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Windows Video Card Requirements
The best video card picks at this moment are the NVidia GeForce-2 cards.
These include the Hercules Prophet-II, ELSA Gladiac GeForce-2, and Creative Labs Annihilator Pro.
Performance ROCKS, and rendering quality is AWESOME!
(Go to http://www.glsetup.com/index.htm for in installer with the latest OpenGL drivers for all cards).
Cards that use the NVidia GeForce-2 are the top cards right now, with highest-power and awesome rendering
Creative Labs Annihilator Pro (www.creativelabs.com)
Manufacturer of the awesome GeForce-II cards is NVidia (www.nvidia.com)
Cards that use the Riva-TNT-2 chipset are a prime choice, with high-power and awesome rendering. SOME machines need
you to be in 16-bit color (65,000 colors) before you launch the X-Plane, though.
Cards that use this chipset include the:
Diamond Viper 770 (http://www.diamondmm.com/products/current/viperv550.cfm)
Also check out http://support.soundblaster.com/ for drivers.
Cards that use the Riva-TNT chipset are awesome, too.
Cards that use this chipset include the:
Diamond Viper 550 (http://www.diamondmm.com/products/current/viperv550.cfm)
STB Velocity 4400 (http://www.stb.com/)
Creative Labs Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT
Cards that use the Riva 128 Chipset (http://www.riva128.com) work perfectly... just be sure to get drivers from
http://www.rivazone.com! Riva 128 cards include the:
Rage Fury Maxx (http://www.atitech.com)
Diamond Viper 330 (http://www.diamondmm.com)
STB Velocity 128 3D (http://www.stb.com)
Canopus Total-3D 128v (http://www.canopuscorp.com)
Voodoo cards work! (Voodoo-1, Voodoo-2, Voodoo-3, and Voodoo-5)Just make sure you get the latest GLIDE and drivers
(including OpenGL!) from www.3dfx.com! Voodoo-2's and 3's work fine in all resolutions. If you have a Voodoo-1, then you
need to change the resolution to 640x480 in X-Plane (SETTINGS menu). 3DFX cards include the:
Diamond Monster 3D-II (http://www.diamondmm.com... be sure to rename the file 3DFXVGL.dll to opengl32.dll and put in the XSystem folder).
Canopus Pure-3D-II (http://www.canopuscorp.com... be sure to rename the file 3DFXVGL.dll to opengl32.dll and put in the XSystem folder).
Cards that use ATI's Rage-Pro and Rage 128 work fine, but the graphics on the 128 look better than the RagePro!
ATI Expert@Play (http://www.ati.com)
XClaim-VR (http://www.ati.com)
Nexus-GA (http://www.ati.com)
The Savage-4 cards work great!
Savage-4 (http://www.diamondmm.com)
MATROX CARDS SHOULD BE AVOIDED!!!!
MATROX DOES NOT PROVIDE RELIABLE OPENGL DRIVERS!!!
If you have a 3-D card that is NOT on this list, then you should contact the manufacturer of your card and tell them to write OpenGL
drivers for their 3D cards, because what good is a 3-D card that does not have the drivers to run the latest games and simulations??