After promising myself that I would never again re-install older video drivers just because someone on a forum claimed they were better, I read a recommendation on this forum. I'm paraphrasing: "The last drivers Nvidia made that did not stutter on a GF4 Ti4xxx were the 56.72 drivers.."I thought "what the heck", downloaded the 56.72 drivers for my Ti4200-128... Bingo! My stuttering disappeared.Visually, I actually liked my standard 61.76 drivers, but the 56.72 drivers seem to be less "jumpy" and handle a larger variety of situations without stuttering!I had been setting the fps limiter to 25 in an effort to get a smoother flight, especially around airports and on the ground, but I'm back to 30 and no stutters! It feels as if I got a new system!The fps still drops to around 20 at detailed airports, but there are no "micro-stutters" like there were before. Thanks to Paul L. who provided this piece of wisdom!My system: Win XP Pro, P4-2.8, 512 Meg, Ti4200-128 w. 56.72 drivers.Video resolution: 1280x1024x32 on a 17 inch LCD monitor.

i had to go back even further to keep decent open GL performance on my system, i use the 45.23 drivers

I have very good results with the 66.93 The 40's series were terrible for me, the best drivers were the 30.82, but other games didn't like them so I had to compromise, either way it looks good and runs good on the 66.93

i see alot of simmers runniing the Ti4200. I have never seen this card in stores what so ever. Is this a older card no longer on the market that just happens to be one of the best cards made and thats why its still around?Just curious.:-wave

You guessed correctly! And in my case, I'm too cheap to buy a new card, especially when there is a new card every few months (that uses more power and generates more heat..)

lol bertfrom the pics i see taken from fs on the Ti4200, with it being a old card and still going full detail and 17-25FPS, must be a good one.To get a card like that, i suppose it was pretty expensive at time of release.:-wave

It used to be part of Nvidia's premium line:GeForce4 - Ti4200, - Ti4400, - Ti4600The nice thing about Nvidia is that their video drivers run on their entire line, so even the latest enhancements, software wise, are available to users of older cards..

when was this card brought out?Chase

Summer 2002...

Definetly one of the best NVIDIA cards, I payed 300 CAD for mine, in the fall of 2002, expensive yes, but still runs many things very good.

How much on board ram was installed on the card? I just dont remember it at all.. How much was this card in america?

The Ti4200 came in 64MB and 128MB, while the 4400, 4600 and 4800 were all 128MB.

this osunds like it was a really good card, and still is in many cases.

That's funny as I just read that suggestion last week, while all along thinking that the latest driver is always best. Well I went back to the 56.72 as well and it seemed to help alot. You just reaffirmed the results for me as I wasn't entirely sure whether it was just that tweak or others that did it.Yeah, its a great card although I wish I had gotten the 128mb version (I have the 64). Dell at the time only offered the 64mb or the Ti4600 128mb which was out of my budget. I think 64mb is on the skinny side for FS2004.

what type of frames do you push with the 64?