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Hi!Has anyone found really good display settings with ATI Radeon9700&9800 with regard to FS9 & FS2002.I understand this needs to be right in order to get the bestimage quality/performance.I am just about to get a Radeon 9700 or 9800 PRO since thereviews I read seem so favorable.My resolution= 1280x1024x16Grateful for advice and help.Thanks again!Hans HermanssonSweden

I'm thinking of installing a new sound card into my home-built P4 2.66G / Windows XP SP1 machine. My video card is an ATI 9800 Pro 128M. Any ideas on which sound card is recommended is much appriated.My current sound is from an on-board imbedded chip (AC '97).Thanks for any help,Bruce.

I am going to be building a new comp soon, and as for the motherboard, what would be a good one, my choices are from Asus, is it really worth the money to get the best one? P4C800-E-DX? or would the P4S800 (Cheapest one) do just as good of a job or should I go for something in between, I won't be using the onboard audio or NIC, so those dont matter , it just have to at least 6 USB ports, and 4 slots for RAM.

Hello people,I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb card and all my panels seem a lot more blurry now than they did with my old geforce 4.In both fs2002 and fs2004 the panel bitmaps especially and some gauges are proving to be blurry and sometimes unreadable.I am running 1152 x sumthing resolution :(.Anti aliasing 6x and anisoptric filtering off.Also running the Omega 3.9 drivers. Can anyone help?Regards,Alexander Martin.

I have a NEW 64 bit pc networked to my original 2400XP machine.Both work sharing files perfectly.The problem is that the Broadband connection drops the DSL layer when the new client machine is switched on. At first I thought it was an IP conflict, firewall, or incorrect bridge connection, but it still drops dsl if the Lan cable is unplugged and I power up the client machine. The only connection I have is the auto switching roline KVM switch.Has anyone else had a problem via a KVM switch?Problem Number 2 is that I tried about 10 times to load FS9 onto the 64 bit machine only to have it reboot several times at different points of the loading and on different discs. I finall…

Hi!I wonder what equipment would be best for FS9.As of now I have a P4 2.53 gHz and a GeForce 4200 Ti 64 MBwhich are OK, I guess, but I would lik

HI I have been running 2 x 17 inc flat screens on a GF Ti4600 in wide view mode (pilots view across two monitors, I even built a custom panel in order to get rid of that streched look) , stupidly I thought I would buy an Asus 98000XT.I can't find a control in the screen setting menu of the card to allow me get my dualview back, I can extend the desk top, which allows a seperate window into the second screen, but if I try and resize the FS window across it, FS just distorts.Does anyone know if you can do this with these cards or is it just Nvidia that have the software inbuilt?Thanks NigelAbit AN7Ath 3200Xp3x512 x XMS proAsus 9800XT 250Windows XP

I'm building a new system. Does anyone have experience with the new ATI Radeon 9800 XT (256mb) card as it relates to FS9? If so, is it worth the dollars? My system will be built around a P-4 3.2HT, 1 gig of Corsair registered RAM, and a Seagate 160 hd. In other words, I'm trying to go "all out" but don't want to waste money if the 9800 XT isn't worth it in terms of added performance. Thanks!!!

Hi all,sometime in the future I'd like to upgrade my vid card, currently aGF4200 64mb. Very decent card, as a matter of fact I am quite happy with it.Now, very often in FS2004 I witness the "texture loading effect": Stutters, sometimes longer than a few seconds, where textures are being re-loaded, even constantly when I pan around my aircraft in a heavily textured environment such as the freeware KBOS scenery for FS2004.My question is: Does it help to increase vid mem on the card, so that loading textures into memory does not occur that often, or is FS2004 coded in a way that it is more dependent on the processor/ram part?Thanks for hints,celticmatrix

Hi dears,i actually run a P4 2.4B, FSB 533, with 1Go DDR 333 Mhz,and expect to upgrade to a stronger CPU, ie. P4 3.06 Ghz.the mobo chipset is the Intel i865P.Though it supports FSB 800, is it true that I wont be ableto match an 800FSB CPU with some 333Mhz RAM?If so, I have to buy the disappearing P4 3.06ghz fsb 533,instead of some P4 3.0 fsb 800...Last, has hyperthreading anything to do with FSB?I mean, would an FSB 533 prevent me from using the HT technology?...I would alos like to know if you thinkit will make a big differencein fs2004, from my old P4 2.4b to a P4 3.06 ?....

Hello Guys!I noticed that there are very competent people in this forum so maybe you can help me a bit. :-)When my old AMD XP2600+ got too slow for FS9 and more complex add'ons I finally bought a set of completly new hardware. I wanted to buy only the newest and best, so I build the config myself. This is what a have now:Intel 865PERL board with 800mhz FSB1 GB 400mhz dualchannel ramP4 3.2ghz 800mhz FSBSapphire Radeon 9800XT 256mb60GB HDD (2 partitions)4 led fans and a boxed CPU cooler (thinking of a watercooling)Logitech Soundblaster 5.1 live digital with sourround speakers and woofer.DVD drive and CD-RW from my old pc 400W power supplyAfter setting up Windows XP, newest …

Ive just switched over the Omega 4.10's and noticed some strange behavior with video playback on my machine...its a greenish blotchy mess when you play a video...some sort of directx incompatibility with these drivers and video playback. (although directx tests seem fine)Im running an ati 9700 aiw.Can anyone else confirm this?Dave

Hi,I have 3 HDD's in my system, I want to replace the smallest HDD with a new one.What is the easiest way of getting all the data (inc OS) from the old drive to the new one.Also, any recommendations on a new HDD?, my mobo supports SATA, would this be worth going for?, also can I use SATA and normal IDE drives at the same time?, the other 2 HDD's are just normal IDE drives.Thanks in advanceDan.

