by krigl » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:03 am
Thanks! FS9 is a beautiful sim and I expect to be using it for a long while yet, particularly for flying round busy airports full of ai and screenshots thereof... but away from the terminal and without much ai FSX is already working well for me, I still haven't got over my surprise. For low and slow it will be the sim of choice it seems... but because of all the addons I have for FS9, free and pay, and it's general quality, I can still go back and enjoy flying in that sim too. I see it as bringing even more variety in terms of textures etc... To be honest, only interaction with the terminal slows the sim down to a crawl, and the ai, so heavy metal fliers, if they're happy with taking off straight from the runway, and close their flight on landing instead of taxiing to the gates...and not having a ton of ai around, ai chatter, go-arounds... just simulating flight...then the sim is great for them too.
It does seem that the time of FSX has finally come - if you have at least what I have (GeForce 7800, Core 2 6600, 2 gigs ram - not an uber rig any more, if it ever was, and these days fairly affordable) it's flyable and looks as good as FS9, often much nicer - and the feeling of flight, the ambience around you is better too. Improved 3d cockpits, more immersive sound... well worth trading up. And like I say, you can keep running FS9 too. If only they'd held back a few months and incorporated the SP1 stuff in the sim - it would have got much better reviews from people I'm sure.
If you put your addon scenery in a folder outside the sim (I keep mine next to it under Microsoft Games) you can link from both sims to the same scenery, saving space. Some addons say to add them to the addon scenery folder, so I always do that, just in case, but many do not. All my Andy Weir Australia mesh is outside, so I'm looking forward to linking to that and having a peek at Oz before Flight Terrain X comes out (renamed payware Voz Professional). That is going to be one truly awesome set of textures!
Thanks again for popping in!
Krigl
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krigl on Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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