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I'm going to upgrade my video card to one of the GeForce4 ti4200 flavors. My monitor is small (15") for space reasons.
Is there any advantage to having 128 meg of video memory as opposed to 64 meg of video memory or would I just be wasting money.
Maximum usable screen resolution on my monitor is 800x600 32bit color

Same question here but with a little spare cash for a monitor: do you think Celestia looks nice with a 19'' TFT monitor or would that be too big and result in a bad full-screen quality ?


Now i got a GeForce2 32mb (T-bird Athlon 1.3Ghz, 512Mb RAM) with a 15'' TFT. It gets a little slow when i put the 8k earth texture and zoom on it.

IMHO

1. A 15" monitor 800x400 can be upgraded :? at least to a 15"@1024x768
CRT or, better, :idea: LCD.

2. A GeForce 2 32MB card is a little undersized :roll: for a 19"LCD (I hope you catch a 1600x1200 one 8O )

More memory is better.
More resolution is better.
Bigger is better.

The amount of memory on a 3D video card is no longer directly related to the display size or resolution. Instead, it provides other features: storage for the highly detailed textures that can be used to make Celestia's planets and other objects look so great, Z buffers so the card can keep track of what's in front of which, things like that.

Also, the size of a monitor does not necessarily say much about its resolution. If you want, you can spend your money on a very high resolution display that has a relatively small size. The best ones won't be found in your local Best Buy or Sears, of course.

Don't forget that LCD panels have a fixed resolution, unlike CRTs.
Be sure to get one that has the resolution you need. It's not directly related to the size of the panel.

If your display card doesn't generate dimensions that exactly match the LCD panel you're using, the circuitry in the LCD panel has to sample and regenerate the signal so that it does match. That can make the resulting image look really bad.

I couldn't have said it better myself selden.