Hello,This is by no means an angry post - I am a sincere sim flyer with a rather large FS9.1 setup. I bought FSX about 4 days ago and have added the following: FSUIPC 4.01 - Widefs (have three computers on a small network for processing help - downloaded ALL FsGenesis mesh for FSX - added one new A/C (Eaglesoft Liberty FSX Version) - updated Active Sky to new version (6.5) to support FSX. I set my FSX at the default settings and flew it for four days. As of now, I will put this away for a while until the market and developers get a crack at this new monster.I run my FS9 system at 35 FPS and it looks great to me - high res scenery, airports and weather. My new FSX looks really poor in comparison. I believe that I have jumped in too fast. My FSUIPC install was a small nightmare - could not get the addon menu to display in FSX for two days. PD was very helpful but the problems are at the initial stages of popping up - it turned out to be a unique problem with my firewall (PC Shield). I switched to the XP firewall and it works fine now. My system is not the most high end but it is pretty fast - AMD64 3500+ with a gig of ram and two NVidia display cards in SLI mode. I also run a fairly complex GOFLIGHT setup. I get seamless 30+fps display in FS9 and about 10 FPS in FSX with a little AUTOGEN going.Since I have the systems on two different drives, I can play with the FSX until development catches up with its capabilities. I hope that the developers are more creative with their FSX updates than Eaglesoft was. I bought a new A/C for FSX testing because they are charging 70% of retail for updating their FS9 A/C to FSX (if I understood their web site info). Anyway - just a note to all of you forum contributers who have been of such great help to me in the past. Until later,Cheers and happy flying,Ron Sagel

Hi Ron,Sorry to hear FSX isn't living up to what you'd hoped for.I've seen a lot of negative posts concerning performance. I get the feeling that there's folks who probably think the sim should have been named, FS 2007: A Hardware Manufacturer CEO's Dream rather than FS Sex.But I can say I'm getting good performance here. I implemented several tweaks(but nothing too major like the reverting to Shader Model 1.0 tweak), but I was still getting dissapointing results. SO, I said to myself time to look at the settings again. I went in and noticed a setting that was at high and said hmmm, lets turn that to medium and see if it does anything. Well, I'm not going to say it made a world of difference but I can say it made a considerable one. Enough to where I am now getting 17-20 FPS when flying over cities, occasionally dipping to 15-17 FPS for a bit. At major airports that are a little outside of a city(like KDEN) I get 20-24 FPS, 17-20 sometimes dipping a little lower if the major airport is within a big city. Outside of any of those it stays at my locked setting of 24 FPS. You can check out my specs below if you like. Of course this is with default aircraft, not an addon aircraft. I find that FSX is a little smoother than FS9 at reportedly lower FPS, therefore I can live with 15 FPS, 20 is very nice, and anything above that is great. The setting I turned to medium that made a considerable difference on my end was 'Special Effects'. But who knows what might work for different people/systems.Anyhow, I don't know if I could help you figure out what would work for you, but I'm willing to try and help you out if you want. There are a ton of factors that contribute to what kind of performance people get on their various systems. Therefore it would take some work. If you want to try by listing all kinds of different settings and then try out a altering them, let me know.As for Eaglesoft, I have been a customer of theirs for a long time and enjoyed many of their aircraft a great deal. However, I recall when updates were made for aircraft and some sceneries that came out fairly close to the end of FS2002. The upgrades to FS2004 for them were made for free, including the upgrade for MyTraffic at that time. MyTraffic is now charging a small fee for MyTraffic 2006 users to upgrade to MyTraffic X. But Eaglesoft charging 70% to upgrade the Liberty? Which is actually one of the more simpler aircraft they have made. Well, I purchased the FS9 version of it not all that long ago and I think if their charging 70% to upgrade then they have just lost me as a long time customer and it won't be too long before I change the graphic in my sig.Take Care,JimSystem Specs:Intel P4 3.4C(C = Northwood Core) on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe(Intel 875P + ICH5R Chipset), Zalman 7000a-Cu HS/Fan, Enermax RG651P-VE 550W PSU, 2 GB Mushkin eXtreme Performance(2-2-2) Dual Channel PC3200 RAM, Samsung 214T MultiSync 21" Digital LCD Monitor, Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PE Videocard with Catalyst v6.9 Driver, DirectX 9.0c, Creative Audigy2 Platinum Soundcard with OpenAL Beta Driver v2.08.0002, Western Digital 250 GB w/8 MB Cache 7200 RPM Parallel ATA HDD, WinXP Pro SP2, Nortons Anti-virus and Personal Firewall 2006