Video card

[pengu146]

What would be an optimum video card for running aces high my fps has been pretty low recently

[The Fugitive]

thats like asking "which car is best?" 

Need a few more details, Dxdiag will show pretty much everything you got.

[Getback]

thats like asking "which car is best?" 

Need a few more details, Dxdiag will show pretty much everything you got.

Ditto, may be your processor.

[eagl]

The fastest video card you can reasonably afford is "best".  You may not get more framerate beyond a certain point, but you may be able to make the images look better with higher res textures, higher screen resolution, and antialiasing.

Anything over an nvidia geforce 6800GT should give you really good results.  Any of the nvidia cards selling for over about $140 (8600/8800/9600/9800) would be fast and should let you crank up the image quality quite a bit.

Of course, the rest of your system also matters.  AH framerates are at least partially dependent on cpu speed even if you have a fast video card, and having at least 1gb of ram is a really good idea.  2gb of ram is pretty cheap nowadays.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I would say the optimum card for AH is Geforce 9600GT. Cheap but fast.

[Newman]

Anything over an nvidia geforce 6800GT should give you really good results.  Any of the nvidia cards selling for over about $140 (8600/8800/9600/9800) would be fast and should let you crank up the image quality quite a bit.

Is it just me.. or is nVidia just a bit behind the curve..

I bought an 8800 YEARS ago and never looked back    I've had 9600's and 9800's as well, but mine were all ATI cards   

Much better IMHO.

SALUTE!

Newman
Once you go ATI, you'll never go back!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Actually it's quite the opposite. Since Nvidia put out the 8800 series ATI hasn't had anything to compete with them. Cue stop in development when competition ends.

ATI is really struggling to get by at the market at the moment, forcing their top-of-the-line cards into heavy pricedrops since they really compete against midlevel nvidia products.

Sad situation for consumers because if Nvidia had competition we'd have next gen displaycards already out. Now they just chose to do a cosmetic change to 8800 and call it 9800.