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nrkazmi · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: Best 3D Graphics Card for FS2002?

Which is the best graphics card for using with FS2002. The Radeon 128 MB DDR or the Gforce Nvidia 128MB DDR. Or would you people recommend any other one.
Thanks

SpectroPro · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject:

Does your computer take pci or agp graphics cards? If agp, then currently the best would be the ATI 9800 pro. But, that is about to change and nVidea is about to take the lead with their upcoming card. This irks me off cause ATI is way better but they really dropped the ball on this new technology. They refuse to add-it to their cards and really are putting game vendors in a bad spot as they are telling people that they license with that they are NOT to include in their games the code to allow the nVidea cards to exploit this great new tech feature. If you want more details, just do a google on ati vs nvidea. You'll see. Also check out www.thescreensavers.com and search there for the same thing. ATI is really screwing up and I don't know if they will recover from this one. They have put themselves 2-4 years behind the competition with this *beep* up. This really sucks because they were 1-2 years ahead for the last 5 years.

Ok...now, off all that. I use the 9800 pro as you have guessed I LOVE ATI cards and drivers. So at this moment, that is your best option. If you wait about 4-6 months, the new cards will be out and then I will have to say the ATI still, even though I know it will be the new nVidea. This of course also begs to know how much you wish to spend? 100.00, 250.00, 500.00, 1100.00????? (all that in USD)

If your computer is PCI only then you are limited to the best card being the ATI 9200 128m. That is the best card for pci only computers.

I ran fs2002 on a 1.3 ghz computer with a ATI 7200 all-in-wonder card with NO problems at all. I could get 18-30fps with no problems on that card. And that was just 32 megs ram on the card.

yellowbird · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:

Quote: I ran fs2002 on a 1.3 ghz computer with a ATI 7200 all-in-wonder card with NO problems at all. I could get 18-30fps with no problems on that card. And that was just 32 megs ram on the card.
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That is what I am running at the this time, but I have tried an 128meg card but could not use it cause my motherboard is a 4x, as the new board was an 8x.

So, I take it that the motherboard has something to do in relation to the video card, right?

paulvil · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

Quote: That is what I am running at the this time, but I have tried an 128meg card but could not use it cause my motherboard is a 4x, as the new board was an 8x.

So, I take it that the motherboard has something to do in relation to the video card, right?
The mother board is what the vid card plugs in to (basically) and the 4x is the rate the data can travel (i believe it is 32 bits per cpu cycle (thats 8 bites per cycle (a byte is a character ie: g,;1@*G)))

SpectroPro · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:11 am Post subject:

yellowbird wrote: That is what I am running at the this time, but I have tried an 128meg card but could not use it cause my motherboard is a 4x, as the new board was an 8x.

So, I take it that the motherboard has something to do in relation to the video card, right?

hmmm... I am not sure I am understanding what you mean. When you say motherboard and 4x / 8x, are you talking the actual board with the computer cpu on it? Or, are you talking about the graphics board? I ask because I have never heard of a 4x/8x cput mother board. But those are terms used for AGP graphics cards. If those numbers refer to the graphics card, then you have AGP cards.

nrkazmi · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:51 am Post subject:

Currently I am using a 32MB Nvidea Gforce2 AGP card. And this 4x/ 8x thing is also bothering me because a computer technician told me that my ASUS motherboard can only support 4x cards. I am still confused whether the 8x cards work well on 4x AGP slots.
And by the way what is the way to set frames rates in FS2002.

Jort · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:09 am Post subject:

It does matter if your motherboard supports AGP 8x or not....If it doesn't and only supports 4x, then you will still be able to connect a 8x videocard (I believe), however you will not have the benefits of the fact that the card is 8x (meaning faster data transfer). So, it would be a waste of money to connect a 8x card on a motherboard that does not support it...

I have an Asus motherboard (4x) aswell, with Amd 1.2 Ghz and a Geforce4 440MX 64 MB (AGP 4x), but unfortunately, framerates seldomly exceed 15..
Time to spend some money I guess :D

paulvil · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

Quote: And by the way what is the way to set frames rates in FS2002. Not positive 'bout 2002 but in 2004 under the display setings (options-setings-display) then hit the hardware tab and you should see it.

pingponggame · Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 568 Location: Seattle

It's the same way in 02 as it is in 04 8)