worth upgrading? my specs inside

[RudeandRude]

I don't own any other games.  Well yes I do, WoW, but I just downloaded it yesterday so I have nothing to compare it with.

The power connector is definitely plugged into the vid card.  I guess it could be a virus but that would be a record for me.  The computer is barely 3 weeks old and I really dont use it for anything except FSX.  

I'll try using your settings that you suggested and report back.

[RudeandRude]

Just for reference, before making any changes... AutoBloom was off, Scenery Complexity was at Dense, Autogen was at Normal, Ground Shadows were off, Water was on 2.x Mid.

I have aircraft on High and Weather on High.   Running at 1440x900 resolution.

[Mermaid Man]

WOW is hardly a demanding game, it'll work fine on cards a few gens old.

Try something like FEAR.

[RudeandRude]

Ok so with your suggested settings and a frame target locked on 24, I consistently got 24 FPS.

Then I exited, turned AI Traffic up to high and changed nothing else.  Started up again and now I'm between 9-12 fps.  I noticed that it automatically changed my aircraft settings to Ultra High.

I then went in again and set the aircraft display settings to Medium Low and it didn't do much.  I gained about a half a frame.

So then I turned AI Traffic down to Medium High (from High) and gained about 1 fps, averaging around 12.5 with ranges from 11-14.

[RudeandRude]

Press Alt-Ctrl-Delete, in performance tab, what's your idle CPU usage, and page file usage?

CPU Usage is ranging between 0-3% but mostly 0 or 1.

Page file is at 770m / 6332m