I was just offered an Ati HD 4650 512m, do you think it will perform better on FS9 than my actual nvidia BFG 7950 OC 256?
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Its like the MSI oner but its from Visiontek
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You only need one thread on one subject. Not 3. Otherwise, it's known as "spam". I have already given you my opinion on the subject, so I won't repeat it here.

I believe the reason you can't get your answer is because it's really difficult to make a determination based on video card specs. Every machine is different. The only way is to do a direct comparison with the two cards.

If you have both of them, run some comparisons yourself. If they are both PCI-express and you have both... use both. Don't you have more than one PCI-express slot?

The 4350 performs well in my WidevieW setup. It runs the left and right forward views on a mediocre 2.Ghz Celeron based machine with 2 GB of ram.

This is running on an XP machine with FS9 so YMMV. Greatly.

Frames are usually in 10-12 range on the ground at Mega-Heathrow and go to 60-80 airborne using UT Europe, and my settings are pretty high on this machine.

Take into consideration this machine and card are running two monitors in an intensive scenery area.

If you are running one monitor, I'd say go for it. Heck, it'll handle two as well.

I like it so much I'm buying another for a fifth WidevieW machine that's due in on Friday.

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agreed, for both FSX and FS9 I found any thing from the 7900GT (and personially I think its on the low end) on up is good to use, I have never used ATI except once when I had the X700Radion card but I swaped that out for an nvidia (for got what card but i may still have the card some place) but the (least to me) 7900GT runs FSX margenally on medium settings and runs FS9 pretty well, with all possible settings maxed out (and FPS set to 20 - 30) but I went to the dual 8900GSO (sli though for some reason I think my system only finds one card since it only registers the 780MB and I have two cards with 780MB) but thats for another topic and I got FSX fully maxed out and it runs pretty smooth, so really it not only depends on the card(s) them selves

but it also depends on things like your CPU (centeral processor unit), RAM, FSB and how much ram and the type of procesor you have.

and yes you can have the best top of the line video card that can run FSX and FS9 fully maxed out at the same time, but if your ram and CPU arn't up to par for the task you might as well be running a 386...the CPU and ram (mor CPU then any thing else) is the most critical piece, why?

Because the CPU is the main bottle neck, its got to process just about every thing, yes the video cars now have there own built in GPU which can take the main bulk of the work off the CPU but your CPU still has to do other things like procesing data the GPU cant, and handeling I/O tasks (keyboard, mouse, ect) and the like.



Sorry, if its a bit technical, I work on computers and I am getting my degree in internet system security...hehe...plus been taking computers appart and building them since i was 4 (first one i ever had my hands on was a 386 which i still have hehe)