ATI 4850 with slow FPS.

[Masherbrum]

See Rule #4

[moot]

On my 4850, at home, with vertical sync disabled, offline, 1280x1024 resolution, 4XAA, 0xAF, high res textures installed, setting in the cockpit of a B24 on the NE runway of ndisles, mine is getting between 145 and 154FPS.

On which field is that?

I get this sitting on the runways at A1 with a B24 in default skin: 
NW: 47fps, NE: 45-50, SE: 50-55, SW: 50.  Seems really slow. 
The AH video settings (click for full size):

The in-game graphics detail settings:

The nvidia settings:

Processes from task manager (minus AH):

Hardware:
AMD 3600+ X2
2x2GB of Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5
Asus M2N-SLI motherboard
XFX nvidia 9800GTX+ and GTX+ XXX in SLI, 178.2 drivers (everything else hangs the system as soon as the drivers install)
Audigy SE
WinXP SP2 with all the updates
DxDiag report...  I had to re-enable the onboard sound to get the microphone working. Everything else muted it (zero signal).

[Skuzzy]

My in-game graphic detail settings were all at the defaults.

I was on field A1.

I would chalk it up to the differences in CPU/memory between your system and mine.

[TheZohan]

See Rule #2

[moot]

So the two cards in SLI are really not much help, so much as a faster processor would be.  Like a ~6000+ X2?  Do you think there'd be big payoffs on a bit of overclocking the memory?  Or is there anything I can do to safely optimize its settings?  I'm not looking for any big time overclocking.

[Skuzzy]

My experience with AMD is limited moot.  I suggest you hit the "Hardware and Software" forum as there are others who have more experience with that than I would.

In general, a faster CPU/memory combination will yeild better results with Aces High II, then a faster video card simply due to the amount of time we spend handling the flight model.

[moot]

Thanks Skuzzy.  I was surprised because I get some pretty bad fps (as low as 15fps) in thick furballs and/or ground detail (e.g. some fields where there's heavy forest tiles all around), but I guess the other players' planes have some physics cost to them too, not just position updates.

[TheZohan]

On which field is that?

I get this sitting on the runways at A1 with a B24 in default skin: 
NW: 47fps, NE: 45-50, SE: 50-55, SW: 50.  Seems really slow. 
The AH video settings (click for full size):

The in-game graphics detail settings:
(Image removed from quote.)
The nvidia settings:

Processes from task manager (minus AH):

Hardware:
AMD 3600+ X2
2x2GB of Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5
Asus M2N-SLI motherboard
XFX nvidia 9800GTX+ and GTX+ XXX in SLI, 178.2 drivers (everything else hangs the system as soon as the drivers install)
Audigy SE
WinXP SP2 with all the updates
DxDiag report...  I had to re-enable the onboard sound to get the microphone working. Everything else muted it (zero signal).

you can easily bump your cpu speed for every little to fix your CPU part . you got a kick bellybutton video setup and i think the 3600+ is more of a bottleneck its a windsor core and 2.0ghz with 256k cache.  you should move up to a brisbane or kuma core

the kuma 7750 is fastest X2 and can be had for 63.00 at newegg.
the 6400+ the fastes brisbane core is like 73.00 at newegg.

also a side note the 9500 X4 quad cores can be had for 89.99 at tiger direct  and  run at 2.2ghz  speed and  come with a agena core w/  512k cash

and the toliman X3 flavors  can be had for 70-90

all depends on money really

i know skuzzy has stated problems with the X2's but the triple and quads are okay

[moot]

I'll look at those, thanks.