There is no denying...

[Steve_Butka]

im taking a VERY slight graphics hit and only to the aircraft itself, i get great performance (maybe even better than FS9), the default aircraft in FSX are very nice this time around so I'm not worried about clogging it all up with add-ons jsut yet (to date i've only downloaded an Easyjet livery for the default 737), and the missions justbring a whole new aspect of FUN to the sim.

if you guys need better performance, buy more RAM, or a better vid card, and so on!

well that's my two cents

[n_richardson05]

ok i think there should be some kind of rule saying you cant complaine about somthing if you have never used it.

fsx is better than fs9. why its new and comparing a hevaly modified fs9 to the default fsx is just plane un fair. wait for some good addons to come out then start making those calls we have had the game for a week. we are yet to see what we can do with this system. just before 11 comes out a hevaly modified fsx will make fs9 look like poo

so why are you defending fs9 aneway there the same dam game just different vershion

one more time the puropse of this topic was to say nice things about fsx ok if you want to complaine start a fsx bashing thread

[Brett_Henderson]

FSX sound is better.. The difference in what you hear, relative to your position, is very distinct.. (that would really shine in a fly-by)

As far as sound quality goes .. card and speakers being equal.. it's all about the number and quality of the .wav files.. and the complexity of the sound.cfg.

[Katahu]

ok i think there should be some kind of rule saying you cant complaine about somthing if you have never used it.

fsx is better than fs9. why its new and comparing a hevaly modified fs9 to the default fsx is just plane un fair. wait for some good addons to come out then start making those calls we have had the game for a week. we are yet to see what we can do with this system. just before 11 comes out a hevaly modified fsx will make fs9 look like poo

so why are you defending fs9 aneway there the same dam game just different vershion

one more time the puropse of this topic was to say nice things about fsx ok if you want to complaine start a fsx bashing thread

So far, the criticism has been nice and steady on this thread. And I like to keep it that way. IF anyone tries to derail this thread and turn it into another petty-argument discussion [we've had enough of those already] I'll ask one of the mods to temperarly lock this thread for another cool down.

In that case: Vololiberista, I'm keeping an eye on you as you seem to be walking a very fine line there. I know I have to respect your opinions, however you should respect other people's opinions as well. And so far, you don't seem to doing that.

Take my advice: Cool down, chill and relax, take a ritalin once a day and all will be fine.

And don't ever forget, Vololiberista: I handle your daily injections.

[Daube]

In that case: Vololiberista, I'm keeping an eye on you as you seem to be walking a very fine line there. I know I have to respect your opinions, however you should respect other people's opinions as well. And so far, you don't seem to doing that.

Take my advice: Cool down, chill and relax, take a ritalin once a day and all will be fine.

And don't ever forget, Vololiberista: I handle your daily injections.

Forget that. Vololiberista is just able to say the following things, without bringing any argumentation:
- FSX is FS9.3
- FSX is a downgrade
- FSX is not better than FS9 because the graphics are not good
- FSX has nothing more than FS9 excepted elephants

That's it basically.

If you try to discuss with him by bringing real arguments, he will ignore your answer, or leave the topic and start again in another one. That doesn't really help the discussions, I would say.

[Katahu]

Forget that. Vololiberista is just able to say the following things, without bringing any argumentation:

GOOD! Let's keep it that way.

[BAW0343]

Ok, so I totally agree anyone is alowed to voice an opinion, but coming into the FSX forum, in a PRO FSX thread and trying to smash it is not the thing to do.

    Vololiberista, if you dont like FSX, simply stay out of the FSX forum... let us who havent spent $5000 on FS9 enjoy ourselves. I personally feal FSX's sound, flight dynamics, and most textures are 100x better then FS9. Now your argueing FS9 PAYWARE ADD-ONS with FSX DEFAULT not exactly a fair competition.

     In a few months I garuntee FSX will blow FS9 out of its unrealistic water. And yes you needed to buy/download updates to FS9, we will need to do the same with FSX. Yes you need a monster computer to run it on full but only time will fix that. More capeable cards are being developed and soon will be affordable to the general public. Untill then FS9 PAYWARE will be better then FSX DEFAULT.

just my 2 cents...

[Daube]

[quote]Ok, so I totally agree anyone is alowed to voice an opinion, but coming into the FSX forum, in a PRO FSX thread and trying to smash it is not the thing to do.

[Bindoe]

[quote]
First off I find it funny that so many newbies feel they need to "support" Microsoft's new flight Sim.

[Tweek]

Is anyone going to take up my sound recording challenge (hardly a challenge, really)? I geniunely want to hear the difference between FS9 and FSX. It'd probably be wise to try it with the same aircraft and same sound set, in both sims.

[Bindoe]

Is anyone going to take up my sound recording challenge (hardly a challenge, really)? I geniunely want to hear the difference between FS9 and FSX. It'd probably be wise to try it with the same aircraft and same sound set, in both sims.

Sure, I'll make a video w/ sound.

I'm sorry, but one-third of what you listed there can be corrected with addons. Remember, the list I made consists of features that addons can't do in FS9.

I counted one which was:
[quote]fs9 dosn't have ships driving around

[Tweek]

Thanks.

[RollerBall]

STOP PRESS ------ EDIT ------ SEE END OF POST

Tell you one of the things that's cheesing me off - it's the sheer unpredictability of FSX.

I installed it originally on my main PC drive (ATA 160GB Samsung) on which I have my '04 and '02 both of which work really well. However, due to 'issues' I decided to put my FSX on a dedicated drive (ATA 120GB Maxtor) with a minimal XP Pro install and physically swap the drives when I wanted to fire up FSX.

It was a good plan because I've achieved much better performance on the dedicated drive even though I've got the same drivers, settings and everything.

But I find that my FR varies each time I run FSX! 'Yesterday' I was pretty happy popping along with my steady 15FPS but 'today' it's as jerky and hesitant as anything, and when I look I see I'm getting fluctuations from say 3 up to my 15 figure.

So I decide to reinstall FSX on my main drive, now I've made my changes to my cfg file and I know what settings to apply.

But what do I find (same drivers etc mind) - when I fire it up I get the wildly flickering screen back, that I had in the demo too, which only stops in windowed mode (but then your AA and graphics definition are shot to pieces).

For goodness sake why? I moved 04 all over the place, from drive to drive on my PC, with never a problem. Why should FSX be so different? Or more realistically, why should FSX be so FLAKEY?

EDIT - NEXT BIT ADDED

In the interests of making fair unbiased comments I'm adding this bit. Better to add it rather than delete the posting because it might help someone else.

After typing the above I went back and reinstalled by graphics drivers (nVidia 81.95 - not the latest but I've found them to be the best so far for my card).

Result - the flickering screen disappeared and I now appear to be getting similar performance on my main drive as I was before on the dedicated on.

Can't say more at this stage.

[Daube]

I think I heard something about the very latest NVidia drivers not performing as good as the previous ones...

[Fly2e]

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