I'm going from an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb card (AGP) to a nvidia GeForce 9600GT 256Mb card (AGP). Is there anything I need to do in any of the FS9 configurations (.cfg) other than in the regular options menu, of course? Thanks.

There is a line in the fs9.cfg file that details your video card. When you swap the card this MAY cause a problem when you try to start FS9 for the first time. If it does you can either delete FS9.cfg, but then you'll lose ALL of your settings, or you can remove the couple of lines starting Mode=1600x1200x32(On this particular PC I have a Matrox Parhelia 128MB).Chances are it will fire up with no problems..however, if it crashes to desktop or goes blank..don't worry. We will explain how to edit the fs9.cfgRegardsJim

QuoteI'm going from an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb card (AGP) to a nvidia GeForce 9600GT 256Mb card (AGP).UnQuoteYou sound like you have things a little mixed up there the 9600GT is an ATI card not a Nvidia Cardfurthermore I do not understand why you are going from a presumably higher spec card ie 9800 Pro to a presumably lower spec card a 9600GT http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9800/rad...ro/compare.htmlhttp://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9600/rad...ro/compare.htmlbut that said I can't see why there would be a need to make any changes outside of the regular options menu, though you should load the driver for the new card which will probably come on a CD ROM in the box with the card.Best and Warm RegardsAdrian Wainer

>I'm going from an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb card (AGP) to a>nvidia GeForce 9600GT 256Mb card (AGP). I guess you mean nvidia GeForce 7600GT 256Mb card (AGP). Jim

Jim, you're exactly right. I don't know why I typed '9600GT'. I am going from the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to the nvidia GeForce 7600GT.

>Jim, you're exactly right. I don't know why I typed>'9600GT'. I am going from the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to the>nvidia GeForce 7600GT. well you're going from a core clock 380MHz, Memory Clock 700MHz, 8 pixel pipelines tocore clock 560MHz, Memory Clock 1400MHz, 12 pixel pipelines So you should see an appreciable difference..but performance is also very dependent on CPU speed and capacity.RegardsJim

I'm running a Pentium 4, 3.2Ghz with 2Gb of DDR SDRAM at 400Mhz. We'll be installing the video in the next day or so, and I'm hoping for an appreciable difference. We'll let y'all know how it goes. Thanks again.

Well, I installed the new card and need some help. The FS9 display of the terrain looks absolutely terrible. It's blurry, shimmering, etc.. It wasn't like this with the ATI card, but is this way with the new 256Mb nvidia card. I am using Ultimate Terrain and BirdsEyeView, but that made no real difference with the old card compared to what I'm seeing now. Something is definately wrong. Any idea what I should do? BTW, I used 'Drive Cleaner' and think we got rid of all the old ATI stuff. Help please.

Well I've never owned a 7600 so can't give exact instructions how to optimize. Firstly did you download latest drivers or are you using ones supplied with the card?If you right-click on your desktop and go into display properties-settings-advanced burrow down to the Performance and Quality settings and check whether anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are application controlled or controlled by the card.If they are application controlled you need to ensure you've enabled them in FS9. Also check your Mip Mapping Quality and Hardware-Rendered Lights settings. Put them on 4 or 5 to begin with and then experiment by tweaking these figures. Shimmering can occur if these are set too high.Hopefully someone with a 7600GT will be able to give specific advice.regardsJim

Well, after quite a bit of doing I seem to have the overall display looking pretty good. But, I have yet another problem. My LCD screen is calibrated for color using ColorVision's Spyder Express. The screen looks great and so do photos, etc.. However, FS9 now accepts the ColorVision setting which makes FS9 appear dark and dingy; there's no sunlight (in other words, dull even at mid-day). Before the video card upgrade, FS9 didn't follow the ColorVision calibration and FS9 used its original colors and brightness. My LCD's brightness is turned all the way up. Does anyone know how to get the original brightness of FS9 back? I can't believe that a properly calibrated monitor would interfere with FS9's brightness.

Follow-up. After doing some experimenting, it seems that the fault isn't with FS9, but simply that FS9 just doesn't look good with a properly calibrated (according to ColorVision) monitor. As soon as I took the calibration out, the saved FS9 screenshots that looked so bad, again looked good uncalibrated. Strange!!!!