Try
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
might solve that FS Problem.
I am running CoreDuo 1.6, 256 nvidea go and 1 gig ram and i am getting great performance frame rate wise in the maximum settings, but it still doesnt look that good, it looks as some-one said like a cartoon, and i couldnt get those words out to describe the textures but thats what they look like, like an animated cartoon. Just its all to clean and bright and all that. I am getting about 45fps, goes upto just under 70fps dependant on if i am making the plane go through its paces.
I am looking at X-Plane, i have the demo and it seems better physics wise than FS, just not in a graphical way. But graphics are not all that, lets face it at 30.000 how much attention do you pay to the mountains on the ground or the sea.