[Spike88]

Originally Posted by Skybird

FS2004 superior for IFR, FSX superior for VFR.

Hardware demands for FSX are much higher. The age of FS2004 means that even with not-up-to-date hardware chances are you can run it well when installing plenty of addons (planes, cockpits, scenery), traffic, weather, etc. If your system can just handle FSX, it means you have no reserves left to install and reasonably use additonal addons like more complex cockpits, traffic software, and so on. All such things pick away at your CPU, and frames.

FS, all versions, are more depending on CPU than graphics board.

I can run FSX On medium settings with a decent amount of traffic on an AMD Sempron 1.8ghz with 5ghz ram and an Nvidia Geforce 6150 LE, and I could also run most of the Addons fine. Although I never tried getting PMDG aircraft due to the system requirements being so high.:rotfl: