Nightone...G3 suffered originally from the same affliction that most consumer-end simulators do.

It has to look pretty to sell (good graphics) and it has to be correct physically.

An accurate physics engine eats up a ton of resources, not leaving much for graphics, and vice versa. There is a way to cheat it, and thats the same way AFPD and other sims have. Photofields. They tote them as "revolutionary" or any other number of marketing buzzwords, but its really just a cheat. Photofields use almost no graphical processessing power compared to a full 3d environment. Notice that G3s improvement in "feel" coincided with the photofields?

In that regard, my framerate dropped on 3d fields with the new updates. But I have an "upper-end" PC (laptop actually) so i have very little problem running it.

I've worked in the software/programming field most of my professional life...so I know the cycle. I know the battle of "look good" and "work fast"...especially since my current job is web-centric, so performace vs. appearance is even more of a battle.

In the end though, none of the sims feel "real"...their value is in creating/maintaing/strengthening the hand-eye coordination of certain manuevers.

At the end of the day, they are all "games" ... enjoy them as such and stop complaining about everything.