Know it's a difficult question to answer before a final version. But what is your (PMDG) goal for framerate "friendlyness"? Your current 747 for FSX is VERY heavy on framerates - will 737NG be the same - or will you try to make it more easy on framerates?FSX is still - even on state of the art pc - very demanding - so a framerate friendly plane add-on is a must today.

they have answered this many times, better frames than the MD11 and Jetstream

The 747 was our first ever product for FSX, we've learned a lot since... You can expect it to perform better than that. The best thing you can do though is upgrade to an overclocked i7 CPU and at least 4GB of RAM.

What about an i5 750 @ 2.66ghz with 8gb ddr3 ram? :(

Aidan, it depends on level of detail You want to play at. If You want all sliders all the way to the right then... You know what :) But I play J41 at medium details and 1920x1080 and have 15-25fps.

Seriously, if they can get the same FPS as the JS41 I'll be decently happy...in terms of performance. Anything less then th JS41 I'll have a problem with. I fly in and out of YBBN (FTX) with the JS41 and I plan to do so with the 737, the airport/scenery combined with complex aircraft makes it very very tough on frames. Not that it is the dev's fault or anything but you know, I kind of have a FPS limit that I need to keep it at so I can convince myself I'm flying and not simming. Ron Hamilton

Hi ryan,i know its difficult to say until beta stages,but are you aiming to be around the md11 in terms of performance,if so, happy bunny indeed

We're always aiming for better than what we did in the past Alex.

What about an i5 750 @ 2.66ghz with 8gb ddr3 ram? :(

Overclock that! You can get a 750 to near 4GHz pretty easily with a good cooler. For all intents and purposes my i7 860 is an i5 750 because I have to disable hyperthreading to get the OC high enough - too much heat otherwise with this cooler.

If it's anything like the J41, I'll be in 37 heaven!

If the 737NGX's performance is around the MD-11's I will be extremely happy. J41's frames arn't quite as good for me but I wont complain if the NGX is comparable.

My frames with the J41 are around 19-25 fps flying in the FTX PNW. the frames go down to 16 or so over major cities. Once your at FL340, the frames will soar.

We're always aiming for better than what we did in the past Alex.Overclock that! You can get a 750 to near 4GHz pretty easily with a good cooler. For all intents and purposes my i7 860 is an i5 750 because I have to disable hyperthreading to get the OC high enough - too much heat otherwise with this cooler.

Ryan since you seem to be the man in regard to overclocking, I would love to see a new topic with a step by step guid on overclocking the i7 :DThanks Josh

It's not too difficult, a lot of mobos have really easy options in the BIOS for it now. Probably the diciest part of it is understanding how to up the voltage and by how much to gain stability and where the limits are on that...

The 747 was our first ever product for FSX, we've learned a lot since... You can expect it to perform better than that. The best thing you can do though is upgrade to an overclocked i7 CPU and at least 4GB of RAM.

awww i have an intel core 2 duo @2.93GHz, but with 4 GB RAM :( what u reckon would be the average frame rate with that?

It's not too difficult, a lot of mobos have really easy options in the BIOS for it now. Probably the diciest part of it is understanding how to up the voltage and by how much to gain stability and where the limits are on that...

The diciest part is also the part where i would so called f*** up my computer, at the moment ive got a core 2 quad q9550 its stock is 2.83ghz, is there anything i could do with that?Thanks Ryan,Josh