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kreativ · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Location: EGKK

I need to upgrade my GC and was looking around what could I get for under £70 and found this PNY GEFORCE 7600GS AGP card.

Any sugestions if is any good for FS9? my specs

AMD2800+ overclocked
1.5 Gigs RAM
GEFORCE 5200 AGP card (working but getting 1-5 FPS in FS9)
two 80Gb HDD + one 250Gb (7000rpm)... so enough space there for temp files and page files
windows XP pro

Any other sugestions in how to bring FPS up to a decent rate without opening a larger hole in my wallet :roll:

heeshung · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 550

What settings are you playing FS9 at to get the 1-5 FPS? The 5200 should serve FS9 fine if you don't crank everything up to max. I had a GeForce 4 MX420 64MB AGP and it rarely dropped below 10-15 frames and was usually up near 20FPS with all settings on approx. medium, with fair weather.

kreativ · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Location: EGKK

the settings are medium to high.

The strange thing is that I used to get 35+ FPS with higher details....I started tweeking a bit here and bit there and it fell down to 1-2 FPS....so I went back to my old setting and now I'm stuck in 1-5 FPS
](*,)
I haven't installed anything in the PC or in FS9 ever since. :x

heeshung · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 550

Well, if it ran once with your rig at 35+ FPS means it's possible. Just try to find what's causing the frames to go down.

121a · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject:

are you overclocking it? Also is it running hot? Use this to tell:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
Go to computer then sensor.
Are the drivers up to date.
Use this to check the clock speeds of your GPU.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163
go to where it says forceware detected and then click coustimize then select the first one. If there is a !flag that is your problem.

groundsquirrel · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:03 am Post subject: backup...

backup your Fs9.cfg by renaming it and then start FS, it will write a new default Fs9.cfg and then check your frames. Also, if you are running low on space on your system drive, or have too many processes running in the background, it will affect your framerates at the render level and not necessarily be due to the in game settings.

kreativ · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Location: EGKK

Thanks guys... I've followed both your sugestions and it worked 60% as I managed to get 5-10 fps in 2D view whilst flying but it's very intermitent and when taxiing and landing it goes down to 1-4 fps.... :(

Before all this it was 28-35+ fps whilst flying and 10-14 fps taxiing and landing very rarely 5-10 fps

I'll keep on tweeking it 'till I get it right again....at least I think I'm on the right track

121a · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

This program will close all un-needed programs running and free up memory and it is free.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartclose.html

Behrentzs · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Denmark

I have the FX5200 and I have never had frames above 20 with the settings set to at least medium. Even with overclocking I can't get it to 35..or 30...lol.

GDI · Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 32 Location: New Jersey, USA

kreativ wrote: I need to upgrade my GC and was looking around what could I get for under ï¿½70 and found this PNY GEFORCE 7600GS AGP card.

Any sugestions if is any good for FS9? my specs

AMD2800+ overclocked
1.5 Gigs RAM
GEFORCE 5200 AGP card (working but getting 1-5 FPS in FS9)
two 80Gb HDD + one 250Gb (7000rpm)... so enough space there for temp files and page files
windows XP pro

Any other sugestions in how to bring FPS up to a decent rate without opening a larger hole in my wallet :roll:

I personally have that video card, or, at least EVGA's version or it- probably no difference. It's an excellent video card, and I haven't had any problems with it. I mainly upgraded, not necessarily because of FS2004, but because of all the other new computer games coming out. I originally had (you'll never believe this) a GeForce MX2 with 32 MB video memory :!: (yeah- amazingly OLD) and I actually could FS decently well. But once I got C&C 3- Tiberium Wars, and Supreme Commander, and Company of Heroes, it was... well, time to retire the baby. So I bought the 7600 at a very good price, thanks to working at Circuit City at the time. 8)

Also, look into buying the new 7900 to get a few more years out of that AGP connection, if you don't feel like upgrading that motherboard. Yes- it is more expensive, but it's newer, and has 512 MB of video memory, instead of 256 in the 7600GS.

Hope I could help some.

kreativ · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Location: EGKK

\:D/ :D :D :D I decided to upgrade to Vista...and before doing this I formated my HDD and once I got Vista up and running I went for FS9 [-o< praying that it would be alright....and YESSSSSSSSS \:D/ it worked....all drivers updated and FS9 running at medium to high and doing 20-25 FPS.....

I'm so happy.....Only issue now is getting a sound card as mine is not supported by Vista (old Creative SB) ....so....I'm...ha...ving...chopp.ped sound :?

tomcatdriver2006 · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 401 Location: KMCK

Csb AudigySE Dolby 24 bit, 5.1-7.1 Dolby Surround Sound: ok,

heeshung · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 550

Bleehhhh...Vista...

I'm surprised you got FS9 even running without a psychedelic light show in Vista.

harkonnen · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject:

I did read on another forum somewhere a few months back that if done right, Vista will bring your FS9 performance UP without any hardware upgrades...just hearsay though. :?:

mel wilson · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:19 am Post subject:

121a wrote: This program will close all un-needed programs running and free up memory and it is free.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartclose.html

I tried this program on your recomendation (Now Deleted) Screwed up my PC big time....... Just taken me an hour to get it sorted and back up and running.

Anyone wanting to try this BE WARNED !

Mel.