A couple of days ago I did an especial re-instalation on my son's Allienware Area 51 M Laptop P4 2.4 MHZ 512 Ram, 40 HD running on an ATI 7500 64 Mega on board. The procedure repairs damaged components (dll's,driver, etc without having to re-install all my applications and programs (no reformating the Drive). This feature comes in Allienware recovery Disk. This HD still has 15 gigas empty.After the procedure Everything works fine with all my programs/applications except for FS2004 which only flies ( if you can call it that) with 1.0 FPS (Max rate fixed at 18fps).I have tried everything except re-installing FS9. Of course none of my other programs have 3D utilization so 2D seems OK. I am running with 1024X768 and very conservative sliders travel. Plane textures,sceneries look fine and 2d instruments looks very fine also.It is just the FPS that kills everything. No crashes etc. Checking on the graphics card it says that it has the original drivesWould appreciate if Gurus and expert in this forum give me a sort of laundry list of things I have to check /do to try to solve the problem.Edmundo Cardenas KPDK

More than likely, the recovery has installed the default Windows drivers in place of updated drivers for your MOBO's controller chips, graphics adapter, sound, etc. Open device manager, system devices, and look for:Intel CPU to AGP ControllerVIA CPU to AGP Controlleretc.Once you find out what MOBO controller chips you have, install updated drivers. Also ensure you have all the updates for Windows installed.W. Sieffert