2gb Video Card?

[Ahmed]

HellO!

 

I bought a laptop with 2GB video card AMD Radeon 7600M series.. *Not sure which one exactly*, anyway, i was hoping to run x-plane 9 on high settings, but when i set the buildings into *Tons* my fps drops to 20, maybe less

Also in the rendring options, it says that its using 300mbs or something from the video card, while i have 2gbs..

 

Any help?

[andydckent]

The CPU is the bottle neck not the GPU?

[Ahmed]

But im pretty sure that "Buildings" in X-Plane 9 uses GPU not CPU

[AnonymousUser68]

I would suggest a CPU bottleneck, if you are only at 300mb of vram you can probably boost your texture resolution which will take advantage of your GPU but sadly your CPU is limiting the object number.

 

I suggest this guide...

 

CPU-Intensive

• World Level of Detail
• Number of Objects
• Draw Cars On Roads
• Draw Birds (not that expensive for modern machines)
• Draw Hi Detail World
• World Field Of View (wider view means more CPU work!)

GPU-Intensive

• Texture Resolution (requires more VRAM)
• Screen Resolution
• Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)
• Anisotropic Filtering (most cards can do at least 4x)
• Draw Hi-Res Planet Textures From Orbit
• Cloud Shadows and Reflections (not that expensive)
• Draw Hi Detailed World
•  

[Ahmed]

Thanks X-Plane Australia!