OT New MS Flight Simulator

On 8 Feb 2007 13:36:02 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote:

Supposedly Microsoft is going to be issuing a patch to make it run
better. FS2004 is just a better product, until they do.

Pretty much right on target with that assessment.


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Dallas

Jay Honeck wrote:

Supposedly Microsoft is going to be issuing a patch to make it run
better. FS2004 is just a better product, until they do.

That patch is called Vista. Of course you are going to have to upgrade your
computer to run it.

Gig 601XL Builder writes:

That patch is called Vista. Of course you are going to have to upgrade your
computer to run it.

Which means that it's really not running better after all. Vista runs
everything slower, since all that DRM code interferes in absolutely everything
the OS does.

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Jay Honeck writes:

Unfortunately, even with the fastest computer, the frame rates on FSX
are not acceptable. In certain, high-graphics-intense situations, the
simulation becomes more of a slide show unless you turn realism
settings to unacceptably low levels.

Is this true even on your super-duper Kiwi?

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Unfortunately, even with the fastest computer, the frame rates on FSX
are not acceptable. In certain, high-graphics-intense situations, the
simulation becomes more of a slide show unless you turn realism
settings to unacceptably low levels.

Is this true even on your super-duper Kiwi?

Yep. FSX runs acceptably -- which is better than most people will get
-- but "acceptably" isn't what I'm looking for in a flight simulator.

FS2004 runs fantastically -- and that's what we're sticking with,
until further notice.
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Iowa City, iA
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Jay Honeck writes:

Yep. FSX runs acceptably -- which is better than most people will get
-- but "acceptably" isn't what I'm looking for in a flight simulator.

FS2004 runs fantastically -- and that's what we're sticking with,
until further notice.

A wise decision, IMO. Don't fix what isn't broken.

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On 2007-02-08 22:28, Dallas wrote:
On 8 Feb 2007 08:34:25 -0800, wrote:

Is Meigs gone?

I've got FSX but I hate it so much I can't bring myself to load it up to
look for you..


A friend is doing a simulated round-the-world trip in FSX
and as he happened to pass by Chicago recently, he took this
screenshot showing Meigs is indeed gone in that world too:

http://users.telenet.be/lange/images/ATW/atw_39.jpg