ATI has announced that they are aware of problems using their Radeon 9800 and 9700 series video cards with FS2004 and are working on solving the problem. A web page has been set up where users can monitor the status. For details, click on Read More.
Problems with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and Flightsim 2004.
ATI has been working on trying to get the Radeon 9800 and 9700 series video cards to work with FS2004. Here's the site to look up for future patches:
www.ati.com/support/infobase/4256.html
ATI is working on the problem and will hopefully will correct the issues with these video cards.