Hi all!I would like to know what are (default FS2004 scenery):.the most complex airport (from the graphical point of view);.the most busy airport;.the most complex rendered city (or scenery in general);This in order to benchmark my system in a worst case scenario (complex a/c + ASV + thunderstorm + multiple cloud layers + dusk) :)Thank you in advance!Marco

how about Heathrow Pro by UK2000 with 100% UT coupled with Visual Flight London.

>how about Heathrow Pro by UK2000 with 100% UT coupled with>Visual Flight London.Thank you for your response, but actually I was referring to default scenery and airports only :)

Chicago O'Hare is supposedly the busiest default airport, but you will need to put on a better AFCAD and a bucketload of add-on AI to use it properly.Most default airports only seem to support one runway and about 1/100th of the traffic they handle in real life (thank appropriate deities! ;-) ) so you'll have to do some moderate adjustments to any if you want anything as complex as most of the add-on sceneries.Ian P.

Hi Marco,Other than Chicago O'Hare, you can also use New York's KJFK which is quite complex and the city of Manhattan/New York is probably the most complex rendered default city I've seen, better than Chicago.John

I also recommend Atlanta's Hartsfield which is also one of the worlds busiest as far as traffic goes.For Benchmarking, I usually just use Seattle, and crank up the traffic. You Have two airports near each other, as well as mountains and water.That combination IMHO, is a good area to bench FS.Regards,JoeGrab My FREEWARE Voice recognition Profiles here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=58334]Cessna 172 Voice Profile[/a][a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=60740]FSD Avanti Voice Profile[/a].You will need the main FREEWARE Flight Assistant program to use it, get it here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=genutils&DLID=39661]Flight Assistant 2.2[/a]

I agree with John, Marco...KJFK with maxed traffic and scenery settings and with multiple layers of low-level scattered/broken/overcast clouds can create the kind of stress levels that you seek. That's if you're looking to turn the sim into a view master slide show. KLGA (LaGuardia) and KEWR (Newark) are all within a 10-12nm radius of JFK as well. On any given night here it looks like the sky is full of fireflies at a barbecue and you can literally learn the SIDS and STARS just by observing. Try pushing also KATL, KBOS, KIAH, KIAD, KLAX and maybe KDTW since most of these have major cities in the immedite vicinity of the airports. Mike (KJFK/KLGA)DELL XPS Gen 5 Dual Core HTT 3.2GHz 800FSB2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 800GB RAIDWinXPP (SP2) DX9ATI Radeon X850 XT PE2405FP 24" Ultrasharp Widescreen

Yes I use KSEA for all my system testing, crank up the scenery settings, max out AA/AF & traffic, set up four or more layers of overcast with LDS/PMDG VC use FRAPS take off maintain runway heading climb to 10000 ft and see if you can get an av FPS in double figures - good luck!!Bruceb

I'm going to have to say KLAX. With afcads for the airport, and the surrounding airports (burbank, van nuys, santa monica, ontario, long beach, etc) there isn't a busier section in the world IMO. You will have more commercial and GA traffic than your computer can handle.