My expectations are very reasonable. Simply stated: - 19/20 FPS is a poor experience. You should be flying at min. of 30 FPS. - I will not go into specific graphics settings that I have set (tuned based on my hardware; set just below average, no HDR) the sim under-performs on my machine (ATI 5870, overclocked i920 3.8 GHz, 6 GB of RAM, Win 7-64 bit, running of SSD - solid state drive, defintely a higher end system). The sim barely renders 15 FPS, avg 13 FPS. I`d like to mention that yes I am running at 3870x1050 and that`s why I have ATI card because it handles well high res. In window mode (1650x1050) I can hit 20-25 FPS, that`s still below the bare minimum. Main reason why I went with X-Plane 9 originally because of its good frame rates. X-Plane 10 tuned down may even look worse than X-Plane 9 with lower frame rates.