ORIGINAL: JohnMcGowan
To the moderators or tech support of G3: just a note to let you to add this video card to your list of cards that works with G3: Nvidea Gforce 7300 LE
I tried it last night on my new Dell system and everything does work very well.
Thanks,
John Mc
John,
You might want to experience this simulator on a system with a much better video card before you believe it runs well with an Nvidia Gforce 7300 LE.
(These comments are based on all texture, shading, landscape, and 3D features turned on) It will install and run on that video card but NOT RUN WELL. Overall airplane response is jerky. Try the Yak, even the one with the gyro stabilizer -- it is extremely difficult to control and almost impossible to hover, at least for me. Interrupts during flying is very frequent.
My OEM configuration -- ~$1100.00, Circuit City (This system is more than just a capable game system, except the video card and power supply):
Microsoft XP Media Center 2005 operating system
HP m7680n Core 2 Duo - 6400 (2.13GHz)
300watt Micro ATX power supply
2 GByte DDR2 4200 memory
(2) 250GByte Sata 7200rpm drives
DVD/RW multifunction Dual-layer Lightscribe drive
DVD ROM drive
Nvidia Geforce 7300LE PCIe (64mb dedicated and upto 256mb shared)
etc......
On the other hand, change out the lame video card and upgrade the power supply and you get an optimum solution for both Realflight G3 and Realflight G3.5.
My OEM configuration after mods (~$1100.00 plus $85 for video card and $109 for power supply; original power supply fixed my replaced computer):
Microsoft XP Media Center 2005 operating system
HP m7680n Core 2 Duo - 6400 (2.13GHz)
Antec 480watt Micro ATX power supply
2 GByte DDR2 4200 memory
(2) 250GByte Sata 7200rpm drives
DVD/RW multifunction Dual-layer Lightscribe drive
DVD ROM drive
Coolpower Radeon X800 GT 256 PCIe (256mbyte dedicated GDDR3 memory)
etc......
BTW, I'm running with a Samsung Syncmaster 204T 20.1" LCD monitor.
Video Card Compares:
Nvidia Geforce 7300LE PCIe: (this is the spec for the full-version of the card, not the half card installed in the OEM computer)
Manufacturer: nVidia
Series: GeForce 7
GPU: G72
Release Date: 2006-03-22
Interface: PCI-E x16
Core Clock: 450 MHz
Memory Clock: 350 MHz (700 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 5.6 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 1800 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 900 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 1800 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 337.5 MVertices/sec
Noise Level: ?
Framebuffer: 64,128,256,512 MB
Memory Type: DDR2
Memory Bus Type: 32x2 (64 bit)
DirectX Compliance: 9.0c
OpenGL Compliance: 2.0
PS Version: 3.0
VS Version: 3.0
Process: 90 nm
Fragment Pipelines: 4
Vertex Pipelines: 3
Texture Units: 4
Raster Operators 2
ATI Radeon X800 GT: (this is last years card, eBay ~$85.00)
Manufacturer: ATi
Series: Radeon X
GPU: R480
Release Date: 2005
Interface: PCI-E x16
Core Clock: 475 MHz
Memory Clock: 490 MHz (980 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 31.36 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 3800 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 7600 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 3800 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 712.5 MVertices/sec
Noise Level: ?
Framebuffer: 128,256 MB
Memory Type: GDDR3
Memory Bus Type: 64x4 (256 bit)
DirectX Compliance: 9.0b
OpenGL Compliance: 2.0
PS Version: 2.0b
VS Version: 2.0
Process: 130 nm
Fragment Pipelines: 8 (16)
Vertex Pipelines: 6
Texture Units: 8 (16)
Raster Operators 16