Flight Simulator X

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Is this any good?

How will it run on a Celeron 2.8 (@ 3.2) 1.5GB RAM, 6600GT?

There some bargain offers on it atm, and I was tempted in the past.
 
Your rig will struggle on anything but the lowest settings. Service Pack 1 is out hopefully next week, this is supposed to help a great deal with performance so it might be better to wait for that to be released. Hopefully they'll release the demo with the preformance enhancements built in and you can check it out.

/edit - It is a simulator and not a game, probably the most boring part is flying the planes. It gets more interesting the more you get into the nitty gritty such as pre-flight routines / flight plans / navigation aids / starting from cold & dark etc.
 
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Depends on the settings for want to choose, Mine is fine with 16x and 16qx and max of 25FPS .. As i said ,Depends on what you want

Jay!
 
I also went back to FS9 (FS2004). FSX is the worst release since FS2000 imo (which was a real lemon). I guess the lack of competition has made MS get lazy. Maybe SP1 willk fix things but I'm not holding my breath. Hell, even with my new rig FSX still shows how badly optimised it is in built up areas with lots of traffic etc...

FS9 is their best effort of the franchise and with choice add-ons it looks lovely even 3 yrs later. You don't need to fork out a load of dosh either, go to Avsim or Flightsim and there is some amazing freeware stuff for it :)
 
Ozzie Dave said:
I also went back to FS9 (FS2004). FSX is the worst release since FS2000 imo (which was a real lemon). I guess the lack of competition has made MS get lazy. Maybe SP1 willk fix things but I'm not holding my breath. Hell, even with my new rig FSX still shows how badly optimised it is in built up areas with lots of traffic etc...

FS9 is their best effort of the franchise and with choice add-ons it looks lovely even 3 yrs later. You don't need to fork out a load of dosh either, go to Avsim or Flightsim and there is some amazing freeware stuff for it :)
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This debate rages (sometimes literally) every day on the Avsim and Flightsim.com forums.

I have both FS2004 and FSX installed and dabble in both. The problem most people have is that after 3 years FS2004 reached a pinnacle of perfection with numerous quality third party add-ons both payware and freeware. The hardware now emerging (C2D and 7600GT/8800 Gfx cards) that struggle with FSX run FS2004 like a dream, with all the sliders maxed out. Add to that excellent stuff like FS Passengers or Airliner Pilot which add a career mode/ virtual company to FS2004 and no sign of these being upgraded to work with FSX any time soon.

My only regret is that in the initial euphoria over FSX, I 'bayed some of my old FS2004 add-ons and now really regretting after having to reinstall on my rebuilt rig. (Esp. FS Global, FScene textures and Ultimate Traffic).

Things may change with the release of SP1 but until FSX gets the optimisation and range of add-ons that FS2004 now enjoys it will occupy its bloated 13Gb of my HD virtually idle.
 
I play FSX with FS Global 2008 and the Horizon Generation X Uk scenery files and MyTraffic. After a bit of tweaking I can get 20 fps constant at 1900x1200 with most things maxed on the system below. It can sometimes get laggy when I start at a major airport as mytraffic generates tons of flights so it needs to have traffic density limited to 15-20%.

I usually turn off autogen as its not really required when using decent scenery files. Although Horizon are making optimised autogen stuff for generation X i think.

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2Gb Ram
X1900xtx an 1900Xt in Crossfire (although it doesnt really utilise crossfire properly)
Dell 24" monitor
Soundblaster X-Fi

With the new patch coming out I'm considering a Q6600 for the quad core support and possibly moving to a single GPU system like the ati X2900
 
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