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FLX posted:I've been out of the PC gaming hardware loop for a bit. What would be a good graphics card for FSX for less than 100$ ? I currently only have a crappy nVidia Geforce 8500. For $100 an ATI 5750 most likely. Or for a little more a Geforce 450. Kashwashwa fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2010 around 21:55 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 13:00 |
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I hadn't seen the Jan 9th update on Xplane 10 posted before: http://www.x-plane.com/pg_news.html It's looking like it'll have the amount of detail I was hoping for...
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| # ¿ Jan 26, 2011 18:24 |
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SWATJester posted:We would do drunk transport ops in BF2 back in the day and in Tribes before that as well. Actually tribes boat parties I do remember enjoying...
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2011 14:36 |
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Some FSX pics. Sorry about the 'windowed' mode... Just upgraded monitors so I have three 22"ers now. The original resolution is 5040 x 1050 (1680 x 1050 on three monitors). Tinypic only allowed around 30% of that resolution so the detail doesn't quite come through. Spitfire Interior 1: http://i51.tinypic.com/63ykop.png Spitfire Interior 2: http://i51.tinypic.com/2s7dmah.png Spitfire Takeoff: http://i51.tinypic.com/2wny45k.jpg Spitfire Exterior 1: http://i53.tinypic.com/2rmnq77.png Spitfire Exterior 2: http://i53.tinypic.com/1055ruu.png Spitfire Ground: http://i53.tinypic.com/2e0uv06.png B17 Close: http://i55.tinypic.com/sdmmbo.png B17 Distance: http://i56.tinypic.com/2e0uyie.png B17 Landing 1: http://i56.tinypic.com/90r8ur.png B17 Landing 2: http://i56.tinypic.com/331qaf5.png
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2011 15:19 |
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Just run it windowed, and drag the window to the desktop size. The FOV isn't right when you do that, but there is a FOV utility I downloaded that let's you set it however you want.
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2011 15:55 |
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Lord Commissar posted:I did that, it shows black on my other monitor. I'm guessing you have your video card outputting to two monitors and not an ATI Eyefinity set up? Eyefinity makes the computer think it's actually just one large display. Your only option is to create a 'second window' undock it, and move it to the other screen.
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2011 16:29 |
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TheNotsosuperHero posted:Oh very cool. I bought that spitfire as well, it's one of the best aircraft I've ever flown after 15 years playing sims. It feels insanely good and is fairly challenging to me. I can get up in the air and fly from a to b all just fine, but when I land I always have white smoke pouring out of my aircraft which basically fucks up my engine. I'm following landing procedure to a "t," any ideas? Heh, I have the same problem. I've found that the coolant temperature gets super hot for some reason. It's a really hard balance trying to taxi the thing in time so that the engine doesn't overheat, while not keeping the throttle too low that the motor starts to stall (and spews out black smoke). I consider it a success if I manage to park it and turn the motor off with just a bit of hissing coming from the rad (a bit over 100 degrees). Obviously this is with the rad 100% open too. It really is an amazing aircraft to fly though.... the amount of detail is seriously impressive (like for instance that one side of the landing gear retracts more quickly than the other, which I've shown in one of the pictures). To be honest I find it's pretty simple compared to the P47 though.
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2011 19:23 |
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Bondematt posted:For a bunch of sim spergs you guys sure are judgemental. Precisely. I think I figured out why he was at the Starbucks though, his internet probably went down at home and he panicked. He had no idea what to do with himself being disconnected from vatsim, so he went to the nearest wi-fi to get his dirty fix. (Also he's probably a widower who's children and grand-children neglect him, and this is his only way of reaching out hoping someone will ask him about his hobby) I'd rather see this guy at the starbucks than the handicapped folks that were there with their laptop at full volume watching 'funny cad vidz' on youtube when I was there.
