Video card to support new AFP Delux flight simulator
Bill Glaze
billglaze at triad.rr.com
Fri Dec 3 09:29:01 AKST 2004
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.
Bill Glaze
Chuck Wagoner wrote:
>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
>http://www.aerofly.com/requirements.html
>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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>---- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Kane" <getterflash at yahoo.com>
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: Video card to support new AFP Delux flight simulator
>
>
>
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>>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 <randy10926 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>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: discussion at nsrca.org
>>> 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: discussion at nsrca.org
>>> 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
>>> rcaerobob at cox.net
>>> www.rcaerobats.net
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Randy
>>> To: discussion at nsrca.org
>>> 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: discussion at nsrca.org
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>=====
>>Bob Kane
>>getterflash at yahoo.com
>>
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