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    Flight sim

    Anyone seen the new Microsoft Flight sim? When is it coming out?

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    It does look amazing. Dread to think about the system specs though.

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    The System Specs possibly ain't as high as you think. I mean, when you look at some of the amazing games now they say something like Pentium 1.6ghz, which Ain't really a lot when you add it up with what's being sold now, and what they'll be selling with Vista.
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    Well yeah - the system specs of vista scare me too

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    Says the one who's got a 3800 x2 and 2gb of ram

    As I said, I bet it'll not need more than about a 2ghz processor, which means mine would be fine apart from the Graphics Card.
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    Looks nice. But as it doesn't run on Linux I'm going to have to stick to X-Plane (have to get myself the Global Scenery DVD set).

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    Looking nice, love how they have TC's chopper out of Magnum in it...



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    System specs

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel
    It does look amazing. Dread to think about the system specs though.
    I think the main thing is going to be your graphics card. If you think of the advances in graphics hardware in the 3 years or so since they started fs2004 development, they should be able to shift a lot of the processing to the graphics card where previously it may have to have been done using the main processor.

    As an example, I can run Half Life at 1440 x 900 on my laptop (with GTX 7800 video card) at round 70fps, smooth as silk. With fs2004, everything maxed out, I limit the fps to around 30 and there are still problems (mostly due to the way sound files are read in real time, causing a slight stutter). I think what we'll find (only guessing!) is that the eye candy won't be tremendously different to fs2004 with add-ons (i.e. weather etc), but, hopefully, it will be a LOT more fluid, in the way XPlane is.

    We shall see

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    Quote Originally Posted by hitman67
    Says the one who's got a 3800 x2 and 2gb of ram
    Doesn't mean it doesn't scare me still - I like to have room left over to actually get some work done!

    Quote Originally Posted by psionmark
    I think the main thing is going to be your graphics card. If you think of the advances in graphics hardware in the 3 years or so since they started fs2004 development, they should be able to shift a lot of the processing to the graphics card where previously it may have to have been done using the main processor.
    I certainly hope you're right I still play FS2000 pro occasionally, but it does seem to tax computers in odd ways. Don't know if we'll ever be able to have 'world accurate' scenary textures *and* fluid performance.

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    Be interesting to see what the final product is like.

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