Is the textrue tearing on Win 7 in FSX with the 5870 on a i7 2.66ghz bad enough to ruin the flight sim experience?I have read a lot on this forum but cannot seem to pinpoint whether it I should stay away from this card.ThanksDarcy

Is the textrue tearing on Win 7 in FSX with the 5870 on a i7 2.66ghz bad enough to ruin the flight sim experience?I have read a lot on this forum but cannot seem to pinpoint whether it I should stay away from this card.ThanksDarcy

With the new Catalyst 10.2

Thanks. So overall I should be happy flying FSX with this card on a i7 2.66. I will be upgrading from a Nvidia 7500x2.Darcy

Thanks. So overall I should be happy flying FSX with this card on a i7 2.66. I will be upgrading from a Nvidia 7500x2.Darcy

It performs slightly better than the GTX 285 with FSX and with the last two Catalyst driver revisions it doesn

Thanks. So overall I should be happy flying FSX with this card on a i7 2.66. I will be upgrading from a Nvidia 7500x2.Darcy

I share a different view. I have used the 5870 with both win xp and vista for FSX. With win xp the card is great. Under vista the v sync issue is a show stopper. I cant stand it.I need Eyefinity as I run a 3 monitor setup so I fly exclusively with fs9 for that reason and its silky smooth.Others have stated also that they dont see the vsync issue. Maybe its the type of monitors being used, that make it effect some and not others. The only way is to try it out and see, but right now unless your looking to use eyefinity also, I would suggest an Nvidia card. No guessing involved - they work

The reason I am asking is I am thinking of getting a Dell XPS 9000 i7 920 Win 7 64 with the 5870. My other option is an HP Elite I7 920 with Win 7 64 Nvidia GTX 260. I can't decide so I am looking to see what the 5870 experience is.ThanksDarcy

I suggest try running FSX with vsync disabled on your current system and that'll give you a good idea of what to expect. For me, especially when using trackIR, the tearing induced by no vsync absolutely kills the FSX experience. Tearing bugs me so much that I would have shelved FSX long ago if that was the only way it'd run (btw, that tanked the DX10 preview mode for me). I ditched buying a 5850 for my new i7 system running windows 7 soley for this reason (and I really wanted that card when I built that system). But that's me; others don't seem to mind the tearing. I thought about the XP dual-boot thing, but in the end I'm just not that hardcore about FSX to buy another OS license just so I could run it with a specific graphics card.If you are really stuck with those two choices I can see your dilemma: the gtx 260 is nothing compared to 5870. Tough choice...