I have never flown a turbine in fs. The reason I turn autogen off is it looks like flying over a bunch of hasbro plastic toys-but the new high res photo textures which are clear low down look more real. I posted some shots in the screen shot forum with some real shots-I think there is no contest.I would like to find a way to keep only trees while only low-while plastic looking they don't have the fake look of the buildings. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpg

>The main thing is why>>can't this game play with full settings on any machine. >>Haven't we heard that. The fact that no current high end>>machine can play fsx with full settings. Maybe this is>where>>the whole "designed for windows vista" was meant...>>Well, I run FSX retail on Core 2 Duo 2.4 OCed to 3.3Ghz and 2>Gig Ram and 7600GT 256MB.>>With the sliders almost 85-90% to the right. I get 20FPS and>pretty smooth ride. At that same settings it drops to 7FPS>when I go to KJFK.>>IF you are pretty recent to flight sim or just happy with the>default Flight sim, get a new machine with the recent>processor that is out there, you would be a happy camper.>Flying FSX with all its goodies on a new Core 2 Duo processor>is a non issue. Its just fine and it beats FS9 default twice>over. FSX is really very nice if you can have the sliders to>the right.>>But if you are like some of us who tend to look at FSX/FS9>just as a starting platform to pile on various addons, I>suspect we have a problem. Now, or in the near future. JMO. >But then, I have not heard any addon vendors complaining>either.. Maybe they are too scared to complain about FSim to>the ACES team. :( . Or they may know something I don't and>there really is no issue. Or They are working on addons that>would not takeaway any Proccessing cycle or they think we will>move the sliders to the left and then buy their addons. Or>they think we'll accept a 5FPS performance or they>know/believe there is a 6Ghz processor in 6 mths time. Who>knows the secrets of the human heart. :(>>As far as Vista/DX10 fixing this basic processing cycle weak>link, I doubt it.>>Mannyand what is your reason that you doubt it?? Please explain to me why this is in the readme... "Flight Simulator X is designed to run on the Windows Vista operating system. Flight Simulator X was released prior to the completion of Windows Vista."