So, I got a new laptop and...

[truthunter]

I had been using Reflex XTR V5.03 on my laptop from work:
Dell Latitude D800
Intel Pentium M Centrino (1.7Mhz 533 bus)
1G 533 SDRAM
NVidia GForce4 4200 Go (64Mb Video Memory)
80G 4200rpm SATA HDD
15.4" WXGA Screen (Set at 1024 x 800)
Windows XP Pro SP2

It worked good enough after adjusting the panarama resolution to it's lowest setting (4080 x 2048). In window mode (not full screen), I would see a maximum of 59fps and once in a while it would drop down to 12-20fps. Anything below 30fps it was basically unusable.

Now that I'm resigning, I had to finally buy my own personal PC. That's right, I'm 31 and have never owned my own personal pc until now... I just always used the one my company provided :o

Anyway, here is what I bought:
Dell Latitude D820
Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 (1.8Mhz 677 bus)
1G 677 SDRAM
NVidia Quadro 110M Graphics (256Mb Dedicated video memory)
80G 7200rpm SATA HDD
15.4" WSXGA+ Screen (Set to 1680 x 1050)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Reflex XTR seems to work much better on the new laptop. The picture is sharper at the same panarama resolution of 4080 x 2048. I turned off the powermizer on the NVidia options and set the 3D settings to max performance. But, the refresh rate stays around 12fps and sometime kicks up to 30fps and rarely it will hit 59fps. Even though this occurs, it still seems to be smoother than when my old computer would go down to 12-20fps.

Is there any other settings I can change in order to make Reflex stay around 59fps? I would think, with such better computer specs that I would not be having this problem... shows how much I know. Can someone help this computer illiterate fool figure this out :confused:

[guest_jo]

Don´t know what helps but what I found about the nvidia quadro NVS 110M sounds not very good if you want to use it for 3d-realtime simulation with special effects.
Seems to be a professional card more optimized for CAD...
But if XTR is not so hungry for hardware from what I heard maybe there is a solution.
Did you ask reflex if they support these kind of cards ?

Didn´t find so much but some benchmark and technical data here:
http://www.notebookcheck.com/NVIDIA-Quadro-NVS-110M.2400.0.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=46913

[truthunter]

Thanks for the info... not what I wanted to hear though :mad: Now just need to figure out if overclocking or different drivers will help :confused:

Ignorance is not bliss :(

[Travis22304]

You can get better frame rates if you turn off Vsync....It tries to match your monitor refresh rate and your FPS...it is a pain....I used the demo and found out that on my machine...

• AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00 Ghz)
• 1.25 GB 233Mhz RAM
• nVidia GeForce 7600 GT 623 MB VRAM (Bios modification allowed me to reach this insane amount of VRAM)
WITH vsync On, I get around 30-50 FPS....But with vsync OFF, I get 300-500 FPS!!!

Try it!

[truthunter]

Thanks Travis, I'll try it out. Do you think bios mods will help me too?

[truthunter]

OK, turning of Vsync improved the fps but the fps would jump all over making it real choppy. I turned it back on and set the screen res to 1440 x 900 and now it's stays at 59fps all the time and is very clear and smooth. Good enough!

[truthunter]

One thing I found for sure is that the panarama resolution setting in the scenery menu did not make any difference in fps. It was the display mode during simulation setting under the simulation menu that helped. So instead of running it at 1680 x 1050 (the max res the screen can be set to) I set it to the next best Full screen at 1440 x 900.

[guest_jo]

Yes the digital out of the graphics chip supports a max of 1600x1200 pixels.
Analog shall be more ( see technical data of nvidia )

http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20060203980805.html