[Taristin]

I've got my eye on the 9600XT with 256Mb ram, m'self.  It's only 165.00 now, and I'd never buy from compUSA, they are a rip off. (They wanted 200.00 after a 50.00 mail in rebate)

And I'm not concerned about AA. I don't use it now ,and I think it looks great as is.

[Lightspeed]

FSO is dynamic in minimum system specs.

Ideally, it should run with the same PC that ran FS2 retail, exactly the same. If you've got more power you can turn on some special effects - you can find your own limit

[Gregster2k]

The only reason I bought from CompUSA was because I had no choice: $50 of that card's purchase came from a CompUSA Gift Card (god, it sux when people give you THOSE as presents, eh?) I could have gotten a 9600 XT for quite less, but I decided that if I was going to get a new upgrade, I might as well go the whole extra mile, so I got the 9800 Pro...

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Lightspeed

which is exactly what we're doing. Your point?

If your goal would be this, you wouldn't keen on making models of millions of polies. And now this MakeSubspaceFightsMoreMachineDevouring.

[Taristin]

Topace. They're. 480. Polies. Each.

That's not going over the deep end. Get ahold of yourself, please.

[TopAce]

And how many subspace layers are there?

[Bobboau]

two, each useing one texture,
5,000 polys useing the same texture is less expensive than 2 polys each useing a diferent texture.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Bobboau
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5,000 polys useing the same texture is less expensive than 2 polys each useing a diferent texture.

So does that mean that fighters are displayed more quickly?

[Will the Great]

Originally posted by Liberator
I got a better Idea, set a minimum requirement and stick to it.

Tell people ahead of time they aren't going to be able to run this on their 5 year old hardware and quit trying to cater to them.  Decent Video Cards are cheap these days and there's almost no reason that someone shouldn't have at least GF4 or Radeon 9xxx.

I don't claim to  own a high-end PC, but I agree with you regardless. If someone's got the required hardware, the higher-end of the SCP is there for them. If regular FS2 is about as far as their hardware can go, then they can stick to that.

Nobody ever said this stuff was manditory.

[Bobboau]

and TopAce; yes

[Will the Great]

Thanks for the welcome.

Given my chronic insanity, I think I'll fit in just fine around here...