Image Quality
Detail. These are details from submitted screenshots using various 3D video hardware, for comparing the image quality of each chipset in FS98. All scenes are as identical as we can make them, under the same visual settings. Click here for the full-sized full-screen version of this page (warning: it is very big, 1 MB per chipset). Click here for instructions on running this test on your 3D hardware. I used a very low compression setting for them, so there might be some small compression artifacts, but I looked at before and after shots using the compression and the differences are all smaller than differences between chipsets. I have also started a Show-off Page for cards that do something especially nice.
| Distant city and country textures, and haze | Nearby city and
road textures |
Airport grass and runway textures | Aircraft textures and shading | Cloud transparency |
Propeller transparency and aircraft shading |
2D
Voodoo2
PowerVR/PCX2
Permedia2
Rush
Riva128
V2200
G200
i740
