Businesswise makes no sense: If they created an FSX profile with alternate or frame splitting for their dual GPU cards they would solve the cloud rendering issue and many a simmer would buy the 5790 because of that. So is there a technical reason that makes alternate or frame splitting on FSX difficult to implement on a 2 GPU card?Cheers,- jahman.

The cloud thing is pretty clearly a driver problem, not something that needs more GPU power. Nvidia single GPU cards don't have any issues with it.An ATI community manager directly told simmers on Rage3D that they did not think FSX was worth having their driver team look at because it's old and too few people use it compared to whatever latest first-person shooter is big. Very disappointing but at least basic features seem to work on the Nvidia cards... I'm recommending to our customers that they not purchase ATI at this point because of all this. It's a shame too, the Radeon 5 series are clearly the most powerful cards on the market for virtually anything besides FS.

With the recent change to the Catalyst drivers regarding game profiles, it is now much more likely that we will see an FS9/FSX profile, since ATi just made it MUCH easier to release profile updates with Catalyst 10.2/10.3.

With the recent change to the Catalyst drivers regarding game profiles, it is now much more likely that we will see an FS9/FSX profile, since ATi just made it MUCH easier to release profile updates with Catalyst 10.2/10.3.

That's good news indeed! Any idea what settings go into a game profile?Cheers,- jahman.

Those profiles are for optimizing Crossfire performance - there's several different ways the two cards can combine to render a game, and the default mode isn't always best. While it might help somewhat, the fact remains that FSX is a CPU limited app and it likely won't do all that much as a result.

FSX is a CPU limited app and it likely won't do all that much as a result.

Even with multimonitor setups using large monitors?Cheers,- jahman.

It's a shame too, the Radeon 5 series are clearly the most powerful cards on the market for virtually anything besides FS.

The most powerful card for just about everything including FSX and FS9. Performance has never been a problem; image quality was but is no longer with the latest drivers. The only issue is the lack of v-sync with FSX when run on Windows 7 but most that are serious about FSX use XP/SP2 64-bit anyway so that

Tabs: the profile system isn't just for Crossfire.

Can you provide a source/info for that? I read the Anand and HardOCP articles and they definitely made it sound like that's all they're for. They're certainly not profiles in the way Nvidia does them, where you can set AA/AF etc on a per game level and have them automatically applied when you run the game.

Every week i re-install my XFX ATI 5870 with FSX or FS9 (or both), hoping for a miracle (new drivers, beta ,officials...). Unfortunately, the heavy weather is an issue. My fps go to 29 inmediately...It takes about 30 min. to be dissapointed again and again.As always, i go back to my trusty GTX285...And i think that in FSX the NVIDIA looks better, and it

Tabs, my info comes from Catalyst Beta testers. Also, ATi has a per-application profile system just like NV.

Every week i re-install my XFX ATI 5870 with FSX or FS9 (or both), hoping for a miracle (new drivers, beta ,officials...). Unfortunately, the heavy weather is an issue. My fps go to 29 inmediately...It takes about 30 min. to be dissapointed again and again.As always, i go back to my trusty GTX285...And i think that in FSX the NVIDIA looks better, and it

My specs:ASUS MAXIMUS III FORMULA Intel iCore 7 860, Cooler Master 212 Plus cooler2X2 GB CORSAIR 1600 DOMINATOR XFX ATI 5870X-FI EXTREMEMUSIC (Drivers from Daniel K, June 2009)SAMSUNG 1 TB F3DVD Optiarc 7200SCherry Mechanical keyboard WiredLogitech MX518 WiredCooler Master COSMOS 1000CORSAIR Power supply HX850Logitech Extreme 3D ProLogitech Z2300 SpeakersSennheiser HD 25 II headphones.Windows 7 64 Bits UltimateAll Catalyst, officials and Beta.Believe me I have been using all cards from ATI since the great 9700 Pro (9800 Pro, 9800XT , and all were great , really great cards; until NVIDIA released the 8800GTX. Since then, NVIDIA has been better for FS, IMO. At least that

Believe me I have been using all cards from ATI since the great 9700 Pro (9800 Pro, 9800XT , and all were great , really great cards; until NVIDIA released the 8800GTX. Since then, NVIDIA has been better for FS, IMO. At least that

Hi djt01may I know your CCC Settings please? I'm also using Catalyst 10.2 but get only good FPS and smooth flight with Adaptive AA. But the IQ is much worse then yours. If I enable SSAA (4x) then flight in clouds are not very smooth.Thank you!

Hi djt01may I know your CCC Settings please? I'm also using Catalyst 10.2 but get only good FPS and smooth flight with Adaptive AA. But the IQ is much worse then yours. If I enable SSAA (4x) then flight in clouds are not very smooth.Thank you!

The screens were originally taken at 1920x1080 resolution, 8x