Simviation Forum - Graphics Card Advice

Dec 27^th, 2003 at 10:59am

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Okay, I just got FS9, and although it runs well, I'm thinking I could get some better graphics if I upgrade my graphics card. (I'm such a logical lad.)

Here's the thing...I know there have been some issues with various cards and types, but I don't remember what they were...

I've found a nice ATI Radeon 9200 with 128MB of RAM. It seems like more card than I'll need, but never knowing what I'll want to do down the road, I figure it can't hurt.

Is this card something that should work well with FS9 and my system (specs to the left)?

Thanks!

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Reply #1 - Dec 27^th, 2003 at 11:05am

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There were some issues with Radeon and FS9, I'm not sure if they're all fixed yet. The other option is an nVidia 5000 series card.

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Reply #2 - Dec 27^th, 2003 at 5:25pm

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That's another one I was looking at. It's the NVIDIA GEFORCE 5200 128MB AGP, if that means something to anyone. lol

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Reply #3 - Dec 27^th, 2003 at 8:12pm

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Hyperion,

Welcome to fs2004.

I have an ATI 9600 pro agp card...... and I find it is NOT "enough card" to give good performance for FS2004. I am coming to think that the only ATI card that is really "enough" is the 9800.... at about $400-500 USD.

This program is amazingly hardware intensive.

best,

..................john

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Reply #4 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 4:55am

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Mornin' Scott.

I got a GeForce 5200 256Mb 400Mhz Card for Christmas. I have about 1.5 times the frame rate in 2k2 that I had before but with higher settings. All of my other games have improved beyond belief. I am maxed out in Mafia and it is amazingly smooth.

If you can afford more card get it but I feel so far (3 days) that this is a good card.

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Reply #5 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 5:20am

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what do you have,will,a 5600 or a 5200? Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 5:45am

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It's a 5600, my error sorry.. Sad

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Reply #7 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 11:51am

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Mornin' Scott.

I got a GeForce 5200 256Mb 400Mhz Card for Christmas. I have about 1.5 times the frame rate in 2k2 that I had before but with higher settings. All of my other games have improved beyond belief. I am maxed out in Mafia and it is amazingly smooth.

If you can afford more card get it but I feel so far (3 days) that this is a good card.

Will

I got an FX5600, I could pretty much describe my cards improvements like you have Will.

Forget the Ati 9200 - its not fully Direct X9 compliant. The FX5200 is, but an FX5600 or ideally an FX5700 / Ultra would be a pretty good budget solution.

To say this sim NEEDS an absolute monster card is simply wrong. You

most certainly DO need the said monster card if framerates with quality settings are your thing.

As I imply, an FX5200 should be perfectly playable in FS9 but don't expect great FPS if you insist on increasing detail etc.

I've read of many issues with FS9 & Ati cards, its the only reason I bought an FX5600 instead of an Ati 9600,which is a faster card without doubt.

Paul.

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Reply #8 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 1:22pm

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Hi

I dont think that you can ever have too much power for FS9!

The ATI 9200 will not be more card than you need (sorry Wink

).

Buy the fastest card that you can afford, unless you want to keep a lot of the 'eye candy' turned down.

Cheers Paul

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