Microsoft Flight Simulator

[Kifflom112 355]

I'm going to buy it.

[GMT 389]

if you get yourself fsx, I hope your pc is pretty darn good on the cpu side of life...

[Kifflom112 355]

if you get yourself fsx, I hope your pc is pretty darn good on the cpu side of life...

The computer is new and custom built, I'm sure it can handle it.

[GMT 389]

Thats what I thought aswell back in 09 when I got my then pretty high quality pc, given that FSX is 2006ish. One word: Fail.

Both the minimum requirements and the recommended specs are way too low. (Actually, my previous pc was better than the minimum requirements but still FSX didn't run past the main menu.)

Anyways after months of ini tweaking and addons I can now say I can enjoy it to a point that even an approach / departure at busy areas like KLAX, KPHX, KJFK, EDDF, EHAM etc are playable. Laggy still, but with 10ish fps just at the lower limit of acceptability, given that without tweaking the ini and some addons I came to 5ish fps on the same settings.

I really suggest you to dig into the countless FSX forums to get the best performance out of your FSX, aswell as getting some addons that reduce the workload of certain things while keeping the visual quality or even enhancing it.

[jim 546 43]

Here's a question for all you simmers, is there any way to put NAT's into the game so FS(9) can use them in route planning? I don't like having to go out of the game to import a flight plan and I do cross the Atlantic a lot. Even just a static jetway across would do.

  Edited August 23, 2011 by jim 546  

[GMT 389]

since there's no static jetway across the atlantic cuz no navaids but gps would do the trick due to range, NATs are the only option left. But they are created on a daily basis, there's no data to base them on ingame since todays NATs are outdated tomorrow and that's not what MS had in mind when creating the airways for FS. The only free way I can think of right now is using this site (or any other providing respective notams) and implementing them by creating your own point to point flightplan.

Or you get yourself FS Commander, which downloads them in real time (as in daily) so you can use them ingame

  Edited August 24, 2011 by GMT  

[jim 546 43]

Thanks for the response GMT, I did a more searching and found THIS PLACE, seems to have what I'm looking for but I haven't tested the downloads yet.

[GMT 389]

speaking of performance, I (due to a reinstallation on an FSX-dedicated HDD) came across 2 very helpfull tips.

One: Bojote's cfg-tweaker. What you do is enter some system settings and upload your fsx.cfg. What you get is a more or less custom-tweaked fsx.ini based on the system data you entered and common findings of what helps. Really usefull for those who don't dare or want to tweak the cfg themselves. Plus you get it back right away AND they create a backup-download of your old cfg valid for 24hrs. It helped me improve framerates quite a bit with only little visual difference

Two: in the autogen-folder (fsx root directory), rename the default.xml to whatever you want (i renamed it default.xml.bak; but like I said, whatever pleases you), just make sure the game can't find this file anymore. I don't know what it does as I can't find any visual difference, but it really boosted performance for me. A before/after comparison at KLAX increased my frames from 5-10 up to 10-20 fps which is really enormous, again given that I can't see any visual difference to the autogen scenery.

[Mr_Companioncube 0]

I started playing FS at FS2002, then bought FS9 (my favourite), and then ofcourse FSX (Gold ) I've had a lot of addons. But since now, I don't play it alot, because I don't have all day to play.

I'm realy excited to see Fs Flight (2011-2012). But seeing the trailer, will my pc run this high?

[GMT 389]

experience tells me it wont...

it just looks too frakking awesome to run on an average pc imho.

I also totally dont get the direction ms goes with ms flight. rumor has it its gonna be f2p and on the mmo side of life...