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| # ¿ Mar 9, 2011 15:32 |
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Well, this looks interesting. MMO combat flight sim from makers of Birds of Prey. http://www.gaijin.ru/en/games/world_of_planes/ — Real as life! For real hardcore simmers there will be a way to tune and fix your plane's engine with a «screwdriver». Now it is even more realistic than in a real life where there were technicians for that. That quote makes me wonder if it's april fools...
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2011 03:33 |
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Megadyptes posted:The FSX tutorial for VOR navigation pissed me off to no end. I always loving failed it no matter how closely I followed that tossers instructions, and to this day I still have no idea how to fly VOR. Heh, I thought I was the only one... I've sat down, determined to get through that on at least 4 or 5 separate occasions, and never did make it.
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| # ¿ Apr 6, 2011 13:09 |
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Is Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 worth $5.98? Can get it at D2D with a code for that much right now.... supposedly the PC version has some issues?
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| # ¿ Apr 8, 2011 19:51 |
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Alright, that's a pass then. I played through the last Ace Combat on the xbox 360 already - maybe I'll just do that again when I don't want to get off the couch.
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| # ¿ Apr 8, 2011 21:23 |
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Megadyptes posted:There's a sale on for Rise of Flight and its bullshit DLC model. The fact that their ultimate upgrade doesn't have the largest sale price makes no sense...
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2011 16:58 |
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Jiblet posted:I may be being stupid, but where can I get RoF for $30? It's under demo upgrades: http://riseofflight.com/en/store/demoupgrades You can actually get it for $19.99, but the $29.99 is the best value it seems as it comes with a bunch of add-on aircraft.
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2011 21:16 |
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I'll agree with what's been written - but add that you may not fully appreciate the difference UTX makes unless you spent any time in the default scenery that FSX includes. REX on the other hand adds effects that are much more obvious. My personal suggestion though, would be UTX and REX.
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| # ¿ May 4, 2011 16:23 |
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ShineDog posted:... You can. Vatsim seems to me, to be a relatively complex yet simple program/server thingy. You aren't connecting to a server in FSX like you do through the gamespy tab or whatever. You connect to a Vatsim server, that anyone with Xplane or FSX can connect to, and then Vatsim tells your simulator of choice essentially what is in the sky and where it is. I'd love to get in on a newbie tutorial like you guys held recently... I'm buying a house right now though so am more than a bit busy 
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| # ¿ May 19, 2011 13:21 |
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There are new pictures of Microsoft Flight up on their website: http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/ The density of buildings and trees looks pretty good... I'm curious to see how it looks in motion.
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| # ¿ May 31, 2011 16:33 |
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Martytoof posted:Wrong. Looks pretty good, but to me, this was the absolute pinnacle of flying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EtR79G99Y I think that was maybe the 3rd game my dad bought me. The first was Frantic Freddy.
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2011 13:56 |
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I think most people thought the announcement for this game was an april fools joke when it was initially made, but looks like it's a real thing: http://www.worldofplanesgame.com/
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2011 01:00 |
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I flew a Cessna 172 IRL last week, and have two things to say. One, I desperately want to get my flying license. Two, flight sims nowhere near simulate the amount of air turbulence experienced on small aircraft, and the amount of constant movement required to keep the aircraft level. I think it was an especially windy day, but the Cessna was almost constantly sliding sideways, and we hit a few pretty good up-winds. I'll have to try simulating air turbulance about 10x what I normally do in FSX and see if it comes close. Kashwashwa fucked around with this message at Jul 11, 2011 around 18:40 |
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Methodis posted:Is Flight Simulator X just a badly optimized game or something? I have a computer that can far outrun it, so I maxed everything out but sometimes it gets some frame skips. The can of worms you just opened and is blasting into your face is greater than you can possibly imagine. Edit: This should help you get started with the optimizing aspect: http://www.simforums.com/forums/set...topic29041.html
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| # ¿ Jul 26, 2011 18:39 |
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SwimNurd posted:FSX is built on a lot of legacy code. You get better performance if you have a high clockspeed over multiple cores. The sandybridge stuff helps a lot with this. This website takes a lot of the tweaking and automates it for you. http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html I totally forgot about that little tool... I'm pretty sure that's all I use now - so much quicker and easier.
