I turned in my new ATI card for my design machine and got a 7600GSOC 512 card. I am replacing my aged TI4200 128 MB card. Here's what happens when I take out the TI4200 and replace it with the 7600 (note, lol, much higher clock speed and 4 times the RAM): I lose about 9 fps and the textures take about 40 seconds to load where as the old card loaded them in a flash.Steps I have taken:1)uninstalled nvidia drivers in windows as prescribed by Nvidia Windows XP/2000 32-bit ForceWare Release 90Version: 93.71Release Date: November 2, 2006WHQL Certified 2)turned off computer and installed new card - with power supply adapter3) restarted computer in Safe Mode4)installed latest drivers for the 76005) FS recognizes the cardI simply can understand how a card serveral generations newer can perform worse.Bordering on scrapping this machine and building a new one. 2 new cards and both perform poorly.It must be something I'm doing wrong.Thanks,Adam

Have you also Re-Installed DirectX, and have FS rebuild its fs9.cfg to make sure no traces of your old card are present there?.

Hey Wayupthere,Thanks a lot. I have followed your instructions and am seeing a definite improvement. The fps are back up and the pic quality is better. I'm still getting slow texture loading - slower than the old TI4200. Of course I am running higher settings on the card but the loading is still quite slow. I guess I expected faster as it has so much more memory.I really appreciate the help so far. I would be happy to take any more suggestions you might have.Adam

Glad to hear that Adam, well yes, with running a higher resolution you will ask more from the GPU. The amount just depends on how high resolution it is running. As far as the slow texture loading speeds, in your case you should be seeing faster loading speeds, since you do have more Vram. What res are you currently running compared to with your old 4200?

Hey man, Actually, I'm running the same resolution 1024x768 32-bit. I have AA at 4x and anistrophic filtering at 4x. I thought maybe those settings might be a bit more demanding than what the TI4200 had to do.Maybe I'm being picky as this isn't my gamer, but I did think the textures should load faster than the old card.Thanks again, appreciate the help and open for any other suggestions.BTW, that is quite the gaming rig you have. :9 It must kick some serious butt.Adam

Hey,Hmm 1024 should not be demanding for that card at all, it does 1280 even without issues.. and your not picky lol, with more Vram they should load faster, thats what it does, Vram caches the textures to load faster... have a look here http://www.nhancer.com try installing that it will give you slightly more headway with tweaking AA/AF etc.. also give a benchmark like for example Futuremarks 3Dmark a run. That will build you a score which then can be compared to other 7600GS users, that can determine if (hopefully not, and i don't think so) your card maybe not fine..hehe thanks, yes i love my rig ;)

Wilco sir! Will get back to you with results.Thanks,Adam

No problems :)