FSX - few questions

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Never played a proper flight sim before, even though I'm a bit of an airplane nut. Closest I came was the old F-22 games from Novalogic. Anyway, thinking of finally giving FSX a go and just had a few questions...

1. I won't have a ton of time to devote to it (full-time job, wife, baby on the way, etc) so can you chose how in-depth you want to go? Can I just take something for a "spin" and just control the basic stuff if I want? Or is it uber-realism or nothing?

2. How well will it run on my PC (in sig) bearing in mind I'm limited to 1360x768 res? I don't have to have everything maxed, but I don't want a slideshow on medium settings either.

3. I'll need a joystick. Recommendations? Can't be to OTT or expensive or I'll catch an earful :D

Thanks!
 
Can reccomend the logitech extreme 3d pro, a cracking beginners stick with plenty of buttons, twist rudder and a throttle lever.

Not many reviews online but its the usual logitech top banana quality.
 
Ive got a Saitek Cyborg X and I'm very happy with it.

I used to run FSX at 1366x768 with a 512MB 5670 and it coped surprisingly well paired with an Athlon 620 x4. I wasn't able to crank it to the max but it was very playable on medium settings. You can adjust the difficultly so you can just have a quick blast, or you can put hours and hours into it with pre flight checks and what not.

I recommend getting IL2 Sturmovik 1946 which is a combat simulator. I thought it was way more fun flying older planes, none of this electricity rubbish :D
 
As said before, FSX can swing both ways. It's meant to be very realistic and hard controls. It does it well, superb game. CPU intensive. Any stick will work, the one eames said is good. Get the X52 from Saitek if you can stretch for it :P

Lots of tweaks out there on forums to speed up your game, worth looking into. Also do you prefer commercial planes or military jet?

This game is endless and has so many addons. FSX Passengers = Win :D
 
Thanks guys.

Fernick - I like both military and commercial, but I'm really looking for a commercial sim right now. What planes do you get as standard? I assume you can download pretty much anything?
 
You can download whatever you can think of. My fav is the Boeing 707 from Captain Sim, but the other very popular and more current bird is the PMDG 747. Some add-ons are quite resource hungry, others aren't. I definately recommend overclocking the nuts off your i3 and you'll be just fine with some tweaking. AI traffic is the biggest hit, so start below 20% and go from there. There's quite a lot of info in here to get you started.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18172358

You can, if you want, spawn on a runway flaps down and off you go, or as you progress start making flight plans and communicating with ATC etc. [cheese]the sky's the limit[/cheese] lol
 
Boeing 737, 747, DC3 Dakota, Airbus 321, Learjet, couple of Cessna & other light aircraft, Jet Ranger helicopter etc.
Acceleration pack gives you F18a Hornet, P51 Mustang, Merlin helicopter, Red Bull air races.
More than enough to entertain you, although i recommend add ons eg. Flying club X 1 & 2 from Just Flight for additional light aircraft & more helicopters.
Real Air's Duke & Flight 1's PC-12 are excellent light aircraft add ons.
Avoid Flight 1's ATR 72-500 &Just Flight's DC-10 collection, i can't get either to work
correctly.
Saitek X52 is great joystick/throttle combination.
FSX can be as simple or complex as you want.
 
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