fbass,No insults - just facts. Certainly no 'veiled' insults. I straight out said that your statement about memory was baloney. I stick by it.You are trying to make out that I think I am some 'expert', but you didn't even know that the Conroe and Allendale boards stock FSB is 266 Quad Pumped to 1066mhz effective. Telling somebody there is 'something wrong because my FSB runs at 3x that' was just plain bad advice.There is no such thing as a pure 800mhz FSB on this chipset / CPU family.I can PROMISE you that at stock speeds you have a 200mhz FSB that is QUAD Pumped (x4) to give an effective FSB of 800mhz, regardless of what your BIOS says. If you don't beleive me, look it up at Intel.com or any other tech website that has reviewed the 955 chipset/CPU series in the past.Unless you are running a memory divider that changes the FSB/CPU ratio, you cannot be running that 800mhz memory at 1:1 ratio.What I am assuming you have done, is select '800mhz' or similar in the memory settings in the BIOS.What this has effectviely done is set a positive divider of 2:1, which will then run your memeory at 800mhz. Your FSB will still be at 200mhz, so you don't have the FSB/CPU ratio of 1:1Use CPUz and see what it tells you about your FSB and memory speeds.IF you truly are running that FSB at 800mhz 1:1, then you have the world record for overclocking in the bag (and a small thermal generating plant in your house) and I will eat my words and buy you dinner........

Sounds to me as though beta testing managed to fix a few gaping holes and thats it, what about the desert terrain in the UK, its ridiculous, what about the 'land bridges' across the river Thames and other world famous rivers, in my mind this is just unacceptable in a released product and can be relatively easily fixed as shown by the efforts of people on this board. With regard to fps etc please don't go mad but being an engineer in the aerospace industry, i have no time for people who use subjective judgements or at least don't back them up with extensive objective tests, let me see, that wing looks fine from here stick it on the plane and shove the passengers in, oh yes and my gut feel says we'll need 2000 gals for this flight, even though its across water shove it in and hope we get there,sorry, subjective just doesn't work in the real world.regards'how very dare you'

>Looks to me and most FSX users like you guys missed the essential>items whilst beta testing this one! Nice ASSumption. Wrong. But nice...Nick

Oh whatever.. its all okay with me, more milder today. :-))I gonna go out and buy Fsx, and be happy with it. You know, after 6 months we are all happy simmers.Ulla!JohanA LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION, AND A LITTLE MORE ACTION PLEASE.."The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but still they come!"

>Sounds to me as though beta testing managed to fix a few>gaping holes and thats it, what about the desert terrain in>the UK, its ridiculous, what about the 'land bridges' across>the river Thames and other world famous rivers, in my mind>this is just unacceptable in a released product and can be>relatively easily fixed as shown by the efforts of people on>this board. >A case of win some loose some! :-hah London's a great place, and I'm sorry about the river Thames.But FSX gave me a couple of lakes I've been missing for years, as well as getting the Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell back into the gorge instead of sitting high above it. In a way, I suppose those three items always made FS9 somewhat un-acceptable to me.........I think.L.Adamson

A little follow up1 I suggest that everyone take a look at how fragmented the fs drive may be, I defraged prior to fsx install and it was in good shape and then I found that after the install the drive was heavily fragmented, I was shocked at how fragmented the drive was after the install.2. I put the sliders on frame rates on unlimited3. I downloaded the fsx patch for scenery on the ms website ( not sure if it did anything)4. I ran the tweaks in the quide available at;http://ops.precisionmanuals.com/wiki/FSX_FPS_guide5. I set all of the sliders to "medium high" in settingsThe result of all of this was frame rates using the stock 747 went from an average of 10-15 to about 25-40, not too shabby!Hope this helps othersPeter

Peter, Sorry if I missed something 'cause I've been away from the forums for a week or so. But, what are you talking about here:"3. I downloaded the fsx patch for scenery on the ms website ( not sure if it did anything)"This is the first I've seen anything from MS being mentioned. Since reading your post, I've looked all over FSInsider, microsoft.com, and the FSX Knowledge Base. I can't find anything. Dan

http://www.fsinsider.com/DownloadsLook under:http://www.fsinsider.com/Downloadsaz=show_topic&forum=121&topic_id=375237&mesg_id=375237&page=2http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpg

Somewhere in this thread , there was mention of a fix from ACES post thankgiving.. Has anyone seen anything , or do we have to learn to live with the FSX as is??Also I once saw a post that mentioned that if you play around with the "affinity " settings you would much better performance from the sim, Thoughts , news??Peter