SlackAdjuster

Cars are a totally different. I am just saying that whether it is either from the MS Flight Sim Series, Falcon Series, Janes, Id Games, an EA Game, Sierra, whatever, some tweaking, modification or hardware change is needed in these games to make them run better or to our liking. It is has been that way with this hobby since the beginning. The only change I have seen where something runs vanilla out of the box is via a console, but with that said you won't get the depth of these games on a console. Not at this time anyway, maybe down the road. The main hangup is that there are so many hardware variations nowadays on these PC's & MS could have done a better job on the Hardware detection for scaling the vast majority of PC's without the User getting involved. I too don't have a great bit of time with 2 Kids (2yr old & 7yr old). I try to fit in this Hobby when time allows & I do feel your pain on the upgrades, but in the PC World this stuff Changes every 6 months & I couldn't tell you the amount of upgrades done on my box in the last year. You just have to plan upgrades accordly. I agree that the cycle should stop or slow down otherwise it just frustrates more people in the PC Game Platform market.SlackAdjusterGigabyte GA-965p-DS3Intel Allendale E6400 OC'd 3.48 GHZ 8X435FSB (for everyday use)Corsair XMS2 6400 2x 1GB 5 5 5 122x Hitachi 80gb Raid 0Sapphire X1900GTAudigy 2Leadtek WinTV 2000Windows XP Pro SP2

I had to re-register to this forum as I lost my password some time ago & the e-mail address was an old one from a long time ago. I had been a lurker for some time & had to weigh in on this topic. I have purchased Microsoft's Flight sim series stuff since the late 1980's when they came on 5-1/4" floppys...The old Farts like me will remember those. Whenever there has been a new release you either have to upgrade or wait for the community to hack the living daylights out of it to make it better. Computing has been like that since as far as I can remember. ####, half the fun is tinkering & tweaking with hardware & software to make it better. To the naysayers that want it to run better out of the box either start tweaking & playing around with it or put it down & walk away & wait for the community to do their wonders. Like Peter said it does run out of the Box, but if it is not acceptable than start tweaking it.I got an email from Microsoft the begining of this year wanting opinions on what features are important to us & as some were implimented it seems they skimped on many others. (ie.. Flightplanning, sids/stars, SDK/terran tools being user friendly), that is my big dissappointment right now & hopefully things will settle down & we can all enjoy the latest sim.SlackAdjuster Gigabyte GA-965p-DS3Intel Allendale E6400 OC'd 3.48 GHZ 8X435FSB (for everyday use)Corsair XMS2 6400 2x 1GB 5 5 5 122x Hitachi 80gb Raid 0Sapphire X1900GTAudigy 2Leadtek WinTV 2000Windows XP Pro SP2