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After pleading with my editor (well, not really, he was happy to add these) you will find the original bitmap screenshot graphics from each sim at the bottom of each picture set in a zip download. The JPEG compression makes for faster web page loading but really mucks up these gorgeous screenshots. The 3D Prophet gave no improvement in frame rates over the 32mb NVIDIA card (unless I overclocked it, which I would never do
). What it did was function at 1024x768 resolution with FSAA set at slider position four (where full left is slider position zero and FSAA disabled).
Fig. 3. Photo realistic scenery
Fig. 4. Xis' v6.0 cockpit never looked so good
Fig. 5. Check the bitmap. It's beautiful.
Fig. 6. This is a gorgeous aircraftClick to Download Figure 3-6 Bitmaps All this shots were taken with the Pentium II 400 is place. I swapped in the Celeron II at about four in the morning. I got the usual 20 fps bump in fps but no change in graphics quality. This continues to confirm my belief that Falcon is CPU bound. This card, even at its price, is worth it just for Falcon alone. I can not express how stunning the sim is at 1024 x 768 with FSAA set to four.
