Seems the title, the ACES team, the conference attendees...all a stricken with the "curse"! :)Gain takes pain...but pain with no gain is, yeech!I'm happy with FSX now. It suplements my FS habbits quite nicely. Hopefully, the attendees will soon know the blissful pain that comes with this itteration of the franchise.Cheers,bt

I'm glad to hear that you're happy with FSX......but I have no idea what the rest of your post meant :-hmmm

Me neither. Not sure what you are trying to say here.

:-hmmmSing with me now:"I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like meeeee..." :-jumpy :-boomAllcott

"RE: The :-hmmmSing with me now:"I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like meeeee..." :-jumpy :-boomAllcott"ROFLMAOJackD

"...but I have no idea what the rest of your post meant :-hmmm":-hmmm...he said :-hmmm.Elementary my dear watson, look below:"The "Curse" of FSX..." -bt: it does appear this itteration has a bit of a curse."Seems the title, the ACES team, the conference attendees...all a stricken with the "curse"!" -bt: many have problems, the ACES team is being vilified by some, and now the attendees promised gift, which is already late, is now defective, i.e. wrong package"Gain takes pain...but pain with no gain is, yeech!" -bt: I can live with the current FSX pain for the promise of something better at the end of the rainbow, but if its all for not...then this release was a turkey."I'm happy with FSX now. It suplements my FS habbits quite nicely, and meets my reset expectations. Hopefully, the attendees will soon know the blissful pain that comes with this itteration of the franchise." -bt: very simple...I hope the attendees get their promised gift, complete, very soon.:-hmmm,bt

Alrighty then.:-zhelp

FSX is cursed for me, spent 1200 odd quid on a new PC, ran fine until FSX came out, installed FSX, PC started shutting down, and I mean sudden loss of power not just shutting winxp.Okay eventually it dies altogether so get new mobo as I still get power, new mobo in Saturday, FSX on Sunday night, Monday night comes BANG, mobo dies AGAIN. Not a happy chappy, as I've now used up both my activations and am loathe to EVER reinstall FSX anyway, it's heading for the bin now, along with which thanks to the problems I've had all my Flight1 planes are at the limit of installs, my Windows and Office have hit the limit. Guess I'm out of it, I'm honestly considering a new hobby, something cheaper preferably. Right now I'm really fed up with PC's, to spend all that to get something I really wanted only to have it die like that is truly disheartening.

John, what on earth are you talking about - "used up both my activations", "Flight1 planes are at the limit of install"?You can re-install XP, FSX and Flight1 add-ons as many times as you like.Flight1 keys are automatically reactivated via their website - it takes like about 1 minute per add-on to do this.If XP or FSX won't activate on-line, just call them. I've done this and the whole process takes just a few minutes.As for blaming software on your PC problems, well I know how frustrating this can be but we both know at the end of the day it's a hardware issue.I'm sure, that like me, you'll find a way of getting it all working nicely in the end.

>"...but I have no idea what the rest of your post meant>:-hmmm">>:-hmmm...he said :-hmmm.>>Elementary my dear watson, look below:>>"The "Curse" of FSX..." -bt: it does appear this itteration>has a bit of a curse.>>"Seems the title, the ACES team, the conference>attendees...all a stricken with the "curse"!" -bt: many have>problems, the ACES team is being vilified by some, and now the>attendees promised gift, which is already late, is now>defective, i.e. wrong package>>"Gain takes pain...but pain with no gain is, yeech!" -bt: I>can live with the current FSX pain for the promise of>something better at the end of the rainbow, but if its all for>not...then this release was a turkey.>>"I'm happy with FSX now. It suplements my FS habbits quite>nicely, and meets my reset expectations. Hopefully, the>attendees will soon know the blissful pain that comes with>this itteration of the franchise." -bt: very simple...I hope>the attendees get their promised gift, complete, very soon.>>:-hmmm,>>bt>Given how s**t FSX is running right now, shouldn't that be "ALIMENTARY, my dear. Whats that smell? ;)Allcott

