Jabbajawz

Thanks, I'll give the tweaks you linked a try. Do you think it's worth upgrading any part of my pc to get it running smoother such as upgrading to a Nvidia 580 or wont it make much difference?

Hi there,I'm new to FSX and flight sims in general but would like to get into playing them. I read that FSX was a good place to start because of the great community and lots of addons + mods to choose from. I was wondering if anyone could help me set FSX up correctly so it runs okay and point me in the right direction to the best addons to make the game look prettier without sacrifing too much performance for my pc as at the moment i'm getting 10-15 fps and the game stutters every couple of seconds without any graphic addons installed. There are so many things to tweak I'm just overwelmed. :)Heres my pc spec...i7 920 running @ 3.8gz6 gb ddr3 memoryATI 5870 gcardIntel x-25 ssd hdriveWin 7 64bitAny help would be fantasticps.. any suggestions on what joystick i should get, I want to play all flight sims eventually so something that will last a long time, comfortable and can use with all flight sims would be great.