Looks like there's another FS9 fix in these drivers:"Display corruption is no longer seen when using particular aircraft in "Century of Flight" games found in Flight Simulator 2004"Not sure what that means but I suppose it's good! Personally I'm waiting for Omega's version of these, but thought I'd post the news...

The release notes mention several performance improvements such as:"Improvements in our surface allocation and texture management code have increased performance for resource-challenged cases. Re-Volt scores improve 25% at 1600x1200 across several RADEON configurations. ShaderMark Test 14 (Veined Marble) improves dramatically (up 380% at 1600x1200) on some 256MB products."I wonder if this applies to FS9? I'm almost tempted to give this Catalyst a try before the Omega comes out.

Just tried them, and they seem much better. I used to have a problem with side views in 2D panel. I would get blotchy, some times flickering tectures when looking left or right. It seeems to have been fixed. Of course I only did one flight, but hopefully this will hold true.Bill

I agree, this set works very well in my system. I didn

Hi,I didn't like the 4.3's, 4.4's or 4.5's. But this version seems very agreeable with my system. :)Cheers,JimSystem Specs:Intel 3.4C(C = Northwood) on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, 1 GB Muskin '222' Special PC3200 RAM, NEC MultiSync FE2111SB 22" Monitor, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Videocard with v4.6 Catalyst Drivers, DirectX 9.0b, Creative Audigy2 Soundcard, 250 GB w/8 MB Cache Western Digital HDD, WinXP Pro SP1

I just went from the 4.2's to the 4.6's, and must say I will stick with these. :9

Wow!!These have given me a boost in my two monitor setup I wouldn't have believed possible without a hardware upgrade. In heavy clouds when ActiveSky works with 4-5 cloud layers I now have 4-5 fps more than before. If you have one of the newer cards (mine is 9800XT) get them.Alex

Ditto

I too did not get along with the .3, .4, or .5"s. However, I am real pleased with the .6 . Smoothness is better with a slight frame rate improvement. Less flicker too. Not GONE I say, but less.

I have to echo the other comments posted. A definite gain in FPS and smoothness...better that the previous three releases. I could not believe it when I fired up the sim yesterday after installing the 4.6's; I thought it was just my wishful thinking at work but now that others have seen the improvement, I can trust my senses again. These are a definite keeper!Larry S.