Simviation Forum - Is it worth the frustration?

Oct 22^nd, 2006 at 7:02pm

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I've been avidly following up the various comments in this forum regarding the FSX. I've been messing around with the game for over a week now, doing various suggested tweaks to make it perform half way decent but so far no joy. Perhaps it's my rig (2.2GHz, 1.5G RAM, Nvidia GeForce 6800XT, etc) but again the FSX is going the way the CFS3 did. CFS3 never did get to its full potential. I think I'll be keeping my FS9 for a very long time. To make it work as many suggested I'm not ready to spend a few hundred Cs for a new rig. It'll be a long while if ever for the FSX to come close to FS9.

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Reply #1 - Oct 22^nd, 2006 at 8:45pm

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If I was you uninstall FSX and reinstall CFS3. It's much better. Grin

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Reply #2 - Oct 22^nd, 2006 at 10:18pm

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Especially now that CFS3 has tons of patches and updates, and the MARVELOUS "Over Flanders Fields" WWI addon Grin

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Reply #3 - Oct 22^nd, 2006 at 11:11pm

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I'll take you up on that. Found very little add-ons for CFS3 however. Where can I get all the updates for CFS3?

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Reply #4 - Oct 23^rd, 2006 at 12:49am

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Get the 3.1 patch here:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/

Then scenery manager here:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&FileType=cf s3-scenery&page=downloads&ammm=15&pap=2#download

You can (err...must) also get the 1% flight models on http://www.avhistory.org/

OFF and its patches, as well as installation steps (requires fresh CFS3 + 3.1, if I remember well) on this site:
http://off.oldbrowndog.net/

Enjoy.

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Reply #5 - Oct 23^rd, 2006 at 1:53am

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fsX is exellent. Some SOME people don't set it up properly or think it's to fake.

Some people even complain because there's no 2d panels even though there is Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Oct 23^rd, 2006 at 3:09am

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The real difficulty,to me,is the fact that it seems like there are no major settings existing that push up the performance for everybody.Until today i found so much hints and tweaks,i´ve already lost the overview!

It looks like chicken,smells like chicken,tastes like chicken,but when Chuck Norris says its Beef...then damnit...its Beef!!!

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Reply #7 - Oct 23^rd, 2006 at 3:44am

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Texture detail and size is a pretty good performance improver, though the autogen is also quite heavy.

And dont go in with the thaught that you can run it on full detail as you could with FS9.

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Reply #8 - Oct 23^rd, 2006 at 8:14am

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Seriously, go to Sim-outhouse and read what they have on graphics tweaks. CFS3 has the potential to be the best looking sim out there if set up right.

There are two patches 3.1 and 3.1a avaliable from the CFS3 website.

CFS3 addons here at SimV are fairly limited, but go to Sim-outhouse and Avhistory and there are loads.

And, oneday we'll get MAW. And that'll kick arse. Grin

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