Hey there Engine Room, thanks for your words of encouragement, they are grately appreciated!! I'm currently having a break from studying radio navigation - what a bore!!! I'm upto radar principles and awr/ssr!! Yeah i wouldn't bother puchasing a new laptop just for fsx, if anything you can get yourself a top of the range desktop pc and have plenty to have a few real flying lessons - at least with those lessons you'll have no fps problems:-)Take care and enjoy your new career bud!RegardsJetSet843D

Oh, you're right. Same here, but personally, it seems the transition is more painful now, from FS9 to FSX than with FS8 to FS9. And in this day and age, that's unfortunate.

>London Bridge is a land bridge (?!)... it looks bizarre. The>Thames has "Uphill Water" in places, and looks great for white>water rafting ..... :)>>One bridge is out of position. AI cars would have to jump>100ft in order to make it across :-lol>Win some, loose some! :-lol This time around, I got a good looking Glen Canyon Dam (Lake Powell) on the Arizona/Utah border, near Page, Arizona (KPGA). Within FS9, the dam stuck up a hundred feet or so above surrounding terrain. Now it sits down in the 700' deep hole, where it's suppose to be, and it's perfect!L.Adamson

I think that may be due to how well FS9 looks with the hard work of all the 3rd party developers. It's amazing how they've transformed it. I think the transitions from this point onward will get more and more difficult as the base platform becomes better suited for add-ons. I wouldn't deem it unfortunate but a matter of progression, and change via progression is often times painful but well worth it somes cases.Ian.

I think you're asking a lot to get FSX to perform decently on a laptop of that power. It can be improved, though...read onOut of the box, FSX did not perform well for me in urban areas (which is most of England in your case). I was disturbed. But after doing the Matt Fox autogen tweak, it does. I notice no lessening of visuals but am getting 40% better frame rates.And I have a mid to mid-high system, that's all. Specs are in the signature. Now I am pleasantly impressed by FSX.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2.5 ghz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (94.47), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Yes performance is a bit of a pig, but I have it set so I can get reasonable FPS 19 - 25.What gets me are the bugs!Often one starts in a plane UNDEGROUND! It takes quite some time for everything to settle down, and sometimes (like the runway signs) they remain hanging in the air.Often I get an aircraft shadow that is textured with the plane's paint scheme, not black.Once I use smoke with a plane, it is impossible to turn it off for any other plane or helicopter. The only fix is to start the game again.Three major bugs after only about 3 hours of flying, hmmmmmm......And multiplayer is a JOKE. IL2: Forgotten Battles works perfectly for me online (I fly silky smooth formation with my squad every weekend), but in FSX, planes bounce around all over the place, lag, lag, lag. I suppose that's the difference between Russian and US programmers.

Hiya where can i find these autogen scenery tweaks by Matt Fox??I have searched google with no avail??Many ThanksJetSet843d

Hi jetset,you can find all the tweaks herehttp://www.fox-fam.com/wordpress/?page_id=41