Video card to support new AFP Delux flight simulator

[Randy]

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 
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