It's known that certain system configurations seem to be happy with certain drivers. If you are getting good results, stick with it.

Driver upgrades, with a few exceptions, have very little effect in the overall performance of your PC.

A one or two percent increase is a help, but you won't notice it, and typically that's all you gain with a successful driver upgrade. And then there are the un-successful ones.................

There is hardly any difference between ALL the drivers when you view a performance chart of the test results. This could vary on a particular machine though.

As far as the blue screens and such, well, something really didn't agree with your system, and it may well be, without trashing the software, Driver Cleaner. It DOES remove files and especially if you use the .dll cleaner that is part of it. I only use Driver Cleaner now if I have probs. I had the blue screen thing after using it once.

Your icons get moved because they don't fit on the screen when the new driver boots up into a different screen resolution , that's all.

Your frame rates are too high for that card, which suggests that you haven't got your quality settings up high enough either in the game, (but you say it's all maxed out!) or more likely in the driver settings themselves.

You'll find that you can increase image quality further, which may enhance your FS experience. Start backing off the settings if the FPS gets dodgy. (that's really a personal preference thing)

I'd like to know what screen resolution you run the game in, and what  anti-aliasing and Anisotropic filtering settings you have set in your driver settings. The reason is that I hear a lot of fantastic claims about the nv5200 cards that just don't add up. (they simply are not a powerful card!)

Maybe the Extreme Landscapes scenery is boosting performance, I'm not familiar with it.

The FX5200 is not on par with the GF4 TI4600, it falls well short of any GF4 TI card, and is roughly half the card that the TI4600 is.

On my rig, my TI4200 scores 12,000 3d marks and the FX5200 scores 7000 3d marks, same settings.

The FX5200 replaced the GF4 MX440's ...... not the GF4 TI series!

Thanks fretnstuff,

Is there any reason you use 2xquin rather than a 4x AA?

I found if the anisotropic filtering is set higher the blurriness goes away a lot, especially in distant scenery.
FPS takes a hit though, but it can be a worthwhile tradeoff if the rig will handle it.

Briefing time isn't exactly FPS friendly either!   

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Those settings I have been playing with, seems at times when I have it set at 4X it makes bad flickering when opening and closing windows, but doesn't seem to flicker when flying just going from one window to another???
Which is the reason I been wanting to try different drivers, but have now been discourage do to the hassel and crashing