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Graphic Card Advice
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:38 pm
by ABABAB
Hi all
I am going to purchase Railworks wondered if anyone can advise me.
I have: Pentium 4 3.0 processor
2 GB of SD RAM
Windows XP HOME
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO AGP
If I put a HD 3850 AGP in place of X1950 PRO AGP, will I see much improvement or will processor bottle neck any gain in performance, if there is any.
Cheers
ABABAB
Re: Graphic Card Advice
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:46 pm
by CaptScarlet
I believe it is probably already a bottleneck with what you have. I had a p2.8Ghz northward cpu with a ati800pro and went to a ati 800xtpe and didnt see much of a improvement with Trainz ( TRS2006 ) a number of years ago. I would save your money for a more full pc upgrade latter.
John
Re: Graphic Card Advice
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:54 pm
by Lad491
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO AGP
Im using that card in a Core2Duo 2GHZ machine with 2GB of ram and it runs RW fine. Maximum frame rate is 14fps but there seems very little stutter. Stick with it i'd say
Re: Graphic Card Advice
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:30 pm
by Basherz
ABABAB wrote:Hi all
If I put a HD 3850 AGP in place of X1950 PRO AGP, will I see much improvement or will processor bottle neck any gain in performance, if there is any.
Cheers
ABABAB
In RS, I had a similar setup to you and was using and ATI1950Pro 512Mb AGP and upgraded to a 3850Pro 512Mb and the difference was about 5fps on average.
I'd be inclined to go with John's suggestion.