My advice would be to wait 6 months with the system you have, add a graphics card and/or adjust the scenery settings in FS to get the smoothness you want.

Another thing to consider is that graphics cards are making the switch from AGP to PCI slots, so you may want to wait on that.

Simmer- In all seeing eye, go to files>user profile and fill out the profile menu so I can find you in a buddy search. And lets use our Keymags names so everyone knows who everyone is. Then PM me when you have a time to meet and will give it a dry run to make sure everything works, maybe we could give Silent Heroes a shot first.

aj_march- I know what you mean about Battle of Britain, its very easy to stay out of AA by flying low since the AA is situated high on the cliffs. Give Forgotten Battles a try though, its a huge download, but the flight physics are very realistic and has better overall graphics than regular BF42.

Continueing with the idea of a Keymags FS server, since alot of nice plane downloads on simviation.com, avsim.com and flightsim.com are freeware. Keymags could provide a collection of these downloads for us to use on the server since the default planes are absolutely the worst. And of course you would need to have these planes in your FS files in order to see others flying them. And if there is anyone out there with a spare computer with decent specs and an ample computer conection, maybe they can volunteer to provide such a server for everyone here.

Id like to mention the following files get deleted out of my FS Aircraft folder because I cant stand to see them: Curtiss Jenny, DeHavilland Comet, Lockheed Vega, Spirit of StLouis, Wright Flyer, Vickers Vimy, Ford Trimotor. And if anyone can tell me how I can change the Cessna Skyhawk from being the opening default so I can delete it, Id appreciate it.

I just found a game server browser that blows Gamespy out of the water. Its called All Seeing Eye, and you can download it here:
http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2/index.html
Finding servers for mods like Forgotten Hope is as easy as checking a box.
Simmer- Lets try this out before we announce a meeting time.

Also I want to mention a BF mod called Silent Heroes about a modern day Swedish invasion of Norway. As rediculous as that sounds it looks like a good sim. Check out these screenshots:
http://www.silentheroes.se/screens.php

Bader- I just tried the patch, and I have to say Im a little disappointed. The air wing that follows me moved in exact sinchronization with my plane, every little wing movement. That was a disappointment because the planes AI in the original is really natural looking where it looks like each plane is being steered individually in responce to your movements. The damage my plane looked didnt look good, wings were cut in straight lines on the same place on each wing. My Crash into water was worse than the original, my plane turned into two planes and bounced on the water. Somehow youve seemed to have lost alot of the good stuff of the original.

Thanks The Joker. I personally think Gamespy has a great buddy system for going on servers together that works like instant messaging. Add to that that everyone would be looking at the same server list on gamespy and could chat to eachother on in server list chat room. And Gamespy has a better list of servers than the ingame list as well as better access to mods.

Ignore that last post I meant point of existense. DC type mod for vietnam, looks amazing but think its still in the early-ish stages.

Definately not early-ish stages of release, Eve of Destruction was released before Battlefield Vietnam was even announced. I still think EoD has better maps despite the fact that DICE (BF42s developer) copied the mod. This time around, DICE has hired Trauma studios, the studio that did DC to work on Battlefield 2 with them. I guess DICE has learned their lesson about trying to do one better than mod teams.