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Video card still useable?

Postby rootbeer » Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:55 am

I have an ATI Radeon 7500 4X AGP card from Summer 2002.  The computer took a massive dump and the card came out. Is it still useable; can I get updated drivers so as to eventually use the card in a flightsims-only machine?  Thanks.
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Re: Video card still useable?

Postby ctjoyce » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:01 am

Well technically speeking yes. Your computer should have only fried your HDDs and optical drives. You can get updated drivers etc, but I would suggest getting a new card. The 7500 is far outdated, and not even a DX9 card, rendering it basically useless in FS9. It may do fine in FS8 (and I stress mabe). Personally I would just say start from scratch. If you want I can quote you for a system that will run about $1100

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Re: Video card still useable?

Postby rootbeer » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:47 pm

That's what I thought...

And how does that dumb penguin know on what system I'm running?
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Re: Video card still useable?

Postby ctjoyce » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:26 pm

Because its just that special ;)

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