Here is what it says onpage9 on display Setting.Contrary to what you might think,this is true no matter how powerfulyour computer is. FLIGHT SIMULATOR X is designed to perform on highpowerered hardware that is not yet available to the general public,so even three for four years down the road, FLIGHT SIMULATOR X canstill challenge even the most robust hardware while providing a stunning simulation. So if you have a fast PC,don't fall into thetrap on maxing out all of sliders immediately,because you are no doubt going to bring your machine to its kness!!you can fine this on page 9 of PRIMA,the Official guide, MicrosftFLIGHT SIMULATOR BOOK, 14.95 AT Best Buy this week only.I have a 2.8G Intel, 2G ram ati pro 1600 512 agp card, and does thisgame run ruff. On page 6 of the book it says Suggested Hardware3.4GHZ Processor or higher3-4 GB RAM100 GB HDNVidia GTX7800 512MB video cardx2 (two cards for SLI configuration)or similar high ent ATI video cards such as the X1900 512 MB ATI RadonWindows Vista introdues Direct X 10.0 which take leaps forward in terms of performance for video,so it you plan to have this kind of asystem be sure to buy a video card that is DirectX10 compatible.

No one is yet making any benchmarks public of FSX with DX10, because FSX as it stands is a DX9 game. This has been confirmed time and tme again by the developers right here, so please do not offer advice that is in direct opposition to what we already know, at least not without evidence. Where is your evidence that we need a DX10 card? ACES say you dont. Yet. Do you know better than them? Allcott

donot get yourself all hot! Iam just saying what is in the book!go a read it yourself, or maybe you no it all!!

>donot get yourself all hot! Iam just saying what is in the>book!>go a read it yourself, or maybe you no it all!!That publisher has a license to write and publish the "Official Guide," but it is not in any real sense of the word a product of Microsoft or ACES.There are many errors of fact, in addition to the occasional typo... ;)

But the most important part of the paragraph - not quoted"If you need a higher frame race, you must decrease the scenery detail and possibly even the amount of AI used in Flight Simulator. Contrary........"Doh, so what else is new about a new version of FS??

So many errors and omissions in that guide.

FSX makes extensive use of shaders that are NOT processed by the CPU. DX10 cards WILL make a difference, as it will to all DX9 games. Reason? Much more powerful video processing hardware.You can rant and grumble all you like, when DX10 cards come out you'll realise I was right.James

>So many errors and omissions in that guide. What errors are there? And seeing as Microsoft allowed their name to be used in this book why did they not offer corrections prior to publication?

>No one is yet making any benchmarks public of FSX with DX10,>because FSX as it stands is a DX9 game. This has been>confirmed time and tme again by the developers right here, so>please do not offer advice that is in direct opposition to>what we already know, at least not without evidence. >>Where is your evidence that we need a DX10 card? ACES say you>dont. Yet. Do you know better than them?>> >Allcott??? Allcott, you're jumping the gun. He wasn't saying that. All he said was that the book said that once the DX10 version of FSX is out, you would need a DX10 card to see the DX10 effects.There's no information there, that we don't already know.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2.5 ghz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (94.47), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian