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Gentlemen, get your goggles on for Flight Simulator X
by Ryan Carter Aug 15th 2006 at 8:30AM
Microsoft has released a trial version of the highly anticipated Flight Simulator X. The popular flying application is going to be available in its entirety for the holidays, but this trial is meant to add FSX to your Christmas wish list. The trial has 3 aircraft, 3 missions, and 2 airports allowing the expert and novice alike to traverse the skies with style. The game's massive 14GB and DirectX 9 hardware requirements sound like a serious application sits behind FSX's digital cockpit. Should be a good ride. Happy flying, everybody. Oh, and don't forget to pull the chocks before you take off, no use making the tower wait for you, this is an airport after all.[Via BetaNews]
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MDB said 10:21AM on 8-15-2006
Great. Another way for terrorists to get practice flying commercial aircraft. Now they really don't have to learn how to land.
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RiF said 11:49AM on 8-15-2006
I know, they'll just have to resort using the 2004 version and wish they had prettier graphics. Does your ignorance know no bounds?
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westudi said 1:54PM on 8-15-2006
I have had this demo for a while, and I cannot wait for the full release. The graphics are stunning, and the possibilities endless.
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Nicholas said 12:04AM on 8-16-2006
I have a pretty beefy system (dualcore 3.2GHz, 2 gigs of RAM, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512meg video card) and the game lags soo bad, even at the default low resolution. It's like it's loading it's assets on the fly (land/buildings/etc.) and every time it hits the hard drive the game stutters. Don't have this problem with any other game. Unless it's fixed in the final, I don't think I'll be buying..
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YacozA said 3:53PM on 8-28-2006
theres something wrong with ur computer...
my 7800GT plays the game fine @ 1600 x 1200... everything maxed
little laggy @ some parts when i pump it to 1920 x 1200
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Padio said 4:24PM on 8-28-2006
I have a nice computer and this crashes it every time.
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John Rippingale said 10:42AM on 9-01-2006
Are the flying lessons in the same format? If so, have the graphics improved?
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Grothman said 6:43PM on 10-27-2006
I bought MSFS X and and disappointed. I bought the standard version. On the box it said the gates move into position but after a lot of moving the plane back and forth without the docking happening I called tech support to find out that the gates move only on the Delux edition.
Problem II...even with a 3.4 MH machine and 2 GIGS of memory and a 512K Radeon card, the sim is a pig. Stop and go, stop and go. Very disappointed
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