Hi,Have some experiens with that.- You must really buy a new processor to improve your frames, I advice you miniumum I7- buy a new video card- upgrade from 4 ram to minimum 6 or 12 GB- erxtreme gamers motherboard- And sure a cooler is needed to run your pc well!Maybe a good idea to sell your pc and lay a little bit money to buy this important things.It'l be blow the frames up like a tornado, but realise that addons like scennery always eating frames. I can tell you I run the schiphol scenery too and its between 17 and 25 frames with high settings and flying with pmdg aircraft addon. The frames at addon scennery will not be overwhelming, you see a little bit frames goes up!Maybe other flyers on the forum can tell us more and can give more idea!! So far, this is my idea and hope you helpfull

Some times I wonder..I have a similar system to the poster (w/ 3.2 Gig Quad) and I get good frames (20-30ish). Yes, I do need to compromise on things like sparse autogen (I normally have it off if not flying over Orbx scenery areas), not crazy amount of traffic (UT2 does help with this) and I don't have the luxury of fancy Mega-airport scenerys and such. But heck, it still looks good to me.People try to push their systems with all sorts of complex scenery and other gimmicks and they wonder why they get poor frames and such.Then, people tell them that they need to go out and shell $250+ just to enjoy FSX on some crazy i7000-uber-xtreme-16-core processor...these things didn't even exist when FSX came out.All i'm saying is that you have to make compromises some times, and I don't think it's fair just to tell people to go out and buy a whole new computer to enjoy a PMDG aircraft...either upcoming or already existing.Sometimes people are looking for advice on just how to make it work with what they have, not just have people tell them their PC's garbage and they have no hope in hell of doing anything with it...that just aggravates me.Sorry for the mean spirited rant...but i'm just afraid of people getting into something they shouldn't because some people tell them their computer's poor. Of course if people are asking what they should buy then all the power to them.I'm not trying to pick on anyone's comments here...just a couple posts seem ridiculous in all forums and such. (ie: FSX is a x86 application...can it even take advantage of 12 gigs of RAM??? What purpose does that have).

Some times I wonder..I have a similar system to the poster (w/ 3.2 Gig Quad) and I get good frames (20-30ish). Yes, I do need to compromise on things like sparse autogen (I normally have it off if not flying over Orbx scenery areas), not crazy amount of traffic (UT2 does help with this) and I don't have the luxury of fancy Mega-airport scenerys and such. But heck, it still looks good to me.People try to push their systems with all sorts of complex scenery and other gimmicks and they wonder why they get poor frames and such.Then, people tell them that they need to go out and shell $250+ just to enjoy FSX on some crazy i7000-uber-xtreme-16-core processor...these things didn't even exist when FSX came out.All i'm saying is that you have to make compromises some times, and I don't think it's fair just to tell people to go out and buy a whole new computer to enjoy a PMDG aircraft...either upcoming or already existing.Sometimes people are looking for advice on just how to make it work with what they have, not just have people tell them their PC's garbage and they have no hope in hell of doing anything with it...that just aggravates me.Sorry for the mean spirited rant...but i'm just afraid of people getting into something they shouldn't because some people tell them their computer's poor. Of course if people are asking what they should buy then all the power to them.I'm not trying to pick on anyone's comments here...just a couple posts seem ridiculous in all forums and such. (ie: FSX is a x86 application...can it even take advantage of 12 gigs of RAM??? What purpose does that have).

Very true Patrick. My favourite part is "minimum I7", how about an I777 ER? :(

Hi,Thanks for the advice, if you look at what I am going to buy already that is enough I think for what I want to reach, I don't need weather addons, AES or stuff like that. I want to fly with a detailed and full functional aircraft(NGX, 747X) and fly to (mega) airports. I've got enough scenery add-ons and I want them to run smooth. I think I will achieve what I want with the investment I am going to make soon enough. I just hope it fits in my current computer because it is a little bit small, if it doesn't fit then I'll just go for a brand-new computer.Thanks for the advice once again.