Microsoft Flight Simulator X
 

Gday guys, anyone know when the next flight sim is due out?

I remember 2004 being released late July 2003, so im thought 2006 wuld be released by now.

Any word?

My own guess, but I expect it at about the same time that we get the new 64 bit MS Op System.

That way, it will remain current for another two to three years. FS has always wanted a fairly good machine to run on and the new machines will provide that nicely, one would have thought.

Conan

There are no plans to release a new FS in the near future. MS want to get things right and introduce some innovative features next time round.

Keep an eye on the simulator main site on www.avsim.com

Aussie,

Was in contact with Microsoft and this is what they said about a month back :ok:

Hope that can help you :)

Interesting tidbits on this page: http://www.calclassic.com/avsim2005.htm

Microsoft Flight Sim 2006
 

I am enquiring about the new Flight Simulator 2006 asking if anyone know's any details regarding the new game. I would like to see the installation of new air bridges and Airbus aircraft on the game.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X
 

Does anyone knows anything about a possible FS 2006 version ? Thank you very much

There has not been any official announcement from Microsoft yet but it is in the works and POSSIBLY (not certain yet) released next summer but we'll see.

Microsoft DID conduct an extensive survey of many Flight Simulator 2004 users to get an idea of their usage habits so they are planning on doing a next version; I even heard they were hiring staff to work on FS2006.


John
FS2004 user

ok, thank you for the information !! And do you know what they are going to change in the software ?

A guess would be about forty quid, plus the £800 for the min spec machine for it to run on.

Cynical? Moi?

Conan

Naah, but yer need glasses mate, he said change not charge !!! :)

Dear Spimcatt,

there is nothing wrong wrong with my eyesight...

I guess that MS are up to their old tricks with 2006. It has always been a b*stard for minimum specs and they let us off last time. For the next edition, I will bet you need a new machine, unless it is very punchy right now.


Cnoon

Flight Simulator X
 

A little bit about MSFS 2006 here. Plenty of screenshots too. Will be interesting to see if the thing will run on anything less than a 3 GHZ processor and an all singing and dancing graphic card.

From what I have heard, it will stagger along on a fastish machine, but I always suspected that it would need Vista and a Cray to run well.

Mind you there are a lot of flight simmers for whom a previous "new" release of FS meant a new machine anyway.


Conan

MSFS 2004 PA44 Add-on
 

Hello all,

Grateful if anyone out there could point me towards somewhere on the web that i could download a Seminole add-on for MS Flight Sim 2004.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi there,
Try www.simviation.com they tend to have a really good range of FS2004 downloads. Also, www.flightsim.com which has even more but you need an account.
Hope this helps! :)

I'm downloading it right now, cant wait to see what they have done. I have read, heard and seen that the missions look good, and the graphics are far more advanced, i am just hopeing that they have spent some time on the physics and not the graphics only. Will let you know if it installs, i hope the demo has the RedBull Race mission on it...

Its installed fine for me, Grpahics are looking better, but i think thats more of a texture thing, its looking more brighter and viberant and textures more realistic and better blended. Realistic looking glare on cockpit window in virtual panel. I am getting 45-50 fps on Ultra High, seems really smoth.

DLing now - can't wait :O

Hey, it looks like you are missing a Windows componant that FSX runs on/with or borrows information of. I would say it was a comonant in XP SP2? I am running XP Home, Always Install Updates and NvIDEA GO 256 Graphics Card, 1 Gig Ram, so by no means top spec.