Hi all,I've been reading quite a few posts with complaints about poor performance in FSX and ending with remarks like 'returning to FS2004' and such.BUT have a look on the stats for the FS2004 and the FSX forums:FS2004 = 2 892 topics, 20 103 messagesFSX = 54 236 topics, 385 225 messages. Wow!OK, I know it isn't fair because the FSX forum has five subforums. But they carry a total of 28 404 messages, so FSX forum still contains a total 356 821 (a couple of minutes ago). Pretty impressive given the short time since the release.We sure have a lot of new simmers joining with the release of FSX :-) Ulf B

HelloThe FSX forum contains all the FS2004 posts up untill FSX got its own forum, so a very large number of those posts are from the old FS2004 forum.the five sub forums were also formally FS2004 forums.FS2004 = 2 892 topics, 20 103 messages since the FSX forum was formed.Not a bat total for a supposedly obsolete Sim, also check the new FS2004 files Vs FSX on a daily basis, probably 20:1 in favor of FS2004

Mad dog,Your'e right. My mistake :+ But your'e wrong about the daily basis comparison. Since the release of SP1 the activity on the FSX forum is sky high ;-)SorryUlf B

HelloSP1 has been a turning point along with Tileproxy.These two releases have probably saved this sim.Going forward Tileproxy or whatever copy MS come out with will be the future of Flight sim.

>Going forward Tileproxy or whatever copy MS come out with will>be the future of Flight sim.Perhaps for a fraction of the relatively small flight sim community. I know I won't be using tileproxy, or any streaming texture system fot that matter. Some members of this community feel MS follows their every beck and call, but this community accounts for only a small fraction of flight sim sales. Flight Sim does not depend on this community, though the add on market does.

The measure of interest (and the success of a forum) is not in how many messages have been posted, but the number of times those messages have been read. Remember, though we have nearly 40,000 registered members here who can post, by far the greater number is in those that do not post. I hesitate to give a guesstimate of how many that may be, but I would imagine that for every poster, there are 5 to 15 that just read.