New computer arrived

[danielj]

Complete especifications of my new computer:
Athlon 64 3000+ 939 Venice in a box
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
1 GB RAM Kingston Value Dual PC 3200
VGA XFX Geforce 6600 GT PCI-E 128 MB
HD 160.0 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda
DVD RW LG 4163B
floppy disk
Thermaltake 420 W Pure Power
Windows XP SP2

I think it is a nice computer and the scripts are more fluid now.But I have to perform several tests.
My original driver is 66.31.Should I update to a more recent driver?
Since my video card is 128 MB,do you think I will benefit of a SLI configuration.Do 2 Geforce 6600 GT 128 MB have 256 MB of VRAM?

[selden]

Daniel,

That's a very good system!

Yes, you should update the drivers. There are several bug fixes for 6xxx cards in ForceWare v77.77.

There's at least one person with an SLI 7800. Perhaps he can say if SLI helps for Celestia.

[bh]

Cor! Can I have one?

regards...bh.

[Fightspit]

There's at least one person with an SLI 7800. Perhaps he can say if SLI helps for Celestia.

SLI can help Celestia only if you use AntiAliasing (8x for example) and Anisotropic filtering but there difference not very big about frames per second if you don't use these. Morever, it is not useful to have 100 FPS if we have a monitor's frequency of 75 Hz (= 75 FPS max) because we can get a vertical disyncronisation with the monitor (that why we can check "Vertical syncronisation" on graphic propertie).

In a few words, SLI is interesting only if you use a lot of these (antialiasing...)

Danielj, find a good parameter graphic so that Celestia don't lag.... (and the others games too).

Sorry, for m bad english
bye!