Just did that, swapped 4850 for GTX460. Running FSX at 720p on 42" LCD, intel [email protected] 4GB RAM.Most noticable difference: textures loading much faster, haven't noticed any of the usual tile swapping (from lower res to higher), everything nice and crisp. As far as FPS are concerned, I think I gained a few, but not many. But there's almost no difference when changing weather from fair to rainy, FPS stays the same, on 4850 it was going down.Overall I'd say it's a big improvement, especially to IQ if not FPS.Greg

I'm testing my new Gigabyte 1GB GTX460 now and FSX looks the same. Not a single extra frame or faster texture loading either. At low FPS it might be a bit smoother, I'm not sure, could be just placebo effectanyway. your problems with your ATI card in bad weather could have been solved with Jes

I'm testing my new Gigabyte 1GB GTX460 now and FSX looks the same. Not a single extra frame or faster texture loading either. At low FPS it might be a bit smoother, I'm not sure, could be just placebo effectanyway. your problems with your ATI card in bad weather could have been solved with Jes

What I have noticed for sure is no blurries around me when flying low and slow. Also I have FAA set to 8S and 16x anisotropic filtering, which I couldn't set with radeon. So there's real improvement over 4850. I could also push my CPU to around 3.8GHz but my memory won't run at that.Edit: after deleting fsx.cfg framerates went up quite a lot. in default trike over manchester from 45 to 70Greg

The newer GTX series of cards may not necessarily run FSX faster, but they may allow you to run higher graphics settings/FSAA settings with less of an impact.GFurm's system will probably run FSX better and he will see more of an improvement from a newer videocard becuase he is running a quad core intel chip. Intel processors are quite a bit better than AMD for FSX due to, if I remember correctly, how calculations are done in the chip.

Intel Ix are faster core for core than phenoms II x6, but not a q9550. Even a 980X will be the bottleneck in FSX anywayhttp://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/146....46.47.48.49.50

What I have noticed for sure is no blurries around me when flying low and slow. Also I have FAA set to 8S and 16x anisotropic filtering, which I couldn't set with radeon. So there's real improvement over 4850. I could also push my CPU to around 3.8GHz but my memory won't run at that.Edit: after deleting fsx.cfg framerates went up quite a lot. in default trike over manchester from 45 to 70Greg

the blurrs are a well known issue with old ATI drivers which left FSX with no anisotropic filtering. the latest driver version had that sorted those ATI cards struggle with high AA levels in FSX (unless you have a 58xx or better), but I could run 8xS AA with my 260 anyway hence why I said I have no better IQ