I have a HP Pavilion p6345a Desktop. Intel Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20 GHz, 4.00 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD5450. A pretty average machine but less than two years old. I would have thought this would count as current hardware.I can only play flight on low graphic settings and even then the autogen is shimmering badly and movement tends to be a bit jerky, It gets much worse if I try to move up to medium settings.By experimenting I have found that I can eliminate most of the shimmering by changing the sharpness setting to high but then it turns into a slide show.I purchased the Hawaii package today and have been flying the Vans. Using the low settings I get from 25-30 FPS with the Vans which sounds OK but, in fact, it is not very fluid.A really strange thing with the Vans is that both sticks are perfectly solid with the engine turned off but when I turn the engine on the sticks change into a mess of broken up textures.Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

"HD5450"Need not say more.

I have old PC (older CPU but better GPU) but I've been pleasantly surprised with performance. I only have shadows on low and Scenery density on medium, everything else on high. Very nice performance. What is your operating system? I believe MVGibbage is right. Do you have any other flightsims installed? To compare performance? Do you set in ATI CCC Performance AMD Overdrive? That can give you quite a boost in performance.

Hi guys, good to see you complaining at a high level :smile:I´m running Flight on my aging desktop with a P4 3,2 GHz CPU, 2 GB Ram and a newer GeForce 9400 GT with a GB videoram at medium settings and get fair frames.Besides, I´ve installed Flight on my HP 9221 ea Pavillion notebook with a core 2 duo T5200 / 1.6 GHz CPU, 2 Gigs of Ram and a GeForce GO 5500 with 1 Gig videoram and settings at medium to high with reasonable frames.Sure I´d like to have a brand new rig to find out how good Flight might look at all settings at max, but even so I find the guys at Microsoft made a good job by ensuring their new baby runs on machines old and new as well :Applause:

Do you have any other flightsims installed? To compare performance? Do you set in ATI CCC Performance AMD Overdrive? That can give you quite a boost in performance.

Thanks for your responses guys.Yes, I have FS9 installed. I have found that I get better performance if I set 'use application settings' in CCC.Of course, I am very aware that my current hardware is very off-the-shelf and average. But isn't Microsoft's target market supposed to be just that. Average PC owners who might be attracted to a new flying game?Or have they created something which can only be played well on high end gaming PC's, typically owned by niche serious flight simmers.And havn't those niche serious flight simmers been all saying it is just arcade? Beats me.When I purchased my current PC it did wonders for FS9. I even considered buying FSX but decided to hold of for FLIGHT. Well, FLIGHT looks good, but not on my PC.So, no more DLC for me until such time as I am in a position to upgrade.It is back to FS9 for now.

Well, if you take a look at my spec (sig). you'll see, that I'm far from high end gaming PC and I'm very satisfied with Flight.

I have a HP Pavilion p6345a Desktop. Intel Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20 GHz, 4.00 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD5450. A pretty average machine but less than two years old. I would have thought this would count as current hardware.

I have an Intel Core2Duo 3.0 with 3GB ram and a GTX260. I can play with most sliders on Medium, with shadows and sharpness set to High. Considering how your specs match mine in cpu and Ram, I'd suggest your video card is not as good as it could be... my GTX260 (and my entire system) is already around 3 years old and way past what anyone would consider 'recent'.I think MS did well considering how shoddy stock FSX looks on my same box. That said, ROF runs just as well and looks much prettier with everything on or near high and smooth enough to dogfight in split seconds, so it's not THAT big an achievement :)

Your FS9 is CPU intensive. Flight is GPU dependent. Get a better video card and your problems will go away.

I have a SYX (Tiger Direct) with the same processor, 8 GB of RAM, HD5770 video and am running everything on the maximum (yes, it is in there) settings with no glitches. I have run it for hours and have not had any crashes, except for my flying.

Old_as_dirt,Welcome to AVSIM. I hope you enjoy being in AVSIM and stick around and help us build this community. We are looking for a few good men. Make that, we are looking for a whole lot of good folks to make this place tick! :smile:Kind regards,

Thanks Stephen. I have lurked around AVSIM for many years now and have posted on the old forum. I normally just read, but feel that Flight is getting a lot of criticism that is not due it. I think they have done a great job producing a smooth flying, visually stimulating, piece of artfully designed software. Besides, the program was given to us - free - and it is up to us to decide to go further.

Just wait untill they add ai traffic and boats and cars, then the old blurries will be back again. Not to mentioln jets flying low over cities, that will bring Flight to its knees on any system just like FSX, i cant say im impressed with the performance of Flight and i have a pretty high end system with crossfire enabled.

I have a HP Pavilion p6345a Desktop. Intel Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20 GHz, 4.00 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD5450.

Your GPU is definitely your problem...

Trevor, the issue will be with your GPU. Make sure you have the latest drivers and think about an upgrade. You could find a decent upgrade for $150. Sorry to hear the DLC wasn't all you wanted but hopefully you can get an upgrade soon and enjoy the finer points of Flight!

Thanks again for all your responses.Looks like I need to start saving my pocket money.