Use Driver Cleaner Pro to uninstall drivers.

Go to www.guru3d.com to get the most recent Forceware drivers. You'll probably see an increase compared to the ones bundled with the card.

Well, I own a 7600GS and I am satisfied w. it

But if you wanta a new Display Card, be patient and wait for 8800. (actually released. just for the price to drop) That supports DX10

To late I already have the 7800 GS OC on its way. I have 8x agp and I think the 8800 is PCI Express isnt it?

Wolfy

Thats right.

In any case, you'll enjoy your new card quite a bit.

Check this out..... http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_fsx_techtips.html#
Just so you know, it's for nVidia cards and with setting for running FSX. Go to the bottom of the page and click "For a More Detailed List". It will at least give an idea on what your card can and can't do with the ones listed in the More Detailed List.

Seeing I have only a 6800XT I don't feel too bad. The settings I could use aren't too far off the mark for the 8800 and 7600GT+. Even my 5600 is listed and shows a big big difference from the 6800+. But then again, I don't have FSX yet. Oh Santa, can you hear me? LOL

6800's and 7600's are about equivalent, performancewise. The 7600's perform slightly better at all games but those utilizing the memory on the card a lot.

Seeing most cards are 128bit, even with 256mb of memory, I grabbed this 6800XT fast. It's the 256bm/256bit one. So that's why I think it's a wee bit above par over most others. I can say graphics are amazing in SHIII, FS9, COD2 and MOH Pacific Assault. With the graphics and physics in MOH PA, the 6800XT really shines. I can only imagine what an 8800 would be like.

128-bit just means that it takes longer to load textures to/from the memory, but in any case, even though they're getting pretty old, the 6800 series has held up extremely well.

Hi all, as much as I´d love to upgrade from my GeForce6600, I´ll be patient and won´t buy anything before Vista and DirectX have been on the market for a while and got rid of what we call "Kinderkrankheiten" ("child´s deseases")... My two cents AS

I agree with AS. Unless they are giving these cards away at fantastic prices, I'm sticking with my GeForce 6200 OC/256mb. Works just swell for me. It has the 3.0 Shader for anything coming out in the next year. Not until Vista and DX10 get their crap together will I be looking to change.

I'm after upgrading my graphics in the new year and with that in mind I spoke to Gibs online just yesterday and he advised exactly as stabiz says in his first post :
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Follow Up Post...

I finally got my Geforce 7800 GS OC and installed it. Install was smooth all I had to do was plug and play and load into XP and then re-install the forceware drivers for geforce.

I decided to give the card a test, I loaded up SH3 and loaded the "Happy Times" mission. (Before when I played this mission when viewing my sub from the external view when looking at it and the open ocean it was smooth but when i circled around and it was pointed toward the convoy i could see the screen slow down and jerk a few times as it loaded all the convoys information. With the new card... OMFG... smooth as silk as i spin that camria in a circle as fast as i can absolutly no lag at all, though i did get a slight jerk upon a big explosion of a tanker, but as for the efects and smoke etc.. no problems at all.

There is one thing i notised though, its hard to explain but its almost like if i move the camria around in the command room up and down really fast i can see the screen split like the actual frames per second... I dont know if i need to mess with the refresh rates or something... but its very minor and even with the slight glitch its smooth.

Anyway, i need to learn about all these settings and what to tweak to get the best performace but so far, im very happy with this card! :rock:

Wolfy

Thanks for that Savages_Wolf...def goin for that one in the new year :yep: :up:

Id recommend it. I did a few more tests with Quake 3 on maximum graphics and doing a demo test I clocked in at an average rate of 286ish+ frames per second. :D

I also bought a new game released a few days ago "Rainbow Six Vegas" to push my card even further since it requires all the new 3.0 shader models and what not and runs on the Unreal 3 engine. At the start of the game your inflight in a chopper over mexico city where you can see out the chopper door for a good mile or further with fully renderd buildings, terrain, shadows and everything. I couldnt believe I was actually running something like that with smooth frame rates! I didnt max out the graphics on it though, I just left it at the settings it had when it installed which were still amazing and probably on high. I have to do a few more tests on it but it kinda feels like if I would push the card any further than what Rainbow Six demands ill probably notise some slow downs... maybe... cause just the detial in Rainbow Six looked very demanding on system performance.

As for the person who said the card is loud... upon bootup yes the fan speed gets pretty high and it does puts off a good "hum" to it, but when the machine loads the OS and settles in... the fan speed slows down and is no louder than the fan on the back of your machine (power supply fan). Even with the slow fan speed and the card being overclocked it runs at a stable 42 degrees C. Thats about what my other card ran at which I found the fan to be coverd in dust and filth from never being cleaned out. :p

(and yes I did polished it up and put it away for possible future use)

Wolfy