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Which card would be more compatible with CFS3? G4 mx440 128ddr or G3 ti200 128ddr. My mother board is limited to 4x AGP buss or so they tell me. These 2 seem to be the best within the 4x limit which is better? Or other suggestions welcome. Thanks

If you read all the post in this part of the forum (CFS3) you will get about that many answers. I switched from a GeForce2 MX400 to a GeForce4 Ti 4200 and it seemed to work pretty good. I know that is no answer, but its like asking whats the best airplane to download. A million answers.

Hi Glitch,

Just because your motherboard is limited to a 4X AGP bus that won't limit what video card you can get. My Intel D850GB motherboard is a 4X board too but I have a Radeon 9700 Pro which can run at 8X. The newer 8X video cards are all backwards compatible. I have a few texture problems in CFS3 with my Radeon but all in all it works very well. I imagine ATI will write some new drivers to fix this as they've already "tried" to at certain Anti-Aliasing modes. I heard that you should stay away from the mx video cards but whatever you can afford go for it.

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Well I am going up from a g2 mx card and do not fly that much any more. The g2 worked well for design. Even does well now as it is munching on its last chip.  My wife lost her job last Friday. An expensive card is out...for now! If I can even get the performance that the g2 was giving me toward the end of it's life I will be happy... for now.

Glitch,

GeForce4/MX440 is a good card, only 64Mb DDR though. It's not that expensive and does a good job when combined with enough RAM and good clock speed. As far as just putting any new card in your system, even if it offers more Mb, pixels/ms or bs,etc....WATCH your power supply and your volts. Quickest way to destroy your system is shorting the power draw.

Glitch,

I have a GF4 MX440 64MB.
It runs FS2002 / CFS 1,2 & 3 superbly with my specs (listed below).

A word of warning, the 128MB GF4 MX uses slower RAM than the 64MB MX - Hence me going for the 64MB variant.

The MX's represent excellent value, however, as I think loomex has discovered, the "ti" Cards are very much better.

My advice, save a little more and get a GF4 ti 4200.