I have problems with scenery loading at times when I look off to the side while in VC.  I know that a lot of this is due to the game settings and the video card.  I am going to upgrade the video card, but don't feel like spending $400+ right now.  I've got 512 mb of Corsair Twin X Low Latency in my system, and was wondering if going to a gig would make a noticeable difference or should I just wait for the video card.  I know several of you guys run a gig or better, what do you thinK?

  I think 1 Gb of ram has pretty much already become standard nowdays, at least amongst gamers.
  Low prices on memory have really made it worth it anyways.

I noticed a pretty big diffence in load times and the scenery looks a lot better since I went to 1 gig. from 384 megs. It seems to run smoother.

FS will use even 2GB, but in order to have rock'n performence a "good" VGA card is inportend like the 6800ultra....

regards

Why not the ultra?  And also, I got a P4 over 2GB of duel channel RAM, the now S-HD and the 6800 ultra, and.... 

It is giving me "always" a smoooode drive!
Yes, sometimes the FPS drops to 24. But normal it is at 30 FPS (I looked it at 30 there is no point of going higher)
that’s all about using professional stuff like paid aircraft with loots of gages, but the default FPS with the default aircraft, Hmmmm.... if the frame rate is set to unlimited it jumps up to 48- 65 FPS

Remember the “auto gen” is the key to a higher FPS when I set it to none,  I do not see it bad at all, try it your self…

BTH before you install the new drivers "clean" and I mean super clean the old drivers, and if you have any problems, do not hassle, I already struggled thru the change, and I have lots of info to share and help!

Enjoy landing

FS9 uses no where near 2gig lol!

I used to use MBM5 with my old system which had 1gig.  The most I could ever get the system to use was about 850meg of ram.

Usually with FS9 it was 600-650meg I think.

Having the best of everything is fine but it is not the key element.  Keeping the data in your system flowing constantly is the key element to things running smoothly.  If it gets bottlenecked anywhere you will end up with stutters in your game!

6800GT was a good choice.  As said it should clock up to 1100/420 (ultra speeds) no problems.

hahaha Excellent.  What is weird is it still uses page space even when you have ram free, never could work that one out!!

I never tried more than one game at once, just run FS9 and every application I had.

Hey auto-pilot.  How much $ does your system represent??  My off the cuff guess is at least $3k.  I upgraded from a 9200 radeon to the "affordable" 6800 alternative, the 6600 GT and didn't notice a huge fps difference.  Actually, what I observed was that I am able to run the same settings I used with the 9200 at 1024x768 instead of 800x600.  That's the main improvement I noticed.  But, eeryone I poll locally around my locale agrees that a vga and ram do work hand in hand and that going from 768 meg to break the 1 gig mark would definatly give me a few more frames and they were correct.  Planes load faster, scenery loads faster and overall its just better.  I noticed the biggest difference when flying high detailed aircraft like PMDG 737 and Wings of Power planes.  Also, the Fanda Dash 8.  Any plane with demanding textures or high system simulation which requires the pc to run a lot of subroutines, the extra ram boosted performance in terms of frames.