Whats coming in the near future??  Is it worth buying the 9800pro or should one wait.  I dont wanna spend the big bucks only to find out I should have waited 2 or 3 months and now my 9800 is "old news'  It cost 450 here and we all know the price will drop as soon as something better comes along.

Speedbird_1961

Er..... The 9800pro is old hat already!!

The new gen cards are

Nvidia FX6000 range, i.e.  6800GT, 6800Ultra soon to be a lower spec 6600 too

Ati X800 range, i.e. X800pro, X800 XT, X800 XT PE.

If you want the best now you want either the 6800Ultra or the X800XTPE.  Otherwise you can wait till after christmas when some other kinda new card will be released!

One thing though, if your holding 50fps with all things maxxed why do you require a new g/card?  With my system as below I still can only hold about 20fps at a busy airport with all my settings maxxed.

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Im very happy with the FPS I currently have, however, in looking at some screenies here at SimV I see that there are some very high quality shots ie: no jaggies, very crisp, clear shots, some even looking very realalistic.  Im looking to improve on quality only, not FPS.

Ah thats why you holding such a high FPS.

Ok well your card is capable of Anti-Alias I think, my old GF4 ti4600 was anyhow.

Now you can make yours look pretty to, though it may become unflyable, but just to get an idea of how FS can look.

Go to your graphics settings through the control panel/settings.  choose settings then click the advanced button.  Click the tab at the top which should say Ti4200.  Go to the Performance and Quality bit and set Anti-Alias to 4x.  Set Anistropic Filter to 8x.  Set Image settings to 'Quality'  Set the res in the game to the highest your monitor can do, prob 1280x1024 but goto 1600x1200 if possible.

Ok start your FS up.  Max everything in display settings but leave mip-map quality at 5 and do not tick the anti-alias box on the hardware tab in the game.  Ok create a flight.  Once started take a look, should now look very pretty, if your at a busy airport expect to see your at about 5.  U cant fly like this but u can get an idea of what the game can look like.  Now go get yourself a 6800U as this card can hold about 20fps in this situation with the amount of 3d clouds turned down to 60% and AI reduced to 75% also the IQ is much better so you will have a crisper image still 

Of course now you will have to go turn off AA and AF in your control settings so its back to how it was.

Yeah i think that mobo is alright, my suggestions were alterations in your graphic settings nothing to do with the mobo.

I just run a little test on my rig here.  I turned off AA and AF and flew into KSEA with all sliders maxxed and res at 1280x1024 (The max res your TFT should do)

I held 26FPS all the way in, unless I looked away from the airport then it shot up to 60ish.  So what is very strange is how my new g/card works as upping the res to 1600x1200 and putting on 4xAA and 16xAF only loose me a few FPS (Goes down to 20).

My install of this game is only a week old, though I do have a lot of addons installed and I dont use progs like enditall etc, in fact I had MSN and IE pages open so dunno how much this would have effected the FPS.