Ok, Im new to all this flight simmy stuff - im normally found blowing stuff up around the galaxy :-)Anyway - i remembered loving this kind of game back in the old days of FS 95 - so i thought i would give it a go...Now my gaming rig is3500 Athlon 642x 7800 GT (SLi)3GB OCZ 333 RamSoundblaster FatalityAnd a nice 19" 1280x1024 TFT.And while i can max out my FPS in everything else i can throw at it (oblivion and Gothic 3 not withstanding!)All i can mange is somewhere between 20 with EVERYTHING off to 8-10 with everthing on.I even reduced the resolution to 1024x768 and it made no difference to anything.....around 25 with everything off and 5-10 with everything onI have been to the tweaks page for the trees / clouds/ textured etc, and that again makes no difference.Anybody have any clue as to what could be wrong? Otherwise i'll have to go back to playing Lock On at blazing speeds.....Thanks

I don't think anything is wrong with your setup. FSX requires more power to run smoothly at full sliders than is available today. The exact same thing was true when FS9 was released. In three years folks will be running FSX at 75 FPS and not wanting to give it up for FS-Next. :)DougDell XPS Gen3 (3.6GHz/540FSB) | 2GB DDR SDRAM | 74GB SATA, 10k RPM (C: ) | 120GB SATA (D: ) | 512MB ATI Radeon X1900XTX (Catalyst 6.9) | Audigy 2 ZS Sound | MS Force Feedback 2 | WindowsXP Pro (SP2) | DirectX 9.0c