Hello Everyone,SMOOTH FS2004 PERFORMANCE FINALLYI have a very nice system, It

Agree with you 100% Mike. I used the FSGS service several months ago. I have never been happier with my FS performance. I have been messing with FS and computers for a long, long time and had tried everything there was and thought I had it as good as it would get. Michael and FSGS improved my image quality and smoothness to a point I really didn't think was possible. Money well spent!

lol Thought that first post was an infomercial at first. Must be very impressed...wheres the link?

Hi Alex,LOL, infomercial...hehehe, Yeah, I guess it sounds like one. But I was so impressed with this I had to tell you guys.Here is the URLhttp://www.fs-gs.com/Mike

Ley me guess, the poster is involved with the company... This sound Hokey with a capital "H"...

Hokey,,not

Hello Caveman,I do not work for, I am not involved with, I do not own, and I am not associated with this company in any way shape or form, I am just a VERY satisfied customer.Mike

by reading the info on their site I hardly feel comfortable paying for this.No real information about what you they do, and what you get out of it.i really dont know what they can suggest that would make it worth that much.??this quote from their forums sums up how i feelSo I'm wondering... what does this REALLY do? Does it just show people how to turn off AA and AF and lower the resolution so their GeForce FX5200 Ultra or ATI Radeon 9200 doesn't choke?i feel my system runs flightsim quite well, but i would like to make it run faster. Do they just fix big problems that people have with their systems, drivers, hardware conflicts, running processes ..or do they have a set of tweaks that increase performance.

Hi Slimdady,I was just as skeptical, I'm not any more. Maybe AVSIM can try their service and do a review of this company.Mike

I've heard about this service several times in the past - questions:1. What does FS-GS have to offer for someone like me who actually does computer tech work as a job, has top end hardware and basically knows how to build a high performance system and set up Windows correctly? I'm totally open to new ideas and techniques for getting more performance out of my system, but before I put $60 into this, I'd like to know for sure that this wouldn't just be the same stuff I already know how to do as far as optimizing Windows services/startup, using tweaked drivers, overclocking, FS9.cfg terrain section tweaks etc...2. Do you provide some kind of list of the steps for returning to the "unified" configuration in the event of a HD reformat/Windows/FS reinstall?3. Is this geared soley toward FS and if so will it have any ill effects on other games? While FS takes up most of my time, I do enjoy other games like Far Cry, BF1942/Vietnam, etc and if the tweaks you guys do make those games run slow or anything, that wouldn't really be acceptable to me.Thanks!

I have a good friend who had this done and it wokrd for him after a few hours on the phone etc. I cannot judge what they do but it does appear geared towards those who are not tech heads like Tabs or myself who build their own systems. I defrag my hard drive 2 times a week sometimes more depending on installed-removed programs. I lower items that I feel are not needed in FS to have the smooth running these guys talk about. Sure I have a killer CPU but my video card is certainly not high end but does get the job done for now. Later I will save my pence for the 6800 and have that 16xAA 8xAF with awesome FPS![h4]Best Wishes,Randy J. Smithhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/betaimg.jpgAMD 64 3200+ | ASUS KV8 DELUXE | GFORCE 5700 ULTRA @535/1000 | WD SATA 80 GIG | 512 DDR 400 |

I think the point to be made is that you only pay AFTER the service has been done, and you are satisfied. The `risk` is being taken by the FS-GS boys, not the simmer.It's certainly something I will consider after upgrading in a couple of months.Allcott

Post us a picture of Megascenery, plus high-detail default clouds.Peter Sydney Australia

Yes nice system. A bit more RAM and a X800XT and you are really flying :) I have a feeling the X800XT will totally rock especially in FS 2004.Support for new aa algorithm.Temporal antialiasing very much what movies use.You use one aa algorithm in the first frame that uses 6 samples then another algorithm in the second frame that also uses 6 samples which give you 12x aa without the performance it or you can have 4xaa with the performance hit of 2xaa.All is needed is a high enough framerate and vsync enabled to not cause flickering.And anisotrophic filtering has always been fast on the Radeons not to say their superior antialiasing.I won

Mike,I'd guess that you are very satisfied with the service, and I believe what you say. However, please understand the legitimate doubts expressed here: if you forum-search every post about this service at avsim, all posts are constructed with the same wording, the same message structure. This would let the reader think about a canned message ala informercial everytime it is posted (once every two weeks here)...Now, there are very good questions above (Ryan's) about how it is for an already tech-inclined person, and how reproduceable it is if you need to reinstall your computer.Besides, you should be knowing the many regular-similar posts at avsim about what to configure/tweak to get performance. Is this service offering you a better understanding about what to tweak (in the way it tweaks better thanks to better knowledge of what each tweak does), or, have they developped a custom and unique way of tweaking for windows and this is this which makes the offer attractive?Hope this helps!