...experiences with FSX...

[Fozzer]

Hello Lads.......!

Saturday....FSX Time...Woo-Hoo...!!

I rushed out this morning to my local GAME shop and happily thrust

[Gunny04]

Turn some things down, looks decent and runs fine here with WOP and such here..... and I have a cruddy 7300LE Overclocked 163Mhz chewing up 400 megs of ram or more!

Cheers, Gunny

[Fozzer]

Turn some things down, looks decent and runs fine here with WOP and such here..... and I have a cruddy 7300LE Overclocked 163Mhz chewing up 400 megs of ram or more!

Cheers, Gunny

...'trubble is, Gunny...

...looking decent in FSX is not quite the same as looking and running FANTASTIC! in FS 2004... ...!
LOL...!

Paul...My scenery in FS 2004 is really nice after spending years upgrading it, without affecting the frame rates or smoothness...... ...!

My FSX is very disappointing by comparison... ...!

Paul... ...!

[wealthysoup]

at a guess id say you probably need more ram...also keep level of detail radius to medium or below...setting it to high kills my system so im guessing itd do the same to yours

[Arnimon]

Poor old Paul...
your expieriences do not make me feel comfortable.
I received my copy yesterday,and just decided to get Vista RC1 before i install FSX.But of course im not doing these "experiments" on my main FS9 drive!

Arni...(feeling a bit like a mad Professor)

[Gunny04]

My expierence? well lets say the cub rolls over when you land, you heard me IT ROLLS OVER! I landed at 40MPH in a mission with it, and it rolled over, did it 6 times, same result!, apply rudder, rolls that way! Bah.... I hope they send a patch out lol

Cheers, Gunny

[wealthysoup]

gunny are you sure your rudders set to rudder and not aileron?

my rudder pedals were defaulted as aileron when I started flying

[Hagar]

I received my copy yesterday,and just decided to get Vista RC1 before i install FSX.

I suggest you check out the FS Insider site first. http://www.fsinsider.com/About/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Technical-Questions/Vista-and-DirectX.htm
[quote]Does FSX require Vista and DirectX 10?

No. Just Microsoft

[microlight]

Paul!

So you decided to install SP2 so you could load FSX? (Sorry if I missed it - I've been travelling for weeks).

I was thinking about it and then thought better of it - looks like I was right. FS9 rules.

(But then I said the same thing about FS2002! As did you, I seem to recall ... )

[Arnimon]

I suggest you check out the FS Insider site first.

Aha,ok! I just cancelled my decision!  ;D

[Gunny04]

on landing? I finally managed, but almost tipped it.... I just bumped the throttle by mistake when landing and then had to do a little Swirving on the runway like a drunk until it stopped..... I dont think its right, I have a twist stick.... and this is the only plane so far that does it! hmmm

Cheers, Gunny

[Fozzer]

Paul!

So you decided to install SP2 so you could load FSX? (Sorry if I missed it - I've been travelling for weeks).

I was thinking about it and then thought better of it - looks like I was right. FS9 rules.

(But then I said the same thing about FS2002! As did you, I seem to recall ... )

Tee-Hee.... ...!

Your memory serves you well, Micro......!

There was a nice, slight increase in overall quality between FS 2002 and FS 2004, and didn't require an  expensive hardware upgrade to run at the same speed....

...whereas swapping from FS 2004 to FSX requires a hardware upgrade necessitating a complete re-mortgage of the house and the hiring out of the Missus for sufficient funds to obtain a similar effect.....!

LOL...  ;D...!

Re-mortgaging the house I object to.... ...

...but hiring out the Missus I could cope with......!

Paul... ...!

[Mictheslik]

I agreee with you foz.....I'm in two minds whether to remove FSX and get my 15Gbs of HDD space back until i buy a new computer. I prefer flying in my FS9 even if it isnt as detailed....I prefer 30fps to 5.

.Mic

(Still trying to optomise it for the best performance)

[hypostomus2000]

What it comes down to is that you can't buy a computer that can run FSX at it's full potential, and I don't think you'll be able to computer to do so for quite a long time. What I think this means is that you'd better get used to FSX because I think it'll be the last version for a long time, I think we'll be waiting for longer than 3 years for FSXI. Hopefully this means they'll get rid of all the legacy stuff and start afresh.

[Mictheslik]

wow......3 years....thats when ill be buying a new PC if this one lasts as long as the old one did  ;D

Why did i even bother buying FSX?

.Mic