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Reply #15 - Sep 29^th, 2006 at 10:58pm

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What i meant when i said "what does that mean" is what does having a dell mean, i understood the bad card thing, sorry if i didnt clarify.

I ment you own a Dell brand computer. I was only saying that due to the fact that your setup is about what their standird build is.

Anyway, like said before, useing that thread as a way to figure out how to get the most out of your card could help you out, but to truely fix the problem your going to have to get a better card.

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Reply #16 - Sep 29^th, 2006 at 11:55pm

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im not very good at clarification Embarrassed

, i knew that having a dell meant a dell computer, i was just wonder if dell's came with a standard system that wasn't good for FS.
Anyway, doesnt really matter, thanks for the help, my scenery isn't terrible so i'll just live with what i have, but i do need that terrain mesh that's being transfered here at SimV!

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Reply #17 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 5:51am

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With some optimizing you can make fs9 run and look really nice. Someone on Avsim has the same setup as you and he posted some screens.

They were Fly2e quality and he said it was real smooth. You could buy fs-gs which MAY help you Wink

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Reply #18 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 10:33am

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FS-GS is not worth it, with an onboard video card the money is better spent on a video card. Assuming you have a PCI-E slot.

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Reply #19 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 10:02pm

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FS-GS is not worth it, with an onboard video card the money is better spent on a video card. Assuming you have a PCI-E slot.

Exactly. Now if you for some reason absolutely positively can not get a new video card, then contact michael, but a better video card will help you much more than FSGS will. And be thankful that you have a PCI-E slot, and not AGP.

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Reply #20 - Oct 3^rd, 2006 at 8:36pm

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Now i am considering getting a new card. I'm still not sure, but if i were to get one, which is the best and cheapest card and which is the best card overall?

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Reply #21 - Oct 3^rd, 2006 at 10:33pm

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For PCI-E, currently the best singal card is the ATi Radeon X1950XTX, costing around $650 depending on who you buy it from. Now you can also find 7800GTs floating around for about $200. Personally I would buy a 7900GS for $220. As a absolute last resort you could get a X850XT for a cool $140, but I wouldn't advise it.

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Reply #22 - Oct 4^th, 2006 at 12:02am

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if your tight on money, a 7800 will do good, personally its the card I would have bought had I had a little more money lying about! It runs everything pretty good from what Gunnerman told me (BF2,GW,FEAR, etc etc) I dont know too much about 7900s or 7950s, and I definatly am a noob to ATI cards.... Cheers, Gunny (DO NOT buy a lower card like I have done, you'll kill yourself over it!)

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Reply #23 - Oct 4^th, 2006 at 8:03am

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just to add to the last post..

if ur going Nvidia then the 7800 or 7900 (any sort) is fine just no the 7950 as its not as great as some make it to be... most of the models ive seen so far have hardly any if some chipset features which is rather ghey.

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Reply #24 - Nov 28^th, 2006 at 11:35pm

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Now i am considering getting a new card. I'm still not sure, but if i were to get one, which is the best and cheapest card and which is the best card overall?

I think the best value cards are:

7600GT - Around $120 US

7900GS - Around $200 US

Assuming you have PCI-E, not AGP.

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Reply #25 - Nov 29^th, 2006 at 11:22pm

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I think the forums got ducked up there Cheese because your answering a thread that has been dead for about 2 months Grin

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Reply #26 - Dec 1^st, 2006 at 5:25am

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So ... while we're at it why not add to it Grin

If you don't have a PCIe slot but an AGP slot in your Dell you might want to consider buying a Gainward 7800 GS+ which is the fastest AGP card around these days. I have one an there's a G71 core in it, which (I believe) is the 7900 core (right Nick?). They're not cheap (around €350) and they're not the fastest but if you're happy with your system (like me) you might want to buy one of those cards ...

You'll probably end up with shots like these or these (if you like them).

BTW: a Dell is a greaat machine ... I have one too! Don't be fooled that they are bad machines. The only "bad" thing is that you can't overclock your motherboard and the likes because you can't adjust those settings in you Dell BIOS. But as long as you have your system tuned to the max your fine with a 3 Ghz. Dell with a gig of RAM.

But like the others said ... it's you card that's the weakest point Roll Eyes

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