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Post by Tony Madge - HJG on Aug 28, 2006 10:16:44 GMT
Well downloaded the demo from Microsoft and to be honest I was very disappointed with it, I have a good spec system AMD 3800 64 CPU SLI Nvidia 6600GT x2 video cards 1 Mb Ram 2x 200 gb Hard discs Win XP Home If I was lucky I would get lousy frame rates with jerkiness sometimes it would crash to desktop or lock the PC up altogether!! I found it cartoon like in image quality..to be brutal if this is the best they can come up with with 3 years work behind them....well it's not pushing any of my buttons, I will be staying FS2004 which to me does everything I want. Just my thoughts  |
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Post by Harerton Dourado - HJG on Aug 28, 2006 11:48:06 GMT
I agree with you. FS2004 is the best FS since FS98.
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Post by Jordan Claus on Aug 28, 2006 14:42:49 GMT
I can't agree more with you guys. Personally I think that Microsoft is just trying to appeal to guys that are requesting more eye candy. What most gamers don't realize that FS9 is a simulator and not a game. Of course those of us who are simmers are content with flying what works and not what's pretty.
Jay
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Post by piedmont700 on Aug 29, 2006 21:29:05 GMT
When I heard they were putting elephants and birds in it, I went ballistic. I don't want elephants! I want smoother, more FPS friendly textures, better flight models, and accurate systems!
FSX will probably not be on my computer for a long time
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Post by Jordan Claus on Aug 30, 2006 1:41:12 GMT
Elephants??? WTF? OK, birds are alright but there is no reason to have elephants in the sim. Mike is right, the emphasis should be on better frame rates, flight models, and systems. The way it's looks to me, I feel that FSX is a joke. Hell I'd buy X-plane instead and that's saying something considering that I am a hardcore MSFS guy. I dunno, perhaps I'd feel better if they just ditch the elephants.
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Post by piedmont700 on Aug 30, 2006 2:11:04 GMT
Yep. If you go to wherever it is in Africa where elephants live, you might see some wandering around on the ground.
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Post by Dee Waldron - HJG on Aug 30, 2006 3:22:59 GMT
You mean they're like, animated dynamic scenery objects!?!?
Thats like... crazy!
Dee
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Post by Harerton Dourado - HJG on Aug 30, 2006 4:58:30 GMT
That's AI traffic
(Animal Intelligence...) ;D
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Post by jpvisser on Sept 1, 2006 22:03:36 GMT
That's AI traffic (Animal Intelligence...) ;D HAHAHA you owe me a keyboard ;D classic! cheers JP |
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Post by Tarasdad on Sept 2, 2006 7:33:29 GMT
Does the "X" in "FSX" mean 'NO!!' to everyone else? So far the demo hasn't impressed me in the least. Buggy, glitchy, mediocre pap.
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Post by kunstflieger on Dec 17, 2006 16:52:24 GMT
I have fs2002 and fs2004 and they are both excellent flightsims. Thanks for the warning about " FSX". I had hoped that "FSX" would have better accuracy such as: there is huge army air field at Pyote Texas but microsoft seems to have missed it. In many locations the highways are in the wrong location.
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Post by christrott on Dec 18, 2006 17:30:56 GMT
Pyote's airfield is closed and not shown on any aeronautical maps anymore nor is it plotted by Jeppesen, so it is impossible to expect MS to be able to display something for which no data exists. With the highways, it's the same problem. MS purchased a database of road information, so if it's wrong, it's because the survey was wrong, not because MS messed up. I know several areas in south Dallas that recently had to be re-surveyed by the USGS because of previous errors resulting in all maps showing some roads over 2 miles from where they actually were. Until high resolution aerial and satellite mapping was available to confirm the maps, there was really no way of knowing that there was a problem.
Unrealistic expectations should not be translated into dissapointment at the company. They put the best data available in 2005 into the program (yes, it's 2005 data they used, not 2006). If you visit FSInsider, there are several articles that give the exact data used, so if you don't like where the highways are or the lack of abandoned airfields, I suggest a better course of action is to e-mail those companies and ask them to fix their data, don't ask the 12 ACES team members to create airfields and highway systems for the whole world on their own.
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Post by benh on Feb 4, 2007 4:35:11 GMT
totally agree with you tony.......i experienced the same problems....
my setup is..........
3.0ghz Pentium 4HT 630
2048mb DDR2 RAM
256mb Geforce 7300LE
160gb 7200rpm HD
Win XP Home SP2
i dont think they can better 2004, although i was really really reluctant to upgrade from fs2002 in the beginning.............
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Feb 4, 2007 7:04:21 GMT
I'm just curious to know how the new sim version might performs with the new WINDOWS VISTA operating system .... to know whether or not there's any significant enhancement.
I've opened a thread on the GENERAL FORUM for this purpose.
Mark C
AKL/NZ
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Post by christrott on Feb 7, 2007 17:13:50 GMT
There will be no significant enhancement until the DX10 Graphics Engine is released for FSX, which will be this summer sometime.
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