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Yes it does. I run XP myself and it works just fine.

A few quick tweaks and turning off certain driver features such as antialiaising (or what ever its called)  and V-sync can improve frame rates. It depends on what card you have, with a good card like a Ti4x00 or a FX5x00, you may only need to sharpen textures, if that. You probably won't notice much better on high end cards. You don't need a tweak program to turn off what I listed above but you do need one to sharpen textures. Through Riva, this can be done by setting the LOD (DirectX and OpenGL) slider to a negative value, such as -2. If textures and frames are good to begin with, don't bother tweaking.

BTW, although Riva advertises it works on ATI's Catalyst drivers, but I think it only works on older ones. Riva works on all Nivida Detonator drivers. There are a few other tweak utilities at Guru3d.com but I found that Riva is the easiest to use.

If you want to see how your card stacks up, visit http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/vgacharts-06.html
This compares varoius cards. The site I listed uses Jedi Outcast as a test game. JO is a high frame game. The results were quite interesting. Some lower end cards preform better than high end ones, particularly when compairing Geforce to Radeon.

Well, now that I've learned how to check the framerates, I couldn't wait to get home last night and find out.  I checked it under various conditions, and I'm averaging about 30fps....is that good?

its above what the human eye can process as smooth running so yes:)

Just had to go and retract my prior vote and increase it........ due to installing a new video card.  WHAT a difference.  Well worth the bucks.  It is like a different simulation.  My landings and takeoffs immediately improved due to the smooth simulation at airports.  (Not to say that they are GOOD landings and takeoffs  ....... just better.)

I put it in the survey at the 20-40 range now ....which is what I get at TO + L at a busy international type airport (about 25-27 on the ground and about 35-40 in the air) with lots of AI, and all sliders and check boxes at max....and the distance set at 100 miles (1024 x 768 32 bit).

Further away from the airport in the air the rates go up.  Similarly at night.

Before I was lucky to get 10 FPS in that same location with the sliders a little down from there.

Went from a GeForce 2 MX 400 64 Meg card to an ATI Radeon 9600 128 Meg card.

best,

....................john