General info - Sort of odd things noticed

[bryan]

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Gday folks

With BF2, there is a utility that shows you all your system
specs and I noticed that my 128Mb 6800GT card was showing up with only 64Mb
ram. All I could think of was to change the AGP aperture in bios to 256Mb
and it then showed up with the correct amount of ram. Just thought I would
mention it if someone is not getting the performance they might expect from
their vid card and to add to the general knowledge base.
To further a comparison between 6800 and 6600 I put every slider in
FS9 on both computers to the max (except AA is still off,filtering bilinear,
MIP mapping 4 and Hardware lights 6) then set the same plane over Sydney on
spot view with "Building storms" weather.The 6800 ran at about 23-24fps and
the 6600 at about 18fps.

Speaking of weather, after reading the post about clouds moving, I
set the plane on the ground and set the sim rate at 128x. I could not see
the clouds moving so I slewed up a little (about 100' AGL) and then it
really kicked in. Never noticed before that you have to be off the ground
for the sim rate to increase.

Bryan

 

[dallas]

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"Bryan"
> With BF2, there is a utility that shows you all your system

Err.. what's BF2?

Dallas

 

[GREGORY]

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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:22:18 +1000, "Bryan" <Idontthinkso@tim.com>
brought the following to our attention:

>Gday folks
>
> With BF2, there is a utility that shows you all your system
>specs and I noticed that my 128Mb 6800GT card was showing up with only 64Mb
>ram. All I could think of was to change the AGP aperture in bios to 256Mb
>and it then showed up with the correct amount of ram. Just thought I would
>mention it if someone is not getting the performance they might expect from
>their vid card and to add to the general knowledge base.

you mean in the system BIOS? as in hitting F2 when booting up?
will have to look at that. So it's now set at 2x the actual vRAM?

> To further a comparison between 6800 and 6600 I put every slider in
>FS9 on both computers to the max (except AA is still off,filtering bilinear,
>MIP mapping 4 and Hardware lights 6) then set the same plane over Sydney on
>spot view with "Building storms" weather.The 6800 ran at about 23-24fps and
>the 6600 at about 18fps.
>
> Speaking of weather, after reading the post about clouds moving, I
>set the plane on the ground and set the sim rate at 128x. I could not see
>the clouds moving so I slewed up a little (about 100' AGL) and then it
>really kicked in. Never noticed before that you have to be off the ground
>for the sim rate to increase.

Good test.. so with the next version of FS one could sit in the `box'
(on ground) and watch a thunderstorm pass at 16x the real time?
while viewing storm on cockpit RADAR?

If MS is listening.. we want smoke and contrails that drift and are
subject to wake / downwash.


-g



p.s. yep.. posting a lot this weekend....
having just fixed a tough/annoying problem. { grin }



>Bryan
>

 

[bryan]

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Battlefield 2 A most excellent game




"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> "Bryan"
>> With BF2, there is a utility that shows you all your system
>
> Err.. what's BF2?
>
> Dallas
>
>