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Feb 5th, 2004 at 5:40pm

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What improves frame rates more, a faster processor or more RAM?
 

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Reply #1 - Feb 6th, 2004 at 5:08am

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It would be helpful to know your system stats first!
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 6th, 2004 at 12:29pm

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a cpu
 

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Reply #3 - Feb 6th, 2004 at 2:11pm

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Dell Dimesnsion
Processor:   Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz
RAM:            256MB* DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
Hard Drive:  80GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive
Graphics:     Integrated Intel 3D AGP Graphics

*I might upgrade to 512

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Reply #4 - Feb 6th, 2004 at 5:36pm

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in that case, more ram and a non intergrated graphics card, the P4 should be just fine, of course dont know if its 800FSB or 533FSB but either way it should be good enough
 

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Reply #5 - Feb 6th, 2004 at 8:47pm

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Yeah your processor is fine.  More RAM and a good video card would do the trick.
 

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Reply #6 - Feb 7th, 2004 at 8:29pm

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Cool thanks  Lips Sealed
 

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Reply #7 - Feb 8th, 2004 at 12:51pm

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Yup, fine cpu, ram needs to be much improved..... Wink

512mb as a minimum and an FX5700 or better will bring you one hell of an improvement, no question.

Cost, about £200 if you shop about, worth every penny though.
 

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Reply #8 - Feb 9th, 2004 at 12:23am

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Just saw your system specs bm_727.

Your RAM is starving, but as the other guys have said, you need  a video upgrade as well, onboard graphics aren't up to FS2004 or similar graphics intensive software.

I love that 727 pic, and I'm gonna try Infranview for myself.   Wink
 

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Reply #9 - Feb 11th, 2004 at 3:06pm

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Cost, about £200 if you shop about, worth every penny though.

I just got a 256MB DDR memory card on sale for like $10 after a mail-in rebate! (I don't know how that translates to pounds, though)

By the way congo- Irfanview is an editor- u should get GCS (GrabClipSave) for taking the shots-http://www.simviation.com/fsdtutscreensh.htm

Can't wait to see ur shots in the screenshots forum!  Tongue
« Last Edit: Feb 16th, 2004 at 2:30pm by bm_727 »  

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Reply #10 - Feb 15th, 2004 at 11:38am

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My frame rate is about 15 and descents to 6 when there is bad weather. Is it my GeForce 4 ti 4200 that causes this terrible rates. Any suggestions???
 
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Reply #11 - Feb 15th, 2004 at 2:26pm

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Well it's not likely the Video card alone will take it that low in FPS.

What are your system specs?
 

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Reply #12 - Feb 16th, 2004 at 11:06am

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PIV 2.66Ghz @533Mhz FSB---768Mb PC2700 RAM---Seagate 120GB--- GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP--- All other hardware isn't important for this problem.

Hope you can answer this question
 
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Reply #13 - Feb 17th, 2004 at 6:46am

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My apologies bm_727,

I hope you don't mind me posting this in for Black Thunder.........

Black_Thunder,

My spec is AMD XP2600+ 333mhz FSB, 1024mb PC2700, (I checked while the sim is running and I have around half my ram still free), 80gig Seagate HDD, GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP.

You see we have a similar spec.

The following screenshot was taken over Hong Kong in FS2004, 1152 x 864 x 32 resolution, 4Sx antialiasing on, anisotropic filtering off. Everything else pretty maxed out.

Here I was getting around 18 FPS despite the dense scenery and clouds with antialiasing.

I'd say you have room for improvement.

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Reply #14 - Feb 17th, 2004 at 10:29am

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Hi Thanks. I will try your settings imediatly. I was running on 1280*1024 32bit 3linear filter . Thanks for response
 
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