Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Demo Launch Imminent!

Well I remember a couple of people in here having FS2004, so I guess this may be of interest to them. Me thinks it's time to get a new computer.

[uk.gamespot.com]

:O

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Wow we actually have decent terrain at last? :P

impressive screen gav is it going to take one of those high end DX10 cards to run it on that mode though?

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WOW! It seems Microsoft may have finally got Flight Simulator just perfect Will keep a close eye on this one!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2006 02:12PM by mika19b.

there are 2 versions going to be available, one for XP and then an enhanched one for windows vista




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> there are 2 versions going to be available, one for XP and then an
> enhanched one for windows vista

Which I assume means a DX10 version for Vista... if so, I know which I'll be getting...

AFAIK there are 2 versions, Standard and Professional. Professional contains the SDK and a few extra features but I believe both versions will contain DX10 enabled features once Vista arrives, either on the disk or as an additional download. So you can buy it in October for XP and then if you upgrade to Vista and DX10 next year it will be a free download at most.

That just looks....just...wow


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Just over half and hour till release?

636 meg demo coming down at 5kb/s. I'll be playing in 36 hours.

Lol, lucky you! I'll probably be playing in about 5/6 months. Ah well, back to FS2000! *Must remember to buy USB joystick*

Nice.

My computer would ermm be alight if it tried to run those gfx.

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

OK guys I had a quick play with the demo and you would be surprised with what you can run it on. My computer is a crapbox and it managed to run it at 12 fps with most sliders towards the minimum end (and even then it looked nearly as good as FS2000 on my machine).

For reference my specs are:
2.8 GHz Celeron processor
256 MB RAM (DDR2 I think, not really up on computer things these days)
64 MB SiS onboard graphics card
1024x768 res

where did you get the demo?




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I got it from www.3dgamers.com aus mirrors never seem the have queues there... but I think filefront have mirrors up aswell



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2006 07:38PM by TC.

There's also a high-speed server on Microsoft's website. I shall return with the link in a matter of minutes.

Edit: [www.microsoft.com]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2006 06:28PM by Zyklef.

*downloads*

So thats how it work with you guys then is it ?

As soon as the graphics get good you all love it

Where as I have been playing it since version 5 "FS5"

By playing , i mean trying to destinguish between the ground and the sky

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2006 11:29PM by Willb.