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Old 01-12-2005 | 05:29 PM
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Default RE: Can my PC hack AFPD????

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Im pretty sure it will run it but you should understand that that Vid card isnt a High end gamming card. Granted its a PCI express card but its on the budget end of vid cards. If it has 128 meg of ram on the card then you should be OK. That card came in a few sizes 64meg being the smallest It has 4 pixle pipes where as the pci express slot can run 16 like the X-800 card. I look at a lot of componants and i try to look at the fill rate ive seen cards look very much alike but the pixle fill rate is always a tell tail sign that your card is up to speed your card is listed at a fill rate of 1300 I run a ATI 9800 xt its listed at 3300 the full blown ATI is over 8000 and the NVIDIA product is over 6000
In the real world you can enjoy flying at anything over 60 frames a sec over 150 is better start adding shadows and smoke and reflections the # drops In my case depending on the plane im flying i get between 300 and 400+ frames a sec if i stand in a cloud of smoke hovering till you cant see the plane or heli and I still drop under 100 Personaly I think the sim has isssues with smoke up close as it dosnt seem to have any real effect on frame rates at a distance. but you have to realize filling your screen with moving smoke is taxing the card.
Ive built a few systems and for what its worth I think you should allways spend your money buying the latest chip set over buying a card with more ram. the latest cards that are being built are almost allways going to be 256 meg out of all the cards that where sold with eather or 128 meg or 256meg. The 128 meg cards will run almost as fast as the 256 cards in the same chipset in most cases the 256 meg cards will only push the frame rate by a small fraction when the extra $150-$200 you spent on the extra 128 meg would have doubled your frame rate had you spent it on the next chipset. case in point my 9800 at 256 meg would have been over $400 I spent about 1/2 that. for $400 you can go more than 2 times as fast with a X800.

sorry to be so long winded but I think it was worth sharring this and a couple a links for referances.

http://www.a1-electronics.net/Graphi...ec04_pg3.shtml

http://www.pricewatch.com/m/mn.aspx?i=37&f=1