Flight Simulator X

[EHM-1358 Tim]

http://www.fs2004.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7&page=1

"Microsoft Flight Simulator has been around now for over 20 years! Every time the PC has improved in its performance, its capability, its graphics ability - MSFS has really been there to take advantage of those opportunites. I've brought with me a sneak preview of the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's a really immersive environment that's being led by Windows Vista graphics and the next generation of DirectX. You can see the realism of the reflection...I'm actually going to drive...try to drive...with my XBox 360 controller plugged directly into my Windows Vista PC. You can really start to see the smoke from the boat..the independent and kind of live light that you see with the waves...with some of the birds and the trees that you'll start to see. This is the immersive environment that people expect from PC gaming with the next generation of Windows PCs...Windows Vista really starts to deliver. [flys by island in the sim] Off the west coast of Maui, it's not a bad place to be. The game developers actually have a little bit more than a year to continue working on the product, so the final product is going to be even better. But one thing's for sure, gaming is going to be awesome on Windows Vista."

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

oh my ...

That FS X looks absolutely brilliant ...

Also, it smells me that we are going to have more work this year painting new airplanes  :%  ...

Regards,

[EHM-1657 Jay]

Q: Will aircraft from FS2004 be compatible with “Flight Simulator X”?
A: Backward compatibly with existing 3rd party content is and has always been a priority for us, and we attempt to test as many add-ons as possible in order to provide the greatest level of compatibility.

That would be out of this article

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/notams06/fsx0104.htm

Enjoy

[EHM-1638 Nichlas]

Now thats exiting news, and what great screenshots. Amazing !!

I guess i will update my computer in Q4 2006 then... (hopefully)

Edit: more pictures over at Avsim
http://www.avsim.com/pages/0106/FSX/fsx_thumbs.html

[EHM-1760 Sven]

I guess i will update my computer too:]
But that will be very expensive. I am sure we need a new Windows or Linux version a new graphics card for runing MSFSx:%

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Well, looking at those amazing screenshots all I can think is:

Pan, Pan, Pan! We have an engine out due to bird strike!

[EHM-1358 Tim]

FSX will be backwards compatable with FS2004 products, and will run on WinXp, but optimised from Vista and DirectX 10.

[EHM-1798 Conrad]

wowow, im glad that i will be updating my computer shortly when i go to uni!!!!!!!

the scenery looks amazing!

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Originally posted by 1760
I guess i will update my computer too:]
But that will be very expensive. I am sure we need a new Windows or Linux version a new graphics card for runing MSFSx:%

I can't see a Linux machine being ideal as it looks like it will be the Windows Vista flagship game.... Glad they have announced XP compatibility though. I got my fingers burnt jumping in to Windows 2000 so I can't see me updating to Vista until it has been out for at least 6 months.

I suppose we should really prepare for a Q1 2007 luanch as that Christmas deadline will undoubtedly get pushed back.

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Well after a little more research there isn't much other info yet, but I think this is the most detail I could find on the Flight Simulator Insider website:

http://fsinsider.com/articles/flight_simulator_x_faq.htm

There is also a link on this site to the full speech by Bill Gates and Microsoft that announced FSX and opened the CES in Las Vegas, very interesting, especially the desktop Display he demo'd, that would be great for us Flight Sim fanatics! Take a look here: (btw, there is a long intro on this movie and it is about 1hr20m long, maybe just skip forward to the bit where bill gates comes on stage after 10 minutes or so)

http://fsinsider.com/articles/FSX_Press_Release.htm

Cheers

[EHM-1638 Nichlas]

Interesting video, the FSX demo is around the 31st minute, but pretty short

[EHM-1507 Manuel]

Originally posted by Tim
FSX will be backwards compatable with FS2004 products, and will run on WinXp, but optimised from Vista and DirectX 10.

Ok, thats quite good news, cause to replace all my payware - addons and a new version version of windows would be a little too expensive for an normal income

But is something known about the system requirements, it´ll need

[EHM-1703 Philip]

As they say it is backward compatible and will be optimised for DirectX 10, (which I guess gets released with Vista) I suppose we should be thinking that we need to be at least DirectX 9 compatible then. Hopefully it will also be optimised for dual core processors as well, but I would think that most 939 Athlons and 775 Intels would run it. (Anything EM64 or 64 bit capable)
although that is just guess work.

[EHM-1760 Sven]

Originally posted by philnutt
 I can't see me updating to Vista until it has been out for at least 6 months.
 

I think I will never update my PC to Vista;)

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Ahhh cmon, you will! I remember everybody saying that about switching from Dos to Windows and Windows 3.1 to Windows 95....... (Now I really am showing my age!)

[EHM-1760 Sven]

But Linux became very good in the last years. You can bye Microsoft software and transform it to Linux. Linux is cheaper. You get more for your money. etc.

And don't forget all the problems with Windows.

And Phil Nutt I am sixteen years old and i had Windows 3.1 Windows 95 and most the others;) obvious  I was in an age where I didn't know so much about flying or programming but I still know them.

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Hi Sven,

We can be here for years discussing the benefits of Linux over Windows or vice versa. Like most things, it's not only a cost issue. (Lets face it, if everything came down to cost then we would all be driving KIA cars and shopping at Aldi)

IMHO, I just don't see FSX performing as well on a Linux machine as a Windows Vista machine. Then again, I know as much about FSX as you and most of the rest of the world at the moment. I'm sure we will see at the end of the year.

Just as a matter of interest, if you are running FS2004 on a Linux system how does it perform compared to Windows? Are there any differences in performance? I last ran Linux back in 2002 (and it was a lot more problematic than my Windows system at the time, if I recal) so I haven't got a clue how it is today but I know if I used any sort of Windows games (using WineX) it was slower and a lot more unstable than running it under windows? I guess this must have changed if you are hapy running FS2004 on Linux.

[EHM-1760 Sven]

Hi Phil,

still I have FS2004 running on MS. Some of my friends have Linux and they find very good. I have read many good things about Linux:). But maby you are right I don't. Maby I am right. Maby we know it in some moth. I thought this would be topic about FSX so let us come back to it.

[EHM-1358 Tim]

Forget Linux! Mac's are way better, shame there over priced and nothing good runs with them!