Hello. I am very new to this flight sim stuff & microsoft (as I’m an Apple man) but I bought a Geeforce FX5500 for around £45 for the pc I have, for FS2002 I bought for Xmas. This pc is just used for this by the way. Playing with the settings helped & experimenting really helped to make things fly. This pc is about 2MGhz, XP & 756 (?) of RAM. Most settings are quite high & I do get smoke & tyre marks from landing the Tornado without due care.

The thing I found really helpful was to turn the realism settings to detect structural stress & damage. That really made me put kid gloves on. Now my Tornado just floats down. After all, it’s expensive & costly to repair!! I can now land Spitfires at 80 mph with just a whisper from the tyres. 🙂 Settings. It’s all in the settings.