. X-Plane really is brutal. I made got a lot objects (planes, building, ground vehicles) for Boston's Logan Airport. Those objects and scenery really take a toll on X-Plane. In order to fly smoothly into Boston I had to lower the renderings considerably. For example, I made the anti-aliasing zero as compared to 8x in my bench tests. My average fps was around 45. I can't compare it to X-Plane in Windows because I haven't transferred my scenery and objects over to X-Plane in WinXP as yet. Here are some pictures of what my scenery looks like at Logan Airport: By the way, none of those buildings or planes come with X-Plane.
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It looks like you are having some major fun there..
I don't know if you saw in the lounge.. but Apple is replacing my 1st gen MP with a new one. Totally unexpected. I took it in for repair on the analog audio port...lol. The only upgrade I did was to get the 4870 512.
I have been poring over every stat I can find. Barefeats has lots... here's one with X-Plane as one of the tests.
. I just saw your post in the Lounge. You lucky sob, you. Congratulations!
I look at Barefeats all the time. If the HD 4870 had come with 1GB of vram, I would have gotten it. For textures in X-Plane, I have to have 1GB of vram. That's why I went with the GTX 285.
Under Boot Camp, the GTX 285 really shows it's power.
If/when ATI brings out the HD 5870 for Macs, I will probably trade in my GTX 285 for the 5870.
I don't know if you know this but I just bought a 30 inch monitor. The GTX 285 runs that 30 inch behemoth like a charm. With X-Plane, the scenery is so beautiful I feel like I've done did died and gone to heaven. I guess I live for X-Plane.
Congratulations on both your new computer and your new video card.
I suppose I should explain this chart. The guy was using a PC with a 9800GTX+ card. He said that with texture compression turned off, he found that X-Plane uses vram as high as 940mb at 16x AA. .
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. Thank you. I don't understand it though. That driver has been out for a month already. It is good to know that the driver is necessary for 10.5.8. Thank you for the heads up. .
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#435861 - 07/16/0901:04 PMRe: A New Chart
[Re: Clark]
MicMeister
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Interesting...looks like NVidia is suffering from ATI'ism...oh wait, actually ATI has proven themselves consistently in making poor drivers for both platforms. Or is that about the X-Plane code itself?