Another non-user of FS2k4 photo request

[A/SGT.Mav316]

Anyone out there can post up some pics of the greatest and most expensive city in the world! (that's in terms of auto insurance, transit fares, bridge tolls, and a slice of pizza!) Yes I am talking about New York City  ;D!

Can I check out some FS2k4 pics of Manhattan, The Statue Of liberty,  and John F. Kennedy Intl Airport.

I know it is too much to ask. But I want to see if there is any difference in FS2k2 to warrant spending so much Dough on 2K4, You do know I am paying about $1.75 for a slice of pizza  :o!

[BE58D]

You know, whether or not there is an improvement in any of the airports (I know my was improved a little, but not much).  The other features are well worth the money.

[Rifleman]

I got a glowing report today from a friend who got 2004 three days ago.......he says the best is the huge increase in the detail of IFR related effects and controls.....

[chops]

I'll get those pics for you tonight . . . . It's the least I can do as a hobokenite

[HeavyMetal]

Statue Of Liberty



Manhatten


JFK

[A/SGT.Mav316]

Thanks for the pictures speedbird! There really is no improvement to the airport or manhattan. I thought they would added a little more detail to the Statue of liberty and atleast put a ton more buildings in the area sorrounding Laquardia and JFK. Manhattan looks the same as in FS2k2.

The one real detail that I am seeing sticking out like a thumb is the reflective water textures and the clouds. I hear in Fs2k4 the virtual cockpits are more sharper, plus you can use buttons and controls on the panels in this mode. Is this true.

I am going to purchase this new version soon, but I want to check out as many details of the game as I can before making that move!

[JBaymore]

Mav316,

Hi.  I saw the pix posted here and thought I'd go and get some shots too.  An AWFUL lot of how things look in a screen shot depends on how the sim is run as to the settings.  I get completely different look out of that area.

Here you go:







I had a picture of the statue of liberty too....but the upload page gave me some problems...error message.  I'll try to post it here if it ever uploaded:




best,

...............john

[JBaymore]

OOps..... that is NOT my picture of the statue  :o  :o.

The error message must have been that there was another file with the same name.... but it didn't SAY that.

I'll rename it and upload again.

best

...............john

[A/SGT.Mav316]

Thank you John ,

Those night picutes were awesome man ! What settings do you have your flightsim on because that looks absolutely crisp!

I ask because I think I might need to go into the market of purchasing a whole new rig to run this new simulator with the level of graphics, lighting that you displayed there!

I am running on a Pentium 3 at 500mhz  :'(
40 gig hard drive  :'(
64 mb Nvidia graphics card  :)
The only thing impressive on this rig is my soundcard which is still good!

[JBaymore]

Here's the statue of liberty:

[A/SGT.Mav316]

Cool the lighting effects make it look a whole lot sharper, but the detail hasn't changed. Guess we will have to leave that upto someone to create a Statue of Liberty addon scenery to bump that off!

Anyone can fill me in on if I need a more powerful rig then I have to run the effects in FS2k4

[JBaymore]

No problem, Mav.  Except that I got my commercial ticket pulled after that last shot by the statue  ;).

I am running an Asus motherboard with P4 2.4 gig with 533 front side bus, 1 gig RAM, a 40 gig C system drive and a 120 G E drive with FS 2004 on it, ATI Radeon 9600 pro 128 meg viseo card, soundblaster live audio, and a 1024 x 768 32 bit display.  Settings in FS2004 are pretty much maxed.  AA and AF is off in the sim and on in the hardware.  AA is 4X and AF is 8 X.  Mip map is at 6.

So it is a pretty good system.....but NOT total top end by any means.

Hope that helps.


best,

....................john

[HeavyMetal]

Yes, you can indeed control the plane from the Virtual Cockpit. This includes the Thrust Levers. Speedbrake, Radios, most all the buttons on the panel. This is a shot of the 747-400 panel

Speedbird_1961

[A/SGT.Mav316]

did we forget something speedy  ;D
It's all good, Just for the virtual cockpit and detailed planes, I would go for it. But I don't think I am going to get the detail and reflective surfaces that John is getting with his rig.