FS2004 & ATI

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Ok ATI fans I am thinking of jumping ship and coming over from a Geforce 2
MX400 ( no laughing please) :-)

I just got FS2004 and it is really a frame rate hog when flying through
clouds. Its like a slide show. I know my video card is out of date and all
my readings and research point me to the Radeon 9800 128 Pro which has
direct x 9 support. I dont mind shelling out the bucks if it would really
make things better. My AGP port is 4x so would there be a problem or serious
loss of performance since the card is 8x?

Are there any FS2004 fans out there that can comment if this would be a good
move? The rest of my system is a P4 1.9/512RAM/Windows XP

Thanks for any advice.

Bill
 
I use 9700pro with 4X. works well with 2002 (2004 enroute) and much better
that ti4600 128 and gefx5600 256 card.
 
Bill said:
Ok ATI fans I am thinking of jumping ship and coming over from a Geforce 2
MX400 ( no laughing please) :-)

I just got FS2004 and it is really a frame rate hog when flying through
clouds. Its like a slide show. I know my video card is out of date and all
my readings and research point me to the Radeon 9800 128 Pro which has
direct x 9 support. I dont mind shelling out the bucks if it would really
make things better. My AGP port is 4x so would there be a problem or serious
loss of performance since the card is 8x?

Are there any FS2004 fans out there that can comment if this would be a good
move? The rest of my system is a P4 1.9/512RAM/Windows XP

Thanks for any advice.

Bill
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You should post this to alt.games.microsoft.filght-sim if you haven't
already. Lots of talk about FS2004.
 
Bill said:
Ok ATI fans I am thinking of jumping ship and coming over from a Geforce 2
MX400 ( no laughing please) :-)

I just got FS2004 and it is really a frame rate hog when flying through
clouds. Its like a slide show. I know my video card is out of date and all
my readings and research point me to the Radeon 9800 128 Pro which has
direct x 9 support. I dont mind shelling out the bucks if it would really
make things better. My AGP port is 4x so would there be a problem or serious
loss of performance since the card is 8x?

Are there any FS2004 fans out there that can comment if this would be a good
move? The rest of my system is a P4 1.9/512RAM/Windows XP

Thanks for any advice.

Bill
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I doubt you will be sacrificing much performance at all if you only have an
AGP 4X slot compared to 8X. I don't think it's anything to worry about. In
any case, I agree the GeForce2 MX has to go. :-)
 
Bill,

I'll be picking up my copy of FS2004 today and will test it out on my Radeon
9800 128 Pro in an AGP 4x slot tonight. I'll report back with my results.

Ken
 
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