Flight simulator X What Where When?

janesssssy

janesssssy

janesssssy

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How do I start playing this to get all the good pictures that some of you are getting. What downloads patches do I need? when do I download these files from?

Primarily I want to flight the war planes / Jet fighters etc.

Thanks
 
Personally I would not recommend FSX ,especially for warplanes.


Sure its okaish, but imho there is no real sense of speed. I was playing the acceleration pack, was belting it full whack with the combat jet and it felt slow as hell.

Yes I know this is a relative thing and indeed it does get slightly "faster" the closer to the ground you are, but its still disappointing. (obviously imho)
 
breadturbo said:
FSX is a looot more demanding too, need a top whack puter to run it at a good res
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Runs on rig in my sig at 1680x1050 and is more than playable. My computer is hardly 'top whack'. As long as you install the service packs it's really not that demanding.
 
Yeah Im getting some airport packs soon. I have just installed some photorealistic scenery for south england and it looks amazing along with REX. Only problem is I cant navigate on it for toffee.

Im trying to do a simple flight from Bristol to Exeter in a Cessna caravan using IFR and VOR to VOR but Im not sure what instruments I should be looking at. I tried following the one with a yellow arrow but that sent me north. Do I need to adjust these before flying? I have done most of the training missions but they didn't really teach me much at all.

Sorry for the thread hijack!
 
Using ati 4870x2 here:
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Works pretty well, do agree that nvidia are the better choice for FSX, the ati range do not handle large volumes of clouds in FSX very well, whereas nvidia has better coding for it. But then again, ati has better mip mapping so at very high res, it look better then nvidia imo.
 
soundb0y said:
Im trying to do a simple flight from Bristol to Exeter in a Cessna caravan using IFR and VOR to VOR but Im not sure what instruments I should be looking at. I tried following the one with a yellow arrow but that sent me north. Do I need to adjust these before flying? I have done most of the training missions but they didn't really teach me much at all.

Sorry for the thread hijack!
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you need to put the right radio codes for the vor into nav, then twiddle the crs button (on the vor instrument)

the missions should make it clearer, something quite fun doing a full ils approach dropping out of heavy cloud at 300 into clear sky, right inline with the runway
 
Beauty of the excellent photo scenery we have for England and Wales is you can really fly VFR and navigate purely by ground features. Having said that adding the ANO (Air Navigation Obsticles) helps by adding masts/cooling towers etc. as shown on the charts.
 
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