My wife still has some embroidery software that requires floppies.(we all have to make sacrifices) Stanps. What does "paid but can't eat hype" mean?

Juts fyi, 4 gigs of mem does squat in 32bit operating system. It may use 3gb via some switch, but 4th gig won't be used.

:-)well, you would have the same machine even if you dropped some items from the packing list. (i know, these items are there by default and removing them, if at all possible, would not save any money)no worry, it's a good machine

I read here somewhere that another member was wondering what type of system the FSX Beta Testers were using in order to get amazing Results..I thought, heck with it, I am going to ask Microsoft...IF I can ACTUALLY get a straight answer and not beat around the bush, I will reply tot his thread what type of system they "claimed" to use

It's the only piece of software known to man where people will actually spend $60. or whatever it is and then turn around and seriously consider a PC upgrade just to run it adequately. What's wrong with this picture? I have bought games that ran fine and some that didn't but I never considered upgrading my PC just to run one game except FS.Granted, there is much more processing of data going on in FS that doesn't occur in the average game. However, most people will find themselves constantly "tweaking" FSX and coming here looking for answers to improve FPS rather than enjoying FSX.Regards,Hans Groenewold

Several of us have posted on here before what machines we were using during development.Up until about 2 months ago, I was using a Dell Precision 4xx with a 1Ghz Xeon processor, 1GB ram, 80-100G HDD (plain old PATA), etc and a HP Laptop with a desktop 2.4Ghz P4 and 1GB RAM (eventually updated to 2GB RAM).About 2 months ago, I bought myself (I work out of my house, so generally provide most of my own equipment anyway) a pair of Pentium D 940 machines, each with 4GB Ram (running WinXP x64 on one and Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 on the other), 2 - 500 GB SATA II drives in stripped RAID mode plus a 320 GB PATA drive (which is split into 4 partitions to allow booting into upto 4 seperate OSs), NVidia 7600 based cards (2 256MB GDDR3 cards in one machine, 2 512MB GDDR2 cards in the other - although one of those is going to migrate to the kids machine soon :-> ), SLI NForce 4 based MB (dont remember the manufacturer off the top of my head).Do the new machines run better than my previous ones? Heck yes, but I still use those 2 previous machines (especially when I need extra clients to work on MP related UI stuff :-> ). The main reason I bought the new machines, and configured them the way they are, was to decrease the amount of time it took to do builds of the flight sim code base :->Tim