RealFlight G3 graphics card support

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And you also don´t have AGP slot ?
What cpu do you have ?

sent you a pm

[Evanspa]

Well I just bought G3.5, big surprise video not supported. Why not just ship a freakin' card that works with the software? .

Why not just make it "fly" well and not look so pretty?

Will this work?
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5500
Bus Type: AGP
Memory: 256MB DDR
Core Clock: 270MHz
RAMDACs: Dual 350MHz
API Support: Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL 1.5 and lower for Microsoft® Windows®
Connectors: VGA, S-Video Out
Vertices/Sec.: 67.5 million
NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5500 at a Glance
AGP 8X/4X/2X compatible
Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering engine
Up to 16 textures per pass
Digital Vibrance Control™ 3.0
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 with Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0
NVIDIA® CineFX™ Engine

OR this $119
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Video Memory: 512MB DDR2
Core Clock: 350MHz
Vertices: 350 million/sec.
Bus Type: AGP
Connectors: DVI-I, VGA + HDTV
Multiple Monitor Support: Yes
HDCP: No
RAMDACs: Dual 400MHz

[cjshaker]

What's wierd is that FMS and AeroFly Professional are working great in a window...

Chris Shaker



What a crock! Someone is really giving you a bunch of B.S.

That violates the DX specifications.

Many of us run G3 in "windowed" mode on many different 3D cards.

Many games would not work otherwise nor would many of the 3D screensavers, etc.

I've run G3 and many other programs in windowed mode on my ATI All-in-one 9700 which is not a fantastic 3D card and only has 128 megs.

If what they told you were true, they would have NO market as everyone would purchase fully compliant cards.

Typical crapola.

[opjose]

What's wierd is that FMS and AeroFly Professional are working great in a window...

Chris Shaker


Yup, something like a "particle effects" ( I'm choosing one at random to illustrate... ) is not working in Windowed mode for you but does in full screen.

Programs which do use this effect revert to software only 3D in windowed mode, such as G3.

This is a problem with the driver ( POSSIBLY a limitation of the card, but wow, that would be a serious failing on the part of the hardware people... ).

[cjshaker]

I used 'Add/Remove Programs' to remove the ATI video drivers, then swapped out the ATI X-1600 Pro HDMI card for a new ASUS EN8600GT card. When I tried to boot windows, it would hang in the discovered new hardware phase. Even in safe mode, even in safe mode command console. Well and truly hosed. A little parting gift from ATI.

Wiped out the hard disk, and installed a new Windows Vista Home Premium. Updated, installed RealFlight G3, updated it, installed the four Expansion Packs. It's happily flying 3D smoothly in a window, flying great.

Decided to start collecting a little data.

Realflight G3 (latest version 3.50.065) on my Acer latop, an Aspire 3680, running Windows Vista Basic, with Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family display works great! Smooth and fast when running in a window.

My older desktop machine, 3 Ghz P4, with Radeon 9600, running latest WinXP Home SP2 (latest updates) runs RealFlight G3 in a window just fine, too. Fast and smooth.

I agree with you, ATI/AMD is BSing me about 3D in a window not being a design feature!

Chris Shaker

[ryansn]

I bought G3.5 yesterday and am confused about which video card works best.
Choices available:
1) MSI NVIDIA GeForce NX 6600 GT 256MB DDR3
2) ATI
Thanks for any advise.
Ryan

[opjose]

If you can use 6600 GT on your system, consider a 8600 GT instead.

They run only a few dollars more but are more "current" and run at a faster rate.

newegg.com and others have very good prices on them.

[fbarbas]

Hi

If you are like me older system (AGP) try to get a nvidea 7800gs agp card. Can turn everything to highest except shadows (High) streamers (High). Works great be warned you need a hefty power supply, 450 watts or more. Used the overclocking utility that came with new nvidea driver, (let it set max.)

System:
Windows XP sp2
1 gb ram
7800gs AGP overclocked ~ 25% 1680 x 1050 ~60 fps 32bit color
AMD Athlon XP 3200+

PS I only use the photofields, cpu I think to slow run 3d fields at this resolution
Hope this helps

[lordraptor1]

the 8800 series cards should be added to the list, i am using an EVGA 8800GTS 640 Mb and it works awesome. i am using g3 (updated to g3.5) and i believe that 8800's and up will work just as well for G4.

[lordraptor1]

I bought G3.5 yesterday and am confused about which video card works best.
Choices available:
1) MSI NVIDIA GeForce NX 6600 GT 256MB DDR3
2) ATI
Thanks for any advise.
Ryan

i would use an nvidia graphics based card, ever since amd bought ati the ati cards have been a little lacking IMHO. if you have a pci-x16 slot i recommend an 8800 or better (run everything at max settings) however frame rates will drop in multiplayer and this is not because of the card but i feel more to do with the server. i can run at max settings all day long but once i get into multiplayer frame rates drop as more people enter. again NOT a graphics card issuebecause once out of multiplayer i am back up in the 98 and up frame rates and this with a stock non overclocked system with a pentium D950 cpu. :D

[jeffpn]

It is a graphics card issue, (mp) because your pc has to render each aircraft flying, not just yours. This becomes very obvious when someone loads a high poly aircraft, or tons of smoke. If you do multimode, which is mp with yourself, requires 2 controllers, you'll see the same drop in fps. But that's the nature of the beast.

[guest_jo]

I had this framedrop in multiplayer also with my P4 2.66Ghz.
With the Q6600 it is noticable but the rates are so high that the drop is peanuts...

[reject]

what is this all bout. what is it 4 :confused:

[opjose]

Of the listed ATI and Nvidia cards, is there once card that stands out performance wise?

Since graphics performance per money spent is ALWAYS increasing, the latest and greatest medium range cards ( e.g. $120.00 + ) do quite well.

Now that Direct X 11 is the norm you are best off investing in a DX 11 card.

ATI has a pretty good low cost card.