Rob most users do not report any performance changes from 128 to 256 on the
video card. It would seem to follow that 512 would not help with FS9
either. You may want to check a couple of your FS9 settings as 5FPS seems
quite low for your system. Mine runs 3-4 times faster using 1 meg of 400
Mhz memory on a 333 Motherboard with an AMD 2500 Barton and an ATI 9600 XT
card. Sounds like you may have a bottleneck.

I run Ultimate Traffic set high, real weather using 3D cloulds set at 80
miles and other stuff operating in the background. My PMDG operates nicely
this way.

The first two places I would check are my AGP Aperature (actually smaller is
better than larger 64K works for most users), check to see that the latency
of the Video Card is set low also for best performance. Lastly, I would
make certain I had the latest Motherboard drivers and BIO's as sometimes the
originals have a bug or two.

Since you get good 3D mark scores, I would guess the difficulty may be in
the FS settings. Try deleting your FS9 config file and let it rebuild. You
won't lose anything and may gain a lot.

John


"Rob R. Ainscough" <robains@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:OdCTX$MiFHA.3568@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> That was back in Feb, so where is this mystery ATI 512MB card?? Will it
> be released at all?
>
> I hope so, cause it is painfully slow watching the textures swap in/out on
> my X800XT PE 256MB card at 1600 x 1200.
>
> "jkb" <nospam@none> wrote in message
> news:%23kjgUzMiFHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> I've been searching for a 512MB ATI card -- no luck. 3DLabs is the only
>>> card I see in the 512MB or higher range. ATI card certainly has enough
>>> bandwidth and processing power, just not enough onboard memory for 1600
>>> x
>>> 1200.
>>
>> I think that Crossfire enabled two 256MB ATi graphics cards to become a
>> single 512MB with dual-VPU, etc. However - You should try 3DLabs :-)).
>> 512MB, dual-VPU, VSU, etc. Funny that you mentioned 3DLabs. I was
>> intending
>> to if you replied to me! I don't know them first-hand(for obvious
>> reasons)
>> but they seem quality and Big Huge Gigantic Performance. Info on ATi's
>> 512MB
>> X850: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...223104659.html
>>
>> Glad it's ATi
>>
>> jkb
>>
>>
>
>