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EHM-1199 Philip:
I have been advised by a colleague that my GeForce 5200FX 256Mb card should be more impressive than I feel it is at present.
Pointers I have been given include:
- Go into Bios settings and make sure AGP port is set to 8X
- Go into Bios and check the AGP aperture size is set to at least the size of the card if not higher, suggest 300Mb at first
- Download and install Direct X 9.1 drivers
- Download and install detonator drivers from Nvidia for big jump in performance

Having not long unwrapped my lovely new PC from the box I am slightly concerned about tweaking something that messes stuff up. What do you folks think about the advice I have been given? Should I make these changes and will the increase in performance be worthwhile?

EHM-0654 Murray:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by Plymyphil
I have been advised by a colleague that my GeForce 5200FX 256Mb card should be more impressive than I feel it is at present.
Pointers I have been given include:
- Go into Bios settings and make sure AGP port is set to 8X
- Go into Bios and check the AGP aperture size is set to at least the size of the card if not higher, suggest 300Mb at first
- Download and install Direct X 9.1 drivers
- Download and install detonator drivers from Nvidia for big jump in performance

Having not long unwrapped my lovely new PC from the box I am slightly concerned about tweaking something that messes stuff up. What do you folks think about the advice I have been given? Should I make these changes and will the increase in performance be worthwhile?
--- End quote ---


I agree with all of that. The BIOS settings (AGP multiplier and aperture size) will have little discernable effect (and yes, you'll want the aperture to be as big as the cards memory), upgrading to the latest DX (9.0b on my home system) is always a good idea, and the latest detonators from nVidia are a requirement if you want performance.

Congratulate whoever gave you that advice, I'd say it's spot on.

EHM-0813 Guillermo:
I'm getting the card too next week :) I can finally install FS2004 now

EHM-1199 Philip:
Thanks for the vote of confidence in the advice Murray. I'm currentloy on FS2k2. If I have P4 3.2 and the video card mentioned would it be wroth going up to Fs2k4?

EHM-0962 Zhen Yi:
Yes it would definitely be worth upgrading to FS2004. you'll getting better waters, better clouds, better atc and best of all no lag at all since you have such a powerful computer!

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