Anyone seen the new Microsoft Flight sim? When is it coming out?
Anyone seen the new Microsoft Flight sim? When is it coming out?
It does look amazing. Dread to think about the system specs though.
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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Correct apart from the working partOriginally Posted by XTR
Well yeah - the system specs of vista scare me too![]()
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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Correct apart from the working partOriginally Posted by XTR
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).
Looking nice, love how they have TC's chopper out of Magnum in it...
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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.Originally Posted by kalniel
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
Cheers,
Mark (www.flightsimx.co.uk)
Doesn't mean it doesn't scare me still - I like to have room left over to actually get some work done!Originally Posted by hitman67
I certainly hope you're rightOriginally Posted by psionmark
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.
Be interesting to see what the final product is like.
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