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Jun 26^th, 2004 at 2:14pm

fagon Offline
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HI types! My first post in this forum.

1. I am interested. Is the loading of A/c textures primarily a function of CPU or Graphigs card.
At the moment I have three versions of A340- 600 in my fleet [big planes....serious textures ] and they all seem to take a few seconds to load up the textures between views... ckpt spotter etc Would be interested in the experts overview on this.
2. follows naturally.

My swap file is currently set at Min 768; Max 1536....... on installed ram of 512ddr. Is that OK - or whats the rule of thumb on this one.

3. Last .. Strange goings on. I want to print Navlog but it won't. Wierd because will print all else from FS. Is it a bug? Anyone had the same.
Thks.

BTW specs are AMD 64 3400 - 2.12g; ASUS 800; ultra fast HD. Radeon 9800 PRO; 512DDR; ram
Average FPS - except Chicago Int - 65/80

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Reply #1 - Jun 26^th, 2004 at 2:40pm

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I think textures are processed by the vid card. Of course they have to be taken from the hard drive, then the CPU tells them where to go. The graphics card does most of the work though.

I think I know what A340s your talking about. Textures for it take a long time to load on mine too. I think this may be a glitch in the plane itself. I have lots of aircraft of similar quality and my textures load almost instantly.

On the swap file, it should be 1.5x your system ram capacity. Your fine right where you are.

I don't know why your Nav log wont print. I've never tried to print it because you can just pull it up instantly by hitting F10.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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Reply #2 - Jun 26^th, 2004 at 2:55pm

fagon Offline
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Thks Iroquois,
I too think its Airbus - because all my other large planes load quickly It is odd tho' that I have all kinds Flightcraft, Simubuild, and Aerodesign - and they are all slow loaders- Bring up a 777 or whatever and its OK. peculiar . Mind you the A340 - 600 is really beautiful.

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Reply #3 - Jun 27^th, 2004 at 8:54am

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I have a theory that it's both cpu and gpu, ie. You switch views and the machine has to deal with a redraw of the FS world from a different viewpoint, instantly, that's gotta hurt! So, the CPU bogs down with the redraw, and the card is working hard anyway, also some extra polygons in the plane model I'd say.

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Reply #4 - Jun 27^th, 2004 at 8:51pm

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Probably right Congo. Those A340 beasties are Biig.

Have to say it BTW. Your Sig is spot on for me

I fly K6's from time to time - and did once get in a thermal with a Buzzard over the Black mountains in Wales.
Made me feel very small at the time- there was me, some cranky weekender doing the best he could - and there he was in the moment taking in the rays, cruising on the wing. Hmmm.

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