"Modern ATI really has the least issues in all of them and that goes back to the fact they they dropped to the 20 and punted last year instead of trying to use the old wafer technology and resell as much of as they could for the highest return. Once the -true- 'new' nv cores get to market I am sure they will also show the same results.Now, I have said enough.. you guys get the picture"Well Nick, I for one appreciate your input and expertise. However, I have heard this stuff about ATI sitting back and making sure everything was perfect before releasing a compatible piece of hardware/drivers. They lost a lot of money doing that because Nvidia creamed them in sales. So much so Nvidia appears to have that "care less" attitude with their current customers as they are rolling in the dough and laughing all the way to the bank. Nvidia still hasn't fixed the DX10 problems with the new 9000 series of graphic hardware and drivers or at least I have not heard of any fix so maybe in the 10,000 series? Surely Nvidia purchases or steals competitors products, takes them apart to see what makes them tick, and then puts together a similar product that works just like or better than the competitors! Is Nvidia now commiting commercial suicide by not fixing compatibility problems with Vista and games like FSX? I certainly hope not! Best regards,Jim

the 9000 is the same engineering as the 8000LOLdont let the marketing fool you.ATI is actually ahead of the game in terms of true upgraded support and you are right about Nv, they are sliding along because of the break ATI took... you will see them both go head to head again soon.. this summer has a lot of things coming upbetween now and then all you are getting is re-vamped hardware but newer ATI is in fact, newer in many respects none the less. Still no next gen leap by any means.. actually more on the lines of.. OPpppsss we fixed it, where nvidia is saying.. what? Its broke? nAaaaaaaaaaaLOL

Hi Nick,Glad you saw my tongue-in-cheek comments in my earlier post. I am stuck in the position of hoping and praying Nvidia comes up with some sort of fix for DX10 Preview as I have two very expensive 8800GTX's and I'm not about to get rid of them yet. I'm sure many other flight simmer's are in the same ship. Best regards (and keep laughing),Jim

OK, you said it yourselfPREVIEWIts not considered a priority to make that be any more than it is nowlike.. DEMO TEST SORT OF/KIND OF you know what I mean?And you should also know by now that FSX and SLi are not about high performance and never will be.. its about hi resolution image quality and allow it to function within reasonable FR limits, not higher frames and better texture loads.. and, those resolutions choke current processors to deathNot worth it unless you are trying to drive a very, very high res displayNext gen hardware will be handing off operations between the CPU/GPU and that is when multicard technology in FSX may display its true value.. problem is those 8800 cards or the current chipset you are on wont help you there either.