Hi there,
I've gotten an excellent deal on a laptop with an AMD FX-9800P and a R7 M445. Trouble is, I've heard that AMD has issues with FlightGear. On Discord, FB told me that the newer cards like the R7 don't have very many problems, that their openGL support has improved. Should I risk it and purchase this laptop, or should I go for a safer, although lower powerd i5-7200U / GeForce 920MX?
Noted: it apparently works well with openGL 4.4.
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In order to help you, we need to know a lot of information. Make sure to include answers to at least the following questions in your initial post.
- what OS (Windows Xp/Vista, Mac etc.) are you running?
- what FlightGear version do you use?
- what graphics card do you have?
- does the problem occur with any aircraft, at any airport?
- is there any output printed to the console (black window)?
- copy&paste your commandline (tick the "Show commandline box on the last page of FGRun or the "Others" section on the Mac launcher).
- please upload a screenshot of the problem.
If you experience FlightGear crashes, please report a bug using the issue tracker (can be also used for feature requests).
To run FlightGear on old computers with bad OpenGL support, please take a look at this wiki article. If you are seeing corrupted/broken textures, please see this article.
Note: If you did not get a reponse, even after 7 days, you may want to check out the FlightGear mailing lists to ask your question there.
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AMD Cards
by legoboyvdlp » Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:35 am
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Re: AMD Cards
by Solid » Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:31 pm
Hi legoboyvdlp,
I had a AMD R9 270 in a Alienware system and issues with text flickering and ALS display of airport lights. Don´t know if the R7 is a newer version as the R9, but I don´t think so.
I was unable to resolve those problems as long as I didn´t change text fonts or skip using point sprites for runway lights in ALS. Due to that I changed my grafics card to a NVidia GTX 1050 TI.
Your choice depends on the features of FGFS you prefer.
I had a AMD R9 270 in a Alienware system and issues with text flickering and ALS display of airport lights. Don´t know if the R7 is a newer version as the R9, but I don´t think so.
I was unable to resolve those problems as long as I didn´t change text fonts or skip using point sprites for runway lights in ALS. Due to that I changed my grafics card to a NVidia GTX 1050 TI.
Your choice depends on the features of FGFS you prefer.
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Re: AMD Cards
by legoboyvdlp » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:42 pm
Very well... I'm getting the GE920MX then 
ALS is very important to me 
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