After all the work, time, and money I have spent getting fs9 the way i like it with good performance I wont be getting fsx for a while. With Ultimate terrain the roads and waterways are now placed how they should be, with FS Terrain the mountain peaks are also how they should be. With GE Pro and ASV6 fs9 looks great and is very realistic. So whats the need for fsx besides moving traffic and some cool reflections that you will need a new pc to have frames in the 20's. I posted this topic to see how many other people feel the way I do and will be sticking with fs9 for a while longer.

Agreed! I love FS9 right now. It's looking stunning.

>Agreed! I love FS9 right now. It's looking stunning.For me, it's mostly about fidelity and not visuals. So I'll update my PC, but likely continue to run FS9 on it. Sure, I'll play around with FSX (my free copy! - thanks Avsim!) but I likely won't change over until I can do all my Southwest and Continental 737 flights in FSX with the same degree of fun.

HI PILOT..Im with you all the way on this one. I am not at all excited about FSX,With all the addons I have invested in and installed FS9 is just fine. Ive been flight simming about 5 yrs and have upgraded my system,purchased addons but am not prepared to do that anymore. My membership to Flight Sim has expired and am not planning to renew. The forums are now understandably being posted with threads about FSX and before long we will have to look long and hard for addons for FS9.It is a great hobby and FSX is probably an upgrade from FS9 but I dont think i will purchase..Regards....TH

Yep, just got Fs9 to my satisfaction; it's taken a long while. I have no intention of changing to FSX in the forseeable future!KenSomerset, England

I'll have both on my PC. I'll use both.I have my FS9 set to where I want it... and for flying the PMDG 747 into Kaitak (my fav destination), Seattle to Portland (the upcoming scenery), MEgascenery KLAX to so cal, Lukla, Frankfurt etc.... its going to be FS9.While... I dabble with FSX and try to add addons etc to it and slowly move over.After a while, I'll know when to remove the FS9.Manny

Amazing how many are "content" with their FS9 experience. There are so many things lacking in my FS9 experience, maybe because I have spent so much time in it. Water alone is reason enough for me to switch, add to that the advanced animations, higher res textures, denser autogen and moving landable objects, it's FSX on the day it's released.I'm also a designer and look forward to digging into the SDKs.I also am very grateful for this platform that many of us love and getting the product, regardless if I can't fully enjoy it till I get a higher end rig is my way of showing my support for the continuation of my hobby. Otherwsie, there might not be an FX11 (with enhanced ATC, LOL) Regards, MichaelKDFWhttp://www.calvirair.com/mcpics/ambanner.jpg

Oh, I can guarantee there are many out there thinking the same thing. FS9 *is* beautiful with all of the great addons that I have for it; I can also guarantee that the "moving traffic" on the ground you refer to will have the greatest experiential impact on flyers. It's the one thing that will make flying closer and closer to the ground that much more realistic.The funny part about all of this FSX talk is that we go through the exact same thing with every iteration of FS. There are many here -- some with very new PCs -- who are dreading that they will be sorry they made the purchase too early. They've tried the FSX beta and get "decent" to "good" framerates. Some are even posting that their framerates are in the hundreds, of course. They forget that an older PC can run FS9 with similar framerates with JUST the default scenery and aircraft. :)It's these people who I *know* -- from past experience with EVERY new FS version -- are going to be less-than-satisfied with framerates once the aircraft and scenery addons start rolling off the presses (especially the aircraft). Again, by experience, framerates are going to do their traditional plummeting by 50% or more when high-quality aircraft are migrated over to the FSX platform.To add more issues to the matter of framerates, we'll all be dealing with the release of Vista and DX10, which true to form as it is with all Microsoft OS releases, will certainly add wonder and beauty to our precious flightsim platform but, naturally, steal yet more processor power, memory, and precious frames.Then, of course, there will be the 2-year long, consistent threads about "tweaking" FSX which will last until the version of FS which comes after it.Yet the best part of all of this will be the people screaming about how I and others are wrong for suggesting the above, and they'll be screaming all the way until the FSX-compatible addon aircraft start coming out. Then their screaming will change, and the tune will be: "FSX is terrible!", or "How could &*#*@* Microsoft do this to us?", or "FSX is crap on my system!"... you get the idea since, if you have any experience with previous version, you've already seen these kinds of posts.All must face facts. In one year, most "new" PCs bought within 12 months will be chugging along. It's the way of things. It's flightsim destiny. A PC upgrade is a must for any new version, and that's the way it is, pure and simple (unless you're planning on running default FS for the next few years). Remember that there were people who bought a brand-spanking-new, top-of-the-line PC within weeks of the release of FS9. And many of those people have had to buy a new, more powerful PC since then because that powerhouse PC didn't end up cutting the proverbial mustard when the addons started rolling. It will be the same with FSX (as it was with FS2002, FS2000, FS98, etc.).I'm an addon-buyer and love complex aircraft, so I'll be one of the people buying a new FS PC for FSX. But armed with the above knowledge, I'll wait at least a month (maybe two, even if I have to grit my teeth) before I purchase a new PC. I'll let the guinea pigs sort out driver issues, crashes, patch requests, framerate screams, addon incompatibilities, DirectX issues, Vista, NavData problems, missing AFCADs, connectivity conundrums, mobo recommendations, Nvidia-vs-ATI jihads, etc.I'll be "there" in FSX with lots of folks, but I won't do it until the myriad problems and hardware issues are ironed out. It's no sin to stick with FS9; FS9 is truly beautiful with GEPro, FE, AS6, et. al. I've made quite an investment in it all, and will do the exact same again (and again and again). Just stick with FS9 until you (a) can afford a new PC with hardware you KNOW is going to deliver strong FS performance, and (:( can't stomach looking at the FSX screenshots anymore. :)

Yup, mostly for my IFR training, and I LOVE it for what it is, for low and slow VFR it

Keeping FS9 on the HD but I am not going to spend another penny on it.Addons will begin flooding in quicker than most imagine for X.As they do I will begin transforming the $50 game into the $1000 bloated,gig apon gig monster that FS9 is.But if my FS9 went poof and disapeared and I could never reload it,I wouldnt shed a tear.

If memory serves, I believe that MS released a patch which upgraded MSFS Ver. 5 to Ver. 5.0a. I Remember that it improved the night lighting for one thing.At that point, I said, "This is all that I need; I'm happy now." That lasted until I got my first look at MSFS 5.1.I think that was the last time that I even considered not getting a new version when it became available. I won't rush out to buy it on the first day because of a mail-order promotion that I want ot take advantage of, but it will be shipped on the first day. R-

I would get FSX, but also keep FS9 on my system.The two can perfectly co-exit on your system.There is no need to delete FS9 to have FSX (unless you're short of HD space.)Cheers,Bryan

The things that can't be done in FS9 regardless (That you didn't mention):Hi-Res Terrain textures (you can say see furrows on the farms)High Density autogen (i.e. forrest)Living world (birds, animals)More regional types for autogen placement

What's FS9? :-lol

If you have a good enough video card fs9 will not be blurry and the textures will be very good quality. Fs9+gepro+asv6+mesh and FS Terrain= good enough for me.