New System but can it cut the mustard??? Help me out!!

I don't know a great deal about PC's, but your video card seems ok, and so does your CPU. Your RAM could do with upgrading sometime, but FS04 can run fine with 512MB. You should be able to run average to good settings in display for a good performance. 40 FPS is very good, average is around 25-30. Depends how long it stays at 40 FPS really 😕 . RadarMan or TTT can help you more 😀

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As he said, excellent system (upgrade that ram).
Set the FPS at 30 and let it fluctuate, it has to because you go from heavily graphic areas (airports, cities) to barren land.
The higher you set the clouds the lower the FPS, as with water (shut off) traffic (lower to 75%) scenery and autogen (normal), shadows (off).
With settings like that you should get good FPS.
Use the latest drivers for your video card, and keep your sound (in the sim settings) at medium or even low, they use up ram.
Let us know how you do.

thanks for the tips, i have just ordered another 512mb of RAM and im going to take your advice on the settings i shall post my results later....

many thanks

😂

Does the amount of PAI traffic downloaded and installed effect the performance rates at all??

The amount won't but the aircraft showing up as traffic will.
Try everything out first, get it going the way you want and then start adding, one at a time.

Thanks for the tips/advice, those settings worked great, however i did increase the autogen and im still getting a constant 30 FPS which im more than haapy with.

Just waitin on my other 512mb RAM to arrive now, cant wait to try it out, ill post some screen shots once its installed.

thanks again 😂

👍 30FPS is perfect and the extra ram will make your textures render faster.