you can't see all graphics and detail without a super machine

Be sure you have enough machine to run this program the miniums definatelywon't. other wise super version.

I have a pretty fast machine (3.0ghz

I did some surfing to learn about this sim and found one site that said that there is no machine available to the general public that can properly run this sim

In fact, I am considering dumping my machine in favor of an M1710 with 512MB GTX graphics

Until then, unless you've Just Yesterday purchased a spanking new machine, pick up a copy of FS9 on sale for $20.My score

Maybe in two years I'll get a new top-end machine for MSFS XI?

Yes, a few of the people here have top-end machines and are having fun with the sim, but the vast majority is seriously disappointed and Microsoft should take note

I had to customize the graphics detail to reduce quality on the items not important to me, and seeing what the game can do with the right hardware does encourage one to get a faster machine, but the simulator is very enjoyable on my "older" hardware

If your system is not one of the best gaming machines on the market, you will basically have to sacrifice in certain graphics areas to get an acceptable frame rate (and by "acceptable" I mean greater than 15 frames per

As some other user said, Flight Simulator X needs a strong machine to run properly and efficiently

Those of you who have top-end machines; have fun

I have a quite up to date powerful machine running XP with 2G of RAM and a 512MB NVidia card

Depending on the scenery and weather, the machine will stall though

Takes forever to load, even on a fast machine

sure however I would prefer the fantastic visual effects they have included as opposed to just remaking FS 2004.Once more, if you are running a really slow or low end machine it may not be worth your money but the way games are today, there is not much in the way of graphically intense games that will run on these PC's

I tried it on two fast modern machines one with a cutting edge video card - and it still had problems

I have MS FS 2004 and X-plane 8 and let me tell you I deleted MS FS 2004 as fast as I could

I've run FS9 on several machines with a variety of graphics cards and processor speeds, and although it runs faster or slower as you might expect, it's still fundamentally the same experience

So to wrap up - I highly recommend this simulator to any Aerolover as myself

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.