On the weekend I went and got myself a new Geforce 7600gs AGP 256MB graphics card, which has greatly improved my FSX experience.I get much better performance, especially flying in/with clouds, and I now get all of the other effects such as reflective water, reflective propeller nose cones, reflective glass on cockpit windows, moving jetways now work, backlit gauges at night, wing flex on the glider and 747, taxi signs and some bridges are no longer white.As before, I still fly with frames locked at 21, and autogen off. Previously with fair weather clouds above, frames would drop to around 18, and flying through them even lower. Now the frame rate stays at 21 with fair weather cloud and only drops slightly flying through them.One of my favorite saved real weather flights is flying through a vast area of thick dense cloud at dusk, that produces some amazing effects, and is very immersive. Previously I was only getting an average of 5 frames (3 to 7) in both FSX and FS9, which was a slide show. Now in FSX with the new card I average 12 frames on this flight (9 to16) and it is smooth and totally flyable.I have only briefly tried with autogen on normal at Princess Juliana, but frames dropped to as low as 7 over dense jungle trees, averaging at say 12-15. My older card handled autogen better, as it was using older shader models, and previously I got better frame rates with autogen on.I also down loaded the special nvidia guru3D 93.71 drivers, mentioned on another thread here, and that gave me 3 extra frames.I was so pleased I also went and got myself a set of creative 2.1 T3030 speakers (2 speakers and a large sub woofer box). Previously I just had cheap speakers that came with the computer. Now I get many more sound effects, and the Goose has a deep satisfying growl to the engines, along with the Beaver.However I noticed that these speakers robbed me of 2-3 frames (confirmed by turning sound on/off with Q). So then I went and got an Audigy value sound card which gave my 3 frames back. And now I get some extra sounds, eg flaps in the beechjet sound much better, gear up sounds better, etc. And if I ever get a new computer, this same sound setup will be used.The new card was reasonably priced, and exceeded my expectations. The new sound is also great. My old computer now has new life for flying FSX.My 3 year old computer is an Intel Pentium 4 3.0gHz, with 2GB ram, and a 160MB hard drive. My old card was a Geforce FX5600XT 256MB AGP. New card Gigabyte 7600gs 256MB AGPI have a 19inch CRT screen.Resolution set to 1024 x 768

'Tis very pleasing when a relatively cheap upgrade brings so much improvement. I am truly happy for you :-)Gary

I have a Albatron 7600GS 256MB-PCI-E in my AMD Sempron PC. Much better graphics and performance compared to my previous FX5200 card.

I have an older AMD XP computer with an ATI 9800pro video card. I use multi monitors and the ATI video performance with multi monitors it pretty bad. I was thinking of upgrading to the 7600GS much like the parent poster. Had anyone else upgraded from an ATI 9800 to an Nvidia and received godo results? Thanks,Derald