Hi GuysFirstly a big thank you to Elrond and Bill for their assistance on installing my new card :-) - at last I can run in a decent resolution and with semi-decent framerates - upgrades never provide the results your'e imagining in your mind.On to the problem first. It would seem that the card installed itself twice. In the registry under hkey local machine-system-controlset001-video I have a string for the Radeon 9700 pro and the a little bit further on I have a duplicate string stating Secondary Radeon 9700 Pro. Under Flightsim in display properties I have "Radeon 9700 Pro" and then underneath it "Radeon 9700 Pro //". Under display properties I have "Samsung 750s on Radeon 9700 pro" and then another stating "Default Monitor on Ati Radeon 9700 Pro - Secondary" Is this by default or is there something I can do to get rid of this anomoly?With my newly installed Card with no extra tweaking I get 10315 3DMarks in 3DMark2001 running in a windows resolution of 1024x768 32bit. Is this ok ? - system specs below for further reference. I have installed the Ati Control Panel but have changed nothing from default - any suggestions?System Specs:AMD Athlon XP2100+ running at 1.73 GhzAsus A7A266 Main Board with Ali Chipset512 MB PC133 SDRamCrucial Radeon 9700 Pro (AGP4X with FastWrite:ON) - My board doesnt do 8X *sniff*Seagate 7200rpm 40G HDFujitsu 7200rpm 20G HDWindows XP Professional Running in 1024x768 32 bit colourDirectx 9.0aAlso does anyone have any suggestions of tweaking my new cards settings both within fs2002 and in the control panel for maximum enjoyability with the least blurries and a livable framerate - or am I asking for that panacea again...Thanks in advance and kind regards,RobFAJS

Hi Rob,Congratulates purchasing of 9700Pro!!First, It's not wrong thing about appearing Radeon 9700Pro & Radeon 9700PRO Secondery in your display properties.Because Radeon 9700 supports DUAL monitor."Radeon 9700Pro"in display properties is for your first monitor(In your case, Samsung 750S)"Radeon 9700Pro Secondery" is for your second monitor.Second is Tweaking.Do Tweaks in FS2002.cfg:"GRAPHICS" section:-----------------------------* TextureMaxLoad=65536-----------------------------"TERRAIN" section:-----------------------------TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=60.000000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=40.000000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4-----------------------------This is allow FS2K2 to extend terrain texture range :)And 3rd is Graphic settingDo what you see in below picture in yor Control Panel(Excuse language was Korean)Those are AA(Anti Aliasing) & AF(Aniso Filtering) setting.Most common raeson for buying Radeon9700 is fast speed with turning AA & AF on(FS is same too - There is little performance drop). When turn AA & AF on you will can see no JAGGIES & no BLURRY TEXTURE :)Here is my AA & AF setting in Control Panel for FS2K2.http://forums.avsim.com/user_files/5435.jpg

Rob, Congrats!! Amazing piece of hardware. You may want to watch how much you tweak the settings within your config file w your current CPU and memory setup. Those settings are a little on the stretched side. FS is very CPU/GPU dependant. Just because you are running the greatest video card ever made so far doesnt mean you can run the same settings everyone else can. Try the settings you see below. They definitely make a difference. If you like them you can always start stretching the limits to see where you start to sacrifice framerates for image quality. You may also want to head over to www.omegacorner.com and pick up the latest series of omega drivers. They give up nothing in performance w amazing visual quality. The cat3.1 were not the best series of drivers. The Omegas also contain the 9800 softmod w gives direct3d a pretty good performance bump.Your 3dMark score is not bad w your current CPU/Memory setup.TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=4.800000TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=19TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.500000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.000000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=2Hope this helps.Bobby

Have any of you Radeon 9700 Pro users set up dual monitors, stretching a single 3D outside view across both monitors? I am planning to purchase the card shortly, but would like to use it's dual monitor capabilities in this manner. I already use 2 other PCI cards for the main panel and sub-panels. Any insight would be appreciated.

Even though I've had the card over 6 months, I'm still trying new things and learning more. One thing I mentioned in a nearby thread ("ATI Radeon 9700, 9700 Pro, 9700 TX") is a tweaking program for this card available from Rage3D here:http://www.rage3d.com/r3dtweak/Since making that post I discovered a site that does a step-by-step walk-thru for that program, recommending settings and also discussing what each setting actually does. It is located here (but be aware that there is a very annoying pop-up ad, since the author has to use a free web hosting service):http://atiguide.ionichost.com/I made all the tweaks he suggested for my situation and also using that program easily overclocked my 9700 to 335.25 for both the core and clock and seem to be having no problems (and I've never overclocked anything before). Flying improved some, although it was so good before it wasn't a "night and day" difference by any means. One thing I seem to agree with from another post I read: the harder you work these cards the better they seem to work. I have all FS2K2 setting to the max and if I put all the card settings to the max I get smooth flying. If I reduce the card settings more for performance, I'll start getting an occasional hiccup or stutter but can get higher FPS if I allow them. I haven't figured it all out yet, and feel I'm getting my money's worth by having a video card with a lengthy learning curve.The only times I used to get mild stutters was flying into FlyTampa's fine add-on airport or flying over the northern California mesh add-on scenery. FlyTampa's stutters are now less with better framerates (but still there, making it my "benchmark" for any changes I try) and there are no longer any stutters when the northern California scenery is "on" and I'm flying over it.

Wow! That is impressive to start with. I am getting 4342 on 3DMark03 and I with my new 9700 Pro.I am running a Dell P4 2.0 Ghz1024 MB RDRAM PC800Windows XPI have disabled what I can through the Selective Start-Up and tweaked Windows XP. Have not had much time to dedicate to tweaking the card but mine seems to be way off the mark based on our initial testing.I must be missing some basic settings or something.Hmmmmmm.