HiAs a follow to a recent thread i posted regarding a 5fps drop after updating my Geforce 3 ti200 with a radeon 9600pro, i decided to send the card back as i concluded that it was faulty. My supplier (fortunately) agreed and promptly sent me a replacement.This was installed last night following the standard procedure - remove old nvidia drivers, search for and delete driver remnents using driver cleaner 2, install new card and drivers.A 3dmark2001 test showed a dramatic improvement over my geforce 3 - 10800 compared to 6700. Very good i thought. Before firing up fs2002, i manually set all of the direct3d settings to their lowest (performance setting) and ensured that "Application Preferenece" was UNCHECKED. Now the "acid" test - fs2002 and, guess what, still NO better and possibly still slightly worse than my old Geforce 3 !!!Can anyone please explain this as i'm now lost for words or ideas - how can an approx 50% improvement in a 3dmark2001 score relate to loss in fs2002 performance when (i beleive) both are directx programs ???Here's grasping at strawsGary

Well one thing to do, format the HD and start over.

>Well one thing to do, format the HD and start over.I agree totally with you.When I got my Sapphire 9500 (Which is the best card I have ever owned by the way), I reformated because it SUCKED when I had been running an NVIDIA card before hand... even with DetDestroyer and all those programs that don't really seem to do a whole lot.

Did HD format make all the difference ?Gary

>Did HD format make all the difference ?Every bit. May be different on some systems though, I recommend if you want to try it to use Norton Ghost to back up an image of your current HDD to a partition so you will have it just in case the format doesn't make any difference.

Update your motherboard drivers and all other drivers before you try that format. A lot of times an out of date motherboard driver can cause huge performance problems.

Unfortunately, i've already updated my mobo and with the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers available from Gigabyte and the 9600Pro with Catalyst 3.7 available from ATI - no difference.Format looming...

Have you tried updating your motherboard's bios? I end up having to do that with my Gigabyte 7vtxh mobo and my 9500 Pro before I started getting proper performance out of my system.

Have you tried deleting/renaming the FS9.cfg file? Doing so will cause FS9 to create a new one with only the video info for the new card.Doug