Microsoft Flight Simulator X

[Beirut]

Beirut, forum posters (the majority) say that FSX Acceleration is a really bad expansion pack.

They're wrong.

Some people were moaning about some slowdowns and stutters, I think, but a proper install takes care of all of that. I had zero problems. I had FSX on it's own HD all by its lonesone. I uninstalled, defragged, installed FSX, then Acceleration, then all the add-ons, defragging at least two or three times during the process and once at the end, and everything ran like peaches and cream.

The F-18 is gorgeous. Looks fantastic, comes with lots of skins, the HUD works perfectly and is very smooth. The P-51 Racer is also very nicely done as well as the EH-101 chopper. Included in Acceleration are great sceneries of Andrews AFB (pics above) as well as Istanbul and a few other places. By market standards for FSX add-ons, what you get in Acceleration would cost way over $100. The F-18 and Edwards AFB alone would cost $50 to $60 together at least. So for $25, it's a no brainer.

A note, if you run Ground Environment X without a defrag after install, you're doomed.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I got Acceleration, and I really like the additions. No noticeable slowdown either.

[Beirut]

Have you checked out Edwards AFB, It's pretty sweet. Great place to fart around with the F-18. (Kind of hard to mess up landing on a 50,000' runway.)

Are youy running any other add-ons?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Are youy running any other add-ons?

One Lufthansa Airbus add-on. Stalls a little easily, in my opinion.

By the way, here's my settings. My rig is an E6600, 8800GTS Superclocked, and 2GB RAM.

Any suggestions?

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[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Beirut, what was your longest flight so far, and how long did it take?

Mine's relatively short - a quick one from Berlin to Oslo, and another from Luxembourg to Konrad-Adenauer-Flughafen in Köln. I might do a San Jose (Costa Rica) to Panama today. How's the Costa Rica scenery? I really loved Costa Rica when I went there, and I hope FSX lives up to my expectations.

[Beirut]

By the way, here's my settings. My rig is an E6600, 8800GTS Superclocked, and 2GB RAM.

Any suggestions?

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Good specs. What res do you fly at? What about the AA & AF settings on your video card?

Have you gotten into the more specific settings screen, where you can adjust terrain mesh size and auto-gen density? That`s the one you need to get into. Hit the Custom button on the screen you showed, that should bring it up.

Beirut, what was your longest flight so far, and how long did it take?

Most of my flights were short, less than an hour, and at low altitude. I mostly puddle jump and do short bush flights. The longest, I think, was from Whitehorse to Eagle Plains (Artic Circle) in some small prop job.

[edyzmedieval]

I love the FSX Missions. It's a really fun way of spending your time. Now I'm trying my luck on gliding a 737 over the Indian Ocean to arrive to a airport 90 miles away! Both engines fail, and you have to glide that monster with passengers inside...

My longest flight was probably from Hawaii Oahu (Dillingham airport I think) to Princeville. I think it was around 150 miles.

[Beirut]

Do you fly with music playing?

It can make for a very relaxing diversion.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Do you fly with music playing?

It can make for a very relaxing diversion.

I've never tried it, partly because I like to hear the ATC, but mostly because my computer is my stereo system, and I do everything I can to run FSX smoothly (use RAM efficiently).

[Beirut]

Did you get into the more specific settings screen yet?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Did you get into the more specific settings screen yet?

A little. I think I'll do the tweak you mentioned that gives more buildings - I hate flying over a city of 2D panels will the occasional skyscraper.

EDIT: Here's why. This is Tokyo on my settings, in the Executive Transport mission.

[edyzmedieval]

Do you fly with music playing?

It can make for a very relaxing diversion.

Yeap. I have my iPod near me all the time. Plug and play. I keep the kneeboard open so in case I dont hear the messages, I can always read them.

Still have about 10 missions left, and all of them are pretty hard. I finished the Africa Relief but I didn't get a reward. Any idea why? Maybe because I always stop after the runway?

[Whacker]

Do you fly with music playing?

It can make for a very relaxing diversion.

Somebody has been watching a little too much Iron Eagle!!!

[Beirut]

Somebody has been watching a little too much Iron Eagle!!!