i know a lot of people are gonna suggest upgrading to dsl or cable instead of just getting a v92 modem, but i can't afford it right now. I want to change from v90 to v92 because v92 has some better features, or so i've heard. Plus i want to know what i should be looking for also as in features (such if it should be internal or external). Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

Fellow Flight Simmers:Wow! I can't believe that after all these months - I finally have a smooth Sim in BOTH 2002 and FS9!!! "NO MORE STUDDERS!" Maybe I should run for president on that platform!!! The truth is, that by carefully reading all of your excellent suggestions to the problem of studders, it got me to think out of the box - LITERALLY!!! I realized, as I was down on the floor ready to remove a secondary PCI Video card, that I had a lot of additional equipment connected to the computer. Palm synch cradle, Dazzle card reader for my digital camera, among other things. So I thought that maybe - just maybe - there were outside factors interfering with the sim. At firs…

Hi. I just upgraded my motherboard and chip and memory to a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP 875 chipset with the Pentium IV 3.2 chip and 1 gb of Corsair memory. I kept the ati radeon 9500 pro video card and reinstalled Windows XP Professional. I upgraded from an AMD 2400xp chip. I was hoping for a marked increase in performance, but my initial results with FS2004 are dismal, about 1/6 the performance of the 2400xp chip. I ran 3dmark03 and got a benchmark of 915, which is apparently pathetic compared to comparable systems. I'm hoping I could get some insight and what I have configured wrong in the system to get these results.

Greetings.I'm getting white flashes and I'm not a female. I know this is my video card. I'm running NVidia 53.03 on a 5900 Ultra card.Tim

It looks like I need to update my flight controls, and I was wondering about going to the CH USB Yoke and rudder pedals. I have had them in the past, and they did cause me some grief (electronically), but that was quite some time ago (FS98 I believe). I'm now using Win XP Pro with FS9. Does anyone have any recommendations (or alternates if they don't like the CH stuff for any reason), yea's or nay's on the CH stuff?By the by, I did do a search for CH, CH Products, CH Yokes, CH Controls prior to posting this, but most of the info I did find was old and nothing that specifically addressed my question here.Thanks gang - appreciate the help.Glenn

For those of you interested in Frame Rates and are unsure of whether to go for a Geforce FX5950 or ATi Radeon 9800 XT look no further ...The tests below were carried out on a AMD FX 51using FS2002 (Test A, 9800 XT), Test B (Geforce FX 5950)So here we go: System: AMD FX-51 (3200) 64 Bit Processor1GB of PC RAM80 GB Hard DriveWin XP ProfessionalMS Flight Sim 2002Radeon ATi 9800XT (Test A)(Drivers ATi 3.10)Geforce FX 5950 MSI (Test :((Drivers Nvidia 53.06 (unofficial)Resolution: 1280 z 960 (Test1 16 Bit), Test 3 32 BitTest A (Radeon ATi)TEST1: Constant FPS: 71.5TEST2: Constant FPS: 77 (100% ATC) (I let fs build a/c for 5 mins, maybe that's the reason why I got higher…

Right now im sitting on a P4 1.7(Williamete)512DDRGF3ti200With pmdg737 and some sceneries i often get under 10fps. That is not funny! Therefore im thinking of a upgrade. I won

Hey guys,Since i got my computer (about 2 weeks ago) i have had a doubt in wether its running well or not.Specifically regarding the graphics.Now my specs are the following;AMD Athlon 2800+Corsair 512MB DDR PC3200 @400mhzSapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (6x FSAA and 8x AF)ABIT NF-7 Nforce 2 ultra motherboardSound Blaster Audigy ESWestern Digital 80gb 8MB BufferThermal Right SLK with YS-Tech fan @5400rpmEnermax Silent PS 350WEnermax CaseThe thing is that....running with either 6xFSAA or 4xFSAA and 8xAF i get framerates around 14-30.I was wondering if you guys think thats right??it looks a bit wierd to me....could it be the "lack" of ram?Dario

I decided to finally upgrade my video card from the GeForce 3 Ti500 to the GeForce FX 5900 and can't even run FS2004 without it freezing or locking up. I can get to the main menu screen where I can create my flight, but as soon as I get on the runway, everything freezes up. The usual 3 button keypress doesn't get me out of the program so I have to completely shut down the computer and re-start. My computer specs are listed below...MSI K7N2-L Delta motherboardnForce2 Northbridge and Southbridge chipset1.24 GB PC3200 DDR RAMAthlon XP 2800+ Barton core processorGeForce FX 5900 w/ 128 MB DDR RAM video card300 W power supply============================================All drive…

Hey,I just got a new computer with an 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphic card. When I was running in games such as FS2004 the graphics were looking very choppy. I tweaked with the display settings and downloaded the new drivers from the ATI site and it was still the same. I then downloaded Direct X and it is now looking good. However, I'm still getting a bit of jagged edges.I was wondering if there is anything else I can do to get the most out of my graphics card.Thank you very much,Lawrence

Hi guys,I really need your help on this one.Since a week I have a problem with the graphics in FS2004. The problems began with little white spikes flashing bye when looking into dark surfaces (e.g. the panel)and after that ranges from skies being reflected on the ground to smearing graphics to complete crashes. First I thought it had something to do with replacement textures till this afternoon when the problems got worse and I was confronted with blue screens with the following errormessages:---------------snip-----------------------------------//// Watchdog Event Log File//LogType: WatchdogCreated: 2004-01-27 17:05:15TimeZone: -60 - West-Europa (standaardtijd)WindowsVer…

Hi all,Just wondering where the best Nvidia Drivers for the Geforce 5950 FX are, as the 53.03 (December) seem pretty awful.Best Wishes,ChrisEGBB