Lets think ahead about 20 years in the future. Hopefully by then, MS Flight 10 should have come out. What do you think it will be like?

But in all honesty, what are going to be some main differences between FSX and microsoft flight? By looking at the images, they both look the same.

TXGrunt wrote on Apr 18^th, 2011 at 1:14pm:


MS has said on the announcement website "we're still early in the development cycle, so the fact that you comment on similarity to FSX is great!". They are obviously saying that once completed, MS Flight will be very different to what it looks like now.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/#news2

No one knows (as has been stated multiple times) what the requirements for Flight will be.  To date, we've only seen screencaps and vids from the sim, with no actual system specs available for the platforms they are running on.  So it is currently impossible to give an accurate prediction on what systems are going to run Flight well.  However, MS has stated that they intend the new sim to be much easier to run than past installments.  How they plan on achieving this is open to speculation.

Really bugs me that people would assume something based off of the past. It's been 5 years. Lets repeat...how long? 4 YEARS!!!! Flight isn't being developed by the same team and is being aimed at a wider audience. That does not mean that things will be the same.

Also, on the FSX box, it says "increased performance will be noticed in more powerful systems." What does this mean? It means that the requirements on the box are the MINIMUM requirements. They are not going to list hardware that would add up to be thousands of dollars and expect us to buy it. They are going to put the minimum requirements on there so that more people buy it. They'd also likely optimize the engine to take advantage of modern hardware. (multicore support, to be specific.)

I feel like I've said this too many times, but Microsoft did say that their past approach to flight simulator was not the best. To be more specific, here's a quote from PC Pilot Magazine:

Quote:


Now you ask, why should we believe them? Well, a former ACES member did say that releasing the DX10 artist rendition was a mistake. It was supposed to be a goal for the team to meet, NOT what the product was going to look like. So far, they have not made that mistake at all. Will they continue this? Hopefully.

After Flight is released some of us will likely trot off to the PC hardware stores to grab a new set of atom processers. I fully intend to buy a copy when its released but unless it's the heavenly flight program it's promising to be, I can't say I'll use it much.

alrot wrote on Jun 28^th, 2011 at 3:51pm:

alrot wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2011 at 1:27pm:




Ha! Before my last PC crash I was up to 85 GB harddrive space!   
           (With all the addons)

I love how you guys think that because FSX required a super computer to run, that Flight will be the same way. It's very funny. 

Strategic Retreat wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2011 at 7:49am:


This was not limited to FSX.  Look backward.

Looking at the early pages and threads in the other MS simulator sections can be very enlightening.  As can living through every version since the original.

best,

............john

[quote author=Hughes-MDflyer4 link=1302677508/16#16 date=1309658576]I love how you guys think that because FSX required a super computer to run, that Flight will be the same way. It's very funny.  ;D[/quote]
Yeah it's quite amusing to read.

FSX's render engine is, by now, outdated and just horribly optimized for multi-core processors and newer graphic cards. That's why you can't take full advantage of newer CPUs/GPUs. DX10 for example was simply implemented, like it says in the settings menu, as a preview, never fully. So even if you have a modern high-end PC, you'll never push the most out of fsx because the engine is limited. This does not mean the game cannot be fun.

With the new title coming up, I hope they get rid of these limits and implement true multi-core support & full DX10.1 features and I even hope to see DX11 features.
DX11 Tesselation is one of the features that I would love to see in the terrain and water. An example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G9anRoYGko
[i]Be sure to look at the difference before and the after the wire-frame part between 0:35 and 0:55. It does require some high-end hardware, but they could simply put it in the new engine and leave it to the user whether they enable it or not[/i]

@Strategic Retreat,
Nobody is perfect, even companies (including Microsoft) make mistakes whether big or small.

If you don't like the game and/or are only here to bash Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft, not M$), simply refrain from posting on forums like these. Suggestions:
-Delete Windows and install linux or get a Mac;
-Get alternative flight simulator from a different company like x-plane;
There are people that do enjoy playing these games and like to discuss about it on forums, who do not want to read your rants about Microsoft/Flight Simulator. Thanks.

For example, I don't like Apple-branded stuff, but you don't hear me ranting all over the place how shitty I think they are?