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| # ¿ Jul 26, 2011 18:58 |
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Dominoes posted:Few issues with binding controls in FSX. I'm guessing these aren't possible; prove me wrong. I know for sure I have speed-brakes bound to a button on my joystick that toggles it on and off. Not sure about the others though.
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| # ¿ Aug 18, 2011 20:41 |
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:You could be the gunner online in Aces High. You or a friend flies the bomber up to altitude, turn on the autopilot, and switch to the gunner seats and go to town. Plus you get the advantage of controlling the same turret for 3 planes. Actually this would have to be my recommendation as well... Aces High is great - bombing actually matters and is satisfying.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 14:40 |
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This is a huge surprise to me... I always thought it would be a long time till it saw a release. It looks and sounds absolutely amazing.
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| # ¿ Nov 24, 2011 16:51 |
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Obeast posted:I feel like a minority who never had any major problems with GFWL. You and me alone apparently. Edit: Hmph, new page. Maybe it's a case of 'loud minority'.
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 16:27 |
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Essobie posted:It's on my wishlist. I'll trade you some coupons and coal for it! Ditto!
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2011 14:13 |
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Xerxes17 posted:Coupons for what and how many coals..? I have a pristine 50% off "nail'd" coupon - a game for the true racing sim collector. As well 25% off anything activision, and some other lame coupon like 50% off audiosurf I think. 14 coals. sigh
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2011 16:07 |
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Has anyone else been invited to fly the Microsoft Flight beta? I got an invite and just gave it a go... it's obviously not going to be what the Vatsimmers are looking for, but honestly, it's great for me. Flight model feels as good or better than FSX, it looks really good and has a much better framerate than FSX. The lighting and shadows in particular are really nice. It feels rock solid, as in you can pause it at any time, go into settings, tweak video, control, sound or whatever, unpause and it doesn't hiccup. And it's extremely quick to get into and out of. I'm not sure what the max 'quick match' multiplayer room size is, but the one I joined had 7 people out of 16. It seemed quick and flawless, like joining a battlefield match. I was going to say I could grab a fraps video, but I guess that's against the NDA.
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2012 04:12 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:This video told me all I needed to know about not giving Flight another look. And by doing that you're judging it strictly on the introduction flight that is geared towards people who've never flown a flight sim. The sim definitely has a number of strengths - some of the weather effects are absolutely amazing, and combined with it's solid flight model make for really interesting flying that isn't experienced elsewhere.
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| # ¿ Feb 29, 2012 15:48 |
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ghableska posted:What sort of weather effect improvements does it have over FSX? I'm not sure what exactly the differences are. I just know that it looks a hell of a lot more realistic. I thought I had a bunch of screenshots from the beta, but this is the only one I could find. http://i.imgur.com/PwKuX.jpg The density of the clouds along with way more varied types of clouds look really impressive. Even more so during thunder storms. The lighting model makes everything look way more realistic in motion as well.
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| # ¿ Mar 1, 2012 03:14 |
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Has anyone given Outerra a try? http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=637.0 I've only tried the demo which allows you to drive around the world. I guess to be able to fly you buy it. Apparently it uses some open source flight dynamics model called JSBSim. The graphics engine is extremely impressive if nothing else.
