Thank you Sensible.

Perhaps I should have made it clearer "read all the blurb".

and done everything the Blurb says.

If your asking how to update your FMC database then you just need to download the latest AIRAC to the relevant directory on your HDD per the following:

http://ops.precisionmanuals.com/wiki..._my_NAVDATA.3F

What an absolute pile of junk this has turned out to be. I just last month built myself a PC to the tune of nearly 2k including a GeForce 7950GX2 graphics card. I put a lot of effort into it to make sure it could handle FSX. It is a true beast in terms of performance.

However, FSX at medium display settings produces abysmal frame rates, is clunky, slow and a real resource hog. In and around the London area FS9 would give 60-70fps, FSX? A measily 10-15. Further to that, no London City Airport! - Classic :\

How much RAM do you have?

For those of you awaiting Microsoft FSX
 

Enjoy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcW3hbnR2EI

Heheh :D :D

2GB.

I'm hearing similar stories pretty much everywhere!

A quote from that

"They are killing simulation"

How true, FS-X is no more than a game now, wouldn't shock me if they didnt release it for X-Box. Not the PS3 though, the physics in a basic game out do FS, PS3 has a dedicated physics engine, it works very true from what i have read...

That is such a true and funny short film. I agree, X-Plane has an annoying GUI and keyboard controls, but its out does FS-x in most ways now, even the scenery on X-Plane is great now, and the flight models are way infront of FS-X...

Its a game, and the demo has more or less put me of getting it. Still going to get it though, just for the missions, as i say, i will treat it like a game...

not really related, but look at this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLV5ku0y_lw

Well, if Linux is good enough for real sims, just think what you could do on your desktop!

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3368

:ok:

What struck me looking at the various Youtube uploads is that the visuals appear just like before. In other words nothing like the screen shots that were released by MS before launch of FSX.

I think I will stick with FS2004 as I know that upgrading my current pc will vastly improve its performance whereas I am not sure that this could be said for the latest incarnation of FS without a serious cash outlay and having to tread down the Vista path which I refuse to be sucked into.

Hmm. My Dell Dimension 9150 (3.0 GHz Core Duo CPU, 1 Gb RAM, 256Mb GeForce 6800) runs FSX Deluxe at around 30fps with the sliders on 'High' - and London City is there, if a bit basic!

However, 4Gb RAM would help....:p ;)

Scroggs is a simmer:eek:

Isn't FSX designed to take advantage of Direct X 10 and Vista, which should yield better results?

I was chatting to a mate the other night, he reckons that the reason FSX runs so badly is that it has been optimised for use with windows Vista and more importantly...DirectX 10.

I have seen some footage of FSX running in DX10, it looks very impressive. (However the footage was produced by MS themselves so could have been pre-rendered.)

If you go into Youtube there are various uploads which don't appear to be anything like the demos that MS came out with.

Is it worth me getting FSX when i have a radeon 9800 pro 128 graphics card, 1G RAM and a 2.8ghz pentium 4 proccessor? Or should i just stick with century of flight?

Yes, occasionally. I've been into computers for about 25 years and MSFS for nearly as long, but only once in a while. I'm fortunate in that I can afford to indulge a casual interest by buying new versions whenever they turn up. If nothing else, MSFS has always been a good test of just exactly how good one's computer setup really is! FSX is very demanding, but I can't see anything about it that needs DX10 or Vista - but I am running it on a computer that is more than ready for Vista.

Incidentally, I've also tried it on my Vaio SX5P laptop (2.0Ghz Intel Pentium M, 1 Gb RAM, 256Mb NVIDIA GeForce 6400 Go, 100 Gb HDD), and it works acceptably on Medium. It's a bit slow to load (more RAM here as well, I think!!), but it runs fine. I did try it with everything on Max, but you could have gone on holiday waiting for everything to load up!

Whats the cheapest you can expect to pay for 2X1GB RAM?

Dont go for cheapest, go for fastest. google crucial. :ok:

FSX on Dx9

And here is a screenshot of FSX, in the same place running on Dx10. BIG DIFFERENCE!

http://www.nvnews.net/images/screens...ulator_x_1.jpg