I have a one year old PC. I only upgraded my graphic card to nvidia 8800 GT 512MB and more ram 4 GB DDR2. Installed FS9 on Vista 64bit and fps is solidly locked at 25 with all slides to max.Cheers,Fido

Got a Dell box about 10 months ago (AMD X2 5600+ @ 2.8ghz/3 gigs ram/ ATI 4850 gpu) that came with Vista Home Premium on it. After the usual week long process of acclimitization with the new OS which involved figuring out how to shut off the bloat (a process almost identical to what I've experienced with every new version of windows since Win98), FS2004 runs like a dream. 40-60fps everywhere (vsync on) with all sliders basically maxed @ 1680x1050x32 with 4x fsaa and 8x aniso. Since that first week, I've had virtually no issues with Vista at all. I run a lot of different stuff and everything I've tried has worked fine. Frankly, I like it better than XP...it's a bit more stable and looks nicer. :shrug: