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Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe DVD

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- Sticking to fs9
I've started flying MS sims since FS5.1 and found FSX disappointing. In terms of realism, the weather and flight models have no improvements over FS9. FSX is aimed more for the "gamer" market.. sad to say, i'm not one of them. Besides spending for a new PC upgrade, I'm sticking with FS9 for now. I hope MS learns their lesson, Xplane is getting there.

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- Obsolete. A look under the hood.
What the heck, you might ask: The game was recently released, I get only 10 fps with everything maxed out and you call it obsolete? That is my point exactly. You need to take a look under the hood to understand why you get such poor mileage. Simply put, the game isn't designed to take advantage of multi-threading, ie it doesn't split tasks to run in parallel to take advantage of multi-core CPUs that we have today. FSX was designed in 03-04, when mainstream CPUs were in the MHz race. A few years later AMD and Intel dropped the clock speed factor in favor of multi-core architecture, but by that time FSX was well in implementation phase, and it was too late to change it. That is the reason you get slow FPS. You can wait for 10,000Mhz CPU to improve things but don't hold your breath. SP1 improved it somewhat by multi-threading couple of tasks but MS was limited in what it could do with a finished product.

A word about graphics. Many people were hoping for DX10 and Vista to improve things. But, as MS team admitted, SP2 (DX10 upgrade) has barely any graphics improvements, so you'll be hard pressed to see the difference beteeen DX9 and DX10 graphics. They claim, that DX10 pipeline improved framerates by 10-20% by offloading more tasks to video card, and you get better performance. The problem is, DX10 runs only on Vista, and Vista is much slower than XP. So you give up performance by upgrading from XP to Vista (bog down your CPU), then regain it back by using DX10 (offloading some tasks from CPU to graphics card). At the end of this exercise you'll be left with basically same graphics/performance, at a cost of measly few hundred greenbacks. MS claims the DX10 spec was raw when they were working on FSX, and other schedule constraints (such as Acceleration pack) let them pretty much drop any significant DX10 work.

So, at the and of the day, you're left basically with FS2004 graphics, poor framerates and nothing new and noteworthy. Had they improved the flight model, that alone would have been worth the price of admission, but alas, we see more of the same: higher res textures, finer mesh, etc, all of which have been available for FS2004 for quite some time via commercial add-ons, without the performance penalty to boot.

Some philosophies advocate building classics: things that stand the test of time and get better with age. Common philosophy these days it to build disposable items, from ligthers to automobiles that go out of fashion before you can count to ten. MS has been a leader in building fad software. This time they have outdone themselves: delivered a product that was obsolete on release and a lot more obsolete now, with DX10 features dropped. The bug of technical progress bit them in the backside, hard. So long, on to FS11.

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- very realistic
having flown aircraft in the real world i think this is very close to the real thing

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- Probably a good game...if you have a really powerful computer!
I have been playing FS2004 for several years now (since it was originally released), and I have enjoyed every minute of it!! Unfortunately, the game CD was damaged, so instead of replacing it, I went out and bought FSX.

I found, to my dismay, that FSX won't work on my computer. I have a fairly good (though not great by today's standards) computer: XP-Professional with SP2, Intel Centrino Duo CPU @ 1.73GHz, 1GB of RAM, and 100GB hard drive that is only about 1/3 full. With these specs, FSX doesn't work very well. However, FX2004 works absolutley great!!

So I'm simply going to buy another FS2004, and hold on to FSX until I get a substantially better computer. If your computer specs are anything close to what mine are, I recommend you do the same.

So...it's probably a good game, but you need a newer or substantially upgraded computer if you actually want to play it!

Rating:

- Other reviewers on drugs???
I was looking on amazon for a flight simulator book and came across these wretched reviews for a pretty fun, awesome, fast game. I'm not sure what kind of crappy computers people are buying these days ( i bought a computer at walmart for $400 that runs FSX at pretty decent graphics settings) but i have a macbook pro thats about a year old with a 2.0 ghz duo and 128 mb grphics card and im running windows xp on it with 1.5 gigs of ram. needless to say i maxed out every setting and it runs wonderfully. The only reason i wouldnt give this game 5 stars is because it doesnt have a radar altimeter ( boggles my mind that x-plane does and FSX doesnt) and you cant click everything. I wish there was a FMS too, but cant win them all. If you bought a computer within the last year you should be able to run this program with great graphics setting. Im sure everyone who wanted this program has it and im sure i will be getting the next flight sim that comes out, but for now i gtg because im going from EGLL-BIRK. ciao

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