[Thomas]

My proscessor is Athlon 2.6Ghz Dual core

And Yes please talk about X-Plane.

[trwagner1]

Frankly, it's personal preference and it relates to the hardware you have. I have an older machine downstairs that my daughter uses. We fly FS9 on it. (AMD Athlon dualcore 1.6Ghz). It's fun to fly and we don't have any performance issues on that PC it runs on.

FSX and X-Plane I fly on my computer thats much higher end. For eye-candy, FSX is the way to go right now. As Chris Palmer has talked about, if you want to fly to "practice" and the flight dynamics of x-plane is better. In fact, the University of North Dakota Aerospace program uses it in their video clips.

But, you can go back and forth for days on that. You CAN buy add-ons to increase your experience with FSX... especially the A2A Cub. Personally, I can't wait until we see scenery in X-Plane like Orbx produces. Talk about having the best of all worlds!

The key is what you are after and what your hardware is capable of. There's no easy answer. I haven't read the entire thread, but if you haven't already done so, listening to the FSBreak podcast from day one forward will help. Lots of stuff, hard to digest it all, but there's a ton of little pieces here and there that will help you learn about tweaks, hardware differences, etc.

Ted

[Jerri Cop]

I would say FSX, it has lots of cool addons and planes.