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First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby BrandonF » Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:09 pm

The first screenshots have been published on the MS Flight website! Just click the Screens tab.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/

For those that can't see them, visit this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55710335@N ... /lightbox/

8-)
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby pfevrier » Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:50 pm

Woohoo! They look niiiiiice!
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Strawberry Yogurt » Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:44 pm

Well guys, I think we're actually getting a decent sim this time. Signifigant water improvments are evident... ;) :)
I went outside once. The graphics weren't all that great.

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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Boikat » Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:18 pm

I like the cliffs that show *layers* instead of the standard FS "granite outcrop".  I wonder if they will be *geologically*/*geographically* accurate?
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Razgriz » Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:28 am

I wonder how good of system you'll need to get those graphics. still its pretty breath taking compare to FSX
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby littlebenny » Fri Dec 24, 2010 6:23 am

I wonder how good of system you'll need to get those graphics. still its pretty breath taking compare to FSX

if they do it right you'll be able to play it with the new computers of today i hope  :)
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Keep It Simple » Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:41 pm

Since I haven't purchased new hardware (to run MSFS) in a few years I have started a seperate "Flight compter fund" to  which I add few dollars to now and then.

However I also suspect the anything from a "core duo quad" (which I presently have) upwards can run Flight  adequately.

Anyway, the  new SS do indeed look very promising.  :)
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby BrandonF » Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:47 pm

For anyone who doesn't think Flight looks much better than FSX, here is a comparison to prove you wrong.  ;D

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The FSX shot was taken with terrain settings maxed out. If you open each  screenshot in a new tab and flip back and fourth between them, you'll  see that different parts of them almost match up. (I did my best at  lining up the FSX shot)
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Slotback » Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:58 am

It looks nice. Hopefully they learned from the biggest problems of FSX - an extremely high system requirement to play on any decent setting. And hopefully my graphics card isn't at idle the entire time. In any case, it looks as if I'll be buying a new computer for this. Probably Sandy Bridge overclocked to 5ghz.
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby tedyflies » Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:06 am

[quote]For anyone who doesn't think Flight looks much better than FSX, here is a comparison to prove you wrong.
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Boikat » Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:24 am

[quote][quote]For anyone who doesn't think Flight looks much better than FSX, here is a comparison to prove you wrong.
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Daube » Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:44 am

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You have proved nothing with those shots.
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Daube » Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:45 am

Well guys, I think we're actually getting a decent sim this time. Signifigant water improvments are evident... ;) :)

Really ? Where ?  :-?

I like the cliffs that show *layers* instead of the standard FS "granite outcrop".  I wonder if they will be *geologically*/*geographically* accurate?

It's just a different cliff texture, nothing impressive ;)
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Slotback » Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:53 am

I wonder if they could smooth the terrain by using tessellation. Could save some CPU load and instead load the GPU which is essentially idling right now. (of course DX11 operating system / hardware is required)
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Re: First Screenshots of Flight Published!

Postby Strawberry Yogurt » Sun Dec 26, 2010 4:23 pm

Well guys, I think we're actually getting a decent sim this time. Signifigant water improvments are evident... ;) :)

Really ? Where ?
I went outside once. The graphics weren't all that great.

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