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Flightgear really this slow on XP?
Don't tell me to install Linux. I know that. It's currently not an
option. I downloaded and installed FG on a fairly capable XP system (1.6ghz AMD 256 RAM and a good video card) and was blown away by the frame rate. Like one second per frame even in the lower resolution modes? I shut down all the background tasks I can, task manager shows 99% free resources, but hey... this is windows. I've got to be doing something wrong (besides using XP). What is it? It's got to work better than this. How do you get it to run so that it's not just a big joke? |
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wrote: Don't tell me to install Linux. I know that. It's currently not an option. I downloaded and installed FG on a fairly capable XP system (1.6ghz AMD 256 RAM and a good video card) and was blown away by the frame rate. Like one second per frame even in the lower resolution modes? I shut down all the background tasks I can, task manager shows 99% free resources, but hey... this is windows. I've got to be doing something wrong (besides using XP). What is it? It's got to work better than this. How do you get it to run so that it's not just a big joke? I agree with Epi. You need more RAM. 256k is only enough to run XP and Word. I think you will find that 512k RAM will do a lot for the frame rate. That MB should be able to use the older 2100 or 2400 RAM. You can get a 512 stick for about $50 or less. A 256k stick can be had for cheap, cheap. John |
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Thanks, there may be something to that. I should have mentioned that
everything is slow, even when the plane is not flying. It looks like a DOS program, and I was wondering if it might be all the overhead of running in an XP window, that there might be a boot disk I could make or something. It does seem to be something other than just RAM. |
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On 7 May 2005 06:08:35 -0700, "jmiguez" wrote:
wrote: Don't tell me to install Linux. I know that. It's currently not an option. I downloaded and installed FG on a fairly capable XP system (1.6ghz AMD 256 RAM and a good video card) and was blown away by the frame rate. Like one second per frame even in the lower resolution modes? I shut down all the background tasks I can, task manager shows 99% free resources, but hey... this is windows. I've got to be doing something wrong (besides using XP). What is it? It's got to work better than this. How do you get it to run so that it's not just a big joke? I agree with Epi. You need more RAM. 256k is only enough to run XP and Word. I think you will find that 512k RAM will do a lot for the frame rate. That MB should be able to use the older 2100 or 2400 RAM. You can get a 512 stick for about $50 or less. A 256k stick can be had for cheap, cheap. With XP and the apps that run in the back ground I'd want a minimum of 512 and preferably one gig. To the OP. Bring up the "Task manager" and see what you have for memory use and page file swapping. I'd bet it's doing a tremendous amount of page file swapping. (swapping chunks of programs and data from RAM to the HD and working piecemeal). On this machine, several upgrades back, going from 512 to 1 Gig made an unbelievable difference. I do a lot of photo processing. It went from 20 to 30 seconds on loading a 65 meg image to about a second. I can run the scanner, the canner software, Photoshop CS AND process 4 to 6 images at a time AND run Word too. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com John |
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On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:09:05 +0000 (UTC), "Quilljar"
wrote: I think your difficulty lies in your definition of fairly capable. For running MS word perhaps, but for flight simming that amount of RAM and that chip, would have not been capable even three years ago. The problem all along with MS Flight Sim is that the requirements of the players have forced Microsoft to put in capabilities such as more and more realistic weather and scenery that only a top rated PC will run it properly and that has meant 1024Mb RAM and 2.6Ghz CPU for the last two years. As for video cards, there seem to be only one or two around that people are truly pleased with. My 128 Mb Matrox Parhelia is now very old hat I gather. Hi Quilly S'funny you mention three-year-old PCs as my own machine is just about that age. AMD XP1800+ (1.54G clock speed, I beleive), 512 MB DDR RAM, GeForce3 Ti 200 video - and all else pretty much as one would expect for a machine three years old. On the plus side, I use FS8 which, I'd guess, requires a lesser PC than FS9. FS8 runs acceptably well. The only problems I have (other than forgetting that my AV does its daily check at 18:00) is when landing at a large airport and when I have all sliders set well towards max. James |
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