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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:08 am Post subject: Problems with my new AGP Cards

Last 2 days were a hell for me. I went to upgrade my computer with a new graphics card. I was already using Chaintech made Nvidia Geforce2 200 MX card with 32MB SDRAM which was giving me good quality graphics with FS 2002. When I went to the computer accessories shop, I selected a Chaintech Nvidia Geforce A-FX5200 128 MB DDR Graphics card. To my dissapointment, afetr installation of the card and its driver, the FS 2002 showed graphics worse than that of FS 98 with images like bitmaps and a frame rate of 0.3 to 0.5 per second. reintsllaing the drivers didnt help, so we tried other cards too like the LA-FX 5200 Nvidia 128 and 128 MB Geforce 4000 MX card but the problem remained as it was. Even the shop technicians were amazed. Then I picked up another card from the shelf namely ASUS Radeon 7000 AGP 64 MB DDR card and also upgraded my computer RAM to 512 MB. This time the graphics were far better and I was getting frame rates of 25-30 with frames locked at 30. But the graphics quality was not comparable to that of my old 32MB Nvidia card.
I dont know how can the graphic quality be improved. I have tried some settings in the FS 2002 Display settings but they dont seem to help that much. I am wondering if I have to switch from Direct 3D properties to OpenGL in the card settings.
Any idea what might be wrong.

My System
1.7 GHz Celeron
512 RAM
64 DDR Radeon 7000 AGP Card
Windows 98SE

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject: Video Card Problems

I used to play FS2002 and had a similar problem. The graphics on my NVidia MX200 32mb were pretty good. The water looked great and it ran well. Then I upgraded my video driver and the whole game just changed. The water looked like it was just flat and lifeless... the clouds became flat lines in the sky... so I too went out and purchased a new video card. A faster card with more memory... an NVidia again. I couldn't for the life of me re-obtain the graphics I had at one time in that game. I don't know if it was the driver but that is all it appeared to be when I did it for I reinstalled the old card... with the driver I was using and the graphics came back. Driver updates can me great... but sometimes hinder. Just a thought.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject:

I am still confused. I have changed the settings from Direct 3D to OpenGL, which has slightly improved the graphics, but I bet my Nvidia 200MX 32 MB Card was better than today's FX5200, 5700 and 9600 Radeon. What I think that older technology was better as these Games were made at that time. Perhaps only very latest games are compatible with these new cards.