Dispaly Options - Please explain

[Simviation2003]

Hi Fellas,

I apoligise for being a little vague when it comes to the following, but could someone be nice enough to advise me on what would be the best settings in the display department of FS2002 in reference to my system specs............

SPECS;
Pentium III 800MHz
384Mb SD RAM
Nvidia RIVA TNT2 64Pro
Voodoo 2 Graphics Accelerator Card
Creative Sound Blaster AUDIOPCI

I've got most settings on high, and it seems a little grainey but not to bad, but when it comes to aniliasing, filtering and the like, I'm completely lost.

Also, the setting for the video card itself gets me lost as I don't understand any of its options.

I hope i'm not asking to much, but just wondering if anyone has around the same system specs as above could let me know what they find to be good in FS.

hope to hear from ya's

SV2003

[congo]

Double Trouble    ;)

What graphic card do you really have?

Nvidia RIVA TNT2 64Pro  

or

Voodoo 2 Graphics Accelerator Card  or........  ???

Either way, if it's one of those (or both? lol) they are pretty outdated.

Grainy is kinda vague.

Leave the filters off, and try for 1024x768 screen resolution in the game in either 16 or 32 bit color, 32 if it will handle it without slowing down too much.

Clouds will slow it and so will dense scenery settings and far draw distances.

Put everything to normal/medium - etc.

Sight distance 60 miles

ground scenery shadows off

cloud density 50% or less

there are 3 main categories in the game display settings, go thru them all, reduce and disable until the sim is running smooth enough to fly.

You really are pushing it with that hardware. Good Luck.

Just experiment and see what works best.

Why do you list 2 graphics cards? Are there 2 installed by mistake? or is one onboard and still left activated?

[terbert]

Hello SV2003

I endorse all Congo says here, although my gear is probably slightly less than yours. I am on a Celeron 700,
Ati 64mg card, 512 ram, onboard sound. Quite honestly, my game runs quite well. Scenery can kill it stone dead sometimes. However, I have all Gary Summons uk2000 (payware) scenery, with all the dynamics on, and it goes a treat. Some others make it grunt like mad, some don't!
Basically, it is trial and error. Even when I am on Ivao with real weather my frame rates are very good.
Play around with the sliders, you can always reset defaults.

Tony C

[Simviation2003]

Thanks Fella's,

I appreciate the information provided and will try what your've suggested and see what happens.

Congo, thanks for the stats, you ask about the 2 vidoe cards. Yes I have 2 video cards installed, the voodoo 2 video controller card is a graphics accellerator which when you put the two together gives a better display (well thats what they say).............. The voodoo 2 PCI card has an input and an output on the back and sits in between the video card and the monitor.

Thanks terbert for your input, its good to see some of us still have the outdated hardware.

Will keep ya posted.

SV2003

[_526th_Fireman]

If your video cards have the option of selecting your Antialiasing, set it in your card properties. In the game, DO NOT set Antialiasing here. Letting your card(s) do the AA work is much faster and you get better quality.