When all you posters are jumping up and down with excitement or, for that matter, lying prostrate with disappointment when relating your experiences with a new graphics driver set, PLEASE mention the identity of your graphics card. Failure to do this simply renders the thread unhelpful if not useless to the rest of us who are trying to make a judgement.I am still using Omega's 2.5.36b set with my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB card and Hyundai TFT LCD 17" monitor and remain well pleased with both their performance and image quality. In fact, I would go as far as to say that they still equal if not better any of the images currently being posted on the screenshot forum extolling the virtues of the new 'DNA's' based on the 4.7 Cats.My settings are AAX6, AFx16 (Quality) and Mipmap detail level - High Quality (slider at 4 in the sim) Screen Resolution: 1280x1024x32For those of you who already include such details, I say a hearty warm thank you!I imagine there will come a time when ATI will stop including optimizations for a particular graphics card so in such an event it would be pretty pointless updating a driver set just for updating's sake. I'm only really interested in reading posts from those who have a card similar to mine. Hopefully I am speaking for many of you out there. The term 'Unified Driver Set' means only that they are compatible across the range of currently available cards (Either ATI or nVidia). It does not necessarily mean that optimizations will affect the performance of all cards in that range.Remember, please tell us what card you are using.Cheers!MikeP4 2.4GHz (400FSB), 1Gig PC2100 DDR Crucial, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (Omega 2.5.36b), SB Audigy (5.12.0001.0443), Hyundai ImageQuest Q17 17" TFT LCD 20ms Monitor (1280x1024x32), Gigabyte GA-8IRXP MoBo, Ultra-Quiet PSU 400W, WinXP Home (SP1), DirectX 9.0b, AGP Aperture = 128MB

I have used a Radeon 9700 Pro and has gone through pretty much all drivers released since FS2004 came out. I have *never* seen an improvement in the image quality. If using the *same* settings, the iamge quality, to my eyes, has been identical. Even if there was a subtle difference (ATI did monkey around with the mipmapping quality, for instance), the difference is way too small to be noticable on a resized, jpeg-compressed screenshot.Making a good screenshot mostly comes down to composition - zoom settings, weather settings, distance from plane, lighting etc. So, it's possible for someone with a "crappy" computer to produce a screenshot that looks much better than that from a "high end" machine.

OK, Mike... just tell me how to make all that info stretch across the message box like in your sig.Greg

Yep, I agree. I've tried every version of driver available on my 128MB 9800 Pro and, like you, have never seen any difference at all in image quality. But, in fairness, my trial with the 4.7's was a short one as they refuse to allow the resolution to be changed on the second monitor (the system just reboots itself). Some of the best screenshots I've ever seen were made with a 64MB GF2 Ultra - and that's a long way from being an up-to-date card.Doug

Hi Greg,"tell me how to make all that info stretch across the message box like in your sig"......you're pulling my leg, right?... LOLRegards,Mike

How do you know what drivers you have for a video card? I got a new Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb graphic card (had it since december) and I have no idea what drivers are installed.

"......you're pulling my leg, right?... LOL"Well, as the resident dummy around here... NOOOOO!But I figured it out (with the assistance of my 12 year old and the dog!).Greg

Here's how I do it (Omega and UniAN drivers):Right click on the desktop, click on "Settings", click on "Advanced", click on "Options", and your driver version should be listed there.Greg

Hey, I'm impressed!....and 'dummy' you ain't. I've got a cat that can run rings around me when it comes to who gets into the living room first to bag the most comfy chair :(Mike

That's because the cat regards you as his/her personal staff, not the owner of the chair :-) .Doug

>Hey, I'm impressed!>>....and 'dummy' you ain't. I've got a cat that can run rings>around me when it comes to who gets into the living room first>to bag the most comfy chair :(>>MikeThat is why Cats come with long tails.:)Andy b