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Of course that a fast processor is good for the fs, but he already has a good processor. When people says processors are needed they probably talking about older processord as athlon xp versus newer dual core.What I doubt is the benefit that a newer processor will have on an older aplication as fs9. It wasn't designed for multi cored processors. I've saw excelent frame rates on older amd 64 processors. I still think a powerfull videocard with the same processor will make more difference than a new processor with the same vga.

I don't believe. I also have an core 2 duo, 2.9 Mhz. The processor mainly works on polygons, like airports, autogen, artificial traffic, etc. For textures like clouds the video card is the differential. I tried stock clouds with active sky evolution and the frames dropped a lot. Then i've installed resized 2d and 3d clouds, smaller, avaiable here in avsim library. I'm using the 6th version, the smaller of them. The 2d clouds are on the 3th version I believe, just search for resized 2d and 3d clouds. They look very good at distance, but a little boxed when near, but the benefits are good, all clouds settings at maximum and frames locked at 25 fps without any drpos, with pay aircrafts and heavy scenery. Try them or consider a powerfull videocard.