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I downloaded the demo and the performance wasn't bad for the graphics, I'm just wondering if this is different with the full game?

I downloaded the demo and the performance wasn't bad for the graphics, I'm just wondering if this is different with the full game?

I am guessing FSX will run well for you. I downloaded the demo when it came out and the graphics were horrible.  >:(

Well I didn't tweak everything but it ran pretty good at highs and some mediums on 1280x1024 anti-aliasing on etc. It seems nicer than FS9 as the buildings look much more smooth and detalied, the sea looks nice and the planes are smoother and more detailed, even at lower settings than I run FS9 on. Sort of like the difference between Sims 1 and 2, Sims 1 or FS9 is the basis, a good solid game, but Sims 2 and FSX are the polish on those bases that makes it smoother and better looking in the areas that lacked. The jump from FS8 to FS9 is not as noticable as the jump from 9 to X (for me it wasn't as).

The demo is a poor test of what you will see when you are running the full system.  My demo ran quite acceptably - the full blown version had serious problems - of a nature that makes the system unuseable for me.  Do a google on "FSx" + "big black triangles"

Loads of hardware geeks will offer tons of suggestions as to how to optimize.  If you are a serious hacker and have no expectation as to how much money you may have to throw at your eventual "working" configuration - have at it !

If you fly in the Caribbean retail fsX should have exactly the same performance as the demo, however, once you move to land / cities, the load on your computer dramatically increases so your performance will go down.

Your computer is very nice, if I were you I would go for fsX as your computer should run it well. Just be sure to read the fsX & SLI thread to tweak it.

The demo is a poor test of what you will see when you are running the full system.  My demo ran quite acceptably - the full blown version had serious problems - of a nature that makes the system unuseable for me.  Do a google on "FSx" + "big black triangles"

Loads of hardware geeks will offer tons of suggestions as to how to optimize.  If you are a serious hacker and have no expectation as to how much money you may have to throw at your eventual "working" configuration - have at it !

The first paragraph I agree with, the second one is a load of tosh!  You don`t need to be a serious hacker for starters, many who have had little knowledge have completed changes and enriched there FSX experience.  Basically, if you have the nous to check the requirements for FSX before installing then that alone is going to start you off in the right direction.  Mine worked as is on a single core computer with no tweaks whatsoever and a lowly Geforce GS 7300 video card-it even ran in Vista.  I have two versions of  FSX, the Deluxe and the Standard, I bought a new machine for the Deluxe version, was going to build it but it was that cheap I bought a base unit only for

Well, I would get it as long as it will look and play better than my FS9 on full settings (a few tweaked a little lower) at about 20-40fps in heavy urban areas, and 40+ in less urban areas and 60+ in the middle of nowhere. I'm going to tweak the demo and see what I can get working nicely.