What does it require to get realistic traffic in FS9?What should the AI traffic slider be set to?What if I buy a FS traffic addon like MyTraffic 2004?I know it won't affect all airports. Does this mean Imust choose bigger airports? Or how small airport canI use and get realistic traffic. Is the whole world covered equally?Is my system sufficient for realistic traffic? I haveAthlon XP 2400+512 M RAMGeForce4 440 MX 64M DDRAudigo playerWin XP

I use Flight1's "Ultimate Traffic" for larger airports and Markus Brunner's excellent freeware "GA Traffic" for GA planes at smaller airports. I'm very happy with the results.You'll see some slowdown at larger airports if you have lots of AI planes. I have my AI traffic set at 70% in FS9 and that provides a good amount of traffic, even too much at some airports.Jim

I dont know anything about Athlons but the 440 will certainly end up a bit of a pain

>I dont know anything about Athlons but the 440 will certainly>end up a bit of a painIt will be replaced with a Radeon 9800 Pro

Hi,Well, an ATI 9800 video card should work fine.If you want a lot of GA Traffic at a lot of airports without messing around installing, then get MyTraffic 2004 v2.0. If you want Airliner traffic that is based on real-world flight plans then get Ultimate Traffic(UT). You can then use the GA Traffic utility to create some GA traffic, but I think you have to fiddle around getting some GA traffic type planes installed. Not just nay plane will do. It must be an AI friendly (performance-wise) plane. MyTraffic 2004 V2.0 has a lot of these already.I use Mytraffic 2004 and I like it a lot. It serves more airports than UT including many military bases(it has some military planes too) and has more traffic at night since the traffic is not based on real-world flight plans. Even though it's not based on real-world flight plans you still won't see airlines where you wouldn't expect them to be. In other words, you wouldn't you see Frontier Airlines in Bejing China, nor would you see Lufthansa making a flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, ect. If you like real-world flight plans then get UT. If you like GA Traffic then I recommend MyTraffic 2004 because it's a no-hassle install with lots and lots of GA Traffic at a surprising number of small airports, as well as lots of Airliner Traffic for the majors.With a 9800 Pro video card I'm sure you'll be happy with whatever Traffic program you decide to get. :)Hope that helps,Jim

>because it's a no-hassle install with lots and lots of GA>Traffic at a surprising number of small airports, as well as>lots of Airliner Traffic for the majors.>Can you tell if Save and Landvetter at Gothenburgh is among these airports?>With a 9800 Pro video card I'm sure you'll be happy with>whatever Traffic program you decide to get. :)>Why is the graphics card important for AI traffic? Usually there is not much graphics to be depicted for the traffic.

Well, when there's lots of aircraft's on-screen the sim takes a good performance hit. I think the graphics card helps render all those extra polygons(lots of AI Aircraft makes for lot's more polys), as well as room for the textures on all those aircraft with modern video cards larger framebuffer memories(VRAM). It may not seem like there's much graphics to be depicted, but I think I would have to disagree with you there.Regards,Jim

This is where it gets a little complex - the 9800Pro is an excellent card (I have one)- you may find that the 9800 can process faster than the CPU can supply - like I said I dont know about the Athlons but there is a distinct difference in the way a 2.8 vs a 3.0 Intel work using the same Video cardEven though there may not appear to be much work involved in drawing a tiny little AI speck at 20 miles - imagine IF that AI was in fact a flyable aircraft with ALL the bells and whistles - then the video card still has to draw the VC, GPS etc even though you cannot see themHope that makes a little more sense now

>Even though there may not appear to be much work involved in>drawing a tiny little AI speck at 20 miles - imagine IF that>AI was in fact a flyable aircraft with ALL the bells and>whistles - then the video card still has to draw the VC, GPS>etc even though you cannot see them>>Hope that makes a little more sense nowNo this last point cetainly doesn't make sense. An AI plane is noflyable plane (like the one you fly), and the videocard doesnt need to draw something that is never to be displayed on the screen. Otherwise I think only a few AI plane would bog down any computer.