FSX ?

I got it today and am not surprisingly lacking in the frame rates department. it set itself up to target 17fps but only manages about 10 at most. all the sliders are way over on the left.

not worried as it was a birthday present and the new pc comes at christmas. by which time the fs community should of started sorting out patches for exixting addons.

my graphics card is a geforce 5700le 128mb, no slouch when it comes to fs 9 but hey, new a new one was required to go with fsx.

My system meets the specs apart from the g.card only has a 1.4 pixel shader. Think FSX requires a 2.0 one. Does anyone know if this will make a big difference or not ?

I’ve had it for about a week (some stores released it about 10 days early – it’s not scheduled for official release here in the US until 17-OCT), and am very pleased with it.

Depending on your hardware setup you will probably see a significant fps “hit” compared to FS9. Typically, a Flight Simulator release is set up to take advantage of the “next level” hardware setup, as was FS9.

There are already simple tweaks one can do to improve the frame rates – mostly adjusting values in the FSX.cfg folder (reducing autogen trees/buildings levels, etc).

One thing that I do find promisinig is that when flying online, you can transfer control of the airplane to another player. I think it’s only a matter of time before someone starts an ” online flying school” –

You can use the FS9 airplanes in FSX, but it will take a careful installation since the aircraft folders are now in the “SimObjectsAirplanes” folder, not the Aircraft folder, and the FS9 panels and sound files may be aliased to gauges that were renamed.

I dont want it think its two earlier to have another FS its like the Fifa games for playstation they are released very year and its annoying you get one time you complete it the next one out.

James

I saw it in GAME today:
Deluxe Version £60
Standard Version £50