Hi everybody;I have a ATI RADEON 9250 Video card (256MB) but i can

There is no video card or cpu out there today that will allow you to run FSX at "top settings" as you call it.There just isn't.Now, having said that, you can get it running ok on your P4 3.2. You know, any video card you get today will be obsolete in about 2 months because of DX10.I think your P4 3.2 is not ok to use FSX with "good settings". I think you will have to pull it down to middle settings to get a decent framerate. To me, good settings is pretty high sliders. You would need a Core 2 Duo and an nVidia 7900 series card with 512 ram to do that.If you must get a new vid card right now, get one with 512 ram.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

Ok thank you for your explanation. then, the best is wait to DirectX10 be released and then buy a video-card compatible with that. I have a question now, is directx10 going to be compatible with XP? or we need to buy Vista? today computers are going to be compatible? thanks a lot.

Vista is required for DX10 - it will not work with any other operating systems.So to upgrade you need a new graphics card, but they aren't on the market until next month (Nvidia) or next year (ATI). In either case if I remember correctly the 9250 card is only found on an AGP bus but all new gen DX10 cards asre PCI-Express, so in your case you have to change CPU, motherboard, AND graphics card. And add more RAM for Vista - 2 gig minimum for the OS seems to be the current recommendation, no one has yet said what the sweet spot mught be for FSX, but my guess is 4 gig or more. Also, the new generation of cards will require AT LEAST a 450w power supply.Allcott

>Ok thank you for your explanation. then, the best is wait to>DirectX10 be released and then buy a video-card compatible>with that.Well, I didn't really intend to suggest that. It all depends on how much money you want to spend..because it could go way beyond just the vid card:Your motherboard is probably AGP...which means you would have to upgrade the motherboard just to use a DX10 card. And you'd have to upgrade to Vista, also. And, if upgrading the motherboard, you might have to upgrade the ram and cpu as well. :) Read allcotts post.THERE WILL BE NO AGP BUS DIRECTX10 VIDEO CARDS. So this limits you.Basically you have 3 options:1) do nothing2) buy a top-end agp card (which will be DX9) and not worry about DX10 for a while3) buy a DX10 card in a month or two, and buy new motherboard, cpu, and probably power supply, too. Oh, and buy Vista.If it were me I'd probably tough it out, stick with what I had as long as I could stand it...and then eventually build a whole new computer some time next year with DX10+Vista and all the goodies.If you just can't stand it, then by all means get that top-end AGP card. I like what I see with the nVidia 7950's, but I'm sure the topline ATI's are good, too.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