Hello folks,I have been reading this forum for a few months now and followed all the fps frustration after the release of fsx.I have been hunting for more fps myself and tried every tweak that I found on this great forum (including ram update), but without any luck. Only minor improvements in fps. The strange thing was that whatever I did the fps was around 5-15. The sliders did not have a big impact on fps.Then I was reminded by another post that updating the BIOS had positive impact for a number of people. So did I! I used MSI Live Update and flashed the BIOS in a few minutes. Fired up FSX again and did not expect much. But on the default flight at Friday Harbour(with the sliders on quite low) I reached 70fps sometimes!! WOW! Then I maxed autogen and scenery complexity and textureand did another flight at the same spot. 20-30 fps! :-). With a smile around my mouth I headed for Seatle. Then I was drawn backto reality - 7-15 fps again over the city. My conclusion is that my Mainbord BIOS update made my fsp go from 5-15 to 5-70! Quite an improvement! Higly recommended! :-)My system is something like this (bought a year ago):AMD Athlon XP3000? 2.2GHz, MSI K8N-F PCB Rev. 1, 1.5G RAM, 200Gb SATA HD. 1280x1024 LCD, ATI800GT.This is my first post btw.

That's CLOCKING though. How do you know whether your not overloading your system?Sometimes reliability scores over high performance for a short while depending how deep your pockets are.

No overclocking. Just the default BIOS upgrade delivered by MSI. Must have been a bottleneck somewhere on the mainbord. I have tried Ntune in addition. THAT is overclocking.