PREVIEW OF FSX (10)

[KDSM]

minimum quoted specs for vista

GeForce 7800
AMD64 Dualcore
1024MB RAM

GeForce 7800 >I need to work on this one

AMD64 Dualcore>Check

1024MB RAM> Check x2

[ashaman]

You're better off than a lot of people, me included as you can see in my signature. And I really don't think that in M$ they smoked so much weed to make a 7800 needed as a minimum. Chill out.

[ashaman]

I really don't think that in M$ they smoked so much weed to make a 7800 needed as a minimum. Chill out.

Hmmm...

I really hope these were not my last famous words...

[simonmd]

I am dissapointed though.. I WANTED WEAPONS INCLUDED SO I COULD HAVE A COMPLETE FLYING SIM! I wanted to be ablr to do military and Civilian flying in the same sim and be able to intertwine the two types... (

Not heard of CFS3 then? I do see the point about having a 'real world' environment, ie, you fly to Iraq in a transport and then jump into an F-18 or something and go on a mission. However, to combine the two would use up even more resorces and the MS FS series has always been about flying, nothing else. Plus, if they made it 'totaly' real, you'd have to wait for five years before a mission came up and then you'd go back to your base to sit around all day doing nothing. Reality does have it's boring side you know!

[Foxtrot Sport]

GeForce 7800 >I need to work on this one

AMD64 Dualcore>Check

1024MB RAM> Check x2

Boy make us feel WORSE about our incompetent 'computers'.

[legoalex2000]

GeForce 7800 >I need to work on this one

AMD64 Dualcore>Check

1024MB RAM> Check x2

ditto on everything (as of 4 days ago.)

ramos

[Alphajet_Enthusiast]

Ditto here too, but I have the geforce.  :)

[richardd43]

Am just curious if anyone ever bought a car with perfectly good "stock" wheels and replaced them with $1000.00 worth of fancy custom wheels and tires.

That is the same thing a lot of us do with our computers.

I have already started gathering goodies in anticipation of the new Vista operating system and the upcoming new FSX. I just ordered a new X2 processor, a 250G HDD, and 2G more ram for this computer.

I have no doubt that I have enough computer to run FSX with this computer as it is. Upgrading is a 2 fold thing: when I upgrade this computer the parts will go into a lesser computer I own which needed upgrading anyway.

The trick was convincing my wife this was a necessary upgrade.

[Sterk]

In a communication received from representatives of Microsoft Game Studios late yesterday, AVSIM was informed that "the next instalment of the Flight Simulator franchise" is forthcoming, with a projected release date of Q4 2006. This information was released in response to the inaccurate release date published in US magazine PC Gamer's February edition; AVSIM delayed its publication of this note from MGS until it had verified that this information could be released to the public.

So,relax,guys,you have more than enough time to upgrade and by tha release date GF7800GT will not be a high-end card anymore...

[Foxtrot Sport]

Well, if it's projected to be released in Q4 of 2006, then using '2006' as the title might become outdated.  It appears that titles really seem to be important to Microsoft, considering they didn't want to make the Xbox '2', because Sony was coming out with PS3, making Xbox sound like the generation before.  That's why they went with 360, apparently.

Also, judging they have some troubleshooting, and problems with testing (like Halo 2), then Microsoft will have some trouble sending this out in 2006 alone.  

As for the game itself, I hope more than anything they don't go down a road like one of those garbage 'tycoon' games.  (e.g Rollercoaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon).  Complete with passengers that give back ratings, etc.  It would all sound mildly lame.  I want this to be as PROFESSIONAL as possible.  Make everything realistic.  

[GunnerMan]

Vista wont require a 7800 maybe only for full support of DX10. Betas run

[Marlin]

 :o  

[Gary R.]

"If you want a sim that is both a civil and military platform, go with X-Plane. That sim has weapons and the weapons explode. However, that only if you want to pay $70 for a 60GIG simulator that doesn't have much good-looking addon around".

Hey katahu, one brag X-plane can make over FS is this " FAA certified, FAA certified, FAA certified.  Also, you obviously didn't spend much time searching for X-plane add-ons.  Verion 8 with all the best scenery additions available added to it looks darn near as good as COF.  That plus it FAA certified.

[Foxtrot Sport]

X-plane takes 60 Gigs of memory?!?

[Gunny04]

60 gigs of hard drive that is (For photoreal scenery alone) and prolly another 5 or 6 for the game itself! My FS9 is 30 gigs or so.... hehe Well Great to hear of a new FS Version, but dont kill yourselves fretting over specs, it was developed on what they had when they started.... so it should run on the comps we have now! Cheers, Gunny