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Jan 27th, 2006 at 12:37pm

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This may seem like a stupid question because I'm new to flight simulator, but is a 1600x1200x32 better than a 1200x1200x16?  I have tried both but can't really spot a difference...
 
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Reply #1 - Jan 27th, 2006 at 12:56pm
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simple answer, yes.

anything that 000x000 x32 means 32 bits of color. 32-more color, 16 less color.

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Reply #2 - Feb 3rd, 2006 at 2:44pm

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As long as your monitor and GFX cards can support the higher resolution us it.

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I prefer Intel, Alas, AMD is cheaper.  Wink
 
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Reply #3 - Feb 4th, 2006 at 11:56am

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with 16bit colour set, you'll probably notice sudden graduations in the sky and other textures, rather than the smooth blending that 32bit colour gives you.

1600x1200 is the correct "aspect ratio"..... 1200x1200 will cause a distorted view, apparent by stumpy looking aircraft and scenery.

I'm of the opinion that most simmers here are using too high a resolution and AA, AF filtering, resulting in large framerate loss.

I've got a killer rig (albeit on a 6600GT video card), and I can't go any higher than 1280 x 960 x 32 resolution with 2q x AA and 4x AF filtering, or my FPS drops horribly.

This is a shot taken with my above mentioned settings, it's not perfect, but it will do fine, and as you can see my FPS isn't suffering too badly.

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Reply #4 - Feb 7th, 2006 at 1:03pm

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I have that graphics card too, don't you get a lot of flickering with those settings?
How high have you set the MIP mapping quality?
 
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Reply #5 - Feb 7th, 2006 at 3:59pm

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I was wondering too, until I saw his sig, His card is waaay overclocked. Remember congo that a stock 6600GT wouln't preform like that Wink

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Reply #6 - Feb 7th, 2006 at 11:39pm

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The card was not overclocked, I haven't yet installed the o/c util on this drive. Stock standard 6600GT.

I might do a pair of more controlled shots showing the effect of an overclock on the video card later.

No flickering at all, my overclock when applied is only 10% anyway, if you call that WAAAAY overclocked lol.







Well, I just did the test and the results between overclocked and not are identical, thanks, now you have me busy trying to figure out what's going on......  Roll Eyes
 
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Reply #7 - Feb 8th, 2006 at 5:43am

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I was wondering too, until I saw his sig, His card is waaay overclocked. Remember congo that a stock 6600GT wouln't preform like that Wink

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Well, I'm not wondering about the performance when it comes to framerates.
I just wonder about the flickering of the scenery with those settings.
I have a stock 6600GT 128mb and I use 2xQ AA and 16x AF and high quality images at a resolution of 1152 x 864 x32. And I still get some flickering even if I set the MIP mapping quality to 4. I use 8 most of the time, I find that more realistic, and the flickering doesn't get much worse with that setting due to the fact that I have the card set to 16x AF and high quality images.
I don't think the framerate congo has in that screenshot is something "abnormal" for a 6600GT with those computer specs.
I think congo and I have kind of simular systems except that I have a 3.0 GHz CPU, and when I flew a Boeing 737 Experience over London in the same weather conditions as congo used above and made a simular screenshot I had a framerate at over 40 fps, and that's over London.

So I don't think his card has to be overclocked to perform like that.


 
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Reply #8 - Feb 10th, 2006 at 5:20pm

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I can't stand my fps to dip bellow 25 and I can't stand to fly with less than full detail so with my rig I tend to avoid citys and only get my duel monitors out when I want to show off  Tongue
 
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Reply #9 - Feb 15th, 2006 at 11:13pm

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I think congo and I have kind of simular systems except that I have a 3.0 GHz CPU, and when I flew a Boeing 737 Experience over London in the same weather conditions as congo used above and made a simular screenshot I had a framerate at over 40 fps, and that's over London.



Here is New York with everything pretty much maxed out in "building storms" weather.

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Reply #10 - Feb 21st, 2006 at 6:04pm

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Hi, well i want some pc expert to make me a budget. In other words what is better, make my STOCK Dell Inspirion 1150 (Laptop) a gaming PC, or buy a custom desktop and make that a gaming machine?
I got 256 RAM, 1.6 Gigs of memory left out of 24 Ggs, and my screen resolution is the one above 800x600 ( is it 1040 x 782?)

