Here is my position.
I could care less if someone is a newcomer to computers or games, is not smart enough to research properly and runs out and buys something on a whim.
Anyone who has been around computers and plays games knows exactly what "minimum system requirements" means. Those who don’t, I guess they get to learn **the hard way** like anyone else who has been working or playing around computers since the days of Windows 95.
We all have to start somewhere and it is not Microsoft's responsibility to teach the newbie’s of the world the ins and outs of IT and gaming any more than it is their responsibility to insure their software runs 100% on ever combination of computer components on this planet.
If people ask in the forums, I will be glad to recommend what they should get in order to obtain the best experience OR warn if they try to skimp, AND let them know there are some glitches to be resolved along with the hardware limits even the best hardware many have, however, I WILL NOT sit there and whine about Microsoft Corporation or shoot off my mouth about things I know absolutely nothing about just to prepare the thread and build it up for my grand finale about how the company is totally at fault and is ripping everyone off.
If it is my goal to come into a thread and repeat a broken record of built up "dumps" on the software and claim the manufacture is against my principles when I am STILL RUNNING their software, I am nothing but a lousy hypocrite and I am in that thread just to blow off steam and help no one but MYSELF in the process.
I take notice when someone uses terms like: "MS is aggressively marketing FSX” when the person who says that has neither defined or exampled the term ‘aggressive’ or defined what it is in that so called "aggressive marketing' that may be inaccurate or dishonest.
Some people tend to stretch as much as they can to the very extreme in order to make a statement which supports nothing but personal issues instead of certified or defined FACTs.
I see no aggressive marketing. I see a few simple TV commercials in which the graphics are blurry, there is little or no ground eye-candy shown, the aircraft stutters like hell as it fly’s by the screen and the entire commercial is about having some fun. I see nothing about being able to experience the entire world in rich 35mm 3D realism with wild frame rate ability.
And where is this enormous list of non simming public who believe they have been lied to based on the 'aggressive marking' and have a bad opinion of FSX??
What publication can I refer to that will show me the statistics which demonstrate the outcry of people who are picketing Microsoft or have a bad opinion about FSX?
Those are the statements I take notice of. When they are compiled with the rest of the garbage it spells one thing ...
"I'm Pissed Off At Microsoft Because My Toy Doesn't Work The Way I want It To So I am Going To Make Everyone Else Think It's Bad"
What I DO see advertised is exactly what I GET with every level of 'today’s' hardware listed.
QUOTE:
Minimum supported system requirements
“PCs that meet the minimum supported system requirements will be able to run the core features of Windows Vista with the basic user experience”
Basic User Experience… I love it.
Translation: No eye candy and slow response
FSX HARDWARE QUOTE:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927286Computer games push the limits of the computer's processing capabilities. Flight Simulator X is no different. A 3-D graphics card is required to run Flight Simulator X. The other minimum system requirements are listed in the following table. Make sure that the computer meets the minimum system requirements. You may want to upgrade the computer for better performance.
Item:
Minimum
CPU 1.0 gigahertz (GHz)
Memory 256 megabytes (MB)
Video Card 32 MB
Internet 56.6 modem
Recommended
2.8 GHz
1 gigabytes (GB)
64 MB
Broadband
Best
3.6 GHz
2 GB
512 MB
Broadband
Looks like we need a 3.6gig processor, 2GB of memory on a 512mb video card to get the best results.
You may want to upgrade the computer for better performance. That means upgrade even PAST the BEST specs.
The term BEST is defined by the best hardware you can buy when FSX was released. If you ain't got it, you don’t get the BEST performance POSSIBLE with AVAILABLE hardware.
And even with the BEST, you still don’t get it all. That’s where innovation and being ready for the future and the RIGHT hardware when it becomes available so profits will continue. (Falls under the guidelines of the fiduciary responsibility of the Board of Directors to the shareholders)
You ABSOLUTELY can NOT produce a product like FSX for year old video card technology and patch it later for the better devices. The primary release must be designed for a specified window of time in order to remain on the market long enough to keep up with the regular 6 month interval in hardware innovations which has been the norm in the computer industry since the 1990's
The non simmimg public is not mine, SimV's or anyone else’s responsibility. There is no need for a crusade to save the newbie. They will have to LEARN just like everyone else had to learn and if they are serious enough about wanting the best the software has to offer they will research, ask questions and obtain their goals.
THAT is where the FSX forum on SimV comes in. The FSX board is dedicated to discussion and assistance in the research and help in obtaining the goals. The General topic forum on this board will support all the rants anyone wants to make.
When I respond to someone in the FSX forum it should be done without using that post or thread to start a political dump about the manufacture of the product simply because I was dumb enough to not research, take heeds, listen to highly experienced people and take the proper action with my hardware.
At that point I have to get real, get over it, and suck it up.
Statements such as.. “Its not working like I thought it would on my hardware. I thought what I purchased in the way of hardware was enough but I found out different.” Are GOOD and pass on real information that can help someone not make the same mistakes.
Instead of: “Microsoft lied about the hardware specs and they are being sneaky in how they are marketing it. It has problems that no patch or update can fix. You have to get into the minds of the Board of Directors because they are all about money and don’t care how they get it”
--------------- Leave the bullchit in the barn where it belongs and stuff a sock in it ------------------
I will not be around here for several weeks. I do hope this subject gets discussed and some real ‘sense’ comes from the outcome.
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