More like Tin Chickadee.

I listen to Floyd while I'm flying a Cessna.

[edyzmedieval]

Did any of you guys complete all missions? And what certificates can you get as rewards?

[edyzmedieval]

Tour of Europe in a turboprop done by me, with a Beechcraft King Air 350.

http://forums.flightsim.com/vbfs/sho...d.php?t=178665

[edyzmedieval]

Beirut,

What payware aircraft do you have and use in FS2004?

[TB666]

One thing that annoyed me during 2004(well any MFS game) is that it's so damn quiet.
You hardly ever hear anything over the radio.
If you keep the regular radio channel for the tower sure you will hear things but they tell you to switch to another radio channel where you can't hear a bloody thing.
Is this fixed in MFSX ??

[edyzmedieval]

One thing that annoyed me during 2004(well any MFS game) is that it's so damn quiet.
You hardly ever hear anything over the radio.
If you keep the regular radio channel for the tower sure you will hear things but they tell you to switch to another radio channel where you can't hear a bloody thing.
Is this fixed in MFSX ??

In my experience, this is fixed. I can clearly hear what they say on the ATC system.

What version are you guys using? I have FSX Deluxe edition, and soon with the expansion pack.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

FSX Deluxe with Acceleration.

[TB666]

In my experience, this is fixed. I can clearly hear what they say on the ATC system.

Wasn't the question.
I had no trouble hearing what they say on 2004 either.
The problem was I guess you can call it "dead air".
Only ones that are talking are the towers at the airports.
Is there more chatter maybe from other aircrafts or more chatter from the towers that might actually be helpful ??

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

There is talk from other aircraft. However, to my knowledge, you'll need a higher air traffic setting to take full advantage, which is a PC killer.

[TB666]

Well that's always something.

[Beirut]

There are payware add-ons that will give you increased radio traffic as well as others that will give you a much improved interactive cockpit, with mouthy co-pilot and all.

I tend to fly solo bush flights so radio chat is way down on my list of priorities.

[edyzmedieval]

I recently purchased the following products from Aerosoft.

Monaco X
Helgoland X
Piper Cheyenne X
FSX Mission Pack 1
FSX Acceleration

I'll be looking to get them around this week. Should be great fun.
I also have installed (borrowed from a sim geek) Lukla X, DHC-6 Twin Otter, the Wilco Airbus series (both), Pilatus PC-12.

I also plan to get FS Global 2008 + FS Genesis (a must).
Any comments on FS Global?

[TB666]

Will this computer run FSX well ??

Intel® Core™ 2 Q6600 Quad processors (2,40 Ghz, 1 066 MHz FSB, 8 MB cache)
DUAL 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GT graphics card
3GB Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz [2x1GB, 2x512MB] Memory

Or FS2004 for that matter ??

[Beirut]

Will this computer run FSX well ??

Intel® Core™ 2 Q6600 Quad processors (2,40 Ghz, 1 066 MHz FSB, 8 MB cache)
DUAL 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GT graphics card
3GB Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz [2x1GB, 2x512MB] Memory

Or FS2004 for that matter ??

Should be great for FSX. You'll still have limitations, but you'll be able to enjoy most of the good stuff.

On the other hand, FS2004 will smoke on that system. You'll be able to run everything maxed with heavy AI traffic at major airports. That's something you can only dream of in FSX.

Both sims are CPU hogs, not so much on the video card.

[TB666]

Well as long as it will run smooth.
After my disasterous flight from Sweden to Greece where most of the flight was a bit of a slide show and after 2 hours flight my graphic card overheats and game crash.
I was so close to Greece.

[edyzmedieval]

FSX requirements are really strange. If TB666 got a slide show on that computer, then what can I say when I have 15fps on Venice X from Aerosoft, with this:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ
4GB RAM
200GB HDD 7200rpm
nVIDIA Go 7900GS

15 fps on Venice X! And I have everything on medium to max!

What the...??!!!

[TB666]

Oh, the computer specs listed above is for a computer that I will recieve next month.
My current computer is a
2.3 GHz Celeron
512mb ATI RAdeon X1650
512MB RAM.