aerojim

Yep, in Wisconsin

I hope this is the right place-let me know if not. I'm in the market for a new PC for FSX (and my wife's photo-editing). I don't know enough about PC's to build my own, unless I had a lot of help, I'd be interested though. I'm trying to keep my budget near $1,000 and I'm not very savvy. I don't have anything now (just an old Dell laptop). What I'd love is really a guide on what to find, but really where to find it. Any advice?

So you recommend going for FSX and start buying add-ons? I don't mind the recommendation, I welcome it actually.

Should it be? I'm serious, we don't know anything. There is an initial over reaction because this isn't what hardcore sims want, but it has everything there. Let's see if ATC comes up, let's see if this is real world or if they start making crap up.

I've been watching you, no seriously :) I've been reading avsim about Flight for almost a year now in anticipation of the release of flight.I'm a recent college grad, so all I have is my little lap top that can't support a 30 minute YouTube video, much less any type of flight sim.I'm in the process of buying a new desktop, and have been waiting for system req's to come out for Flight in anticipation. When it was released it just confused me and now I'm waiting even longer.I'm optimistic about Flight, things look great, and with the BETA and CES I feel like Microsoft has basically pulled a Washington, a lot of talking, not a lot of information.Graphics look great, we know that a lot of additional content will be released, without knowing any type of timeline or actual plans. Only Hawaii is being released, and fuel management is a big part of the game, so you can't fly to the "end of the world." But they also mentioned if they see people on Live flying to the middle of the ocean they may "put something out there.:So should we expect a made up world? Can I expect to someday fly out of my small, midwest, nontowered airport? There are a lot of things we have yet to learn, and a lot of questions unanswered, but for all the furor and selling that has been going back and forth, it's the lack of knowing which is such a bummer.Especially for a guy like me (a small minority) waiting to buy a computer based off what I'd like to next do with a flight sim, whether it be dig into FSX and add-on areas as much as possible, or be a patient, Hawaii bum for awhile until we get to see more from Flight.

Recently purchased RC. Love the product. I run on vista and I run as administrator and have done a couple flight so far without any problems. Tonight I was set up to do a longer flight, Milwaukee, WI to Philadelphia in a Twin-prop, 4 hours. First few parts of the flight went perfect. But as I was passing Cleveland I got handed off to another frequency with CLE Center and then got a CTD. From other forums one guy told me he's had some problems with CTD or freezing with RC. I tried to search the forums, is this common, just a hit or miss type deal?