Oolite Bulletins

Hej,

I havent been here for a while, so Hello to everyone.
The Oolite-experience on my ooold box was too frustrating for me.
Any more interesting situation would usually drop into unplayably low framerates, many OXPs were a no-no because of too weak hardware. (Pentium 2 with Geforce2).

So, after quite some financial turmoil, now I am finally ready to buy new hardware, namely a notebook.

Choice has been condensed to 3 models, all with nVidia cards : a GT 330, a GT 540 or a NVS 4200, but among those I have not finally made up my mind yet. Decisions, decisions ...

I know both those GT cards are more powerful than the NVS 4200 (basically a GT520 with higher clocking and the NVS BIOS/ drivers), but they also consume more power, create more heat and noise.

I am not (or not yet) a gamer, so it may well be that Oolite could be the most resource-hungry game that I'll play within the next years.

Now I wonder - is anyone playing on a NVS 4200m or a GT520m ? Is it fine or too weak for this or that OXP ?

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Here is a small overview of the specs of such a NVS 4200m :

NVS 4200M 48@810MHz

Pipelines : 48 - unified
Core : 810 MHz
Shaders : 1620 MHz
Memory : 800 MHz
Memory Bandwidth : 64 Bit (ouch! )
Memory Type : DDR3
Memory Size : 1024 MB

Hi snork... I know zilch about notebooks, but it's good to see you back here.

I'd be surprised if either of those cards struggle with Oolite or anything that an OXP could throw at it - both are new this year and support OpenGL 4+, so should be able to cope fine with full shaders and the like.

I play quite happily on a 6-7 year old lap top (single core 1.73Gh Pentium) with an old ATI Radeon x700 OpenGL 2.0- it does run full shaders but tends to freeze regularly with them on. Running under simple shaders no problems - about 60 OXP's installed currently.

For your comparison the stats of my elderly GPU from Notebookcheck.net are:

Pipelines 8 / 6 Pixel- / Vertexshader
Core Speed * 350 MHz
Shader Speed * 350 MHz
Memory Speed * 350 MHz
Memory Bus Width 128 Bit
Memory Type DDR/DDR2
Memory 256MB (this is wrong - its a 128MB card).

hej,

thanks for welcoming and reassurance.

Then it will most probably be the NVS 4200, though the notebook with the gt330 is considerably cheaper.
hm.

hm.

Also it is nice to see that some notebooks can run for five years and more.

now back to keeping up with the tales from the spacelanes, I now am at page 12 of the 25 or so pages.