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The great Microsoft FSX swindle!!!!
EHM-1505 Phil:
Don't get me wrong, I love FSX. It's great in my opinion..... I have sorted out my performance issues and the Glider is just amazing!
As for the activation issue.... Yes, I can call MS at Premium Rates, so they still make money.... The more that call, the more they make, I am sure they wont get bored of that! (I am hanging on the phone line as we speak)
By the way, after trawling many forums and reading about this, I have found that MOST new Microsoft software will use this type of activation system. (Including Vista)
EHM-1328 Willem:
In Mei 2006, in one day the stock value from microsoft going down with 11%, that’s 31,6 milliard dollars, the good times are even for microfost over, and I stated it before with clever marketing they trying to sell FSX and other software , (witch isn’t so good as they claimed) to gain a lot off money. (Think global like Microsoft does).
FSX, you must run it on fast PC , an even then its load times are long, graphics look good, but the fps will drop you down, and most users adjusting the graphics to get resemble fps.
Basically all the menus are the same structure as in FS9 so nothing new, new is ATC and game online.
If you will go for nice graphics and low fps buy it, but I think most off us will go for performance.
And if you have add-ons for FS9 you must buy everything new, because nothing will work in FSX. I.e.: FCUIPC 4.0 with WideSF € 36,= later on FSnav, with similar prices, and than I don’t talk about all the plains.
Even Propilot must be rewritten, for the programmers this will not be a big problem I assume)
So think before you buy.
On my system:
Intel Core-2 Dual 6700, and 1Gb-ddr2-6400 Ram (over clocked to 3,06)
X1800 with 256Mb,
2 hard drives 200/250 GB (1e WinXP the 2e FS9 and LINUX with X-PLANE).
Even on this system with al lot off the known FSX tweaks it’s a disaster, and not worth the money. also on Vista but I don’t see any difference., I removed Vista because its to depending to much on hardware and its for home user totally useless. (Only the look is good and startup goes faster).
The prices for FSX are after 10 days decreasing (today a see it for € 55,-).
And about the activation policy from Microsoft, if you need a key don’t say you have a new motherboard because you don’t get a new key. There are a lot off ways to overcome this key activation.
Phil I agree with you:
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it's criminal in my opinion!
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Regards EHM-1328 Willem.
EHM-1505 Phil:
Well just to update you. After 1 hour on the phone at my expense, they seem to think there is an error in my registry but they can not confirm this yet. (as I am getting the wrong error!) I am expecting a call back from someone in Gaming Technical Support in the next 72 hours!!!! Good job I am not in rush!!!!
EHM-1980 Brian:
thats what all these large corporations are about phil - once you buy their product they dont want to know anything else after that! ...... 72 hours is a ridiculous time to make a phonecall to someone regarding a problem with a product they have provided which is inadequate to you ( the consumer ) - i myself would not accept this whatsoever and would take it much further! Whats the bets that you wont get a phonecall and it will be you making another call to them.....again at your expense!!!! :!
EHM-1821 Javier:
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3: On finals, it got down to 2 frame rates per minute!
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With autogen off and traffic low, Airport terminal with tower and jetways only...:!
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