Thanks...I could tell from not seeing any lines from the boot up that things were going to go much better and loading the driver was a snap and that was pretty much it, I was finished.
The card does seem to be doing very well. I have some games like Master rally that seem to have a hard time with AA/AF (don't work very well) unless mix with high res, even then it's hard to find a good medium, but it could be the game. Also, I have to keep going into Task Manager while in the game, just to get the game to go to the next menu more quickly.
I did see some artifacts in UT around the torches, but a setting fix that. And in Facing Worlds when I look at the buildings from far away some little spots of the building are not showing up, like parts are disappearing, and I yet to get the game to run as smooth. Helpfully I can get this straighten out.
With my Nv cards I don't recall artifacts, hmm maybe once or twice, but it wasn't a problem, and it doesn't look like one now if I can get passed it, but parts of the objects disappearing I'm sure I didn't have a problem with before. So I still think ATi is a little buggy in some ways and may need more tweaking then an Nv card. Though as for the FX cards I'm not sure this is still true, since I heard a lot of bad reports on them.
I'm pretty happy though and my tweaking is to a mminimum so far and I still have to learn how or what tools to use with ATi. I used Refreshforce to help with the refresh rate, since it's all I had at the moment and didn't see any other settings. And I have fastwrite on and all the default settings and changing them doesn't cause any trouble, accept for in UT. I am a little nervous though, so when I upgrade my driver, because things are pretty smooth now, but as long as I make Images of my system from time to time, which I can do in under 5 minutes
I should be ok.
I have played some music and looked at some videos, also tweak the AA/AF and have no problems with stability. All in all I think the graphics look great and using AA/AF make's some games look so smooth I have to get right up to the monitor and still may have trouble seeing any steps. Maybe if I stop the game or take snaps shots I might see them. Lol, it's all good.