Hi all!I'm going to buy a 512Mb Video Card. In future I think I will update my system with another 512Mb Video Card. Than, I will have 1Gb of Video RAM! WHY THIS?!!Because I have to use a big photo scenery on my FS2004. All the scenery is 1.5Gb of textures. I want to play FS2004 without blurried textures!THE QUESTION IS:Do you know if FS2004 can load into Video Memory all amount of textures in order to render them not blurried?Excuse for my bad english ;-)Best RegardsAQUI

Anyone can help me? ;-)

An increase in RAM memory for your computer's processor increases the size of your computer's cache and this does help with video processing but it is not directly video memory. RAM memory that increases the cache size for your computer's processor usually comes in 128MB, 256MB, or 512MB. Are you talking about this type of memory versus "video card memory"? I do not know of any video cards that offer 512MB onboard RAM memory.

The texture format FS2004 uses already implements mipmapping and the 256x256 terrain texture tiles are DXTC compressed to 43KB each. So, they actually use very little RAM and VRAM. Things like textures for the VC and external aircraft model and other 3D models use much more memory.

The only way to do that would be to run in SLi mode, but from what I understand, if the game is not written specifically for that mode, it will not give you a performance boost.

Do a ctrl-alt-del while FS is running. I have $100 that says your processor is pinned at 100%. 1 gig of VRAM will not change that.-Paul

Thank you for answers!When I talk about 512Mb of Video Memory I mean the memory of the video card. Some examples of a 512Mb video card: nVidia 7800GTX and Ati X1800XT.My idea is: if I play FS2004 with a large photo scenery, FS2004 must load big quantity of textures in video RAM. If I have only a 128Mb video card, FS2004 can only allocate 128Mb of textures. Then, FS2004 can't display all the photo textures with maximum resolution! My question is: if I use a 512Mb video card, can FS2004 load into memory more photo texture in order to display them at maximum resolution? I know that I need to reconfigure "fs9.cfg" file in order to increase the radius of the "non-blurry" textures, but I search anyone that have experience on this problem.Best regards,Aqui

2 x 512MB cards in SLI will not give you 1024MB video RAM to play with - for most cases the textures in each would be the same.FS doesn't come anywhere close to using 256MB of VRAM (or 128MB for that matter) so 2x512MB just because of the amount of VRAM is just wasted.Now, 2 of those cards for pure speed and 4 monitors (i.e. not in SLI) on the other hand...

Hey MagicMan,I run dual 7800 GTX 256 cards non-sli to power three monitors, a Dell 24 widescreen and two Samsung 930B monitors. FPS are locked at 23 and even stay there at Simflyers KEWR with Aerosoft NYC and the PSS T7. THAT is impressive performance. You ridea of two cards even for dual monitors is worth it if you REALLY don't want to sacrifice performance. Running dual monitors on a single card will kill your FPS, almost cut them in half and I have heard of more issues with SLI and FS9 than good. I remember 1 or 2 people claiming to have made it work. Personally I never even tried, went straight to multi-monitor,http://home.comcast.net/~psolk/3monitorsa.htmlGood advice...-Paul

Yep, to me that's the real power of an SLI board - not the fact that you can run two cards in SLI mode (although for games that take advantage of that then you have it there) but for FS where you have the option of up to four monitors with the power of those chipsets behind them.

Mmmmm... your thinking about 2x512 Mb is true! Ok, I will use FS2004 with only one 512Mb video card! Best Regards,Aqui

OK, after researching the new cards, I would say go for it if you have the money. I could not find them for under $600 anywhere. With that being said, I would not do it for the additional memory but for the clockspeeds. I read the new 7800 GTX 512 cards are running at 1.7 That blows away even my XFX 7800 GTX OC. I would look into these cards for the speed rather than the additional memory...Just me,-PaulLiquid CooledAMD 4000 San Diego2 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2Dual 7800 GTX 24 inch widescreen dual 19 inch LCDRaid-0

Here are some statements pulled out of the "Random Thoughts" blog of an FS developer (article The Stutters):http://www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/20..._stutters.shtml"We upload textures to the hardware once per frame and limit the amount of data we