New official drivers for ATI users released yesterday, version 12.3. I've been using a preview version for a while, didn't notice any great improvement with my 6970. Notice in the Release notes though, that they mention "XPlane: Textures no longer exhibit flicker and corruption" which will be glad news to the new 7000 series owners of ATI'S cards.Here's the drivers:http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspxAnd the Release notes:http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystSoftwareSuiteVersion123ReleaseNotes.aspxGlen

Confirmed. The new drivers fix texture issues with x-plane. My trees now blend with the scenery rather than looking like black cards. :-). No other performance boost though.