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Tarmack Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 6. "RE: Parhelia pix from Mel" 08-27-02, 12:13z  Robert, I don't think the pictures that were published on this forum do real justice to the actual views on the monitor....mainly due to the need to resize and degrade quality for graphic size. I have used 3 Nvida Ti4600 cards with 128 megs of memory in these same computers prior to the install of the Parhelia...and in my opinion the Parhelia cards produce a superior 'depth' of terrain, a superior color quality, and even superior sharpness IF CONFIGURED TO THE MAX in the slider area of setup.....my current settings are the default High selection in FS2002....as that setting enables the 30 fps frames that are so important to my server that is driving 5 other computers via WideView, WideFs, USB outputs to Aerosoft MCP and Goflight hardware. At the time of the PrintScreen capture I had been running for over an hour with FSMeteo weather on and I am certain that the two "side view" computers were beginning to exhibit some memory degradation....as later was mentioned with no view of the Mall of America.......I do have that scenery on my hard drives....it is that after an hour or so of running.......memory depletion is noted when running WideView from Luciano Napolitano. I am not a vendor for Matrox, nor for Nvidia.......all I really am is a darn good customer of both. Grin. However, with way too many hours of flying FS2002 it would be awfully hard to disuade my views that the Matrox card is superior, at least in my installation. To come to that conclusion was a bit difficult for me as during the time my partner Rob Howard and I ran the PFD Web site where we marketed the original PFD 747 software we simply HATED Matrox video cards due to their inability to run OpenGL.....as advertized. We could never get our PFD software to run acclerated in OpenGL.......unless we used a Nvidia card. So....I have a happy medium here...I run 4 computers providing the INSIDE views with Nvidia cards and the 3 computers with the OUTSIDE views running the Matrox cards. Regards, Mel Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Parhelia pix from Mel    Ben_Chiu       08-26-02              RE: Parhelia pix from Mel    Tarmack       08-26-02       1            RE: Parhelia pix from Mel    Mike_Greenwood       08-26-02       2                 RE: Parhelia pix from Mel    Simtech       08-27-02       3                      RE: Parhelia pix from Mel    Ben_Chiu       08-27-02       4                      RE: Parhelia pix from Mel    Tarmack       08-27-02       6         RE: Parhelia pix from Mel    TD       08-27-02       5

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