This game has some of the best graphics I have ever seen. It looks very close to what you would see out of a plane. I have flown places in the simulator that I have flown in real life and was actually able to find an airport based on the landmarks in the city. Not big landmarks like you would find in a major city. I mean the little landmarks that I know where they are because I grew up here. It was creepy.

However, all that beautifulliness is not a word and not easy I guess. I have a pretty fast machine. X2 4400+ with a Nivida 7900GT. I can run most games out now at full settings and still get 40 fps. I did that with FSX and got 1.3 fps. I have dialed a ton of crap down and I now am getting around 16 fps. I would prefer 20 or 25, but at 16 most of the really cool looking stuff still looks really cool. I just hope they release a patch with something in the readme that says “Oops, anyone with an AMD and Nivida system was getting one third the performance they should have. We have it fixed now.” But somehow I doubt that will happen.