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Revision as of 21:30, 6 January 2008
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units | ||
Basically, you should be fine with any NVIDIA or ATI card that is not older than 12-18 months; however, you need to take into account that some of the newer features in FlightGear may not work as expected or may not even work altogether with older hardware. In general, 3D cards that make use of shared memory should be avoided (PCI express cards that share memory are ok). Also, if you intend to use FlightGear under Linux you may first want to check whether the driver for your card is fully supported under Linux (and your X version) or not. | Basically, you should be fine with any NVIDIA or ATI card that is not older than 12-18 months; however, you need to take into account that some of the newer features in FlightGear may not work as expected or may not even work altogether with older hardware. In general, 3D cards that make use of shared memory should be avoided (PCI express cards that share memory are ok). Also, if you intend to use FlightGear under Linux you may first want to check whether the driver for your card is fully supported under Linux (and your X version) or not, in general linux driver support is generally considered to be better for nvidia-based products than for ATI ones, however both manufacturers provide primarily closed-source drivers, in binary form. | ||
In addition, for products from both ATI & nvidia it is not unusual to notice that the same machine/hardware setup performs "better" (in the sense of reached average framerates, using identical startup&runtime settings) under Win32 than under Linux, this is often an indicator for the unfortunate fact that Win32 OpenGL driver implementations tend -at least so far- to be more completely and efficiently implemented than the linux ones. | |||
Currently, you can basically forget about using any Matrox cards as FlightGear is very heavy on textures, but only the high-end matrox cards will have sufficient capabilities to deal with FlightGear's requirements. | Currently, you can basically forget about using any Matrox cards as FlightGear is very heavy on textures, but only the high-end matrox cards will have sufficient capabilities to deal with FlightGear's requirements. | ||