I'm leaning towards getting FS One for it's better flight model realism.

I want to ask those with up to date FS One's about it's performance on less than highest end hardware on the whole.

I have some systems that I can clock up to 3.0+ Ghz in speed (AMD Athlon and P4). On the RAM side I have currently max 512 MB (dual channel) and ATI 9200-9300 at best.

I don't care about having to set the scenery realism to a lower level to keep the frame rate smooth. I figure I should be able to keep airplane graphical detail at a higher setting without stressing the GPU too much.

So my questions are: assuming I can set scenery detail lower, will FS ONE work smoothly with 3 Ghz, 512 MB ram and ATI 9200-9300? And I'm guessing that the photo-scenery would not be overly taxing on my GPU... Does the photo-scenery stress the GPU noticably less than the 3D computer generated scenery? One would think it would because it's just a "bubble" of static panorama rotating around a point of perspective (kind of like a planetarium).

The main thing for me is maximum realism in flight model as long as it's smooth on my hardware. I'll upgrade GPU and ram at a later date (probably no time really soon).

Thanks alot for any help

EDIT: I did btw know already the minimum and recommended hardware for FS One before posting this (I've read other posts and reviews). Just asking about it because my hardware on the whole would be rather close to the minimum. Cheers