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.

Was very disappointed. Same old cons like in every version - not really a whole lot of airliners to choose from, and ATC is still same old, same old. It also runs significantly poorer than FS2004 on my computer (1733 centrino, 1024 ram, ati mobility 9700/128ram video).

Good news and bad news after a trip round whatever island it is in the Beech Baron.

Part of the bad news is the frame rates. I found the frame rates slowed to 14-18FPS in some views when a lot of scenery was in the frame. But that was with everything in the display settings set to "Ultra High" and at full screen on 1280x1024x32. That may sound good news, but the machine I got that on is powered by an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual core processor, with 2GB of DDR RAM and a Radeon X1900 XTX video card. If I've got to go back to compromising on display settings then FSX really is a frame hungry beast!

One major change is that there is no "aircraft" folder, but it is possible to add new aircraft. Instead of putting the main parts of the aircraft into the "aircraft" directory, you put it into SimObjects/airplanes/ Everything else seems to go where you'd have put it in FS9.

The good news is that this brave new world does look pretty, as far as the jerk-o-vision of sub 20FPS will allow me to judge. The Caribbean island has a slightly "Tin Tin" cartoon feel to it, but there's lots of scenery, and the moving cars on the roads and boats floating around the place look really good. In fact, the scenery really does seem a step change for the better - give or take the fact that the airport fence makes stuff seem to float in the air on the other side of it.

The biggest change is the sea and lagoon textures, which made a real effort to convince they were actually water: though the "waves" seemed a bit over scale for my taste. Clouds looked good from a distance, but I didn't fly in any.

The Beech Baron looked and felt and sounded really good, too. Not the sort of aircraft I ever normally fly, but good nonetheless. I got a bit confused over the views. Pressing S cycles through a virtual cockpit, a spot, a tower and an "aircraft" view that I didn't quite get to the bottom of, but seems to hold at a point and in a direction related to the aircraft. There is also a 2D cockpit, but it didn't seem to be included in the normal cycle of views. Aircraft animation and accompanying noises - undercarriage and flaps etc - seemed very good.

Very much a quick first view, then, but given the power that is going to be needed to get the best out of FSX, I'm not sure that we should all start uninstalling FS2004 just yet...

Oh: and the best news of all is that Microsoft are using a faded Saltire as the desktop icon for the FSX demo!

Meanwhile, you can pre-order FSX at amazon.com and amazon.co.uk: the former with an early October release date, the latter with a later October release date. And widely different prices: $64.99 on amazon.com or £54.99 on amazon.co.uk, which at today's exchange rates equals $103.96. Even given the US price includes a $5 discount, it makes you wonder how that difference is justifiable!

Try

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

might solve that FS Problem.

I am running CoreDuo 1.6, 256 nvidea go and 1 gig ram and i am getting great performance frame rate wise in the maximum settings, but it still doesnt look that good, it looks as some-one said like a cartoon, and i couldnt get those words out to describe the textures but thats what they look like, like an animated cartoon. Just its all to clean and bright and all that. I am getting about 45fps, goes upto just under 70fps dependant on if i am making the plane go through its paces.

I am looking at X-Plane, i have the demo and it seems better physics wise than FS, just not in a graphical way. But graphics are not all that, lets face it at 30.000 how much attention do you pay to the mountains on the ground or the sea.

ohhh man this sucks just about to take off and computer restarts for no reason does it on fs2002 as well it never used to do it

Ohyeah. I seriously hate it when I'm doing som basic flying in a 172, and they want to vector you 40-50 miles out, before turning you back in. And even when they do, they still can't manage to keep you away from other traffic.

That's because you are not doing about 160 kts to 4 miles. If you do you will have fewer problems!!!!

P.P.

Hence my four exclamation marks!

P.P.

Microsoft Flight SIM X (WORRY)
 

Some of you may have tought about this allready and some of you may not have but i dont know.


I have got some sims (C-130 / 727 pro / 707 pro / 777 pro ETCETC) will they work on flight sim X or will i have to spend more $£$£$£$£ to have new library of sims......:{ :{ :{ :confused: :confused:

CHEERS
:ok:GUYS "n" GALLS:ok:

Most of those products you mentioned are published by JustFlight. If you check out their website, they have started a new webpage which will tell you what will be compatible, what needs patching and what won’t work.

MS Flight Simulator X demo now available...
 

Here!

Only had chance to try it for half an hour or so, no massive changes compared to the 2004 version as far as I can tell.

Back to X-Plane, I think...

Radar Contact 4 is a wonderful thirdparty ATC add-on for MSFS. I still get over-vectoring with it but there is separation, holds and many other interesting qualities! Still doesn't compare to VATSIM, but you can have ATC anywhere in the world and a huuuge amount of traffic if you have Ultimate Traffic.

/Krister

Thanks krister, I've never heard of that product before. I'll give it a try.

:ok:

And for free AI traffic you can't beat this website. Just be aware that if you install to many airlines that it can dramatically impact your frame rate at the busier airports like LHR etc. Still it makes it pretty impressive flying around and seeing/hearing the speedbirds, virgins, ryanair, shamrocks etc.

http://www.projectai.com/

Dont be fooled by the minimum specs given on the box. You need at least a 3.2Gig processor, a 512meg Graphics card and a couple of Gigs of RAM to get those lovely graphics or you'll be turning all the sliders down to minimum to get any sort of decent frame rate,

I ran the Demo on A CoreDuo 2.0ghz with 1GIG Ram and it ran flawless with the sliders on top. I have a 256 Nvidea card too, so i guess that helps.

Cant wait to get it, but for me its totally different to FS2K4. I am going to treat FS X more like a game, as thats what i recon they have made it into.

X-Plane is where my serious stuff will take place, handling is so more realistic and the DVD scenery is not to bad either.

PC World looked at me like i was asking for an item that doesnt exist when i asked a few days ago if they had it, think i'll get it online...

Microsoft Sidewinder’s Copatability with xp
 

Haven't had time to comb through the whole thread, but can anyone tell me if they've managed to successfully install a Microsoft Sidewinder force feedback pro joystick with windows xp. Keep it simple if you can thanks.

Yes, Plugged in the stick, installed the software. Simple.

Are you sure that you've got the older version of the joystick as in the 'Force feedback pro' not the 'Force feedback 2'. I have tried that, but I'm not the only one, the web is full of people with the same problem, I just thought that maybe someone here had overcome the same problem.

Pmdg 747-400
 

I am at a loss with the above software and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Although extremely familiar with the workings of a FMC and having read just about every word of the blurb that comes with the sim I am still at a complete loss as to how you update it's database. Sadly, I only bought the software in the Middle East two weeks ago but the database is already out of date. Because of it's expiry I do not even seem to be able to access anything.

Not being a computer expert could anybody please explain how it is done in real laymans terms.

Again many thanks in anticipation.

M