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Postby Batman93210 » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:57 am

Hi yall :)

I up graded my graphics card to a Radeon9550 with 256MB DDR memory. Is this a good graphics card for FS, and What is the best settings with this graphics card for FS9? Is anyone here used this graphics card.

I'm having a probelm with FS9. When I swich views cockpit to Vcockpit the screen go black, and FS9 stops responding. I thank this has to do with the graphics card, but I'm not sher
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby JBaymore » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:38 am

Batman,

Go to the "Tom's Hardware" website and look at the bar charts of graphic card comparisions using fs2004.
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby MWISimmer » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:38 pm

Batman, at all costs steer well clear of this card.... I have one  :-/  and it's AWFUL. Maybe i'm doing it down a bit, i mean i'm sure it's better than a lot of cards out there, but for FS9...no. Microsoft Solitaire...yes.  ;)
Joking aside, it really is that bad. Unfortunately i have to stick with mine for the moment (1st child on the way...all funds diverted!  ;D) but as soon as i can afford it, i'm upgrading.
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby Batman93210 » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:52 pm

I still have my old card GForce 5200. Should I put that one back in my computer? As for the driver updates I really dont know what to download for this card. I have been to ati.com, but I'm just not suer what to download.


P.S Congratulations on the baby ;D
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby Delta_ » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:12 am

The 9550 is much better than the FX5200.

You should stick with the 9550 until you can get something like a 6600GT.
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby Batman93210 » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:42 am

Yeah thats what I was going to do. As for updating the drivers I still dont know which dirvers to download. ATI's website is not very helpful. :(
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby congo » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:26 am

You need the generic and all inclusive Catalyst 5.8 drivers here, all the radeon cards use the same driver suite.

http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/index.html

Why are buying low end graphics cards for Simulation use?
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby the_autopilot » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:20 pm

Hi yall :)

I up graded my graphics card to a Radeon9550 with 256MB DDR memory. Is this a good graphics card for FS, and What is the best settings with this graphics card for FS9? Is anyone here used this graphics card.


Its a budget card at best. I seriously recoimmend a 6600 gt. That will give you a serious performence increase.
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Re: Radeon 9550

Postby Delta_ » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:43 am

I recommend the catalyst 5.8 with control panel.
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