FSX
Recently Justin and I have been spending a lot of time taking flights across our great nation in Flight Sim 2004. It’s been a lot of fun and a learning experience, but I believe there truely is no better simulator out there. It’s one thing Microsoft has done well. You would be surprised at just how interactive the aircraft are, especially the avionics, GPS mapping and real world feel when you turn everything on.
It gets better though..
FSX should be out by the holidays!
Heres a before/after of Hawaii.
The demo dropped just a few days ago and sadly Justin and I were a little disappointed. I realize it’s probably something they just threw together, but the overall feel wasn’t even that of FS9. I turned all the settings up and it still looked like crap (and ate my framerate for lunch too). Wantmoore found a nice video demo’ng the demo which looked 200% better than what him or I saw, but we really don’t know what we are doing wrong beyond a potential hardware handicap ( 
). If the demo was going to help me justify spending $60-80 dollars on the full game it did a poor job…
August 16th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Sad as it is, I think our graphics cards are to blame. I cranked the settings up pretty high and was able to see some AWESOME detail, but my plane was choppy choppy choppy. Terrible framerates, so I guess I need to start saving for a nice card…