Simviation Forum - New FSX demo

Oct 1^st, 2006 at 6:41am

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Hi all, there's a new demo of FSX to download from Microsoft now, presumably based on final code. It was released on the 29th of September. I'm downloading now, will tell you of any improvements if someone else doesn't get there first.
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Reply #1 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 6:49am

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Link?

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Reply #2 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 7:37am

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Ahem, sorry...here you go...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce12726c-0eba-4653-8270...

My download still has an hour to go. I've got my fingers crossed that I won't be disappointed.

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Reply #3 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 7:39am

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Oh yes, and the Beaver has been replaced with the R22 helicopter if that's a good enough reason for someone to download it.

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Reply #4 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 7:55am

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A demo with 800 mb? Shocked

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Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 7:58am

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Yeah, it's an 800Mb demo (You do know that the full program is 12Gb don't you?). You're restricted to a small area in the Caribbean based on the island of St. Maarten and it's immediate surroundings. You have a time limit of 30 minutes but apart from that it's the full program, at least as far as I'm aware.

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Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 8:00am

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Yeah, it's an 800Mb demo You're restricted to a small area in the Caribbean based on the island of St. Maarten and it's immediate surroundings. You have a time limit of 30 minutes but apart from that it's the full program, at least as far as I'm aware.

I don't know that... 12 gb... it's very much...

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Reply #7 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 10:06am

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im doing it just for the heli Grin

thats was really disapointed me with the last demo is they didnt let us try every option for the game, and they were boasting about how the helicopters were supposed to be so much better.

Edit: gotta love high speed internet, its only a 24 min download Grin

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Reply #8 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 10:17am

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OK, I've flown around for a bit and played with the settings. Firstly I couldn't max the sliders and get a playable result, not surprising since my computer is a little off the pace (Celeron 2.93Ghz, 512Mb RAM, GeForce 5700 128Mb). I could get it playable with all the AI settings at 50%, and all the scenery sliders set to around 75-80%. I turned all the water effects off, it may be just me but I think it looks better that way. Flying on St. Maarten with it's photoscenery the blurries were bad, the scenery never resolved. Flying elsewhere the blurries were there but far less than in FS9. I'm disappointed with the supposedly high-definition textures, they look much the same resolution as FS9 to me although they appear to be more varied. The autogen hits the frame rate as you may expect when you multiply it by ten, but it looks a lot more realistic and less cartoon-like now. If there's anyone out there trying it on more cutting edge equipment can you please let me know of your experiences, i.e does extra memory and/or a better graphics card make a big difference to texture resolution etc. etc. I think I may already know the answer to that one but I'll have an idea as to what replacement bits I'll need to save up for.
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Reply #9 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 10:26am

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Well, its just a demo, nothing is ever perfect. Undecided

Im sure that those problems will be fixed in the finalized version when the game comes out

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Reply #10 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 10:27am

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FSX will be a major Frame hog. I would expect the textures to resolve themself with the full version, but i agree the new autogen looks much more realistic now. Save up for when visa come out, buy a DX10 video card and you should be ok.

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Reply #11 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 11:54am

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The realdeal . . . FSX will be released in five (5) days (just about the time one's download is completed!) Cheesy

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Reply #12 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 11:59am

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Nice to hear about the autogen being improved.

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Reply #13 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 4:17pm

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last i knew FSX isnt supposed to ship till the 17th, or altleast thats when amazon is shipping

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Reply #14 - Oct 1^st, 2006 at 6:26pm

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Well, its just a demo, nothing is ever perfect. Undecided

Im sure that those problems will be fixed in the finalized version when the game comes out

Where did I hear that before...

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AH, now I remember, it was when FS9 was about to get out. Tongue

And we all KNOW how it ended, don't we?

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