<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I purchased a nForce680i SLI mother board with a q6700 quad 2.66 ghz CPU and for gigs of SLI RAM to use with my 8800 Ultra video card that I already had. </DIV>
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<DIV>The result.. with FS9 it no longer lets me undock windows making the system useless with my simulator. The main view only works properly in fullscreen mode. Put it in a window mode and you can hear it flying but the visuals are frozen. I do average 40 FPS with the slider all the way up on all the options flying around KLAX.. It looks outstanding but I need to undock extra views. FSX still gets horrible frame rates. very disappointing. this system should be smoking! </DIV>
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<DIV>when I installed all the patches for X it said my video card was not a new enough model and couldnt handle the shaders. X then closes. </DIV>
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<DIV>All of this with a clean install of of Vista Home 32 bit </DIV>
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<DIV>A puzzled Justin<BR><BR></DIV>
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