New video card

[danielj]

I get a MSI Geforce FX 5700 TD128 128 MB DDR and now my computer is with 512 MB DDR333.Celestia runs at higher than 30 fps even when I toggle galaxies on and stars magnitude to 9.0.Celestia is now much faster and I can deal with files at least until level 9(I can see the Egypt Pyramids).Before that,Celestia was crashing when I try to put egypt in any level higher than 6(My old configuration was a Geforce 4 MX 440 SE 64 MB and 256 MB DDR256).The transitions are incerdibly fast,but something is getting me a little bored;I can?t have frame rates higher than 60 fps and don?t understand why.Even when I disable the galaxies and put stars magnitude to 5.8 or lower,I get 60.5 fps at maximum.Does Celestia limit the frame rate?I am using Celestia 1.3.1

[DJ_Night]

Download "Refresh Force" to force all Fullscreen OpenGL/Direct3D Applications to use higher refresh rate then 60, custom mode for all resolutions. select 100 or 120hz if your monitor can support it.

Direct Download Link below:
http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilitie ... eforce.zip

There are also other apps that do the same, "HZ Tool" and etc.

if you get 60fps+- in "Celestia" even in "Window" Mode, then disable
Vertical Sync in the NVIDIA Display properties, De-select "Application-Controlled" and set it to "OFF"

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PS. ad a few bucks and trade your GF 5700 128MB to a 256MB modell at the same store if you recently bought it, the extra 128mb is usefull when using alot of huge-hires textures at the same time in celestia insted of the slower-AGP texturing.

GL.