WARNING (read before buying FSX)

[Airliner]

Anton,

You'd better not even THINK about FSX right now, unless you want to fly with EVERYTHING turned off.

Here are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ at 2.45GHz
ATI 9800XT 256MB AGP (with analog monitor - ugh!)
2 GB Corsair XMS RAM (DDR400; 2.5,2,2,6)
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS

With everything to max on the scenery page except water: Low.2x and no autogen (no shadows either) and no traffic (road or air) I can get
a very acceptible 30 FPS which, for FSX is like 40 in FS9. Adding in 50 - 75% UT from FS9, I go down to around 10 - 15 at the airport. Still
high in the air but, takeoff and approach are what really count so call it 10-15. Still quite acceptible in FSX but, if I wanted to bring up the
autogen and the ground traffic, I'd be way into single digits.

The only reason I've made the complete switch to FSX is because my addon is being designed completely around the mission SDK.
Also, I'm still holding to the folks who say that DX10 is going to really boost performance, not just appearance. If not, I'd be staying with
FS9 too. Heck, I didn't even get FS9 until late for the very same reason many don't want FSX now - computers were too slow.