Best Graphics card for Ship Simulator

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[TerryRussell]

geforce sucks

Once again, I refer you to the Forum rules about spamming and trying to boost your "post count" by making pointless, irrelevant "no content" postings.

[Jayshum]

Sorry to bump an oldish topic, but I just wanted to post and say thanks for all the advice people gave me regards GPU's. I've had mine installed about a week now, and it's fantastic. It's a Palit nVidia GeForce 8800GT, 512mb, and it's enabled my pc to run shipsim (and for those interested, Crysis!), on full settings. The game looks much better for it, and I'm still surprised by how much detail there is on the Solent. Had a little problem installing it initially due to my pc not uninstalling the old ATI drivers, but it has overall been a very good learning experience pc-wise. Lots of knowledge gained, and my favourite 'lazy' game now looks fantastic.

[[RWP]DJM]

Excellent news there Jayshum

Congrats on getting it all sorted

Regards.

DJM.

[TerryRussell]

Yep, those 8800 cards seem to be the best value for money. I regulalry test video cards and haven't found anything that beats them (8800 GTX being absolute king, but the other versions are all very close. Even the 8600 series are close.

You just have hand it to Nvidia.

Shame about the 9000 series though.

[SirXpression]

i thought the quadro fx would be better than the 8800 GTX....i know the 9000 series is useless lol

[TerryRussell]

i thought the quadro fx would be better than the 8800 GTX....i know the 9000 series is useless lol

PC Buyer and another PC Mag (might have been PC World) did some comparisons recently and both said 8800 GTX = YIPPEE, best of class, best bang for the bucks, etc. I've not done a direct comparison against the Quadro but if two PC Mags separately come to the same conclusion, I guess I'd spend my money on that basis.

Depends what you want from your card, though. Many people can spend less and get everything they need from their card.

[JHB]

ATI got to do some remarkable stuff to catch up with Nvidia when the trend looks like this vote
88% of the votes are Nvidia. Next situation may be that Nvidia and Intel comes together like AMD and ATI

[tem07]

8800GTX BFG OC on stock settings.
Need to overclock it tbh.
Followed by 7900GTX 512MB laptop edition.

[liotta]

Hello,

I am just posting here to update you with some information. I ran ship Sim on an old laptop with a very low end grafic card. Not really playable but i got by ok.

I now have a new laptop with a GF GM130 (1GB) card in it and the results for a laptop are outstanding. So If your looking to play this on a laptop (Maximum graphic options) check out this card.

[RMS Gigantic]

This thread's last reply is over 1.5 years ago. The question has long since been solved.

[llamalord]

This thread's last reply is over 1.5 years ago.

No wounder my jaw dropped when I saw my name next to the topic as creator.

[Captain. Mitch]

Hello!

I use Nvidia 8600 GTS X - 512mb tunned!
It's alitle bit old but the SS it works extremly perfectly...

Nvidia are the best for me... for now...

Good bye!

[Wave Music]

Hi, Nick
No wonder, who else will create such topic! 

4. ATI Radion                   

Actually I agree with you on that: I experienced those cards - first one was overheating all the time making impossible to play games, the second went out after a year run, third (same first one) - still getting me mad!

[llamalord]

BTW now I can tell you that an NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT,

In my new super computer works absolutely with out flaw, even in Rotterdam!

[Scanman]

I have Nvida Geforce 6150, its old but runs ss perfectly

[JHB]

GF GTX 280 here...

[TJK]

or  gforce 9800GT 1GB ddr3 ram not so expensive anymore

[MK2010]

Twin 7800gtxs 2gb ram

[Captain Spencer]

Twin 7800gtxs 2gb ram

It's alright for some....