hi guysi am runing 6600 quad @3.2 and my full stress temp is 50 8 gb ram ddr2 800 mhzgtx 280 oc2 bfg700 watt oczi dont feel that i am getting a good fps specially with 2 screen and do i need really on general to change something on the fsx.cbg ???cuz the editing as i know it is only for who is not using accelaration if i am wrong correct me plzif i should edit what to edit? it is really strange how come microsoft build a game fsx and no systeme can handelle it full can any one tell me on the reall simulator what type of computer are using and what fps ?tanx :)

FSX being CPU dependant, not even my 4,5Ghz handles it well, no matter what I do.Simply suggestion, yes, FS2004 gives much better results in general.

I think you'll get different advice from different people. If you read around on this forum (and elsewhere) you should quickly pick up a feel for the recurring themes.I'm only chipping in because I recently went from a PC a bit like yours in terms of CPU power, to a more modern one.The old one had dual Xeon 5160s running at 3GHz with 4Gb of DDR2 800 RAM, an 8800 Ultra graphics card and 2 Seagate SCSI drives at 15k RPM in a dedicated RAID0. It was quite sprightly for most things, but it couldn't really handle the add-ons like the LevelD 767X coupled with complex scenery and bad weather. Landing at a complex airport in poor weather was very jerky indeed.I got fed up with this so I went back to FS9 for a while. Sorry to step on people's toes, but IMHO it just wasn't pretty enough by comparison with FSX.So I upgraded my PC to get back into FSX.I've ended up with an E8600 @ 4.3GHz on an X48 board with 4Gb of DDR3 1600 RAM running at the rated speed with 7-7-7-20 timings on Performance Level 7 at Command Rate 1N, with an 8800 Ultra and 3 Hitachi UltraStar 15k RPM SAS drives in a dedicated RAID0. Apart from the CPU speed the secret ingredient, IMHO, is the RAM. Some people say that the RAM makes no difference. Personally, I disagree. It is true that the RAM will not transform a poor experience into a great one: but it can turn acceptable performance into reasonable performance. It does not seem to increase MAXIMUM fps: but it does seem to increase MINIMUM fps, which IMHO is the critical factor. It thus, IMHO, makes a subtle but important contribution to the overall experience of using FSX.Personally I judge a PC by reference to how FSX performs under the worst conditions: an add-on aircraft (eg, the PMDG MD-11) coming in to land at EGLL in the early evening from the east (ie, over London) with the Aerosoft Heathrow scenery, with the UTX "night lighting" turned on and in overcast, bad, windy weather with lots of cloud layers, on a busy night online with VATSIM, with all the sliders at or near their maximums.In those conditions, I can usually touchdown at above 15 frames per second. That is the minimum I would regard as acceptable - and my kit only JUST delivers it. The Xeons - from memory - struggled to manage about 8 or 9 fps in the same conditions.You have a great video card: try updating to the new 180.48 drivers to see if that helps.But apart from your video card, your kit is much more like my old PC than my new one. You should be able to use the default aircraft in FSX in fair weather and with some clouds and with middling graphics/scenery settings. Push the CPU to 3.6GHz and you should be able to do a bit better. But you will struggle to get CONSISTENTLY reasonable performance at high settings in complex scenery, unless you upgrade your CPU and RAM and possibly motherboard. Even then, you should not expect miracles: with complex scenery and add-ons, FSX can bring ANY current PC to its knees.Fiddling with FSX.CFG is very unlikely to make a big difference for you. But if you want to experiment, the main tweaks are collected here:http://ops.precisionmanuals.com/wiki/PMDG_...#fsx.cfg_tweaksIf you haven't done so already, you should also read around for other tips such as de-fragmenting your hard disk with files placed in alphanumeric order, getting the graphics card to handle anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, etc. A lot of these points were pulled together into a guide by Nick_N which you should be able to find quite easily.Tim