I could not for the life of me figure out why I like FSX so much when I have been so frustrated with all the tweaking I've had to do much less plunk down $840 US to buy a new ASUS mobo and Intel duo core chip, as well as 4 Gigs of RAM. THis thread has helped!... I have turned off autogen. I hate autogen, it's fake, I've turned off the vehicles. They look fine, but they also look stupid on textures that are not at all ready to really look like decent roads and they screw up performance something awful. I have turned up scenery and texture values to maximum, especially those that extend the view of their appearance as far out as possible. NOW! it clicks in. I love the way the earth horizon is curved and you can, visibility permitting, see proper texturing without blurries right up to the realistic horizon curve. The textures, minus the ridiculous, but easy to fix desert coloring, are very good too, I love the housetops (minus autogen of course)along the streets. They look great now!Yes, there is a long way to go, but I see visions of space shuttles into that 100,000,000 foot ceiling that programmers now have to work with, and I see visions of mission builders that will be awesome. Yup, I'm on board, I've drunken the Koolade....gulp!!!!!Randy Jura, KPDX

Got to love FSX. FS9 in now only taking up space on my hard drive. I have tried to fly it a few times but the call of FSX is to strong now.Guess I will remove FS9 soon no use in keeping it around any more.

". . I could not for the life of me figure out why I like FSX so much. . "Because it's new?

Totally agree!Have a'low end' system of P2.4, yet am happily 737 and airbussing everywhere I went in Fs9.I was never a real eye candy fanatic, much prefering the flight model feel.On this alone I am sure that FsFx puts Fs9 into the shade. It i, for me, just so much more authentic.yet, I am appreciating the eye candy much more now!One of my test flights is to Innsbruck, and really this is next step in graphic rendering in FsFx. As each generation of our sim comes out, I see Innsbruck looking better each time. AS6 and FsFx make Innsbruck approach just that we bitty more terrifying!I am hooked on FsFx, and have removed Fs9 to back up drive.I love the birdies at Statue of Liberty, (who looks so good) and am trying to microlight up beside them.Think the whole thing is just great!

I'm with you totally - I'm addicted to FSX, though it was a hard transition for me too. Trust me when I say, I am the true armchair pilot - I even made sure when I bought my new (2 years ago) sectional couch it had a divider between the recliners I could put my MS FFB2 joystick on, and a storage area for my maps and notes, for when I was flying FS9 with laptop on lap! I kid you not - if that's not an addiction I do not know what is! LOLAfter playing the demo, I didn't plan on getting FSX, at least not immediately - I had FS9 setup the way I liked it, with all the bits and peices I wanted, and it runs maxed out on my pretty high end laptop, and I just adored it! But then, 2 days after release, my girlfriend (knowing how obsesive I am about my hobbies!) comes over to my house and says, okay - I know you want that new flight simulator, and they have the deluxe version at Circuit City for $50, so I want to buy you it. Well, I can't refuse an offer like that, so we went and got it!Since it's important I can run it on my laptop (for reasons mentioned previously) I honestly didn't think it would run well (based on my experiences with the demo), at least not at a level it would work better than FS9.But I persevered, and started noticing the better weather and turbulance effects and then, wow, looks like we now have ground effect - I couldn't believe it so I did a touch and go and went round again! LOL ---- nice.After some work tweaking the config, based on information provided in the forums, and a RAM upgrade, it runs great - looks amazing, far beyond FS9, high scenery settings, at very dense, high cloud density, no major issues with blurries, lots of AI traffic (50% airline, 20% GA) and water effects at Mid 2.x (where they start to look good!) and most imporantly no stutters or pauses.Okay, there are some sacrifices. Autogen is pretty sparse, and I don't have the cars on the roads. But it's smooth, and responsive, with pretty good FPS (10-30 range depending where I am and weather conditions) and I can have the ground traffic at airports, moving jetways etc.Mainly for me though, it's the 'feel' of the aircraft, the sensation of flight, better weather effects and flight model - far ahead of FS9, and not just in looks!

