Simviation Forum - Shots with an FX5200

May 12^th, 2004 at 9:54am

Mike Thurman Offline
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Hey guys,

This is kind of a funny question, but could someone show me a screenshot of FS2004 with a GeForce FX5200 video card, i'm planning on buying one and i wanna see what i'm getting

BTW, does the FX5200 support the reflective water textures you find on simV ( they're 1.1 mb).

Thanks Grin

Mike

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Reply #1 - May 12^th, 2004 at 10:07am

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Take a look at any of my shots. I use an FX5200. I don't use AA because of my relatively slow CPU so you'll see the "stairstep" in some of them.

Here are some I posted recently. Taken on the fly so what you see is what you get.
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=...

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Reply #2 - May 12^th, 2004 at 10:08am

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Mike, check out my thread in this forum from Monday entitled "Last Known Photo".

They were taken with an FX5200 128mb card and the Bill Lyons water textures installed.

If you get the 64mb card, or if your system is a little on the slow side, you may not get the same result, or if you do, you may get some stuttering, but this will give you a good idea.

The shot was taken with everything maxed out for maximum detail.

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Reply #3 - May 12^th, 2004 at 12:32pm

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Well, here's my PC specs, can't say if it's slow or not, lol:

Intel Celeron Pentium 4 , 850mhz , 512mb SD RAM, GeForce MX/MX400 64 mb

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Reply #4 - May 12^th, 2004 at 1:08pm

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Intel Celeron Pentium 4 850mhz

??? ??? ???

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Reply #5 - May 12^th, 2004 at 1:30pm

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Beats me, GeForce. lol

The card upgrade will help you a little, Mike, but your processor (if it's truly an 850 as you said) will still run a little slow. In the RAM department, you're all set for now. Hope this helps!

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Reply #6 - May 12^th, 2004 at 1:32pm

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Agreed Jon, err Mike either its a Pentium or a Celeron, it can't be both...
I'd guess from its speed that its a Celeron, as virtually every P4 runs above 1GHz........
You system should be able to handle the card okay, which OS are you running?

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Reply #7 - May 12^th, 2004 at 2:36pm

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Well, here's my PC specs, can't say if it's slow or not, lol:

Intel Celeron Pentium 4 , 850mhz , 512mb SD RAM, GeForce MX/MX400 64 mb

Well, kind of. I'm running a Duron at 950mhz and I find that the machine has gotten too slow. Good thing I saved up some money for a nice upgrade.

You should see decent proformance. I have aircraft and effects set on high, scenery moderate, weather low. I get between 10-25fps depending on where I'm flying and what I'm flying.

Have you thought about a CPU upgrade instead. Older CPU's are relatively inexpensive now. If you still have the booklet that came with the board, try and find out what is the fastest CPU it will take. FS2004 likes fast machines. A new Celeron (assuming that's what you have) will cost you about the same as the card but will come in handy for other common applications as well.

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Reply #8 - May 12^th, 2004 at 4:38pm

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A GF FX5200 isn't gonna make a lick of difference too what you have now for a screenshot!

And it's barely worth the upgrade effort. Your "Celeron" 850 can't keep up with it anyway. (It's not really a P4's backside now is it?) Wink

A shiny new P4 in the CPU slot could make a significant difference though! (if the mainboard will support any CPU currently on the market)

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #9 - May 13^th, 2004 at 10:50am

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Mike if you look at my screenshot posts you will see what a FX5200 looks like. They are by "Dannyboy". It is a good graphics card for the cost. All of my posts are in Freeware Screenshots. 8) Grin

I suggest that you get a AGP slot card, the PCI slots do not seem to work as good.

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Reply #10 - May 13^th, 2004 at 11:41am

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Assuming he has an AGP slot. I run the 5200 PCI card and have had nothing but great luck with it.

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Reply #11 - May 14^th, 2004 at 6:33am

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sorry guys, i was getting it all screwed up, it's an Intel P4, lol, got a 'lil confused there, hehehe Grin

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Reply #12 - May 14^th, 2004 at 8:36am

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What is its MHz of the processor?
It is not possible to get 850MHz P4's.

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Reply #13 - May 15^th, 2004 at 7:00pm

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Hi folks!

over here P4 2.8GHz P4, 1GB 3200, FX5900 128MB, WinXP... runs FS9 super, all graphics settings to highest and FPS at 25. But i have a friend with almost the same environment, but an FX5700 128MB... and there's the real difference, didnt believe first, but he sucks with the same settings (even 20fps). So we tried changing the card, he got my fx5900 for some days, and it was much better performance.

Hope that helps

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Reply #14 - May 20^th, 2004 at 1:54am

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'Hey guys,

This is kind of a funny question, but could someone show me a screenshot of FS2004 with a GeForce FX5200 video card, i'm planning on buying one and i wanna see what i'm getting

BTW, does the FX5200 support the reflective water textures you find on simV ( they're 1.1 mb).
'

Yes, I have a FX5200 and in FS2004 all display settings maxed out, with 8x AA and 4x ansitropic filtering and I get very realistic water textures. See the following post for some screenshots of my AFCAD 2 created Irken Airport using a FX5200 :

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=photos;action=display;num=...

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Reply #15 - May 20^th, 2004 at 8:15am

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The FX5200 will support reflective water, but will not let you max the water slider out (unless someone has found a way around this), it may look weird, i have set my water setting down to low and run bill lyons water and the water looks really weird, it is flat and has lights that flash around the place. With the setting set to high though the water has ripples and waves and the light reflection works a lot better.

Anyone use Bill Lyon's water pack with an FX5200? I need someone to agree or disagree with me.

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Reply #16 - May 22^nd, 2004 at 12:35am

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The FX5200 most certainly WILL let you max out your water slider. It just won't let you have land and water BOTH on max.

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Reply #17 - May 23^rd, 2004 at 1:43pm

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Hi everyone,

I am currently running a fx5200 card in an AMD 2500+ machine, 512 DDR dual channel ram.

I run the land and water sliders maxed out with Bill Lyons water textures. What happens is that when I first start the FS, the water textures are there, but it takes about fifteen seconds for the color to show up. After that the screen stays
stable until the next time I boot into the FS.

After a little research I find to get better performance with this video card I need a faster processor, next thing on the wish list.

Clear skies,
Paul

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