After a break from simming, I am wanting to get back in the game and fly a little. Currently, my FS9 install is a bit overloaded and suffering from OOM crashes, such that I am having difficulty finishing flights. Therefore I have decided to wipe the slate clean and start over. Fresh install of XP too.My question is, should I take this opportunity to really wipe the slate clean and go to FSX, or should I stay with FS9 and still enjoy the many scenery addons I have already purchased? My logic in considering FSX is that I will be dialing back the complexity a bit, and not doing much airliner simming anymore (as I don't always have enough time to do so) and therefore I will be focusing more on smaller stuff like the King Air (or my favorite, the PC12). Probably will be doing a fair amount of flying in the northern latitudes (Canada and Alaska), meaning I would benefit from FSX's improved round earth rendering.The drawbacks of course are the fact that I will not have nearly as many scenery addons as I used to. I have a wide variety of airport addons that I like flying to but will lose nearly all of them on going to FSX (FlyTampa, FlightZone Portland, ImagineSim, etc). I know right off the bat I would be picking up some of the groundwork addons for FSX like UTX USA and Canada, activeskyX.My other concern is that I will not be able to achieve a decent level of performance given my current hardware. My setup right now is:AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+2GB RAMATi Radeon X1900GT 256MB video card (PCI-E)Onboard Sound etc, etc.I have not tracked performance in FSX that closely, but do you think this system would be able to handle a decent setup? The problem is I want to run with fairly high settings (otherwise what's the point of flying X?) with things like autogen and weather, etc. Also I love having AI around and therefore would want to fly with a lot of AI too (I have over 2GB of AI Paints intsalled on my FS9 setup in Ultimate Traffic that I want to transfer). In FS9 I was getting good performance with my rig, and it really increased the immersion in the sim not having to worry about frame rates or anything, just fly.Regarding hardware upgrades, my system is pretty much maxed out at this point. It's a small-form-factor XPC case with a socket 939 board, thus the 4800+ is about as high as it goes. 2 memory slots filled w/1GB in each, can't really go beyond that. The PCI-E slot only supports a single-slot cooled card, and the best I could find for myself at the time was the X1900GT. Therefore, the hardware in the computer is pretty much locked, and the next step from here would be to just plunk down and build an all-new system. I run XP Pro right now and don't really intend on moving to Vista either as I fear it will just make everything slower. With that in mind, DX10 hardware is not going to happen on this system, and so the DX10 features of FSX will go unutilized by me until I get a new computer.What do you guys think, is it worth it to migrate to FSX now, or should I just reinstall good old FS9 and move to X when I get a new computer?Ruahrc

The answer to your question, taking into account your statements on how you would like to run FSX is quite simply no. Not to mention that you cannot use your FS9 AI in FSX.I can run FSX quite well with my computer at fairly high settings. Mind you not everything is turned on or maxed out.It's sounds to me like you are not going to be happy at all with out cranking up the graphics and eye candy in FSX. If thats the case, you just might want to think about doing a reformat and reinstall your OS and FS9 and pass on FSX.

> Not to mention that you cannot use your FS9 AI in FSX.This certainly is NOT true.I ported all of my FS9 AI traffic over to FSX. The main thingthat needs to be done is to run the traffic BGL's that werecreated for FS9 through one of the conversion utilities thatare available to convert FS9TTools BGL's to FSX format andcorrect the day-of-the-week differences.Other than that, one may wish to add the exit door data tothe aircraft.cfg files so that the jetways connect and baggagecarts appear. This is probably the most time consuming task. Paul

First of all, I say, install both FS9 and FSX. There is no harm in doing so and neither one will know the other is there.Second. I run almost the exact spec as you, only you do have the dual-core version of my cpu. You should be able to run FSX at mid-to-high sliders, which is a much better visual experience than FS9.Third. You say you will be doing small plane flying. Well, then by all means go FSX. It does that super-well.Fourth. Sure you can use FS9 AI in FSX.If it were me though I would install both FS9 and FSX. Why not? I do it.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

yeah..Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://kewlceo.com/forums/style_emoticons/...crazy_pilot.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"