with that video card? maybe on very low settings. A 9500gt is a major bottleneck in that system - not too many modern games are going to run smoothly.

Cough, one day to go :(:(:(

For sure ;)

The RAM may well be plenty, but a GF 9500 GT is a relatively weak card, there are weaker but you wouldn't want to play a modern game at anything like a high resolution with them. There is the 9500, there is the 9600 GSO, then there is the 9600 GT, then you get up to the 9800GT. Some versions of the GF 8800 are between the 9600 gt and the 9800, but not all, some 8800s are weaker than the 9600 gt. I think the GF 8600GT which is pretty weak compared to a 8800 or 9600 Gt is stronger than the 9500 gt, and these people seem to agree:

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards....=513&card2=598

Pixels per second matter, FLOPS (floating point operations per second) matter, memory bandwidth matters, but the clockspeed only matters in the context of the pixels, FLOPS and memory bandwidth.

You say you play FSX with high details? at what resolution?

If you can tolerate a low resolution that card may be up to it, but it certainly won't be ideal, and if you want a higher resolution later you will have to buy a more powerful card then.

The 9800gt is only about $100. By the time this game comes out it will probably be in the $60-80 price range saying realistically were talking about at least halfway through 2010, in which PCIe3.0 will be hitting the market.

didn't they say we'd get an update "in about two weeks" about two weeks ago?

or was that the russian interview?

...and I thought by now they couldn't fool anyone with this lame old trick anymore ;)

They did? :(:(:(
Why they bothered I do not know :confused:
Rather keep quiet than promise an update that ends up being another box full of nothing :(