I would think that the major limiting factor with your pc is the OS - try Win7 and I'm sure you'll find that it runs it a great deal better. Crysis 2 is not a good indicator as it uses DirectX 9, and therefore XP handles it OK.

Luthier has said elswhere (?) that most of the worst glitches are associated with DX9 - others using a GTX260 with Win7/Vista have not had these hassles. Oh, and you'll need more RAM, too.

yeah, you're right...

My next step will be a new Mther board, one that can run all these new goodies, properly, my mother board is not helping matters, its too old, I will also get the ram at the same time... Then, next on the list is a new 6950 GPU.

However the reasons for the post was to test performance on a min spec machine and see if there are any real world gains using stronger hardware and the differences between them.

I am still pretty convinced that when optimized as it should be my machine should be able to run the sim comfortably. None of should have to upgrade to NASA spec just to have smooth gameplay.

:lol: And from what I've read, those that have are also not quite achieving that!