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Thread ID: 62384	2005-10-05 21:33:00	Video Card	JJJJJ (528)	Press F1

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393695	2005-10-05 21:33:00	I am trying to improve picture quality. fps is immaterial. It is the overall sharpness and lustre I am concerned with. Is 128 mb ram sufficient or should I get 256? What is the ram on the card actualy used for. I have at present an ATI 9800 pro. with 128 megs. Would anyone like to suggest a better card. AGP.	JJJJJ (528)
393696	2005-10-05 21:45:00	The ram holds the textures, the more ram on the card the bigger textures you can have displayed. So in your case the extra ram would come in handy....probally. I garentee nothing when it comes to your brand of tweaking. Anyhow, The problem you have is that the recomended card (in this case I would say the 6600GT 256mb) isn't a huge step over your current card, better, but perhaps too close in performance to qualify the outlay. So, seeing as your alreadny near midfeild you may be best looking at a high end card, something in the nvdia 6800 range, or the ATI X800 range. I did read the other day that the fastest AGP card on the market was the X850 something.....	Metla (12)
393697	2005-10-05 21:46:00	Though if your looking to run the next flight sim on your current rig I woulkd suggest you get the biggest baddest and meanest video card you can.	Metla (12)
393698	2005-10-05 22:00:00	GECUBE RADEON X850XT Platinum VIVO AGP Edition Maybe worth looking at. Seems their are much better cards available for PCI-e.	Metla (12)
393699	2005-10-05 22:59:00	jeez...............for picture quality and sharpness i woulda thought a 128mb ram card would be quite sufficient...........however it's the monitor that may be more relevant here..........a high quality monitor will help for sure........	drcspy (146)
393700	2005-10-05 23:30:00	Are you sure that your glasses don't need updating, Jack? :stare: :p	FoxyMX (5)
393701	2005-10-06 00:22:00	jeez...............for picture quality and sharpness i woulda thought a 128mb ram card would be quite sufficient...........however it's the monitor that may be more relevant here..........a high quality monitor will help for sure........ You had better be wrong! My monitor is a month old. A $900 plus Viewsonic 19" LCD.	JJJJJ (528)
393702	2005-10-06 00:24:00	Are you sure that your glasses don't need updating, Jack? :stare: :p At the prices they charge for glasses these days . You must be joking .	JJJJJ (528)
393703	2005-10-06 00:40:00	If your talking about video card you probably don't realise it but you are really asking about Anti-Alising anisostropic filtering WHICH imporves picture Quaility NOT more ram (ram kinda does with more textures) . The very short description of what these do is reduce jagged lines etc, making the picture less fuzzy ish and clearer to look at . As Metla said more ram means more texture quaility IF the game supports it, many current games still don't improve with 256 over 128, although this is changeing fast . You "want" a faster GPU card that can run higher Anti-Alising and anisostropic filtering settings without killing your FPS . I don't reccommend the 6600GT for you as we are in similar positions . I have the 9800XT 256 version (very similar perfomance to the 9800Pro), the 6600 GT is definately faster than both our cards BUT only about 30% tops ish depending on the game, and in fact a few games our card will outperfrom the 6600GT (a few I said) . I would strongly suggest Either a Nvidia 6800GT or a ATI X800XL or better, you will not be happy with a 6600GT, it is not much of an upgrade for the cost involoved . BTW ATI cards are "generally" accepted as having slightly better picture quaility over Nvidia .	Battleneter (60)
393704	2005-10-06 01:35:00	Part of my reasoning is due to JJJJ playing Flight Sim 2004 with ever increasing texture packs, Due to the huge scale of the gameworld and the high resolution texture packs Im suggesting the more video ram the better . Though I won't put money on this one, Just where my trail of logic leads me . . . . .	Metla (12)
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