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tomthetank Chief Captain

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Structured gameplay 👍

multiplayer game had been reworked 👍

increased graphical details and more intrictrate geography based on satellite maps 👍

fly over your hometown and navigate by the streets below 👍

Plenty to read here ➡

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/flight-simulator-x/679528p1.html

2 videos here ➡

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/microsoftflightsimulatorx/media.html?sid=6141988&autoplay=6141988

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jarred_01 Captain

Thanks for the info TTT. 👍

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain

Great info TTT 👍

They are adding missions to complete... 😳

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Tailhook Chief Captain

Thanks Tom, continue with your tireless research and keep feeding it to us until we get dizzy 😀
If this

Thanks to the fact that the game will be released only on DVD (rather than the 4+ CD-ROM releases of the past), the developers were able to make everything up to 16 times more detailed this time around.

and anything else in this article is true, http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/flight-simulator-x/679528p1.html ----how could I possibly not be a convert already?

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tomthetank Chief Captain

Just found a site claiming to know the requirments of Vista(it looks like we will need Vista for FSX) ➡

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/07/vista_requirements/

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Tailhook Chief Captain

It certainly sheds at least some light on Vista requirements. But how do you conclude that we need Vista in order to run FSX? Umm...

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Michael Thomas (SteveT) Chief Captain

Cool links TTT - Thanks

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tomthetank Chief Captain

Tailhook wrote:

It certainly sheds at least some light on Vista requirements. But how do you conclude that we need Vista in order to run FSX? Umm...

From one of the videos ➡

"Flight Simulator X is the culmination of nearly 25 years of the landmark Flight Simulator franchise and the most significant addition to date. Flight Simulator X will be fully optimized for Windows Vista.

Not essential to have Vista, but how much will be lost by running it under XP?

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Tailhook Chief Captain

tomthetank wrote:

Tailhook wrote:

It certainly sheds at least some light on Vista requirements. But how do you conclude that we need Vista in order to run FSX? Umm...

From one of the videos ➡

"Flight Simulator X is the culmination of nearly 25 years of the landmark Flight Simulator franchise and the most significant addition to date. Flight Simulator X will be fully optimized for Windows Vista.

Not essential to have Vista, but how much will be lost by running it under XP?

Thank you Sir, I'll check those out once my 55.2MB a/c download has finished. Dial-up Wall Bashing - been at it for hours. Looking forward to it, thanks 👍

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tomthetank Chief Captain

Found another one with the writers thoughts about whst will be needed ➡

http://www.gameshout.com/news/012006/article2538.htm

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David Wightman (SNIGGIW) Trainee

I realise I am in a minority, currently v happy running FS9 with WIN 2000 PRO. I wonder if anyone has posed the obvious question with Windows/
FSX gurus? ie: will FSX support my OS?

WIGGINS

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Alex (Fire_Emblem_Master) Chief Captain

Ahh yes, another opportunity for Microshaft to monopolize the market with their "Optimizations." I guess it's a damn good thing I'm throwing 2200$ into a new PC in about 2 months. 🙄

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tomthetank Chief Captain

At last,something from MS ➡

http://fsinsider.com/

Though there is nothing new here yet,it may be worth sticking in your Favorites folder for later 😉

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RadarMan Chief Captain

👍 Interesting stuff, some nice tweaks.

They also mention this site in their community section.
http://fsinsider.com/community/

Radar

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Tailhook Chief Captain

SNIGGIW wrote:

I realise I am in a minority, currently v happy running FS9 with WIN 2000 PRO. I wonder if anyone has posed the obvious question with Windows/
FSX gurus? ie: will FSX support my OS?

WIGGINS

You'll have to upgrade your OS sooner rather than later anyway, to XP at least. If your hardware can handle a more recent OS you'll find that computing becomes easier all around. Hack 😀

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tomthetank Chief Captain

One thing worries me about the way this has all been presented,
FSX was included because they were showing what Vista can do
This was a Vista demo and not a FSX demo

Now we all know how hungry Win XP is on our PCs Evil or Very Mad but watching the Vista demo http://fsinsider.com/ and all its fancy see through windows and clever animations and video from the taskbar,there will be plenty of PC users out there with fairly new PCs that will struggle with Vista

The way I see it at the moment is forget about upgrading for FSX.Our next MAJOR upgrade will be to run Vista 😳

Are we talking duel core CPUs ❓ ,one to run Vista the other to run FSX ❓ or anything else Dont Know

I know this is just me thinking aloud and based on nothing but a hunch 🙄

Anyway,those are my thoughts 🙄
Oh one last thing,I still think we watched a carefully staged video of FSX with him pretending to use an Xbox controller as the developer video shows the same thing 😳 ➡
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/microsoftflightsimulatorx/media.html?sid=6141988&autoplay=6141988

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain

tomthetank wrote:

Are we talking duel core CPUs ❓

I pray not cos I haven't a clue what they are Wacko Sounds like it is going to be cheaper to buy a whole new computer, especially if you haven't a clue what your doing Umm... I'm sure a lot of people are going to be persuaded to stick with FS9 if it really is that complicated to change one piece of software....

😉

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RadarMan Chief Captain

TTT your right on.
It's going to take a new system and I would wait until Vista comes out to buy the hardware, or better yet, wait for FSX and then the hardware will be better and hopefully cheaper.
Then load Vista and FSX.

Radar

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Jamie Robson (Jamier) First Officer

agreed, im currently saving for a new pc and should have 2000+ (british pounds) about $3400 for a new pc by the time vista and FSX come out. im gonna build a nice super computer tht i hopefully wont have to upgrade for 3 or 4 years.aight

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