The current situation is that not much new stuff works with Win 98. Most fs addons really requires Win XP. Thinking about using Win 98 for flightsimming is rather preposterous.Is it going the same way with Win XP so that for flightsimming you really must Windows Vista? Particulary DX10 comes to my mind here.How long time could this take?Important question for me when deciding if and when and how to upgrade my current system which isMB Asus A8V Deluxe S939CPU AMD 64 3200+MEM 1 Gb 400 MHz DDR RAMVidcard Nvidia 6600GT 256M DDR3HD two WD 160 Gb RE2 sataII raid that refuses to work on my mb one Maxtor IDE 60 Gb that has worked like clock for five yearsIf Vista is going to be a must have of course I should get a OEM license if I replace mb.

My thoughts are, yes...eventually you'll need Vista/DX10 for the "good stuff".My thoughts are also that this is a long way off. I would not sweat it for now.Just a couple of cents worth of my thoughts,bt

I have Vista 64 Ultimate and I have not had any problems running pre Directx 10 applications, e.g. I was using MS Train Sim yesterday and it was fine. If your present motherboard supports dual cores, it might be worth getting of hold of an AMD Athlon XP 4800 Dualcore "San Diego" or a 939 Opteron dualie. Furthermore it looks as if the present Nvidia 8800 GPU cards can't run the 10.1 Directx that MS say they will offer for FSX as its Directx 10 and that such cards will utilize FSX Directx 10 but at the lower ie basic 10 standard. All in all I do not think Directx 10 is worth condideration untill one can actually see it up and running on users machines.Best and Warm RegardsAdrian Wainer

>Directx 10 but at the lower ie basic 10 standard. All in all I>do not think Directx 10 is worth condideration untill one can>actually see it up and running on users machines.>And the question is when is that going to happen? It's not really importand what the situation is now. If I do a major upgrade I intend to keep it as long as possible. The mb more than two years.If DX10 is what counts in less than one year the best option might be to go for Vista when upgrading now.But I really hope Win XP will survive longer. I don't like what I have read about Vista.