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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: GEFORCE 7600GS AGP

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 Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject:

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.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

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
Brick wall

I haven't installed anything in the PC or in FS9 ever since. Mad

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject:

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.

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.

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.

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:54 am Post subject:

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.... Sad

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

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

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

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.

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: Re: GEFORCE 7600GS AGP

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: GEFORCE 7600GS AGP

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 Pray

praying that it would be alright....and YESSSSSSSSS Dancing

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 Confused

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: sound card for vista

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

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

Bleehhhh...Vista...

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

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. Question

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