Hi,Just wonder if you get the same feeling on FSX after a month flying it.My FSX addiction started slowly, with plenty of doubts and hesitations, a bit like great love stories...(smile).Like many of you, my poor FPS, the never-ending stutters and blueries kept me resisting for a while, with a kind of desesparation (if not frustration) growing in myself after each flight.The only way to calm down my impatience was to fly back FS9 with nearly always 50fps, with everything maxed, for a smooth PMDG flight along a nice looking FS Global mesh and the must-have FS scene texture, not to forget a huge 100% AI traffic with FStraffic05.....The ideal !But what ?Don't know if it was the same for you, but despite so good FPS and comfort with FS9, I could resist comming back to FSX, and spending weeks tweaking, tweaking.......My FPS went up slowly 15, 20, 25, blueries and stutters started to disappear day after day and flight became smoother after each tweak.Still not perfect, far from FS9 performance, so what makes me quit slowly but surely this lady-9 love-affair which took me nearly 3 years to bring to real immersion ? (smile)I can feel this like a road without return, no way to resist.I got the answer.Scenery. Quality, deepness sensation, variety of the scenery. For the first time in a original FS version, I can fly over my country (Switzerland) with everything looking like photo-real, all rivers, roads are there, all hills, most cities can be seen under the wing as in real life.Except those "desertic" landclass textures that will soon be replaced by a good addon, scenery is by far the number one reason for slowly leaving my FS9.Airport ground traffic and gate-bridges, special effects are other reasons.And even if I cannot still afford having road, plane, and boat traffic around me, I made the choice for maxed scenery settings with anisotropic filtering, FSX scenery has definitely kept me addicted.What about you ?Patrick Geneva, Switzerland

Hi I agree Ihave went through much the same proceedure and now have a smooth flying experiance. There is no magic bullet but time and tweeking and patience are rewarding. I can now fly as you are with a decent amount of autogen moving cars ai traffic boats etc. It is now on the hard drives for keeps. Forget frame rates tune for smoothness System Packard Bell Imedia Pentinum dual core 2.8ghz 1gb ram Geforce 6600gt John Ayr Scotland

FSX is a great step forward but I found myself only using it to tweak and get good framerates. I got frustrated how one day I could get a good 20 fps and the next get 10...in the same area under the same conditions. I've subsequently uninstalled it until ACES pulls some miracle out of their rears.

Same as Alex for me. I've accepted that FSX is unusable in its current form and on my current hardware, and have simply given up on it. There is simply no point unless MS fix what needs fixing and stop pussy-footing around about the fundamental mistakes made this time around. While I am grateful to all those who have dissected files, reducd textures and provided modifications it has to be said that using any of them to a level that actually makes the game playable renders the whole thing less than the FS9 experience, except under certain specific circumstances.FS9 continues to meet my needs much better!I haven't removed it from the hard drive. It just sits there, as a tweaking `game` rather than a workable flight simulator. Far from being addicted, I am closer to being disgusted.Allcott

FSX-addicted NAH, I quit smoking. FSX is on the HD but sits there like yours for experimenting with tweaks. My only regret is shelling out the money for FSX that really needs something other than me spending time to "tweak" to improve it's fluid movement all the time and not part time. I have had FSX since the 17th and have not really enjoyed it because time was spent trying to make it run better and see the so called beauty of some eye candy to no avail because always something prevented the flight from being enjoyable.I at least can use fs9 w/o a slide show and enjoy flying anywhere I please with all the eye candy it has to offer w/o problems. Nick

I would not say I am addicted, but I am flying X lots more than 9 now.I live way out in the boonies in North Carolina. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to fly around my neck of the woods and recognize towers, roads, etc. Much more detailed than 9.One other thing, I have really enjoyed the Garmin 1000 glass cockpit. Now that is what I am falling in love with.... :-)

The demos convinced me that FSX had far more to offer than FS9. I was concerned by poor frame rates when I installed the retail, but now, after applying three tweaks and playing with the sliders, I'm quite satisfied with the frame rates.Despite the tweaks, FSX looks and feels *far* better than FS9. There's simply no comparison.I can think of no conceivable reason why I would want to use FS9. The low-resolution ground textures alone are enough to make FS9 look almost ugly in comparison.Despite some rough edges, FSX is a fantastic flight simulator and it can only get better, particularly if Microsoft can improve performance with a patch.Best regards, Chris

>Despite the tweaks, FSX looks and feels *far* better than FS9.>There's simply no comparison.I can think of no conceivable>reason why I would want to use FS9. The low-resolution ground>textures alone are enough to make FS9 look almost ugly in>comparison.>Same here. I'll run a flight in FSX, then fire up FS9 for the same area, same real weather, and some add-on aircraft. Then I'm hit with those outdated low rez ground textures. Yuk!L.Adamson

>There's simply no comparison.I can think of no conceivable>reason why I would want to use FS9. Flying with PMDG737 on VATSIM using SB3 and German Airports sceneries is reason enough for me. I get reasonably good frame rates with FSX so that is not the problem, I'm just waiting for my beloved add-ons to be patched for FSX or reincarnated. Not to mention TrackIR doens't work for me with FSX. Of course I do fly FSX too since it's darn good looking. Have to stay away from the "deserts" though.

I am loving FSX. I have been piloting around areas that I flew in real life in Alaska, been having a blast doing it too! FSX for me has already become the simulator I always wanted, and for some reason it is getting a ton more use than FS9 ever did for me. The improved air mass really makes me feel like I am up there in a plane.

"FSX for me has already become the simulator I always wanted"I totally agree on this definition.Yesterday, for the first time, I tried a 2xhigh sea setting (which made me loose lots of fps...) but the try was worth it, so nice, so nice reflections in the sea at sunset or sunrise.I always dreamed about airports with life around (ground vehicles, jetways), birds, cars, boats traffic, all those things that plunge into real-life looking simulation.Ok, as said earlier, we need hardware improvements to take full advantage of it, but to what we already see, in term of quality FSX is a fantastic starting platform for future improvements and offers tons of possibilities for addon developpers.Just a matter of time, hard to be patient sometime, but for me, as I said earlier, FSX is the greatest improvement over the previsous version I have seen since FS98, with the exception may be of FS2002.Patrick Geneva

I wasn't the least bit exicted about FSX prior to release. Honestly, didn't even think about getting the demo, only looked at the odd screenie, and rolled past all the forum posts.Well ofcourse I was going to get it, whose kidding who...just for curiosity sake. Right ?Suffice to say FSX is now my main sim. So for now it's no Level-D and the like, but with the new FSG Mesh and those wonderful textures FS9 just doesn't do it for me anymore.cheersGreghttp://www.fs2crew.com/linepilot.jpg

Krister, What issue are you having with the drivers?

Vince,I'll try it again this evening so I can have a more accurate description and post it on your boards (which I obviously have been monitoring in search for a solution). What happens basically, is that the program starts and it has no problem finding the hardware, however then the view is locked into a position and when I move my head it just rocks or shakes around this position. This is with the latest beta build and TrackIR3 with VE.I've never had any problems with MSFS FS9 and the officially released drivers. I do realize others have it working with FSX!BR

OK, let me know.