March 4, 200719 yr have the NVIDIA 7300GS 512MB running it on a Samsung 22" Widescreen LCD, currently using the 93.71 Forceware WinXP WHQL Drivers.Not totally pleased with the results.Anyone have any other recommendations for this card?
March 5, 200719 yr UPDATEI have the NVIDIA 7300GS 512MB running it on a Samsung 22" Widescreen LCD using the small VGA adapter to hook the monitor to my PC, currently using the 93.71 Forceware WinXP WHQL Drivers.I'm having some issues with the use of this setup with FS2004, when I start the game I experience distortion on my screen such as discolored lines on half or all of the screen, sometimes it corrects itself others it don't.Plus FPS are not all that good on minimal game settings, around 10 to 15 average, 20 to 24 tops.Nothing else seems affected, such as launching other programs or surfing the net etc...Anyone have any other recommendations for this card?
March 9, 200719 yr Hi James, bluntly put, that's a relatively mediocre GPU for a relatively big screen. An easy test is to reduce FS to its minimum resolution and see whether things improve. If they do, a GPU-upgrade might be indicated? No AA or AF could help on the hardware side. FWIW, FS9 runs fine on fast 256MB GPUs, FSX seems to prefer ~400MB cards if max texture sizes (1024x) plus autogen are required. Finally, is your FlyTendo home- or custom built? If homebuilt, theres a good chance you're not using the full bandwidth of your machine's FSB. 512MB DDR2 modules are mostly 'single-rank' where your mainboard chipset would like to see twin-ranks per channel. One possible solution; get another pair of - ideally identical - 512MB modules. Just so it's mentionend, more RAM potentially adds to smoothness, not FPS. Good luck and kind regards Jaap Member of the '2GB & FS9 Is Good Club' :-)
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