I was wondering if anybody has a good grasp of which settings (mainly display) are limited by which component- CPU, video, memory?For example is turning on extended terrain textures a bad idea if you have a slow cpu, but not such a problem if you have a jammin video card?It would be great to get together a list of settings options and what limits them most.THANKS!btw- I think I'm probably limited most by CPU-Athlon 1800 (1533mhz)768mb pc2100Radeon 9600Pro 256mb

Hi Fablarto and welcome to this forum. Your RAM amount is ok. Your display adapter does fine upto 1024x (IMHO). The thing holding you back most is probably your CPU and depending on the settings you use. Hope this answers your question a bit, good luck and kind regards Jaap

Hi Fablarto,I think your RAM is fine as FS2004 plus all other processes rarely uses more than about 600MB but it can use up to 800MB.As far as I know, the video card is critical for all textures and visual graphics related objects - e.g. rendering/displaying the proper appearance (2D and 3D) of panel switches and instruments in your cockpit, including your virtual cockpit; clouds, buildings, scenery, colours.The CPU would be used more for the calculations - e.g. when you flick a panel switch, it performs a function which should be CPU controlled; flight dynamics-behaviour of the plane based on your control inputs with your joystick or pedals/flight yoke.Memory is just for holding all the required "info" in memory - e.g. textures.Your bottleneck, in my opinion, is actually the video card. By FS2004 standards it is medium. I have a Radeon 9800Pro and can get pretty slow frame-rates if quality settings are maxed out.Hope this helps,John

Hi John, please don't take this as contradicting, but I would like to point out a couple of details. I've had a 9600pro for testing and have 2 almost identical P4 systems (