>Given heavy duty clouds n autogen, I notice 4xAA on>my Radeon 9700 chokes a bit for certain at my 1600 x res of>choice, indicating the video card is now the limiter. >>Noel What settings are you running your 9700 pro at? I run 2AA/2AF, 1280x1024 32 bit res in FS2004

2x/16x, 1600 x 32 whenever possible. I have added ActiveSky 2004, which is very good, but is responsible for serious fps impact in certain situations.Cheers

JohanI am using a Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB. My system is P4c 2.6ghz 800mhz FSB,Asus P4P800, 1gb ram and found that if I OC CPU to 2.86ghz I see an improvement but going beyond that seems to make no difference (in FS9 that is), which leads me to think that I,ve hit the limit for 9600 Pro. I'd suggest that you get a Radeon 9800 for this reason. I've OC'd to 3.38ghz where it still runs rock solid and cool with fantastic performance in other games but doesn't help FS9 at all. If anyone has other ideas about this I'd love to hear as I'm about to buy a Radeon 9800, which is really streatching my budget.ThanksDavid

Waiting for R420 in late spring. It is purported to be double the speed of 9800 Pro.Cheers,Noel