Hello..I do not have really good basics about computers.. but here is my problem...I want to upgrade my video card with a Sapphire 9800PRO Atlantis 128MB... i have today a geforce 4 MX420. (not really happy btw)My pc's spec are the following;AMD ATHLON XP 1800+1,53 MGZ512 MB RAMXP Pro editionMSI 6330 (mainboard)so, -Should i buy this new card?-Will i see improvements in FS2002? what about the fps?? Will it lagg?What do you think i should do???Please come with any suggestions!!! I need really urgent answers.. and good answers...Thanks a lot!

Hi.I would not do it, unless you have other reasons other then performance. I got the ATI to have a 2 monitor setup just to find out later that it would not 3D accelerate both monitors. In addition the luminosity / brightness was affected where I have to use two setups one for MSFS another for the other sims, i.e. FLYII, because at dusk and dawn, where I fly the MSFS mostly, it's too dark to see much of of the terrain, from cockpit view. If I set the ATI for MSFS every other sim is washed out.Keep what you have, and if you need another monitor, get a PCI card for $45.00 and you

Zerocool: IMHO, you really need to upgrade your processor along with the video card. Maybe, Wait till you can do both. While you'll see a major improvement in image quality, perfect antialaising and great looking textures with the 9800 Pro, you'll likely only see a moderate increase in framerates because of your processor limitations. I guess it depends on what other games/sims you like. Take a look at the 9500 Pro and 9700 Pro too. They're both quite a bit cheaper and do a great job too.Avcomeware:_____________________________________________________"If I set the ATI for MSFS every other sim is washed out."_______________________________________________________I don't know how you have your card set up; but I don't have that problem. I make no adjustments between sims. I'm currently running FS2k2; CFS2; IL2; F1 2002; QuakeIII; & FreespaceII. They all look great. Nothing washed out. No adjustments in color, brightness or contrast needed.

Hi.I will try to expand. In pic. 1 is what I try to avoid, see radios freq. display, unreadable, and ver dark terrain. Image was created in the 172SP, Spring, May, 2001, 19:05, fly into the Sun.In pics. 2 & 3 you can see the sky difference, in FlyII, this is not the worst case, in some light conditions the sky and clouds become all white, but sufficient to demonstrate the problem, for people that want to accept it, that is.Before someone comes with the argument of apples to apples, keep in mind the only thing that has changed is the Video card and the ability, or inability in this case, of the ATI to provide the latitude / attribute to compensate for some of the different utilities. In my GF card I was able to select combinations that would satisfy most needs, by using Color Vibrancy etc.Yes, I know I can adjust my monitor, but that would affect all my other utilities, Desktop etc. Yes I know that part of the problem is from MS, but this is what we have to work with.The point here is the inability to get a compromised setting, without having to change settings for every utility.The way I was able to get something that I use, and I am not happy with it, is to change the Game Gamma to 115. I hope this helps clarify this point, there are many others that I don

I have decided what to do... i will upgrade my pc + buy the video card...My new oc in 2 weeks;Mainboard: Asus A7N8X Deluxe/GD hovedkort Socket A nForce2 400/MCP-T, Dual LAN, Firewire Cpu: AMD Athlon XP2500+ 1.833 GHz 333 MHz bus Socket A (Barton) prosessor, 512kb BOXED Ram: TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB Dual Pack Kit w/two matched PC3200 CL2.5 DDRs Video Card: Saphire Radeon 9800 pro Atlantis I'll hope this pc will be good enough for fs2002 and other new games ;)... what should i expect the fps will be in fs2002? with high levels of realisme???Thanks

The Ati 9800pro is a very fast card, you wont regret it. And it runs everything great. I cant believe the other guy told you to keep your Geforce 420mx :-erks

That'll be blazingly fast!