ATI 9700 Pro and MS flight sim+ other sims

quadcells

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Hi all
A friend and I are looking to up grade our video cards.
I use my rig for gaming and video editing. He uses his for flight sims.
Would anyone know how the ATI 9700 Pro 128Meg card stacks up against the GeForce 4 TI4600?
I heard that the 9700Pro has issues with flight sims.

We both have the Asus P4PE motherboards and P4 2.4gig cpu's.
TIA
 

HWF

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High res with 6xAA and 16AF is where its at for flight sims. Combatsim3 seems to have the most problems of flight sims currently. I believe its a problem across the board reguardless of which video card is used. I have both cards and much prefer the Ati its just faster looks better and is more futrue proof. It might be wise to wait a month or so and consider the Gforce FX or what Ati has up its sleeve. Maybe they have additional features not yet enabled in the 9700 Pro.
 

BFG10K

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The 9700 Pro should be faster in most flight sims (especially with the Catalyst 2.4s) but I have issues running CFS3 on mine (it hard locks). So right now the Ti4600 will be more compatible while the 9700 Pro will be faster.