Before/After 3d card

[BDS]

Here are two shots 1 from my stock setup and the second with the new graphics card...


Note the squareness of the elevator against the fuselage, flaps, etc - this is before.



And these are the types of graphics Im getting now...


I know these are two totally different shots, but they were the best I had that showed the differences.

-Sean.

[Craig.]

you've just convinced me to go and buy a proper graphics card instead of my onboard one. very nice shot, what card do you have by the way

[BMan1113VR]

looks alot better try to get the same shot as the first one so we can really compare them

[BDS]

The card is a PNY Technologies Verto GeFORCE FX 5200. It is very similar to the GeFORCE 440 se but with 128 mb ddr. I got it for $119.00 at best buy. I have the pci version - but they also have an agp version for the same price.

Here's pretty much the same shot w/ the new card.  I used slew mode to line it up as similarly as I could remember.

The biggest difference is the water effects and the reflection/glare on the fuselage. Note the elevators and flaps are slightly less grainy from this distance as well.

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

Which airport is this?

[BDS]

St. Maarten - Princess Juliana Intl. Its under "carribean" region. I found out about it by seeing some real pictures of 747's coming in over that beach about 40 ft msl with folks just standing underneath them like it was no big deal. If you go to www.airliners.net and click on most popular pics theres a bunch from this airport - something to behold.

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

Thanks for the info... I don't have any screenshots of my before and after, but I went to the same airport and used the same plane as you and took a screenshot of what I'm running just to compare with yours... I've got a 900 mhz Duron w/ 512MB SDRAM, 40 gb h/d, Win XP, and a GeForce 4 MX440 w/128 mb sdram (not ddr, but sdram), and I had onboard 32mb sis video that would absolutely scream through CFS1 and FS95, until I upgraded to this GeForce.  That's a good card you've got!!  The water detail gives it that tropical vacation feel to it!!8) Yuh mon!! (By the way... this is slew mode).

[BDS]

Well - you might just have your water details turned off. Go into your settings tab on the main screen and go to display - then slide the water effects thing over until it says reflections and detail.  

If your already having problems w/ graphics it will probably slow you down - but thats how the water gets the look I have. I had to turn it off before because I was using the onboard graphics.

[HeavyMetal]

Here is the same view with my card, the Asus GeForce4 128meg. The plane is a Boeing 777

Speedbird_1961

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

I went to my settings and checked the water details settings... they were turned up all the way... not sure what else it can be unless I've got something else configured wrong or the card is doing it's best to run this thing.  My comp will generate that kind of water detail with CFS2, but not FS2002...

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

Here's a screenshot I got from CFS2, not even 2 minutes ago, and it clearly displays the water with more detail... I'm thinking I might not have enought comp for fs2002

[BDS]

Well - I dont know the specs on cfs at all - but its a possibility that it doesnt need as much stuff as fs2k2 so it runs better - did you check to make sure the display settings were the same?

[AnGeL_MaKeR]

yeah... CFS2 and FS2000 are pretty close when it comes to the graphics engines... FS2002 is a couple of notches above this, but below CFS3... (WAY BELOW!!)... but anyways.. I can manage... I don't want to get too close to the water unless I wanna go swimming.... hehe... after all, this comp is nothing but a 900mhz Duron trying to feed a hungry graphics card.  I can get some nice cloud shots though!!  This is over the same airport that this post was started on...

[Rifleman]

Gimme a few mins and I will have a go at an approach to that Carrib location with a 747.........post to come directly

[BDS]

Here's some real photo shots of that approach....

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/027599/M/


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/211543/M/


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/199873/M/