I just put FSX on pause, in a post-dawn flight over and near Manitoulin Island, in Ontario, Canada. I guess that I will ultimately get over my new simulation immersion, but not quite yet...lol.The water below me, with the sun coming up over the Eastern sky at 3500 feet with water effect at full right (which is my new default settings with the i7-975/GTX285---the default that FSX assigns you when first running) is EVERYTHING like I have seen in real life flight in that region. I can't believe this.... It is simply so real, so beautiful the scenery, that I am only on my ramp-up to begin to appreciate the effort and TALENT that ACES STUDIOS put into this product. I just did not have the hardware to see it, before now. If any of the ACES STUDIO crew happens to read this forum still.....my SINCERE THANKS for your professional efforts, ladies and gentlemen. You have make my century......We just needed to catch up, hardware-wise, to what capabilities this program could offer.THANK YOU! Thank you very much, Team.

I want to send a second thank you to the Aces team.FSX is now so enjoyable. For the first time flying from San Juan to Princess Juliana I felt some turbulence while using the building storms theme. It's really amazing what new hardware and the right drivers can do.Even my other games work differently. It's as if nothing was working properly.

Indeed! Three cheers to those dedicated professionals. I too have an i7 and a first rate graphics card, and with a few chosen add-ons FSX is all I've been dreaming of since my introduction to simming several years ago.But it all just makes me think, what is it going to look like when I'm ready to upgrade again in a couple of years from now? This is just the beginning, isn't it? FSX is just a waypoint to a simming experience which is even more profound. In spite of the obstacles which Microsoft may have encountered, someone will take flight simulation even further. Surely it is hardware that inspires the dreaming of future software developers. I'm looking at four monitors when I fly FSX now, which is something I never dreamed of back in the days of FSFW95!Fire up FS9 on this sort of hardware and think about what FSX could look like on the next generation gear!

We've just started to see the possibilities, I think. Many folks are using FS9 yet, and are very happy running it "maxed out" on newer computers they bought in the past couple years. With advances and upgrades to CPU capability in the next couple years, FSX will transcend the CPU-intensive requirements for it. And developers will still be producing newer, more outstanding addons to make it even better. A year ago, the future was today for FSX. In another year or two, with even more advanced CPU capability, and more quality addons, it's just going to be awesome. Even if a new flight similator product is produced in the next year or two, I see me still using FSX in some form. It is just going to keep getting better and better.What I want now are new video cards with Display Port Adapter capability to become mainstream. The additional graphics bandwidth will solve the current TripleHead2Go 57Hz monitor bottleneck when trying to run higher screen resolutions across three wide-screen monitors. When the day comes I can run FSX maxed out across three 30" monitors, I vow never to leave my computer room again. Just FedEx me food and water. Rick

We've just started to see the possibilities, I think. Many folks are using FS9 yet, and are very happy running it "maxed out" on newer computers they bought in the past couple years. With advances and upgrades to CPU capability in the next couple years, FSX will transcend the CPU-intensive requirements for it. And developers will still be producing newer, more outstanding addons to make it even better. A year ago, the future was today for FSX. In another year or two, with even more advanced CPU capability, and more quality addons, it's just going to be awesome. Even if a new flight similator product is produced in the next year or two, I see me still using FSX in some form. It is just going to keep getting better and better.What I want now are new video cards with Display Port Adapter capability to become mainstream. The additional graphics bandwidth will solve the current TripleHead2Go 57Hz monitor bottleneck when trying to run higher screen resolutions across three wide-screen monitors. When the day comes I can run FSX maxed out across three 30" monitors, I vow never to leave my computer room again. Just FedEx me food and water. Rick

The ultimate is this full motion sim I got a half hour in on in Oshkosh. Running the fsx engine (esp or whatever it is called) with multiple screens, full motion, and realistic force feedback was unreal..http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=256065

Fire up FS9 on this sort of hardware and think about what FSX could look like on the next generation gear!

FS9 will still look like FS9, LOL.I too just built (3 days into it) a new rig with the i7 950/vista 64 and going from a socket 939 AMD, with decent performance mind you, the difference is staggering. I can definitely relate to your enthusiasm, it's a whole new world and experience!

you all need to add the embseries dll file to bring fsx into the new graphics reality.