I had 3 good months with hiccup-free running of (alternately) X-Plane,FS 2004 and FSX Gold. Obviously, I was lucky to have hit on a goodcombination of components --My System: XP Pro (SP 3) with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad, Memory 4096 MB. ATI Radeon HD 5570 (1.0 GB) plus NVidia GeForce 8600 GT (512 MB). Intel RealTek HDA card on Motherboard.  Three Monitors (not used for gaming reasons). Resolution set at 1,024x768 pixels. Simulators installed: X-Plane 9.6, FSX Gold and FS9 (2004).I then installed…See More

The news about the merger of the old favorite FSX and the more sophisticated X-Plane would be welcomed by all enthusiasts globally. I believe the joint work by the two highly professional and dedicated teams would produce some really stunning aerospace sims in the coming years.I do hope that while they produce new sims for their customers worldwide, they would bear inmind that most of us don't own Crays!See More