Anyone else have the 1GB HD4650? If so what kind of settings are you using for FS2004?

Ben, I too have that same video card after upgrading my old computer to a newer quad core chip. My old P-4 and 9800 pro systemmotherboard died so I had to do a upgrade or buy a new computer and that was not in the budget.I am still learning how to adjust the settings both on the card and in the FSX program. That is how I found your post. The level of detailand performance is light years from the real world AF sims I worked on in the 70s and 80s.I guess we will both have to keep an eye on this form to find out how to get the most out of this video card.Good luck with your real world flying at Mesaba. I looked into a dispatch job there about ten years ago and noticed those long polesattached to the fire hydrants. I guess they use them to find them in the snow or not to hit them while plowing the snow. Speaking of it was I think the first part of April when I was in MSP and they still had piles of snow on the edges of the ramp. So much for global warming.Terry

I just got this card also. On sale at Best Buy for $70 (ended). I'm not getting the FPS I was expecting and found this post after a search.I'm used to using the Nvidia cards so tweaking the settings is new to me with this one. Is there a nHancer for Radeon cards?Anyway, hello from KMSP. (New Brighton)Jon

Jon, From all that I have ever read in these forums, the video card is not the only thing that has a bearingon how many frames per second you see in a program. Especially with the FSX which is suppose to be veryCPU dependant. That means you better have a powerful chip/processor to get a lot of frames per second.Kind of like putting a piston engine on a airframe that was designed for jets. It might make the aircraft go but not the way itwas designed to.Where I saw my biggest gain was in the detail this new card could display over my older ATI 9800 pro. My old card had128 mb of ram and this 1 gig and of course a lot more computing power on the card. Also the old card, (4-5 years old) cost around$200 back then and this new one around $69.Bottom line is to buy as much computing power that you can for your budget and try and to match up CPU, Ram, and videocard so that they let the best and quickest amount of data flow in and out of the computer.Terry