As a fairly seasoned flightsimmer I've been put off purchasing FSX by the plethora of posts here that point out problems with Microsoft's ne w offering. I don't see these as whiner posts but helpful feedback for he creators of the software. To label them as such is short sighted and reveals a s implistic attitude in the mind of the accuser. Anyway, to the main point. As a newcomer to flightsimming with FS2000, I fired up my then mid-range pc after installing with considerable excitement my new acquisition. Initially it looked great. The operative phrase here is 'looked great'. Within half an hour I was fed up with poor performance and after a few more attempts to get something out of it over the next few days, I uninstalled it. I did not search the internet for help, or look through forums. After all I was a casual simmer. I just moved onto the next thing. I am suggesting that the same will happen with FSX. Many casual simmers will get it out of the box, will expect to see something similar to the pictures on the box and when they find that flying through the air with a similar level of detail as depicted on the box will give up in frustration. I reiterate, I am not talking about the Peter Wilding approach to FSX which is to be ever thankful to MSFS, roll up our sleeves and get stuck in to tweaking this behemoth until she runs sweetly, (sorry Peter but you do let FSX off the hook rather too much IMO) but the *casual* simmer who has other things in life to do than fiddle around with cfg files, altering texture files and all the reat of it. In adition, ss not such a casual simmer, I am tired of tweaking too. I don't want to tweak, and no, it isn't half the fun of simming for me. I wonder what's going on when you buy a piece of software and have to tweak ad nauseam, to get it work satisfatorily. By satisfactorily, I mean with aome AI, autogen, LOD mesh and textures that haven't been turned down until they look a mess. I've seen plenty of screenshots posted that depict such a scene and they are of no interest to me. Such shots look like an earlier version of FS. . . and yet the posters claim to be happy with them. That's their choice.This post is meant to be constructive criticism for the Aces team. Anyone who creates, develops, makes or produces something for someone else, needs feedback in order to improve that product. . . so if that's a whine, then power to the whiner. . . . without them the world would not develop much.

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