I hear you John; I did similar; got the new system, etc., - actually works pretty well - 25-40fps ave and only three BSoD's so far - but - after four weeks I missed all my old addons so much that I just went back to FS9. I'm now running everything at the top-end, and FS9 looks and feels fantastic! Thanks to some comments by posters on another (FS9)topic, over last night and this morning I've purchased FSG US Mesh, UT USA and Ground Environment Pro. Tonight I'm going to have a ball installing and then go do some flyin'. I reached a cusp, I gues, when another poster three or four days ago launched a topic showing off someone's new powerhouse, and talked about "There's hope for the future of FSX" or something like that. Well there's a HUGE number of us guys who are just fed up with the subject - and it just turned the key. I had a rant, the post got locked, and I now don't care whether they fix FSX or they don't fix FSX. I'm over it. I wanted a flight sim that works "reel gud", and, now with the new pc - I have one. It's got all I need - the DF727, the Do-27, the RA Spit, the Safir, the B25, all the FlyTampa stuff, the Flight Scenery stuff, Track IR4, FSNAv, FSPax, ASv6, etc. It's all absolutely great now. I have a homebuilt cockpit and I'm having a ball. Go look at Jeff's Portland video. This is my favourite location/aircraft, too:-http://jeff.lumacs.net/Do-27FlyinRoundPortland.wmv Don't give up on the hobby because of one $50 package - we've all bought software that doesn't meet our expectations. It's just a disappointment that - for you and me - the FSX dream isn't such a realistic dream at this time. Maybe down the road, who knows, but right now - if I can get over it - you can. You've been a good contributor here for a long time. Regards,

I'm also thinking about abandoning FSX and going back to FS9 for the time being.FSX is very playable for me, but I've been eyeballing all these addons that I've bought over the years, and I'm beginning to wonder why I should give them all up in favor of....what? Yes, I think FSX is a leap forward for the series in terms of the overrall flight experience, but this is not enough reason for me right now to suffer through a moderate upgrade in graphics and (at best) marginal performance.In FS9, I had realistic AI traffic everywhere, a great virtual world thanks to Ground Environment, Flight Environment, Ultimate Terrain, FSG meshes, ASV6, and countless other addons. I had Aerosoft Manhattan and ImagineSim KEWR, which is the area where I spend most of my time, and an entire hangar full of payware and freeware aircraft to choose from. All of this, and my performance was silky smooth.I've been defending FSX here on the boards all along, and I will continue to because it has many strong points, but I miss all the options I had before in FS9.I haven't reinstalled FS9 yet, but the more I think about it, the closer I get to doing so.GG

For city flying without question FS9 will beat the tar out of FSX. I went back to FS9 with FSG mesh, UT, Active sky, Flight Environment, PMDG 747 or any of the 737s, several commercial airports such as Fly Tampa, FS9 for commercial flight city to city can't be beat. Last night in FS9 I took a PMDG 737-800 flight out of KLAX (Simflyers) to KORD. UT gives those beautiful night lights which nothing in FSX can beat. Great flight with everything maxed (plus MyTraffic 2006 at 75%).By the way, I tried porting over UT to FSX and shut everything off except the night lighting. Looked great of course but on default settings it ground FSX to a halt with default 737. Off it came. I suspect any addon, particularly PMDG type planes will tax your system to the hilt.I have been flying FSX with default planes and MyTraffic X commercial flying city to city. MyTraffic was a great aid to being able to bump up my AI to 50%. But the other aspects require a very boring stripped down version of FSX.On the other hand FSX is very good for bush flying. Can look very beautiful and flies quite well.P4 3.6 GHz 800 MHz FSB HT, 2 gigs DDR2 sdram, ATI X800XT 256 mb PCIe video

>>I haven't reinstalled FS9 yet, but the more I think about it,>the closer I get to doing so.I installed FS9, FSX, and X-Plane 8.50 all about the same time on the new CPU. I just treat the MSFS sims, as two different simulations, and have no plans to get rid of either. Plenty of HD space to go around! :7 L.Adamson