Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Brooke on January 13, 2021, 03:10:42 AM
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From time to time, I get a pal here or there set up to fly AH Scenarios with me.
For that purpose, I look for stuff that gives a good experience, but at the low end of price.
Today, I tried out an nVidia GT 1030 ($80). It works just fine for this purpose. I use default graphics settings, except that I turn on antialiasing and turn off shadows and reflections, and set the slider to "none".
With that, I get about 60 fps flying around.
Unless I am fully enveloped (i.e., zero viz) inside a cloud, in which case I go down to 35-45 fps or so. Of course, frame rate doesn't matter all that much then. Frame rate goes back up once I get some vis again.
I'm using 1080p, and a computer with an Intel i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz. Also, DX11 version of AH.
I'm very happy about this.
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the cheap version with slow DDR4 VRAM or the standard version with GDDR5 VRAM ?
GPU-Z should be able to tell you which one it is.
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the cheap version with slow DDR4 VRAM or the standard version with GDDR5 VRAM ?
GPU-Z should be able to tell you which one it is.
It's a GDDR5 version. Costs about $80.
All the ones I see on Amazon and Newegg seem to have GDDR5.
So far, I'm quite happy with this for entry to AH.
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Also checking "disable pilot mesh" increases frame rates. I don't need the graphical pilot sitting there in the seat.
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Well, the GT 1030 has increased by 10% in price in the past 2 weeks.