Dell Dimension 8200P4 1.9 Ghz512 MB RDRAMRadeon 9600 256 MB (latest Catalyst drivers)Frames set at 15/secAnisotropic via FSX Antialias via FSXGlobal tex res HIGH Advanced animations ONDetail radius Medium Mesh Complexity 41 Mesh Res 76mTexture res 2m Water Low 1.X Land detail ONScenery complexity Urban flying NORMAL Rural DENSEAutogen NONEGround shadows OFFSpecial effects MEDIUMCloud Draw Urban flying 60m Rural 70mCloud type Urban flying SIMPLE Rural DETAILCloud coverage HIGHWinds aloft ON Turbulence DISABLED Weather change NONETraffic Urban - Airline 5% GA 5% Rural 12&12Airport Vehicles MIMIUMUMRoad vehicles, Ships and Boats all 010-12 FPS in and over complex airports14-15 FPS in flight and at rural airports (11-13 in heavy weather)I'm sure many would find above performance unacceptable, but thought this might be useful to others with low end machines. One more thing, I find landings smoother in 2D cockpit mode. VC in flight and on the ground.While I'm at it, try IFR flights in the King Air from and to Helena (KHLN), Lewiston (KLWT) and Bozeman (KBZN) in snowy conditions in Montana. Better than ... Well almost anyway.

Try unlocking your frames, I found, unlike FS2004 that you actually lose fps when you lock frames in FSX. Make sure you have your texture_bandwidth_mult set properly for your system, (In your case I would say something like 150) and the same for your FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION (Probably the default 0.33 maybe a little lower for performance Note the lower you go the faster the performance will be, but also the greater chance of seeing blurries, you'll have to play around to see what works for your system.) in your fsx.cfg file, to reduce blurries. (Make a backup of it first, in case you want to go back!!

Currently have TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULTI at 120 and FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION at .33. Blurries creep in quickly on my machine, but I'll give ..._FRACTION at .25 a try.Many thanks.

Glad you're enjoying FSX; I love it myself!

>Try unlocking your frames, I found, unlike FS2004 that you>actually lose fps when you lock frames in FSX. Make sure you>have your texture_bandwidth_mult set properly for your system,>(In your case I would say something like 150) and the same for>your FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION (Probably the default 0.33>maybe a little lower for performance Note the lower you go the>faster the performance will be, but also the greater chance of>seeing blurries, you'll have to play around to see what works>for your system.) in your fsx.cfg file, to reduce blurries.>(Make a backup of it first, in case you want to go back!!I have looked in my files for the fsx.cfg file and can not locate it. Any help in letting me know where to find it?Thanks James

It'ls be inC:Documents and SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftFSXThe file is also a hidden file i think.. you may want to set that folder to display hidden file.Manny

Yes, thank you I found it.