October 14, 201114 yr I have been running ATi for awhile now with no compalints. I use it because of the 3 screen view. The NGX on 3- 24" screens is something to see. See spec's below. It is all about choice and how you want to see it. Answer that question first, then you will be able to build from there. Jim Hittle------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Windows 7 Pro |i7-950 @ OC 3.2 | 12 Gb DDR3 1600 Supertalent overclocker Ram | GIGABYTEX58A-U5 Mobo | ATI 5870-6 2Gb Video Card, Eyefinity 24"-3 screen sys |Antec 1000w True Power Quattro PSU | WD Velociraptor 600Gb primary | WD 1Tb Sata 6Gb/s Sata3 64MB secondary | TT Frio cpu overclocker cooler | Coolermaster HAF 932 gamer case | Saitek yoke and duo throttles | Saitek switch panel / Saitek radiopanel | Saitek rudder | Secondary core2 duo-home networkserver w/2 screen setup for FsInn communications connecting and other related flight ops | REX 4 Direct | Active sky Next / Ultimate Traffic 2| Ultimate Terrain USA | FTX Global | FSDT KLAS | FSDT KDFW | FSDT KLAX | Flightbeam KSFO / KAID / KDEN / American Virtual Airlines(www.joinava.org) Fleet Captain | PMDG 737NGX-600/700/800/900 / 777 /FSX
October 14, 201114 yr Commercial Member I do not recommend AMD cards for FSX - they have well known architectural issues with older shaders that FSX uses (ie slow framerate in clouds and around water) and their driver has several glitches in FSX that I was told by their team will never be fixed. I recommend a GeForce 560Ti, 570 or 580. Ryan MaziarzFor fastest support, please submit a ticket at http://support.precisionmanuals.com
October 14, 201114 yr I have a 2GB ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 and I love it. Runs FSX very well and I have no issues at all with the PMDG aircraft! Pete Richards I've owned every version of flight simulator since Flight Simulator 3.0 in 1988. Windows 11 Pro loaded on a 4TB Gen5 Crucial T700 SSD, 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD, Ryzen 9 7950x3d, AS Rock X670e Taichi Motherboard, Gigabyte Gaming RTX 4090 OC 24GB, 64GB (2x32GB) Viper Venom DDR5-6000MT/s, MSI 32" MAG 321UPX QD-OLED 260hz 4K Gaming Monitor.
October 14, 201114 yr Author I do not recommend AMD cards for FSX - they have well known architectural issues with older shaders that FSX uses (ie slow framerate in clouds and around water) and their driver has several glitches in FSX that I was told by their team will never be fixed. I recommend a GeForce 560Ti, 570 or 580.Oh thanks a lot for your post Ryan, this cleared up a lot for me! I was almost gonna get the ATI HD6950 1GB. But if you say ATI cards have some problems I'm gonna get the MSI GTX560ti Hawk 1GB. Although people say that they're satisfied with ATI, I'm not gonna take the risk (because I've had far enough problems with FSX already), so I'm gonna get the NVIDIA. Thanks :( Arjen Vandervelde
October 14, 201114 yr I have one system that has a GTX 580 and another with 2 Radeon HD 5870's Crossfired and don't have any issues with either. FSX runs awesome on both although a bit slower on the 5870 machine but that one is also setup with Eyefinity at 5040x1050 resolution (and half the price of the GTX580 at that). Getting one from either camp will bring you much relief from the 320 that supplies little to FSX, either way you can't go wrong. i7-13700KF, 32gb DDR4 3200, RTX 4080, Win 11, MSFS 2024
October 14, 201114 yr Oh thanks a lot for your post Ryan, this cleared up a lot for me! I was almost gonna get the ATI HD6950 1GB. But if you say ATI cards have some problems I'm gonna get the MSI GTX560ti Hawk 1GB. Although people say that they're satisfied with ATI, I'm not gonna take the risk (because I've had far enough problems with FSX already), so I'm gonna get the NVIDIA. Thanks As my sig says, i have a 560Ti and it performs very nicely in FSX. Rick Hobbs
October 15, 201114 yr I recently went from nVidia to ATI, 6970 with Eyefinity x6. This card screams but ATI has an issue if you want to use the 2D panels. On most you have to "window" FSX then reduce the size of the 1D panel, then maxamize. This is my only issue.
October 15, 201114 yr Nvidia FTW!!!! What Ryan said. GeForce 560Ti, 570 or 580 is all goods for FSX and other games. - Edward Boyte | Youtube
October 15, 201114 yr the problems were mainly with the old 4xxx series Radeons.. I had a 5870 which performed beautifully with bojote's shader mod, then upped to a GTX 570 and noticed a few extra framerates and a bit smoother sim, but nothing dramatic.. Since then I have dropped down to a GTX 460 twinfrozr II (great temps btw) and notice absolutely no difference at all. David Garrison
October 15, 201114 yr the problems were mainly with the old 4xxx series Radeons.. I had a 5870 which performed beautifully with bojote's shader mod, then upped to a GTX 570 and noticed a few extra framerates and a bit smoother sim, but nothing dramatic.. Since then I have dropped down to a GTX 460 twinfrozr II (great temps btw) and notice absolutely no difference at all. I have to say that I have been amazed at the super performance of my old GTX460 since I got my new computer . It really does a good job with the NGX. Richard Binns MSFS 2020 & 2024- Asus ROG Strix Z390-E - Skylake i7 9700k - Asus Geforce RTX 4070 Super OC 12gb, 64gig G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 - Thermaltake Thor 850w Platinum PSU - Corsair H150i AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - H150i AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - Thermaltake V71 Case - Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB - 2 x Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus V-Nand 1TB
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