I have ben playing sims since gunship and chuck Yeager flight on the commodore 64 , I loved the combat series 1,2 and 3...but im poor so me having a system that would;d run the newer sims really sucked. Well Im happy to say i finally got to instal tonight fsx for the first time, is it better then 2004 and fs9? well the graphics are just amazing , but it is one of the most unstable sims ive ever played. Im still looking for patches i installed the sp 1 patch but wow id hate to of seen it if it was worse then it is now without the patch lol. I got a fx-8150 8 core cpu and the msi r6770 with 1 gig ddr5 gpu, my main thing i really need is to increase the 4 gig ram i have installed at this time but im happy after being on here for over 5 years to be getting to play instead of looking at the downloads and being in envey cause i could not fly those great birds lol