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Quote:
Here is New York with everything pretty much maxed out in "building storms" weather.

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I want to play like that, i got all the things to th minimum and my frame rate is still CRAPPY AS HECK!
 
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Reply #12 - Feb 21st, 2006 at 11:30pm

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@Kipman, proove it as I doubt that your system will preform as you say it will, unless your running a AMD core.

@avp_bluearmy: What are your system specs? You probibly have an inadequate system, or something in your software is wrong.

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Reply #13 - Feb 22nd, 2006 at 1:08pm

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I fot 256 Ram, Intel Celeron, Windows XP Pro, 1 gig (or less) of memory left, and i dont know what is my memory card specs, it is a STOCK Dell Inspirion 1150
 
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Reply #14 - Feb 22nd, 2006 at 1:30pm
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I fot 256 Ram, Intel Celeron, Windows XP Pro, 1 gig (or less) of memory left, and i dont know what is my memory card specs, it is a STOCK Dell Inspirion 1150


what the speed of the celeron. not that it matters, but just wondering.

if, not if, when you get the chance, ditch the celeron and go P4 or AMD (I'm guessing san Diego cores are better)

please get at least 512mb ram. a 256 of good ram isn't that expensive. heck fork over the money and get a 512 stick, wa-bam, 770mb of ram!Tongue (sounds like an odd number for ram*)

do you have any PCIe (x16 aka SLI) or AGP ports? cause ***DO NOT*** waste money on a PCI card, you'd be better off with AGP at least.

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*i want to know, my friend has a computer that had a 96mb ram stick... how is this possible!?!
 
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Reply #15 - Feb 22nd, 2006 at 4:32pm

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96 of Ram? wow that makes me feel better. But i guess i am going to save money and buy a custom pc for games. i am thinking with a budget bellow 1000 buks ( Alien Ware? )
 
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Reply #16 - Feb 24th, 2006 at 12:57am

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*i want to know, my friend has a computer that had a 96mb ram stick... how is this possible!?!



It's possible because he has an onboard video card that is set to reserve 32mb of system ram out of a total of 128mb for it's onboard video memory, thus he loses those mbs in effective and measured system ram.
 
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Reply #17 - Feb 24th, 2006 at 12:58am

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96 of Ram? wow that makes me feel better. But i guess i am going to save money and buy a custom pc for games. i am thinking with a budget bellow 1000 buks ( Alien Ware? )


Alienware is just a bunch of parts assembled and they charge double.

Buy a DFI, Epox, Abit or Asus mainboard based on an nForce4 SLI, nForce4 Ultra, nForce4 or nForce4 4X chipset, then fit a 3700+ San Diego or an X2 4400+ to it...... with 7800GT or GTX graphics card and 2gb of PC4000 RAM.

The rest is details. You can skimp and go 2 x 512mb ram modules if you want, but if you skimp on the other stuff.......   Tongue

The mainboard is the most imortant thing to get right. Get a fully featured big arse board. There are cheap ones out there, particularly with the Epox and Abit boards, but beware, there are many models with subtle differences.

NF4-SLI
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=390

NF4 Ultra w/firewire
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=335

NF4 Ultra
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=403

NF4 w/firewire  (NF4 has no SATA II support, but supports SATA I which is practically just as fast.)
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=393

NF4 4X    (this is just a cheaper version of the chipset)
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=370

You'll notice on the Epox website that there is a plethora of models made. I picked the examples above for good reasons.

You'll find a similar trend with most manufacturers, you need a good bit of knowledge to pick the best boards, but basically, if it has a tweakable BIOS and the features you require, then it's a good board if within the above specs.

Look at the DFI, Asus and Abit sites.
 
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Reply #18 - Feb 28th, 2006 at 1:15pm

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Ok, i will check it out, well i can only put one more RAM stick on my laptop ( or is it posible to take out the one that is already there and put 2 512 Mb Ram sticks in? ) well i am going to BBY* when i can.

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Reply #19 - Mar 3rd, 2006 at 8:08am

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You can take out the current one you have in there and replace it. If I were you I would go to newegg.com and not BB. Also I would suggest looking at corsair XMS notebook. I have that in my lappy, and runs almost as good as my desktop.

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