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Post by beana51 on Jan 15, 2015 22:53:48 GMT -5
Well ITS FULL STEAM AHEAD..made the full transition..Was able to bring over most all I had on the Disk version..As I was in between setting up in a new Computer this came at the right time...Total new FSX..no Baggage Glitches.Anomaly's,Worts bumps itches...LOL JUST CLEAN....Thought All you should know..Been Spending lots of time on it..the FUN FACTOR very high...the JOY,and MIRACLE of DESK TOP FLIGHT SIM is alive and well....."OFF WE GO".....Thnx guys..Vin
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 6:17:31 GMT -5
What do you get that's over and above the standard FSX Acceleration Vin? I'm seeing mixed messages about Steam on the forums.
Roger
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Post by zswobbie12 on Jan 16, 2015 8:34:11 GMT -5
Mmm. Placebo effect?
Maybe one does forget that FSX is 7 years old when we first installed it on the existing PC's then. 7 years later, PC's are vastly superior to what was then available.
Still, all this raving over a 7 year old game that has been dusted off & re-released with minor mods, when there is something so much more updated/upgraded than that?
Robin
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Post by beana51 on Jan 16, 2015 10:42:44 GMT -5
One Minor note Roger I max all out..on intense Scenery Like OLD RHINEBECK for example .So that may be true..I have to back up settings a bit..However almost imperceptible..but for General All Around flying?? no problems on my end..Like I have been loading it up with years of STUFF...Until a REAl next generation Sim comes Along?..It still does the job...we Remember FS9 and all the HALLABAHOO about that...Some still have and use it..I did just till recently...All got wiped out with new Computer.....All will have different Observations and thats good...But if one is OK with it?? then its OK?...STAY WELL,STAY SAFE STAY HAPPY My friend...
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Post by beana51 on Jan 16, 2015 10:53:17 GMT -5
Hi Robin..Thats true..but after years of updating and improving..the FSX for most of today in no way resembles the Box we first got,as surly as it was with FS9..It has evolved For Many into an entirely different thing..Evolution by Great Artists Made it that way....Hard to discard fine works...The great Ones Like a Bill Lyons and many others,will continue to create, change innovate.....So have fun....Vin
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Post by Tom Constantine on Jan 16, 2015 13:06:18 GMT -5
If you have a fully working flight sim with all the bells & whistles, whetther it be FSX, X-Plane, P3D. Flight or whatever, you do not NEED FSX-SE. It is really that simple. You do not NEED it. Period.
It is the same game as FSX Gold (or FSX with Acceleration) No difference to the core game. And here won't be any real core changes because Dovetail are working on a next-gen sim based on the code leased from Microsoft. No release date announced (or predictable, despite some forum posts by guessers)
However, the steam version has these advantages. My FSX crashed again about 18 months ago. I was heavily involved with Flight and Train Simulator 2012 at the time and just lacked the will to reinstall it. So a few weeks ago along comes FSX-SE and since I am already on steam with several games and since FSX-SE was 4.99, I jumped in. The first and biggest advantage? I clicked install my game and went grocery shopping. When I got back I had FSX on steam. No sweating, no swearing, no sitting, no waiting. All the grotesque job of juggling 3 disks was done for me while I was at the supermarket.
Advantage 2 which I am unlikely to ever use, multi-player was fixed.
There were several minor code tweaks that made the game run smoother based on years of tweaking by the community. Nothing new really but the advantage is they came with the install and didn't need to be hunted down and tested.
There has been one update already, again with minor tweaks that make things run smoother.
Now as for the placebo effect, I sure got it when I took my first flight and got over 100 fps. But common sense says that if I had reinstalled from disk and took a test flight on the equipment I have now, I would have had the same. The Truth is out there somewhere but this I can tell you: After reinstalling my favorite aircraft and all of my Orbx scenery I am getting about 30fps. So the 100 fps didn't last.
The bottom line is this: I had no FSX. I bought FSX on steam. I have FSX. And if I mess it up by installing a piece of crap, I caan go to the steam page and click down to Verify Contents of the Game Cache and steam will repair all the damages to the game by replacing any corrupted files with the latest official files. Just like it does with Train Simulator 2015 and all the other steam games I play. And I can go to the supermarket while it does it.
So, do you need it? Do you want it? You decide. But if you are asking, the answer is probably NO.
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Post by beana51 on Jan 16, 2015 13:18:19 GMT -5
Tom ya said it all..I LOST my FSX.Could not recover for reasons that I cannot explain?..New High powered Computer.Then this came..Great timing..using my Passport Junk yard? I recovered most all...Working OK..For me..I Had An FSX and lost it Now I have an FSX again...BRING OUT THE FATTED CALF...WAS GONE NOW RETURNED..Hallelujah..LOL!
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Post by sgtmajor on Jan 16, 2015 16:28:05 GMT -5
As Vin said......You hit the nail square on the head!!!! Especially the comment about "lacking the will to reinstall" when something bad goes wrong.
Ever since FS3, I've downloaded and tried all sorts of freeware and payware stuff.........some was good.....some, not so good. It seems that every couple years or so, I'd delete or reformat the old hard drive.....then came the laborious task of rebuilding my Flightsim to get it "Just the way I want it."
I still have the CD version....however, now with FSX-SE,. when ever I wish....I just hit delete, and presto....it's gone, and I can reinstall very easily. Yes....I may have to add in aircraft/scenery....but this just makes it seem "cleaner" than the old build it up myself routine.
Cheers,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 18:53:12 GMT -5
Ah, OK, Roger to all that. By coincidence, at the same time as this thread started I'd ordered a copy of Win 7 Pro 64 bit from Ebay and it arrived today. On a 2Tb drive I split my 32 bit boot partition and installed the 64 bit OS as a dual boot set up. Have got to having FSX deluxe SP1 installed with no extras and everything has gone really smoothly (that'll do it you can bet) and I'm very happy and surprised at how it's running in the 64 bit environment compared to the 32 bit. Should have done it ages ago but the clincher was Win 7 Pro 64 bit for less than 28 euros delivered (who said I'm cheap)  I'm off to bed now as I have a visitor coming round tomorrow but I can't wait to extend the system to include Acceleration and get some add ons installed as overall it's running faster and smoother than I've ever had before. Roger |
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Post by sgtmajor on Jan 16, 2015 18:53:10 GMT -5
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Post by zswobbie12 on Jan 17, 2015 16:41:07 GMT -5
I was chatting to a matching today that has P3D. We spoke about FSX:steam. We just could not find a reason for him to go for FSX:steam. Also, different strokes again.. I'm very happy with my 2x versions of FS9.Stable for me, & MY 2nd version is Golden Wings. We cannot do that in FSX.
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