForce 440 Go 32 MB on a Toshiba Pentium III 1.1 GHZ and 512 Ram. My obvious question is will G3 work on my laptop and if so will it run at such a degraded performance that it is not even worth it. Thanks for any replies. :D

[nemo_uk]

Have you tried downloading the reflex XTR demo (http://www.reflex-sim.dyndns.org/reflex-sim/shop/catalog/default.php?cPath=23) (40 MB) ? how does that perform on your laptop?

I think you will have turn off all the "bells & whistles" to get >25 FPS and it will end up looking like G2 (which you can get on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/FUTABA-RC-Great-Planes-Realflight-Controller-Software_W0QQitemZ6000784943QQcategoryZ34056QQssPa geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) for $50)

[Patman]

I have an AMP 64 laptop with GeForce4 440Go and the sim looks great. My video card doesn't support shadows, but that's OK. I can't complain... I get about 150 fps in a photofield, and about 80 fps in a 3D field. I have 1 Gbyte of RAM, am running Windows XP Pro 32 bit. The processor is not running in 64 bit.

[rttamayo]

Dear Paul,

I read your message. I have similar problem, my laptop video card is NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go and I also experience a crashed.

After I read your message and the messages of the other users, I re-configure the RFG3.5 software and I didn't experience a laptop crashing.

I run in low quality, no shadowing, low texture, full screen = YES, with sound enabled. I changed all the items with YES default setting to "NO".

Well, I need to trade the qulaity since I can not upgrade my laptop video card.

For additional information, I upgraded the video card of my Desktop PC (Compaq Pentium 3, more RAM and available hard disk space). I used a NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 256MB video card and it doesn't crash even I changed the airport or the aircraft.

At the moment, I will stick to this set-up until my new and latest PC arrived.

I hope this is helpful...

RTAMAYO
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Below is a question I posted on an RC Group thread.

I have a one year old Toshiba Satellite Pro M15 Centrino Laptop that has the Pentium M 1.4 GHz processor with 512 Mb of RAM. It has the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go 32 MB DDR RAM Video card. What Performance issues can I expect to have with this configuration?


Here is the answer I received.

You are better off with G3 than G2, I think, but you will have to run at reduced quality. Unfortunately, I think there is a compatibility problem with your card. We just got some reports of some GeForce4 cards having troubles. We've ordered some sample cards (not easy to find!) and will have a patch out next week.

Do you have any clarification to the issues that involve the video card I have. The answer I got said there will be a patch out this week? I see that others are using a similar card and are having object color problems (no color). I have a laptop so upgrading the video card is a no-go solution. Will my system ever be able to run G3 in an acceptable manner? I cannot afford to try it and find out that it will never run correctly as I will not be able to return it for G2 once I open and install the software. Can you please advise me on these issues.

Paul