windplayer wrote on Aug 1^st, 2012 at 7:53am:

I can tell you - you got to check hardware!!! Last summer i started simming FSX on Athlon 2800+ (1 core at 1800 MHz) 1 Gb RAM and Radeon 9600 256 mb RAM. I flew CS B727 - and i had something about 15-20 fps from VC. Sometimes it dropped to 5-7, but that happened in big airports with high traffic on. Your system should give you normal FPS not on maximum graphics offcourse.

Yep it's a fallacy that you must have the latest and greatest in hardware to run FSX.

You just proved it!

Of course newer hardware is better but I get sick and tired of this you must have the latest $1000 processor and even better you must have an Nvidia graphics card to play rubbish.