Once upon a time I thought I understood all this stuff but it seems to get more and more complicated. Any suggestions / thoughts from the folk here would be extremely welcome.I have an OK system (2.2G AMD Athlon Duron, 1G memory, ASUS A7N8X MB) which delivers OK FS2004 performance most of the time provided I'm careful with the sliders. However, I reckon my graphics card might be getting past its best before date (I bought it in 2002, it's a Creative NVIDIA Ti4600 128M card).So, the questions are.....(1) Will a new card improve my FS2004 experience or is it unlikely to make much difference? (I sometimes have patches of scenery that take a while to fill in when I change views from the cockpit - would a bigger memory card help that?)(2) What on earth is the relative performance between a Ti4600 and today's cards. The specs seem to get harder to undertsand by the week!! (3) The Ti45600 was a high end card when I bought it

Unfortuantly your motherboard is AGP and not PCI-E so it makes good cards more expensive than they would be with PCI-E basically graphics power is not as much required as CPU power which is unusual for a game but not FS.You would most definatly see a massive improvement in performance with a new graphics card but more specifically you would see more improvements with a new processorLuke Harvest

Depends on the resolution... ;-) Kind regards Jaap

I just added a second hard drive yesterday that is only for fs9. It seems to make a nice performance increase. I was leaning toward getting a new amd athlon 64 dual core and mobo but wanted to try something cheaper first because I wasnt sure if fs could take advantage of a new technology processor.

>>I wasnt sure if fs could take advantage of a new technology processor.FS9= Dual-Core NOFSX= Dual-Core YES