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I know FS9 is dead. I still enjoy it a lot. I paid for FS9 and the FSG terrain mesh. The rest is all freeware. Probably one of the cheapest hobbies on the planet outside of whittling sticks into toothpicks!

I like the B-36 shot,. Well done.

hmmm....pretty decent looking water for fs9....

Yeah. FSX has better water, no doubt. But FS9 can look pretty good, too. I don't know why Microsoft didn't do so well with it out of the box. What I've ended up with is a combination of other people's stuff and my own texture tweaks. Took a while to get there, though.

I like that blimp!

The blimp is fun, but Gawd it takes FOREVER to get anywhere!

GlobalHobo wrote:Yeah. FSX has better water, no doubt. But FS9 can look pretty good, too. I don't know why Microsoft didn't do so well with it out of the box. What I've ended up with is a combination of other people's stuff and my own texture tweaks. Took a while to get there, though.

It's a part of life, we forget all of the small things when we look back.

When FS2004 came out most computers still had 4 MEG of memory, floppy disks, & 500 Meg hard drives.

Over the decades, I've listened to people complain every time a new Windows OS came out - It's too big, it takes up too much space on the hard drive, you need a REALLY fast computer to run it, and on and on.

I can pretty much bet that the computer that you cave now would have been considered a Super Computer back then. The kind that would only be seen in the basements' of the Pentagon.

Great Pictures, thanks.

Great pics, thanks for sharing. This proves that FS9 is certainly NOT dead!!!

OldAirmail wrote:I can pretty much bet that the computer that you cave now would have been considered a Super Computer back then. The kind that would only be seen in the basements' of the Pentagon.

True 'dat! My last rig would only run FS9 with settings in the mid-range. Good enough. I could load FSX, but at anything other than the most Spartan settings, it wouldn't do much. No improvement over FS9, so why bother? With this rig, really a low/mid-range machine, I'm running FSX in the mid-range settings, which is fine. FS9 I've got everything maxxed out and even with complex weather and scenery situations it never bogs down.

Nicely done...

GlobalHobo wrote:

OldAirmail wrote:I can pretty much bet that the computer that you cave now would have been considered a Super Computer back then. The kind that would only be seen in the basements' of the Pentagon.

True 'dat! My last rig would only run FS9 with settings in the mid-range. Good enough. I could load FSX, but at anything other than the most Spartan settings, it wouldn't do much. No improvement over FS9, so why bother? With this rig, really a low/mid-range machine, I'm running FSX in the mid-range settings, which is fine. FS9 I've got everything maxxed out and even with complex weather and scenery situations it never bogs down.

Your pictures here, and elsewhere, prove that you're going good. Especially the Phantom pictures.