Hey guys,I've been a simmer for several years now, I play primarily ( a Heavily Modded) FS9 and get decent results with FSX on my PC. I'm starting to run into some serious issues on my computer. Blue Screen of Death, FS9 and FSX take forever to load, and the computer will randomly freeze will surfing the internet. Playing FSX has turned into a slide show with jagged graphics. I've run McAfee and there are no threats found on the hard drive. My question is what should I do? I don't mind replacing the hard drive, upgrading video cards or RAM. Here are my PC Specs. Thanks!!! Gateway 5474AMD Athlon™64 X2 6000+, 64-bit dual core processor

• Operates at 3.0 GHz
• 2 x 1024 KB L2 cache
• 2 Gigs of RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce™ 8500GT 256 MB
• 500 GIG hard drive at half capacity.

Hey guys,I've been a simmer for several years now, I play primarily ( a Heavily Modded) FS9 and get decent results with FSX on my PC. I'm starting to run into some serious issues on my computer. Blue Screen of Death, FS9 and FSX take forever to load, and the computer will randomly freeze will surfing the internet. Playing FSX has turned into a slide show with jagged graphics. I've run McAfee and there are no threats found on the hard drive. My question is what should I do? I don't mind replacing the hard drive, upgrading video cards or RAM. Here are my PC Specs. Thanks!!! Gateway 5474AMD Athlon™64 X2 6000+, 64-bit dual core processor

• Operates at 3.0 GHz
• 2 x 1024 KB L2 cache
• 2 Gigs of RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce™ 8500GT 256 MB
• 500 GIG hard drive at half capacity.

Before buying anything, I'd make sure it's not just a bunch of unneeded stuff on the system bogging it down. I know reformatting and setting everything back up is a PITA, but when's the last time you did that?Between hard drives, RAM, and video card, I would suggest getting more RAM first. It may also be that the RAM you have is going bad, especially if you're getting a lot of random BSODs, so it wouldn't hurt to run Memtest86+ to see if it turns anything up. Lots of people also recommend using a dedicated hard drive for FS, so if you don't do that already, it may help to throw $50 at another one and see what happens.

You proably need faster RAM, and a GPU upgrade for that old one isn't a bad idea, not only for FSX but just you PC performance in general.