>". . I could not for the life of me figure out why I like FSX>so much. . ">>Because it's new?Over the course of 15,16,17 years, or whatever of flight sim use, I can remember numerous titles, that I shelved after a few sim sessions. Back in those days, I couldn't wait to try the newest. These day's I can pickup the product, and might not even open it for a week or two. I had FSX a good week or more before purchasing a better computer, as I knew my old one wouldn't run the program.And, as most know, as I've repeated it countless times here, I actually do like FSX for many reasons. But being new, isn't one of them, as I could have easily shelved it too. I much prefer FSX's high resolution textures over FS9, and the general feel of flight in an airmass. These two items are a vast improvement over FS9, and now I feel as though I'm going backwards and downgrading when returning to FS9 regarding these two areas.I'll use the word downgrade, as it seems to be used often on these forums, as some kind of a description for the new FSX, by those less than pleased with the new product.:7 Yet, as I'm aware that I'll probably still have to keep FS9 for major frame rate robbing addons, it's certainly a downgrading proposition, when I see and remember just how how bad it's blurry low level textures are in comparison to FSX. And I'll just have to accept the fact, that the airmass in FS9 is rather lifeless, and dull compared to FSX. :D L.Adamson

After being with FSX now for about a month. I think in about 6 months we will see a lot improvment.

Hi,I removed FSX from my drive and stick with FS9 for at least 3 or 4 months, untill I have bought a new PC with DX10 graphics card. On my system the performance is not like FS9 and besides that I have zillions FS9 add-ons (both aircraft & scenery) that I simply don't want to miss right now.I'm still very happy with FS9, more then FSX can give me right now.System:AMD64 3500X850XT 256MB2GB Corsair RAM

Yup, totally addicted here. Fired up FS9 for the first time since the 17th, for a flight over Innsbruck tonight, my favourite area to fly, and within minutes I found myself thinking "wow, I actually thought this was good?".FS9 just found itself stripped of its mesh library and aircraft hangar, and its remains tossed in the recycle bin. Thanks for the good times, but time to move on.Yup, FSX has lots of bugs, some minor, some pretty annoying, but no showstoppers, and for someone who likes to fly helos, there is simply *no* comparison between FSX and FS9's flight model. FSX blows it out of the water. It took them eight years to come up with a helo flight model as good as Hind's from 1997, but they finally did it, and I'm hooked. Flight modeling is after all the point of a flight simulation. If that feels real, I don't really care that much about the rest.Not everyone likes Heavy Iron, FMC's, and the perfect order of hauling 300 virtual passengers from place to place. :) I am sorry for those who do though, I can tell you're pretty frustrated.

After 6 weeks I can find no redeeming value in the sim. I quit using it 2 weeks ago and it sits on my hard disk taking up space.

Well, good for you. You can feel as lucky as anyone that won the lottery, as I think that there are more lottery winners than happy people with FSX.With GE Pro, some Megascenery titles, a lot of payware aircrafts, AC2004 all my sliders pretty much to the left, and the FS9.cfg set to give the max,I don't agree that the ground looks better in FSX. Maybe the water, maybe some buildings and trees, but for sure not the ground. I won't loose 15 fps just for the water and for some autogen which is already good enough in FS9. The feeling of flying is perfect with AC2004, same effect as FSX, but with way better FPS.FSX is well out of my system, in its box. It uses too much of a hard drive I only use for Flightsimming, and that I keep the cleanest possibleLeoFx 55 - X1900 XTX- 2 Gb Ram - 160Gb HD.

For the moment I will still keep both sims on my pc. Afer every 10 flights with FSX, I still need to relax a bit on FS9 without stressing on fps all the time. Even if I am a strong FSX supporter, I will never loose respect for a fantastic FS9 with quality addons.So I have dedicated a harddisk for each sim.Patience is the main issue. To think positive, I am sure that there will soon be a fix to most problems we are seing with FSX. DX10, Vista will certainly help a bit, FSX.1 patch will probably raise most major issues, we will still need however to upgrade our hardware step by step. Patience is again the key here. We can expect real improvements by probably spring next year where we will have a better idea of which new hardware are really efficient to support the sim. So except upgrading my memory from 2GB to 4GB, I prefer to wait for video and cpu upgrade. The Dual-core optimization process will certainly progress during the next months, I am quite confident.Our favorite addons will then probably have been updated for FSX, if not a new version created from scratch, slowly, we will be able to get our beloved AI addons, our favourite aircraft flying smoothly in FSX (my one is still another fps killer =PMDG 737).New textures, sceneries, landclasses will probably bring the product to an eye-candy level that we have never seen in flight simulation.Some of you might probably think that this guy is too optimistic ?Sorry then , this is the way I am. The experience with FS9, which also had a very difficult start, shows that with patience, any product can reach, with the time, a certain level of perfection.Waiting for those better days, I will humbly accept my "smooth -20fps", will continue fighting with blueries and stutters, will wait for the replacement of desertic-like textures, no matter, what is more immersive than an air-mass feeling like FSX, fantastic sceneries, sun reflections into the sea ?And you know what, I loooooove the jetways and the fuel trucks.....SmilePatrick Geneva, Switzerland