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Reply #15 - Jan 31^st, 2005 at 10:48pm

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Hey auto-pilot. How much $ does your system represent?? My off the cuff guess is at least $3k.

It represents about 9000 USD plus all my personal time and effort.

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Reply #16 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 6:16pm

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Wow autopilot. $9k!!!! I suppose performance does have a price. Well, I plan on just upgrading to the limit the current platform I have now for another year or two. Hopefully the 64 bit athlons will come down in price by then but probably not until intel creates a practical competitor 64 bit chip.

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Reply #17 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 9:49pm

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Gixer's right, more memory won't affect how the scenery looks, but it will load faster and free some system resources to other tasks instead of accessing the page file.

I just upgraded to 1 gig from 512 and noticed a minor improvement in frame rates, maybe 1-2 fps. The biggest improvement I found was that my system doesn't lag behind as it tries to load scenery tiles, especially when I'm in a detailed area like a Megascenery area. I was also able to increase, modestly, some of the display settings. I can now increase autogen and dynamic scenery without losing any fps like I did before.

Go for the gig, it's cheap and you won't regret it. 8)

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Reply #18 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 1:12am

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jcogardner, that is exactly the answer I needed. The visuals were not really suffering, but the system was dragging on loading the tiles. Thx for your input

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