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Jul 13th, 2006 at 5:06pm

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How big do you think FSX wll be space wise?

i think FS8 was like half a gig, and i dont know what FS9 was, but apparently FSX is going to be alot more detailed and complex so, it should take up a whole lot more space correct?
 
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Reply #1 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 5:08pm

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So much space that you won't have any room on your stock hard drive so you will have to spend an additional $100+ for a new hard drive that can hold more room than the "National Archives". Grin
 
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Reply #2 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 5:10pm

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So much space that you won't have any room on your stock hard drive so you will have to spend an additional $100+ for a new hard drive that can hold more room than the "National Archives". Grin


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Reply #3 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 5:19pm

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If it's going to be shipped on DVD, I'd assume it's going to be rather large.
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 6:24pm

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If it's going to be shipped on DVD, I'd assume it's going to be rather large.


Do you want it to come as five seperate CDs instead? Grin
 
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Reply #5 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 7:43pm

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FS 98 was a single CD
FS2000 = 2CDs
FS2002 = 3CDs
FS2004 = 4CDs
common sense would tell us that it would be the equivelant of 5 CDs then so 700x5=7500MB or 3.41 GB

probably more when it off the dvd though
 
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Reply #6 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 7:46pm

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I can see the future now. One day, DVDs will be so obsolete that future games/sims will be in multi-DVDs. Grin
 
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Reply #7 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 9:17pm

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Actually, if you read about Sony's new 'Blue Ray' discs (for the PS3), they're supposed to be able to hold something like 53.1 Gigabytes, and dat is alot of bytes! Wink
 
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Reply #8 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 9:51pm

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Aren't those Blue Ray discs just HD DVDs? That's what I heard on G4, but they aren't always reliable.
 
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Reply #9 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 10:09pm

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Im not so sure about much of this stuff.  Why don't you just do some research. Wink  Not that i'm lazy or anything. Grin
 
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Reply #10 - Jul 13th, 2006 at 11:11pm

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Im not so sure about much of this stuff.  Why don't you just do some research. Wink  Not that i'm lazy or anything. Grin



What do yuo propose i do? Roll Eyes
 
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Reply #11 - Jul 14th, 2006 at 4:17am

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What do yuo propose i do? Roll Eyes


make sure you spell it right in google first first  Wink

http://www.blu-ray.com/info/ and http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/ might be a starter for anyone who wants to know more about blu-ray
 
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Reply #12 - Jul 15th, 2006 at 1:34am

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cool! Cheesy

Thanks mun! Grin
 
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Reply #13 - Jul 15th, 2006 at 6:50pm

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Fsx will fit on a 64k of ram duh  ???
 
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Reply #14 - Jul 15th, 2006 at 7:14pm

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Fsx will fit on a 64k of ram duh  ???


64K? Grin
 
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Reply #15 - Jul 16th, 2006 at 4:34am
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I'd say around 8gb, and around 5gb compressed on the DVD.
 
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Reply #16 - Jul 16th, 2006 at 8:53am

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FSX will be released on two DVD's:

http://www.avsim.com/pages/robertw/FSX/FS-X.htm
 
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Reply #17 - Jul 17th, 2006 at 1:42am
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Oh,  just found out the game is on 2 DVDs. Must be pretty big!
 
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Reply #18 - Jul 17th, 2006 at 2:25am

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Imagine FS11 on 2, dual-layered blu-ray discs.  Scary size!
 
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Reply #19 - Jul 17th, 2006 at 5:33am

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I read somewhere where a person said that one of the developers said fsx would take up around 14gb of hard disk space, although i cant find the link to it. Embarrassed
 
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Reply #20 - Jul 17th, 2006 at 9:57am

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I read somewhere where a person said that his sister work with a person,whose dauther's classmate's dog knowes a dog of grandpa of a person,who fixed a car of a person who goes to gym together with a girlfriend of one of developers who said that FSX's size is about 14 GB!

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Reply #21 - Jul 17th, 2006 at 10:09am

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That's nothing. X-Plane's Global Terrain is about 60 GB. Grin
 
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Reply #22 - Jul 18th, 2006 at 11:47pm

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i heard they were making a limited edition FSX that is coming out on eight track tapes, well..... 124 eight track tapes....................




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Reply #23 - Jul 19th, 2006 at 12:39am
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FS9 is 1.8 outa the box, but most of us move that decimal one place to the right in no time.  I dont think it matters how big it is DEFAULT, but how many awesome addons we get
 
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Reply #24 - Jul 19th, 2006 at 3:02am

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Aren't those Blue Ray discs just HD DVDs? That's what I heard on G4, but they aren't always reliable.

That's not correct. Blu Ray is a completely different technology from HD DVD. And much more dense. There are currently 200GB CDs beeing produced; with original sizes starting from 25GBs. HD DVD can only go up to about 90. (as far as my research reveals).

As far as FSX being released on 2 DVDs? One DVD is 4.81GBs So it would be safe to assume that it would be in 5-8GB range compressed on the DVD.


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I read somewhere where a person said that one of the developers said fsx would take up around 14gb of hard disk space, although i cant find the link to it.

Since 2 DVDs equal to just under 10GBs... taking up 14 on your HD is possible, but thats kind of pushing it. I would stick closer to the 10GB uncompressed side.
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Reply #25 - Jul 19th, 2006 at 6:05am

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Since 2 DVDs equal to just under 10GBs... taking up 14 on your HD is possible, but thats kind of pushing it. I would stick closer to the 10GB uncompressed side.
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No point argueing abut it now...we'll find the size of it when its released.
 
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Reply #26 - Jul 19th, 2006 at 6:15am

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Reply #27 - Jul 20th, 2006 at 12:28am

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..."How big????"

..do you really want me to get my trusty digital camera out and show you all?... Wink... Grin...!

...be afraid...
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I'm surprised the thread got this far without a chidish joke like that.
 
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Reply #28 - Jul 20th, 2006 at 8:31am

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I'm surprised the thread got this far without a chidish joke like that.


Strange that it comes from the oldest? member here
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Reply #29 - Jul 21st, 2006 at 3:14pm

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Strange that it comes from the oldest? member here
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Yeah...i've noticed that alot.... Grin
 
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Reply #30 - Jul 24th, 2006 at 1:04am

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Apperently they are not even planning to release it on CD.

Luckly I have a DVD Drive Smiley
 
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Reply #31 - Jul 24th, 2006 at 11:28am

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DVDs are becoming the norm nowadays. DVD players for movies, blank DVDs, games like Half Life 2 that have already come out on DVD, etc.
 
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Reply #32 - Jul 24th, 2006 at 4:48pm

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Doesn't matter how much space...I still have around 150GB free on my hard drive  Grin
 
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