Don't know what grapics card it has, but the computer is not fast. I loaded it on a Dell Inspiron 600M with 512 Meg of RAM. Its an open system in that regard, with free downloads of new aircraft and flyng sites. They advertise 100 planes, but it is more of an open system-no hangar packs. I counted 24 differnet background sites/scenes. A small window appears on the left portion of the screen so you can make adjustments real-time while you are flying. By the way, I discovered it has a really neat feature "In flight tuning". In addition to increasing the aileron throw by 20%, I also increased the aileron length by 10% and the rudder size by about 10 percent. Regarding elevator, I reduced the throws by 20% which felt right on for me. For example, on the outside loop half inside loop, you actually get perspective on the radius of the maneuver- particularly at the transiton point between the loops. What I found interesting is it has some kind of next generation 3D in the graphics- maybe its the soft shadows and glows. It runs really well on that old, slower computer. By the way the simulator was loaded on a very old (4 years old) laptop. I can't figure out how to upload simulator videos directly, but I did take some video tape from the computer screen.
With the graphics, speed and feel, it's sometimes hard to distiguish that its actually a simulator when I looked at a video play back. The speed of the plane and the way it responds at radius exits and point roll exits make the simulator look and feel real. Even the knife edge loop feels realistic, with a touch of roll during the bottom quarter, for example. It's particularly good in the stall turns, spin entries and roll entries and exits. I increased the aileron throw by 20 degrees, decreased the elevator throw by 20 degrees and it felt very close to my setup. In fact its the most realistic pattern simulator I've flown to date. I loaded the most recognizable one (Comp Arf Integral) and tried it out. I quickly found that it has a couple of pattern planes built right in. There is a really nice flight simulator I just tried out tonight called the Phoenix RC Flight Simulator 2.5 The simulator comes with a Spektrum DX5 Tx which was nice too.
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