I have recently purchased a new pc specifically with gaming and FS2004 in mind. I was told that it would cope with any game out there the specs are as followsAsus p4p800 deluxe springdale socket478intel p4 3.2 hyperthreading 800fsbantecplus 1080amg server case 430w true powermaxtor diamond max plus 9sata 120g8mb cache1 g duel channel gold pc4000 ddr ramxp homehercules ati 3d prophet 9800xt classicWell this was true for all the games i tried except for fs2004. I tweaked the system overclocked it u name it but it still had poor performance 5,6,7 fps with heavy clouds and built up scenery or third party basicly its pretty unflyable in those conditions early twenty if im lucky when away from built up areas and no weather. I was very disappointed am am looking to replace this system with the ultimate out there , What i am wondering is is there actualy a system out there that can cope with this game with all the sliders maxed out or is the technology just not advanced enough at the moment. Is it a question of how much you have to spend ?.Having spoken too a fer performance pc specialist pc companys they are suggesting fx53 based systems with the geforce 6800 card, but i find it hard to believe such a system will be that much more powerfull than the one above, so does anybody know where to go to get serious performance cos i dont think most of these companys are familiar with FS2004 and just how demanding and resource intensive it really is. I,m not worried about the cost i just want the ultimate performance so u can play this game the way it way designed to be played with an addon aircraft like the PMDG 737. May be you guys at Are there proffesional systems out there that will leave the geforce's and ati's behind if you have the money to pay for them? or is it just a lost cause that i will have to live with?sombody please helpthanksKavan

Have you tryed updating the motherboard/chipset drivers and bios?

Oh yes tried all that no effect flashed the bios and updated all the driverssadly still the sameKavan