Everyone with a fast computer & especially fast gfx should check this out...

[MCR]

X3 Terran Conflict Demo...

Fantastic real-time GFX (really worth the 442MB download):

http://downloads.guru3d.com/X3-Terran-Conflict-Rolling-Demo-Benchmark-download-2115.html

(They also got some glowmaps  ).

[BTAxis]

Actually, you also need a fast CPU for X3. The CPU is a bottleneck because of all the simulation and scripts that are running at the same time. Makes you wonder why they didn't seriously look into multi-threading their game, since it seems quite suitable for it.

[MCR]

I have only Core2Duos overclocked & this is running smoothly under XP (especially with the Nvidia-gfx-card), but I have not tried the real game yet...

[BTAxis]

Typically, the game slows down over time because the universe gets more crowded. For this reason a lot of people run a script that removes the civilian ships, since they're only scenery yet slow the game down.

[weekendwarriora1c]

I could only pull 31fps average on the benchmark.