Sirnuke, You poor miserable soul. I hope you have a good day. Try a nice Padron cigar, pour yourself a good scotch and cheer up.
You should put yourself in my shoes for a day, and then AH would seem really special to you.
Everyday, I get to fly with a 5 year old Dell Inspiron 1525. I run the most generic graphics and sound you can possibly run and I get an avg frame rate of 4-9 fpm. 12 in the early morning hours when 70 people are on.
My Saitek ST-290 pro is 9 years old and the spring is so stiff that I feel like I have been driving a stick shift in busy traffic after an hour of game play.
The game never downloads correctly for me, and parts of all of my airplanes will appear neon green or pink at times.
Lastly, after 12 years of play I still have never mastered gamma settings. My planes bobble all over the place with just the slightest touch of the stick or a pull of the trigger. Especially the rudder. The ball wobble is a nightmare and trying to aim consumes every bit of steadyness I can muster. A touch of the rudder either way makes my plane wobble from side to side 4 or 5 times before self centering.
Anyway, you get the idea. Things are probably not so bad on your end.
Enjoy your day.
Love,