Are you getting better or worse fps /smoothness in FSX than with FS9 on the SAME machine with about the same level (in percent of its capability) of graphics and AI and all other such stuff running?
I have yet to even get really smooth stuff out of FS9 on my not TOO shabby machine (see specs below) ...... so I can't IMAGINE this machine handling FSX at anything other than VERY reduced settings....... which is a "why bother" until I get a good hardware situation in place.
From my point of view...... when I buy "the package" I am buying it in order to run it with ALL the features enabled to their fullest extent. I haven't been able to do that with FS9 yet.
I simply do not understand how perople with "minimal machines" are saying....oh yeah....it runs great on my machine. Unless most of the stuff is turned off.
This baffled me on FS9 too.
best,
......................john