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Post by coffinsnail on May 3, 2009 9:38:31 GMT -6
i see now why you said only 2.5 gig or ram its cause your running sli. your CPU if i have the right one is 64 bit... And yes fergie is right building PCs is much easier then building a heli. MC not sure but your system sounds old and they are probably right on the pong thing. do this for me... Right click on my computer, select properties then type in everything that pops up on the General Tab only. Sounds like that Tower is best used for kids surfing the internet. Also what games are you wanting to play on it? New ones ? or older ones. Fergie: those are some nice games, the DX11 thing however seems to be on the shelf as DX10 is new and there is no reason to make a new one when the gaming companies are not even fully implementing DX10 yet. Now DX11 was slated to be put into windows 7 but due to one company (i forget which one) it has been shelved. I think it was probably Nvidia as it would make all their new DX10 cards worthless. I would say stick with DX10 for now 11 seems to be shelfed for later release. As far as i know all DX11 did was increase Multicore support which could be implemented in DX10 as well, but i also heard romurs that DX11 was basically DX10+DX9 in one library so the OS would not have to swtich like it does currently in Vista. Here is my rig. AMD Athlon 64x2 6000+ (3.1gig not overclocked) 4 Gig of Corsair ram DDR2 800, 4,4,4,12 Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS (640 MB) Asus Motherboard Coolmaster Modular PSU 850w RaidMax Tower (love it cause the MB tray folds out) 32 inch Emerson LCD TV as Monitor And the picture of it setup  |
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Post by fergie on May 3, 2009 10:28:37 GMT -6
sweet thanks for all your info coffinsnail ;D
and yep that's my CPU alright. nice system you have there.
yea it seems DX10 hasn't fully hit yet, but it's been awhile since i've looked at games,i've been so into my heli's. so i'm not real sure if there is any new DX10 games out there, i'm sure there is.
@ mc, i downloaded the phonix flight sim demo, although it wouldn't let me play it. it did let me jack up the grafix @ 1680x1050 resolution, and i gotta say it's gorgous. so a good PC will help you out there, FYI ;D
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Post by McKrackin on May 3, 2009 10:45:10 GMT -6
Coffin,I don't have the tower hooked up right now but I'll post the info when I do.
Fergie,I have my Phoenix running on a Dell Inspiron 1525 and it does OK.I have to keep video quality turned down a smidge.
A question for either of you guys...
I used to use my LCD TV as a second moniter but it suddenly stopped working.It says the signal is not compatible.
Is there some driver I can download to get it working again?
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Post by fergie on May 3, 2009 11:14:24 GMT -6
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Post by McKrackin on May 3, 2009 13:29:11 GMT -6
Fergie,I went to that suppoert site and got a bunch of drivers that didn't help.Then I found the tech chat.Tried that. They told me to toggle from CRT to LCD before we went any further by hitting fn+f8.Well,I'll be dicked.That's all I needed.lol... Who'da thunk it ;D It's funny.The f8 key actually says CRT/LCD right on it  Thanks for the link. |
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Post by fergie on May 3, 2009 14:07:54 GMT -6
ahh jeez , at least it was somthing simple. i just looked on my wife's laptop sure enough there it is LOL |
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Post by coffinsnail on May 3, 2009 20:45:18 GMT -6
i was going to say all you have to do is tell it to switch, cause the port you use for lcd tv hookup is not active normally because your main monitor screen is.
Fergie, Nvidia just got ahold of the CUDA sorce which is what they use for Physics in games, the original Atevia Physics cards that never took hold, is now part of Nvidia. And they have stated they will be able to implement Physics on Nvidia based cards with only a driver upgrade. Thus no need for an additional card, just a Nvidia card, they have not stated what the lowest end card will be that can run it, but i have seen basically you need a DX10 card to have a good shot at it. They will be using the GPU for the Physics as well as Graphics, thus those with SLI Setups will have better responce when implementing physics off their vid card. Or thats the theroy anyways but ya know how that goes with PCs what you think will work normally takes a year to actually work, and untill then some odd ball workaround lol.
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Post by fergie on May 4, 2009 7:20:18 GMT -6
yea, they've had CUDA out for awhile now, which i'm running now. i believe it started w/the 1.80ver drivers. it allows mutiple monitor support without disableing sli, and it also allows you to use one card designated for phisix. for example my MB has 3 pci-e slots for tri sli, so i could use slots one and two for sli and my third slot just for phisix, pretty cool stuff. or i can run it normal sli w/good reasults
i'm pretty sure your 8600 GTS could run it. it says it supports 8,9,and 200 series cards w/a minimum of 256MB dedicated grafix memory.
yours is 640MB so you should be good
i'm runnig the 1.82 drivers right now FYI.
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Post by coffinsnail on May 4, 2009 21:06:30 GMT -6
cool, only prob is i play MMOs which normally dont have physics support so even if i did activate it id never notice it lol
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