Flight Sim X

[DieselFan]

Downloaded the demo lastnight, pretty impressive. In the demo they have an Air Creation Trike. You need a pretty mean pc to get most out of it at a playable frame rate, but weather settings seem to make the biggest knock.

I've got 2GB of RAM but saw that the most the game took up was 600 and hovers around 450 so 1GB should be perfect.

Here's some screenshots


My approach for a water landing?



Trying to fly like Demon...



Trike showing the Harvards a thing or two...



Bad piloting






Realistic or what?



Game is coming out end of next month

[Biggles]

I want it!!! Usually not the amount of ram on the PC that counts more the amount of RAM on the screen card...

[DieselFan]

True, when u turn up the texture quality and detail the frame rate dropped like 1 frame but ram went from 300 to 600mb,

My spec is AMD64 3200, 2gb dual channel with 6600GT and striped drives. I was actually saving up to buy a mother vc card just for this game alone but was impressed at how well it faired.

The engine is written better though, when your turn gfx down to fs2004 looks it gets almost 3x more frames than fs2004 got.

The trike has a bug though (after inverting the axis), when in cockpit view and the bar in front of you when u move the joystick forward it moves the bar down and vice versa, yet if you have a side view of the trike at same time, the bar moves correctly so flying in cockpit sucks for now.

[Biggles]

I have been managing to keep up with the games just by upgrading my screen card... but got to the piont now where I need a complete PC upgrade... lucky in that I am not driving for hi-res (play all my games on a projector which is limited to 600*800)

Checked up some screen shots on the net and looks awsome...


PS. Heard about this guy that had strapped his joystick to the ceiling and hung an A frame from it to get a better feel of flying a trike!!!! Perfect for windy days!!!

[DieselFan]

The lowest setting the demo ran on was 1024x768x32, hope the final version will go lower for you. Just another note though is that modern cards run 1024x768 very quick and on my card I got better frames running on 1280x1024 than 1024x768 returned...

I ran the game on ULTRA HIGH (like a dog) but it was shocking to see that it almost competes with REAL life photos from the air! Try flying at sunrise and mist - AWESOME. The trike also rocks nicely in bad weather. Atlong last FS can be played by purely looking at scenery.

In the demo you have missions and one of them is to drop flour bombs from the trike and land on an Aircraft Carrier!!! Wow, now I realy feel like TopGun.

The realism doesn't just help on windy days but also for us pilots whose mpl is on PAUSE... Try it out C205