Topic: Best Graphics card for Ship Simulator (Read 46651 times)

white runner · « **Reply #25 on:** March 01, 2008, 02:36:08 »

I have a ATI 8800 or 512 graphics card I LOVE IT. IT WORKS GREAT

TerryRussell · « **Reply #26 on:** March 01, 2008, 11:07:42 »

Quote from: white runner on March 01, 2008, 02:36:08

I have a ATI 8800 or 512 graphics card I LOVE IT. IT WORKS GREAT

I have the Nvidia 8800GTX. I think the 8800 series is one of the best chipsets produced so far. Not very impressed with the 9... series. I think the 8800 series works much better.

llamalord · « **Reply #27 on:** March 02, 2008, 01:29:48 »

Well we broke 2 PAGES

Thanks for your input guys.

white runner · « **Reply #28 on:** March 02, 2008, 03:26:37 »

SKIP14 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 04, 2008, 02:53:29 »

Not a bad guide which compares many cards and performance, unfortunately shipsim is not on the list.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html

RMS Gigantic · « **Reply #30 on:** March 04, 2008, 03:11:01 »

I'm having a NVIDIA 7600 shipped so I can play with the required graphics card!

SKIP14 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 04, 2008, 03:27:25 »

My back up pc has a 7900gs 256mb xfx nvidia very good card and was cheap well Â£55 not bad these days for cards

danny · « **Reply #32 on:** March 04, 2008, 18:24:50 »

i'm getting this card
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?ProductID=22218&Spec=1#ShowReview
for my new p.c. it's cheap, got lots of memory and has a decent clock speed considreing i play ss2008 on a readon 9800pro with 128 memory!!

white runner · « **Reply #33 on:** March 04, 2008, 19:25:00 »

SirXpression · « **Reply #34 on:** March 04, 2008, 21:27:36 »

iv just ordered a geforce 8500 GTS with 1gig memory (obviously not a full 1 gig) but it does DX10 and vista and seems to be good...

i was originally running a quadro fx 540 (i said different on another topic...i checked it today and i was wrong)

saltydog · « **Reply #35 on:** March 13, 2008, 06:14:59 »

I came across this, Lanedre and thought of your fanspeed problem. Perhaps interesting..?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118217

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #36 on:** March 13, 2008, 06:36:31 »

I run everything on full with my GeForce 8400

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #37 on:** March 13, 2008, 11:53:17 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on March 01, 2008, 11:07:42

I have the Nvidia 8800GTX. I think the 8800 series is one of the best chipsets produced so far. Not very impressed with the 9... series. I think the 8800 series works much better.

Why do you say that Terry? What's wrong with the 9 series??

white runner · « **Reply #38 on:** March 13, 2008, 20:43:14 »

ATI is best for me

TerryRussell · « **Reply #39 on:** March 13, 2008, 20:50:48 »

Quote from: CaptainSpencer on March 13, 2008, 11:53:17

Why do you say that Terry? What's wrong with the 9 series??

I get to try quite a lot of equipment, directly from manufacturers seeking my opinion or as part of my IT activities within my companies or just when I buy some new toys to play with.

For me, the 8800 GTX is the card to measure against. The 8600 is pretty close in performance, and right now, you can buy those models very cheaply.

The 9 series seems to be modelled on the lower-spec versions of the 8 series and then sold at a higher price because they're "new". They don't seem to have any "must have" new capabilities or anything I can see that makes them more desirable. Just a marketing man's (spits on the floor) gimmick.

I'd advise giving the 9 series a miss and getting 8600/8800.

I've read a number of reviews in PC Magazines and they seem to share my opinion.

Personally I prefer NVIDIA. ATI are OK, just not my preference. I think NVIDIA are easier to update, and seem to need less tweaking to get the best out of them. That said, there isn't any major difference between them, I think.

Captain Spencer · « **Reply #40 on:** March 13, 2008, 20:54:14 »

Thanks Terry,

You might have just influenced my next purchase in graphics cards

TerryRussell · « **Reply #41 on:** March 13, 2008, 21:28:48 »

No problem!

It's always worth shopping around. You know how rapidly the prices change and how frequently they change the specifications of the cards. Already things may be completely different.

I think the bad feedback may have stung them somewhat, after a period of increasing smugness!

nightmare33 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 15, 2008, 06:43:04 »

I'm running two ASUS 8800GTX's. SS2008 runs smooth and looks terrific.

nightmare33

JHB · « **Reply #43 on:** March 15, 2008, 07:46:03 »

Quote from: nightmare33 on March 15, 2008, 06:43:04

I'm running two ASUS 8800GTX's. SS2008 runs smooth and looks terrific.

nightmare33

Sounds like a great solution. Good to see that the game supports SLI

TerryRussell · « **Reply #44 on:** March 15, 2008, 09:31:41 »

Quote from: CaptainSpencer on March 13, 2008, 20:54:14

Thanks Terry,

You might have just influenced my next purchase in graphics cards

I see that Novatech are currently selling Nvidia 8600 cards for less than 50 pounds. They are branded "Novatech 8600" but they are re-badged Nvidia underneath.
www.novatech.co.uk

liotta · « **Reply #45 on:** March 15, 2008, 18:06:29 »

beleive it or not im running 08 on my laptop ... its only got a nvidia 7000m ... everybody puts it down but it works not too bad for a laptop .... as long as i dont max out the grafix on the game its playable ..

TerryRussell · « **Reply #46 on:** March 15, 2008, 19:25:44 »

If/when you get any problems, please remember to let us know that when/if you need any advice. Laptiops can make a lot of difference to the route we follow when trying to work out the cause of any problems.

Hopefully you won't have any problems, though. It sounds as though you know what you're doing.

liotta · « **Reply #47 on:** March 15, 2008, 19:48:15 »

Terry,

the frame rate is the magor issue with the laptop ... Nvidia 7000 is the bottom end of the grafix they produce for laptops (did not know that until after i bought it ... thought nvidia would just work)

if its calm seas and not much around you, you dont notice much wrong. but rough seas rain and things like that i have to tiun the grafixs all the way down.

for you information tho, i play SH3 on my lappy too but runs so smooth and the sea is amazing ... its worth taking a look at the differece

white runner · « **Reply #48 on:** March 15, 2008, 20:02:56 »

wow lol

TerryRussell · « **Reply #49 on:** March 15, 2008, 20:49:44 »

Yes, many people just don't understand that although other sims like WoW and so on look as though they have more gong on, they don't. Because Ship Sim has to calculate the position and trajectory of every water droplet, every drop of rain, the clouds, the vessels and everything else, it places immense requirements on your processor and graphics card.

I'm quite surprised that you can get your laptop to run so well (actually I'm a bit surprised you can get it to run at all!).

Well done, you!

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