Greetings,
Considering the upcoming release of JFK, I would like to know if it would be worth to perform a video card switching. I am currently equipped with an All-in-wonder Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB RAM). I have a BFG tech Nvidia 7300GT 512 MB laying around, just in case I would experience issues with my main graphics card.
Here are my current specs if this could help:
ASUS P4C800 deluxe w/ latest BIOS revision
Intel P4 2.8c Ghz
1 GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR 400 RAM
ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 9800 Pro, w/Catalyst 8.3 drivers
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB SATA-II (downgraded to SATA-I), recently acquired due to hard disk failure
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy sound card
Enermax 350-watt PSU
Pioneer A08 16x DVD-RW
I don't expect a large performance increase from the switch, the only gain would be the 512MB instead of the current 128MB of video RAM.
I currently run ZRH around 20-22 fps, same with ORD at 20-22 fps. For KORD I have to lower AI traffic during landings and taxiing to the gate however. Zurich is fine, even with AI at 100%
Another question, if I perform this switch, will I need to reactivate all FSdreamteam sceneries and Cloud9's? Will that count as an hardware change? When my hard drive crashed, when my backup was restored (used NT backup w/ASR) upon startup of FS2004, it asked me to "activate" all of my installed Cloud9 & FSDT sceneries, of course I said yes to this.
Will I also need to create new .REG files since this qualify as an hardware change?
Thanks for all your inputs,
Thierry