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You have to look at it from another perspective. First off, there are already tons of addons available for FS9

And second, think of the payware companies. They are going to be a little more hesitent to invest and build a product for a simulator that has been around for several years, when a newer version of FS has already been out for a couple years.

ThePilot_Ace wrote on Aug 26^th, 2008 at 9:32am:


Err, I voted that I don't care, good sir, I just started this because I was curious.

New option added.

I have another spin on this, I have so much time and money invested in FSX there is probably no way I will ever buy FS11.  When I decided that I wanted FSX I went and bought a new PC.  I specifically asked the salesman if it would run FSX and of course the answer was "Sure, it will run FSX great!".  Well one GTX8800, one PSU and four meg of ram later it still will not run FSX as great as I would like.  The bottle neck is the CPU and to do anything with the CPU I would have to get a new mobo.

I have spent so much time in adding all the free add-ons not to mention all the time and money in all the payware add-ons that I just do not see me ever getting FS11.

Needless to say there is also all the time spent on NickN's tweaks.  Thank God for Nick, because without his XP and FSX tweaks I would be so pissed off at my PC, the PC salesman (Fry's) and MS it would not even be funny.

Now for the interesting part, I have been a MSFS user since 1987 when I got my first home PC.  I did not even know sites like this existed until late 2006 / early 2007, I did not even know you could buy scenery addons for FS, or at least if I saw them in the computer store I never paid any attention to them.  I ran across some at Fry's in late 2006 and that is when I decided to buy the new PC and jump to FSX.  I will have to say that this site and the people that occupy it has increased my FS knowledge and experience so much that what I have gained from this site is "PRICELESS".

Rod

Mass wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 10:03am:


The big ticker here is that FS9 developed addons ported to FSX simply cannot perform as well as FSX developed add-ons, which cannot be ported to FS9, and that is the flaw I was explaining in my first post. If MS had taken backwards compatability into account, I don't think we would be having this poll.

Nothing against FSX mind you, just griping about a bad move on MS's part IMHO, unless it was absolutely necessary to change everything in order for FSX to work the way they wanted.

(Editing this into this post so as to not flood this thread with my own posts)

JBaymore wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 5:51pm:


Seconded.

idahosurge wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 9:14am:

What I want to know Rod (idahosurge) how did you know how I got started with MSFS ........Have you been spying on me .......LOL

Your story sounds just like mine other then I started in 1989.
As you said my FS knowledge after I found SimV is 1000% better then before and yes it is "PRICELESS".
After all these years of having the Internet for me to now be able to go on multiplayer and fly with lots of pepole from all over the world at the same time is just great and it all started for me on SimV.
Pete, JBaymore, Fozzer, and lots of others have helped me many times,
So to all of them I give many thanks
Greg
 

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But I still want it all


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