Graphic Performance

[Adnan Sajid]

I am using FS2002 on the following specs and have good results with graphic details mostly "Dense"
P IV 1.4
512 MB Ram
64 MB Nvidia Ge Force 4 AGP  ( as Iam not using on board 32 MB chip)
80 GB HDD

Today I have Installed FS2004 on the following specs and was shocked to see unexpected poor performance
IBM Think Centre
PIV 3.0 HT
1.0 GB DDR 1
96 MB On board Intel chipset ,I think its 82865G
160 GB Sata

The display has very poor in Anti-Aliasing as well as on making all the display level to max it is giving some slow performace and Is not displaying the good water textures.

Please Suggest me If I install 128 MB Nvidia 3D AGP , will there will be some change or I required Higher?

Please also remember , I dont have much revenue to buy latest nvidia Product ( I dont know , which latest range of cards are available).

[machineman9]

Graphic quality is poor because it is using a chipset, not a graphics card.

Chipsets are on the motherboard and are very small and weak. An actual graphics card has its own slot (AGP, PCI, PCI-E) and is much larger but has more 'components' on it to provide a better image.

If you install that 128mb nVidia 3D AGP card you will get a performance and graphics boost I would say... yeh.

[MOUSY]

Not the most spectacular, but pretty descent to look at and almost jaggy free...
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 500121/3#3

I got these from an Nvidia FX5200 128Mb AGP at a max res of 1600x1024 and 4x AA... yes, quite good for such a low-end card by todays standards. But it gets better:
700Mhz AMD Duron.
512MB SDRAM.

For simming above 10FPS? Not very likely on medium-high settings. For pics like these? Good enough. 8-)