I'm running a P4 3.6Ghz HT, 2 GB of ram, 128MB Graphics, and 250GB hard drive.

Then after flashing my motherboard bios WXP hung requiring a hard drive re-format and re-install of WXP.

I have a 3 year old computer with 40 gigs of hard drive, plenty of ram and an upgraded video card which ran Flight Simulator 2004 with no problem

The program should install just fine directly from your hard drive

When you are flying over major roadways you can see vehicles driving below, not static but actually moving

If you want to install 60 GB of data onto your hard-drive only to find that the Seattle and San Francisco skylines are GENERIC buildings instead of real models, then X-Plane 9 probably won't disappoint you.

The hard drive space for this sim is comparable to that of others, and at last, check NR2k3, with extra tracks, mods, car-sets, replays and setups is well over 30gigs

Then I lose my DVD drive and need to reboot just to get the disk out

I thought I had more than enough computer power to pull this off (Pentium 4, 1.00GB RAM, 111GB Hard Drive, 2.80 GHz processor), but evidently not.

Since then MSFX Deluxe won't install past the first DVD probably because it left a tag showing the two authorizations I used on my hard drive in a hidden partition.

Instead of buying this game (and giving up 1/3 of your hard drive), consider instead going on Google Earth

So far I have had difficulty stopping the hard drive from crunching constantly while I play -- it apparently needs more than 1GB of RAM to run, and is hitting the swapfile constantly while I play.

Oh, and it really does take up 15 Gig of hard drive space

Oh, and to cut down on the abysmal flight load speeds, maybe upgrade to SCSI hard drive(s).Of course for that kind of money I could go to ground school at the local

The only reason I am writing this review is to take pity on those of you who run into the horrible 2nd disk install problem where the disk drive does not recognize the 2nd disk and stops installing

It takes up less space on the hard-drive (only 2 DVDs instead of 6 or 7).

It latches onto available joystick (in my case it was a Saitek AVR08 - PS-41 driven by Windows 7 default drivers without any Saitek software in sight) and works with that too.

2.0 GB Ram; 7200 RPM Hard Drive

(I have a highspeed ATA hard drive, a Pentium 4, 3.6 ghz machine.)

I have a new dell, AMD 64 3800+ x2(dual core 2.0 ghz) with 1024 meg ram, pleanty hard drive, nvidia

, 1GB of RAM, and 100GB hard drive that is only about 1/3 full

Read the reviews from Amazon & downloaded the trial version from MS (nothing but trouble), running on a new laptop 1 gig of memory & 80 G of hard drive)

Think of a very realistic driving game where all you do is sit in traffic all day

I was able to use a recovery program to copy it onto my hard drive

I haven't done much with the multiplayer, so I won't argue from ignorance, but you have to have a GameSpy ID (easy enough to get, and free), and you have to basically have a broadband connection - anything slower will lag to the point of being unplayable.-The game is practically unplayable without a joystick of some kind.

5 stars there if you have a supercomputer, but their aircraft in FS-X suffer from this common problem, no forward visiblilty with a 2-D usable panel.

Has "Flying Lessons" with, granted, a guy who has the corniest sense of humor I've ever heard...but humor aside...still really cool and as far as I (a non pilot) can tell, seems like the tests are fairly realistic with the exception that you "can" bypass startup, mixture, rudders, etc.