You can get G/cards to fit in PCI slots but they dont work as well as AGP ones.

Might be time to get a new mobo with an AGP slot.  U can pick up a half decent one for £50-£60 I reckon, depending on what you require from your mobo.

bundlefly,

Personally, I would not "waste my money" on a new PCI graphics card.  If you don't have an AGP slot on the board.... then the MoBo is the place to start.  PCI cards are not really up to fs2004.

Sorry to have to say that.

best,

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

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LOL er    NOOOOooooooo.......... My bro had an FX5600 256ddr card and my GF4 ti4600 run stuff better than his for some reason.  Nice try though  heheheheeeee.

ok,i know AGP is better but  i seen online that theres a "VisionTek Xtasy 9200 256MB PCI Video Card"  for $100 USD (after rebates):
so you all are saying that  if i  got something like this , i wouldn't notice much difference AT ALL in frame rates/performance even though this has 256 video RAM compared to the 64mb card i have now???  if i could  get an extra 10fps then i would be happy. i  just don't really like the idea of having to get an entire new motherboard. the ones i seen online were pretty expensive too.

B42 try and stretch to a 9800pro, its a better card and will handle FS9 better.  With the intro of the new gen cards you should be able to pick one of these up for a reasonable price.  Make sure you get the 256bit version though.  It can be 128DDR or 256DDR but have 256BIT this means the card has a greater bandwidth and will work better.

Brundle I do not know enough about PCI cards to say whether you would see any performance difference with that card or not.

The issue will be the speed with which the standard PCI bus can get information from the CPU to the video card.  There was a reason that designers came up with the AGP (the key part in that acronym is accelerated).  It solved the problem of not being able to keep up with modern program's graphics processing demands.

Even AGP's running 4X speed are now getting outdated by the newer standards.  (And PCI Express will make ALL of this stuff obsolete.... since it is NOT backwards compatible with older hardware.)

FS2004 is a demanding program by most anyone's standards.  Personally, after ending up buying a whole new machine and sorting thru 4 video cards to get acceptable fs2004 performance,  I really don't think that an investment in a PCI based video card will be money very well spent.

Save your pennies and replace the machine first.

best,

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

Coongo, sounds like you may know the answer or make a suggestion.......I have a Dell 8100 1.48 with 762 RAM, 120 harddrive and now a RADEON 9200 graphics card,  thinking about getting a 9600 or higher card, BUT, there are so many RADEONS and others it is confusing as to which to install (some are too fast for this machine, so waste of money??)    Any suggestions from all the experienced users out there..................Thanks ???