Is the Radeon 128 Meg Good Enough ?

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In my limited experience, the graphics card doesn't change the fps very much in FS2004, it only helps with the quality of the picture (anti aliasing
etc.).

Only the CPU has a major impact on FPS in FS2004! Well except for clouds which require some DirectX tricks that not all gfx cards support.

But then, I wouldn't be surprised if your on-board graphics chip is so bad that *any* other gfx card speeds up things considerably. Your frame rates seem very low to me. Try putting all cloud sliders all the way to the left, that should help a lot.

256MB gfx instead of 128MB doesn't make any difference for FS2004 by the way, FS2004 can't handle that much graphics memory anyway and pretty just ignores it. 128MB instead of 32MB makes a big difference though.

I've got a Radeon 9200 with 256MB and it's just about good enough. No major FPS increases from the GeForce 2MX I had before that, that is because as I said the CPU determines the FPS for the most part. the 256MB gfx memory don't stop FS2004 from re-loading textures all the time.

Don't get the Radeon 9250, it's much too old now and too slow, bad value for money.



Post Edited ( 08-04-05 10:52 )