Well, I done went and bought the thing.

[brantmacga]

So I went in to office depot to get some new pens and replenish my stock of legal pads.


I was thinking about some new scenery I was working on in FS9 while walking the aisles, and thought to myself, "walk down to the software section".


There it was. One copy left. FSX Gold Edition.

I told myself, "you know your computer won't run that program, don't buy it."


So I bought it anyway. I unwrapped it in the parking lot and read the booklets, looked at the pictures, and though "man I'm going to be so miserable when I can't get results nearly as good as the pictures".

I know I've seen a lot of complaints on here about it, but my first impression is that this is one sweet simulator. It looks to me like a foundation has been laid that could last for several years.

Moving jetways, 3D gauges, road and water traffic!?!? Wow!

My computer can barely run it, but this is nice! (sliders around the medium mark on everything, 15FPS).

I've only played it a couple of times since it doesn't run very well on my machine, but I've got it on the shelf so once I finally get around to a computer that it can perform on, it'll be there. Which may be awhile. I just got a machine that can run FS9 admirably and I bought it the first day it came out, collectible tin can and all. I've still got that little wright flyer toy plane that came with it somewhere.

Anyhow, FSX seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of FS9 in terms of possibilities.

[tcco94]

I agree with you so much.

I had that same thought when you got yours but I didn't know that my computer wouldn't run it.

Of course when I first got it, it wasn't so bad, but then after time it got worse and worse.
I have a laptop so I couldn't upgrade so I took the cheaper route and just got FS9 and now mine runs great.

I wish my computer could handle FSX because of the jetways, water textures, and traffic.

I still miss it but I hated it so much for how it ran.

[FlyingPerson]

I agree with you, FSX has got really sweet features. I looked at screenies from FSX when I only had FS9 and thought of it as a big step forward. I love my laptop and its great ability to run FSX well. When Windows 7 arrives.. My dreams will come true. I'm sure of that.

[Daube]

So I went in to office depot to get some new pens and replenish my stock of legal pads.


I was thinking about some new scenery I was working on in FS9 while walking the aisles, and thought to myself, "walk down to the software section".


There it was. One copy left. FSX Gold Edition.

I told myself, "you know your computer won't run that program, don't buy it."


So I bought it anyway. I unwrapped it in the parking lot and read the booklets, looked at the pictures, and though "man I'm going to be so miserable when I can't get results nearly as good as the pictures".

I know I've seen a lot of complaints on here about it, but my first impression is that this is one sweet simulator. It looks to me like a foundation has been laid that could last for several years.

Moving jetways, 3D gauges, road and water traffic!?!? Wow!

My computer can barely run it, but this is nice! (sliders around the medium mark on everything, 15FPS).

I've only played it a couple of times since it doesn't run very well on my machine, but I've got it on the shelf so once I finally get around to a computer that it can perform on, it'll be there. Which may be awhile. I just got a machine that can run FS9 admirably and I bought it the first day it came out, collectible tin can and all. I've still got that little wright flyer toy plane that came with it somewhere.

Anyhow, FSX seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of FS9 in terms of possibilities.

Yes indeed, it's the infinite possibilities offered by the FSX architecture that represent 70% of the interest of this simulator. Basically, it allows new kind of addons that were not possible with FS9.
Accusim, high resolution textures, moving carriers, etc... and now even guided weapons are on the way to appear. And this is just the beggining.

Concerning the performance on your slow computer, you were very wise to put it back on the shelf, waiting for your next computer upgrades. This will save a lot of frustrations

Personnaly, when I bought FSX, my computer (Pentium IV mono core at 3,2 GHz, GeForce 6800 GT) could barely run it. Through tweaking and "light textures" addons, I could manage to make look pretty anyway, for slow aircrafts (lots of blurries when flying too fast). Nevertheless, what I had was already enough to make me uninstall FS9, and begin saving money for imminnent computer upgrade

Now, the only traces left from FS9 on my computer are.... some of the excellent default airplanes that were transfered into my FSX hangar  8-)

[flaminghotsauce]

I bought a refurbished HP 9350f that came with a quad-core 2.5 64 bit, 6 gigs of RAM, a 512 meg video card and a big hard drive. $600.

I have all settings except weather on ultra-high (unaltered; I don't push the sliders all the way up- well, sometimes I do

[lunitic_8]

now lets see some screenies

[brantmacga]

now lets see some screenies

Just turn all your settings way down and you'll be able to accomplish the same view that I have.

[vgbaron]

I'm running a q9650 clocked to 3.88 w/ 4G 1700 8-8-8-24-1t ram, GTX280 on XP64 with most sliders at max, no bloom. Water at 2L.

ASA, GEX, FEX, UTX, FSGenesis and other add-ons.

Pretty constant 30fps with or without clouds - drops to high teens around LAX with storm clouds.

No blurries and no stutters - absolutely fantastic.

Vic

[brantmacga]

I'm running a q9650 clocked to 3.88 w/ 4G 1700 8-8-8-24-1t ram, GTX280 on XP64 with most sliders at max, no bloom. Water at 2L.

ASA, GEX, FEX, UTX, FSGenesis and other add-ons.

Pretty constant 30fps with or without clouds - drops to high teens around LAX with storm clouds.

No blurries and no stutters - absolutely fantastic.

Vic

I don't think my 9600 GT even comes close to the power of the GTX 280.

So what I gather is a new processor and added ram isn't going to do much for me.