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Flight Simulator X Dissapointing
Mattace64:
I just wanted to see what others had to say. I'd like to think I have a decent amount of experience with flight simulator, I've been using it since you had to use DOS to run it anyways. I just bought a new computer, 2GHz with 2MB ram, so I thought I'd upgrade from Century of Flight (which I loved) to FSX, and man, what a let down!
Seems good looking from the previews, but just doesn't work that good. So far here's what I've noticed:
1. Spot plane view corrupted (wings seems bent).
2. Night flying (spot or tower views) every thing is black, you can't see the airplane even with the lights on.
3. Sound is drastically unbalanced when cycling through views (not in your favor, louder views are louder).
4. Sound generally gets corrupted (I'll be flying a jet and all of sudden I'll hear a prop). I've even had it to where the prop was sounding even after I quit flight simulator.
5. When starting a flight, the airplane will load up moving forward, often crashing into things before I have the chance to hit the brake.
Has anyone else experienced these issues? When I get home tonight, I planning on reinstalling Century of Flight since I find it more enjoyable. Does anyone have any suggestions, comments or questions?
derschulz:
dear Mattace64,
well - quiet interesting problems - most of us were bitching about framerates
ad 1 - is ok on my System, maybe something with the zoom factor
ad 2 - you definitly miss a thing, try different gracard settings (for the first time it is easy possible to save and recall display configurations within the running FSX)
ad 3 - again no issue on my system (what do U mean by "louder views"?)
ad 4 - never expierenced that
ad 5 - establish a situation on ground with parking brakes set and throttle idle or even better: cold & dark
save this as a new default standart
Mattace64:
haha... yea the frame rates do suck.
Do you have any details you could share about the graphics card settings?
By louder views I mean that generally the spot view sound is louder than the cockpit, so when I cycle between cockpit and spot view there is a drastic change in volume.
Thanks for the response.
Also... just a general addition to this rant, is there any feedback that anyone can share about the service packs? I know I tried service pack 1 last night, only to find that it did not seem to help any. I just noticed service pack 2 this morning. Is it new? Has anyone tried it?
derschulz:
I would suggest SP1 as a "must" anyway, SP2 brings DirectX 10 (only with Vista) to life and could improve framerates (there was a change for good with SP1 on my System)
I didn´t install SP2 because some older ACs and sceneries do have problems and I stick to XP.
It would be disappointing for me if the roaring sound of a GE or RR engine on the outside produces the same level as the outer marker sound on the flightdeck - you hear this difference on all past versions of MS FS...
there are a bunch of things to improve framerates, i will share some links when i am on my "flightdeck"
fael097:
you are saying pointless stuff
is FSX disappointing? yes, but it's still better than fs2004, wich most of the people only play because their computers cant run fsx with a good frame rate.
btw, 2ghz means nothing, if you have a pentium 4 with 2ghz you just wont play fsx, if its a core 2 quad with 2ghz, thats a whole different thing
get sp1 and acceleration and most of your problems will get fixed
fsx is really disappointing, but none of your problems is the reason for that
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