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[AriesDW]

What is the video card that is delivering clear, fluid response for Ship Simulator gameplay?

A. I am looking to get a new card.

B. I am sure others are, too.

[Sam]

Here is a tip:
Don't buy the Sapphire geforce 7900 GS 256mb! I have that card, and sometimes there are just parts of ships missing!
This is a problem with the software of the graphic cards, beceaus it allso is in other games.

But, I think all other 7900GS cards will do.

But, wich connections do you have on your motherboard?
PCIexpres or normal VGA?
And what is your budget?
For €400-500 you have the latest high performance.
For €200-300 you have a high performance card from a half a year ago (wich will be enough for a game like this).
For >€200 you have the latest low budget or mid range cards.

My graphics card costed €215 and it runs shipsim with everything set high and a good framerate.

[LucAtC]

Hello,
Also thinking of a replacement for my card (7600GT, PCIe).
Reason for that: New York hangs off after some time, functioning Nvidia driver not WHQL (sometimes error reports, without any consequences). Positive is fanless operation.
Not a 7900GS, then? I looked at http://www.tomshardware.com/graphics/graphicscards/index.html
but the prices are in $$.. and it is difficult to make a good balance between price and performance.
Shouldnt we look for a DirectX10 graphics card instead? What are the intentions of VStep in that domain, will they go over to DirectX10? to Linux?
Regards,
Luc

[AriesDW]

I would think DirectX 10 would be a logical move . . . Mark, Pjotr?

[J.Ham]

Hello,
I have an nvidia xfx 7900gt, all my games run perfect with this card.
It is now a budget card, six months ago not. 

[AriesDW]

What other specs on your comp? What memory count do you use on the card?

[Sam]

The 7900 GS is a good card, only the software doesn't work verry well on my system.
For the people who dont know: The GT series are allways better(faster) than the GS series.

You could allso take a look at ATI, they allso have good chipsets.

[Wonko_The_Sane]

I just installed an ATI X1650 ($200) and it works great!

[[RWP]DJM]

Hiya

My current specs:

CPU: Athlon 64 3200+
Graphics Card: GeForce 6600 512mb
RAM: 2ghz DDR400 (Running in Dual-Channel mode)
Main HD: 160gb SATA-II

Ship Sim runs like a dream

Regards.

DJM

[mark]

Ship Simulator 2008 will run on the latest version (April 2007) of DirectX 9.0c. We do not use any features that are only available in DirectX 10.

AriesDW: Just as the 2006 version will Ship Simulator 2008 be created for Windows systems only. 
Possibly the game works in Linux in combination with a DirectX wrapper, but we will not officially test or support it.

[AriesDW]

Thanks Mark for the notice. I use a Windows Pro platform, so I am good.