I have a p3 800mhz 320ram 128 vm an it runs ok..............................................................................
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  what really bothers me is that i have an hour Im downloading it right now , and still 10%I think Ill be here ,and Im gonna have to paid 12 hours(cybercofee) ,the time I presume will take to finish,I bet anyone that it will runs aceptable in my machine 8)

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Nice. Then I don't have to update my comp. Well...I want to get a new one anyway

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This is Perfect sense!,You very right Omar777 (((DEMO))))

This should be a good place to post my quick review of FSX.

I posted this up on another board I'm on where I fly with buddies in FS9 quite regularly, so I thought I would share it here.

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Ok, I had a chance to play with FSX a bit more. My first assumption wasn't that great, but after playing around a bit I have to say FSX should be really nice once the final version is released.


To get a good feel in the differences between FS9 and FSX I installed my Aerial Foundry CF-188 Hornets into the FSX directory.

The FS9 aircraft worked almost flawlessly in FSX, I had a few issues with some gauges and effects, but to be fair I'm certain I didn't install all the necessary files needed. No biggie, all I wanted was the aircraft anyhow.


First off FSX is layed out alot like FS9. The aircraft selection menu is a bit different, and the graphics settings menus are a bit different also.

The Aircraft selection menu seems like it might be a bit harder to navigate than FS9, but  once used to it it should be fine.

The graphics settings menu seems a bit easier to navigate than FS9, and a few extra settings to control are present.

One thing I noticed about browsing through the menus is that I was able to move between menus, and aircrafts without that slight hesitation that FS9 exibts. In FSX navigating the menus goes alot smoother.

I set the display settings to about medium on all settings to start with and went flying.


So next I'll tell how I felt the FS9 aircraft flew in FSX as I'm sure alot of people were concerend about that.

I fly the AF CF-188 alot on FS9, and have a good feel for the plane.
First off there was no VC in the Hornet, no biggie right now, in time there will be work arounds for this.

All animations worked on the aircraft as they should. Apon takeoff the Hornet bit into the air as I expected, but seemed to need a little more airspeed before lift off. I  then immediately noticed how much smoother the aircraft was to fly. The pitch and roll actions were not so violent as in FS9. While these actions were smoother, I didn't notices and slowness in control surface response.

Next I played with elevator trim. WOW what a difference! In FS9 the AF Hornets are hard to trim properly, it's either too much trim, or not enough. In FSX there felt to be a finer amount of trim movement. While I had to operate the trim controls a little more, I was easily able to trim the plane out at any given speed. Very nice.

The autopilot worked as it should, along with the GPS.

After flying around a bit I went for a landing in my usual landing configuration.  I had to carry a little more airspeed to maintain a proper glideslope than FS9. Not much, maybe 10 knots or so more.

Touch down was really smooth I though, a softer landing than in FS9.


I was quite happy with how the FS9 aircraft flew. I was surprised that there was an immediate and noticable difference in flight characteristics, but it is a change for the better IMO.


After I was in the air for a bit I started to play with the graphics settings. I was able to get most of the settings up to at least 3/4 on the slider bars for all settings, some I had turned up to maximum before the sim ended.

The sim ran smoothly like this and I was able to meet the maximum target frame rate which I set to 35. I was surprised after reading about people getting horrible frame rates on different flight sim boards last night.

I was able to run higher settings in FSX and get better frame rates than FS9 with lower settings. The whole sim ran smoother than FS9.

The aircraft looked much more crisp in FSX than it does in FS9, and the color was a bit darker than it is in FS9.

One thing I really liked is the smooth panning while in exterior view, no more jerky movements of FS9.

The scenery was pretty nice too.  Trees! wow, not those 2D trees that look like road signs in FS9. These trees almost look 3D and if I was a tree / nature buff I could have probably picked the different types of trees out.

The water looked alot better than FS9, the water seemed to have depth and the wave action looked pretty realistic.
While I couldn't achieve the water effects of the Microsoft official screen shots, I was pretty impressed with the water. After all I'm not running the sim on the high end hardware Microsoft does.
I didn't get chance to really turn up the water settings to max before the sim ended, and I was flying in a fighter at 450 knots across the water.

The buildings, and objects such as cruise ships etc. were more crisp and alot more detailed than FS9.

The actual ground scenery ( grass dirt etc ) didn't seem any different than FS9 to me though.

The sky and cloud textures were quite a bit better than FS9, but didn't have the quality of some payware sky enhancements for FS9. I use Active Sky 6 in FS9, and FSX doesn't seem to be able to match that.


I did come across some glitchs while flying. One was random clipping of the sound which was easily fixed by turning the sound off and on ( pressing the Q key ).

I also experianced a shadowed terrain view when switching from external view to panel view. Cycling the views again, or panning to either side in the cockpit and back fixed it though.
To be honest, I was using a FS9 aircraft and sound file, so that may be have contributing those issues.

At this point the time limit expired and I didn't get to play with it anymore- Yet.

Overall I was impressed.

- The aircraft was easy to install, I just copied the aircraft folder from the FS9 directory and put it into the SimObjects/airplanes folder of FSX.
FSX has a Gauges and Effects folder just like FS9, and for the most part the FSX directory looks like FS9's.

- The aircraft flew well and handled better than in FS9.

- The sim ran impressively well with high settings on my machine, better than FS9 at similiar settings. We'll see once the full version comes out with the full global scenery whether there will be an impact in sim smoothness.

- The menus are easy to navigate.

- Graphics overall are quite a bit better than FS9.

FSX seems to have alot of potential, I think it will be a great next step from FS9.


I should post my machine specs for those interested.

It is not a powerful rig, probably mid line nowadays.

Pentium 3.0 GHZ 800mhz fsb
BFGtech Geforce 6800GT OC 256 mb
2.0 gig PC3200 Ram
200 gig serial ATA drive with 8mb cache

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I was just going to post about your frame rate which did not make any sense since I can get 22-24 with dips to 15-18 (10 on hard load) on an x800xt and 35 with dips to 25 on an 7900GTX.. thats with all sliders maxed in scenery except resolution of the mesh and the textures. Mesh is @ 10m and  textures @ 60cm. Traffic @ 90 and small AI @ 50.. aircraft ultra high and weather ultra high.

I jack the mesh and texture resolution up on the 7900. That includes a few 'special tweaks' in the cfg file.


your 6FPS did not make any sense to me with your rig. From the FPS you posted I thought you were trying to run everything maxed to the hilt.. 

Pentium P4 3Ghz ...... 1Gb RAM ...... 256mb X800XL PCI-E

Everything maxed I was getting between 4 and 15FPS with Building Storms weather setting. Averaged around 20 with no weather. Ground textures were somewhat blurred although everything else loaded up beautifully. With tweaking it should be reasonable.

On Medium-Low it will lock to 25fps. On High it is between 10 and 20 fps over land.

Also, I get this crap. If I change the display settings it goes away.



3800 X2
Abit AN8 32X
1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200
BFG 6600GT