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| # ¿ Mar 2, 2012 14:22 |
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Enrico Dandolo posted:Because it's basically a sequel with about 95% of the content of the previous game axed out and moved to a different profit model. That being said, I think Flight is fine, but it doesn't support all the stuff that flight geeks like, and yet they price their DLC at a level only flight geeks would pay for. Fix that contradiction and there's not much to complain about, except a generally sparse amount of content at the moment. This I can definitely agree with. There's a pretty big contradiction in their content to pricing scheme. I'd love to try the DLC, but there's no way it's worth what they're asking.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 14:47 |
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Bargearse posted:If the next scenery areas are Alaska or outback Australia, I'd definitely get those. Coincidentally, this was just announced: “Microsoft Flight” (Microsoft Studios) – Available to download for free at http://www.microsoftflight.com “Microsoft Flight” is a new Windows PC game that lets players jump into the thrill of flight with no special hardware or past experience. This Spring, fans will be able to purchase the Journey to Alaska Pack, the second in a series of expansion packs for the game with over 1.2 million square miles of captivating scenery, additional missions and new aircraft.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 15:37 |
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:Ok so it's pretty clear from this thread that Flight is very lazily done and overpriced and I'm uninstalling it now. I am still feeling the sim itch thought- what's the best one these days in terms of lots of content and planes and (hopefully) the ability to fly somewhere besides loving Hawaii? The decisions that were made in production of Flight have made a number of people unhappy. But the one thing that I think everyone can agree is that it is absolutely not lazily done. Where are you getting that idea?
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| # ¿ Mar 9, 2012 19:06 |
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SwimNurd posted:Now to the rest of you talking about flight, take it to another thread or read the last 30 or so pages. Every time someone mentions flight we go on a 10 page derail. You're seriously saying we can't talk about a flight sim in the flight sim thread? If someone is abusing the forum by poo poo posting or starting online battles needlessly I think they should probated / banned or whatever. But I appreciate finding out when DLC is released, and reading comments on opinions that people have of actual DLC.
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| # ¿ Apr 4, 2012 16:23 |
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Colonial Air Force posted:He didn't say you can't talk about Flight (although we shouldn't), he's saying DancingBear is doing nothing in this thread except hawking his wares. He addressed dancingbear, and then everyone else. He did say we can't talk about Flight, which is the part I initially quoted. It just seems to me that a number of people are being hyper-sensitive and childish because they feel like Microsoft sold out (is that an oxymoron?). In the end, everyone is playing games on their computers. I think the OP of the thread that was written by Kilonum puts it well: quote:"Here we talk about flight simulators of all kinds, associated hardware, and other things associated with flying."
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| # ¿ Apr 4, 2012 18:20 |
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Pharnakes posted:Also given that all anyone does is either bitch about flight or bitch about flight being bitched about I think its safe to say nobody actualy has anything meaningful or constructive to say about it. Probably because nobody is playing it. This is completely false. On the previous page: 1. Bargearse posted that MS Flight is getting TrackIR support. 2. Hadlock posted news that that MS Flight is now on Steam. 3. DancingMachine posted update notes (HE WORKS FOR MS, HE MUST BE TRYING TO BRAINWASH US). 4. Sankis posted his opinions of Flight after giving it a go. This thread only got derailed once again when Swimnurd said we can't talk about Flight. I'm playing Flight. I also play Black Shark, IL-2 and FSX.
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| # ¿ Apr 4, 2012 19:01 |
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Switched.on posted:I haven't really played a flight simulator in over 10 years, but I'm very curious to see what it's all about. Can someone recommend something that might be a good entry point for a beginner? I have alot of experience operating alot of similiar systems in real life, so something that scales in sim-difficulty might be nice so I can ramp it up. I actually would recommend Blackshark even if you're a beginner... it is the most realistic helicopter sim, but they've actually put in 'game' flight model and avionics that can be turned off and on. That's what I did initially. I left the real flight model on, and turned on game avionics, because I wanted to be able to hit a button, lock on to a tank and fire a missile. I couldn't be bothered to do the real procedure. It's a really easy way to get into it. Once you're somewhat comfortable turn off the 'game' modes.
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Forums Terrorist posted:So because I hate life and myself I reinstalled FSX. What are the hot must-have mods nowadays? The original post on this is old as balls and try-hard as hell. The post about about FSX on the first page of this thread is still pretty much spot on. As far as add-on aircraft, just search for an aircraft you are interested in, and look for reviews / opinions of it to see if it's worth buying. Personally, I'm a huge fan of A2A aircraft. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...1#post385087670
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