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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 8:44:27 GMT -5
Even though I said that I never would again, when my disk drive crashed and I lost everything on my PC a few months ago, I've reinstalled FSX. I'm now running with an AMD octacore CPU that I've mildly overclocked to 4.2 GHz, with 8 GB of memory and having just upgraded to a Nvidia GTX950 graphics card, I couldn't resist reinstalling the sim. And I'm mightily (and pleasantly) surprised. I've got all of the sliders over to the right and I'm getting a steady 20 FPS (which is all I've set it for) and it's running brilliantly, like I've never had it before.
I'm now realising that all those years ago (5 is it?) we were very hard on Aces and complaining about what a rubbish program FSX was, maybe a bit too hard. I now think that part of the problem was that they developed and were running it on machines with very fast, powerful processors and we mere mortals (or most of us anyway) didn't have and couldn't afford anything like the specs that they had. But now, as always happens with PCs, we're getting bigger and bigger bangs for fewer and fewer bucks and we ordinary folk are catching up to where they were then and getting the kind of results that they were intending. It's just that it's taken a while for it to happen.
I immediately downloaded and installed the freeware Orbx North American and European sceneries which I think are superb and look and perform fantastically on my rig and now I'll have to spend a few evenings seeing what other goodies are now around that I might fancy. I've still got an awful lot to install but have lost quite a bit of stuff that I doubt I'll be able to replace, but too bad, I should have backed it up (actually, I did have a DriveImage XML backup with FSX on it but for some reason it seems to have corrupted itself and is unusable even though, annoyingly, all the folders and files are visible in it). At least it'll give me something to do with my spare time when the long winter evenings begin to draw in, eh.
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Post by beana51 on Jul 6, 2016 16:21:04 GMT -5
Just Wonderful Roger,Never has Desk top flight sim been so Gratifying as it is today ,Tho the Next Generation May be upon us ,We Still Have FSX...along with FSXSE.and for Die hards FS9..If You Have The STUFF to extract whats in the Sims, You Then Enjoy it..Large screens Flight Controls!Monitoring the FSXSE Site I see a whole new Generation Enamored with Flight Simming..Reminds me how Some of us were way back Then Interested Enthusiastic,Entertained Excited ,I see a new generation of developers,Scenery Planes..And its all Good..So Enjoy as many of us still do..And always will....STAY WELL,STAY SAFE ,STAY HAPPY My Friend!!
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Post by bhk on Jul 6, 2016 20:46:17 GMT -5
Good on you, Roger!
One of the delights of holding onto slightly older software is that the hardware required to run it at maximum becomes cheaper as time passes.
Since building this PC (about a year ago) and then upgrading the video card (late last year) I can fully enjoy things like Open Rails, TS2016, Project Cars, Silent Hunter 4 and others.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 15:13:46 GMT -5
So true Bruce, so after all the stick we gave it in the beginning, FSX just keeps on giving. I've not seen anything yet (although I've not been looking very hard) that says that the FSX graphics have been improved on in the new sim and as the aircraft and sceneries that are now available for FSX leave nothing much to be desired really, I can't see how the new one will break into the market without significantly improved graphics with greater 'realism', whatever that is. But it's not for me to say - I suppose we're not the target market now being old farts who've been around since floppy disks were the best thing since sliced bread  |
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Post by bhk on Jul 7, 2016 17:15:46 GMT -5
......- I suppose we're not the target market now being old farts who've been around since floppy disks were the best thing since sliced bread You've hit the nail firmly and correctly right on the head, Roger. That fact can be confirmed very, very easily: go to the Steam site and just browse some of the categories or, if you already have a Steam account, let it take you through your daily list of so-called "recommendations". Plenty of anime rubbish with sexual overtones, plenty of blood & gore, plenty of horror and LOTS of zombie-killing! |
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Post by beana51 on Jul 7, 2016 18:53:10 GMT -5
Old Pilots Never Die,They Just Buzz Off!.STUFF OF DREAMS !and for many It still is..I still Enjoy it.. Lynn and Bill Lyons Legacy Lives in it..I Also Enjoy FSX and FSXSE...."FLIGHT" Eluded me,..never Met a DESK TOP FLIGHT SIM I DID NOT LIKE..  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 3:28:14 GMT -5
Morning Vin, yup, I've still got mine next to my computer except mine's the boring old black plastic case version. I had it installed and working up until I lost my hard drive and I'm wondering whether it'll be worth reinstalling as if I'm going to get the most out of FSX, that'll need quite a bit of time downloading and setting everything up. Hope you're keeping well my old friend and managing to keep warding off the advances of all those rich old widow-ladies  Roger |
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Post by sgtmajor on Jul 8, 2016 7:55:52 GMT -5
Ahh..yes... I too still have all my old Flight-sim stuff. Every copy since FS3....plus a lot of other items such as the old Sub-Logic IFR & VFR Scenery disks....plus stuff from a company called Mallard, I think? Anyway...still packed away in boxes. Why I've kept all that I have no idea as much of it is on the old 5 1/4 floppies.
Cheers!
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Post by beana51 on Jul 8, 2016 8:37:57 GMT -5
HA! HA! advances of all those rich old widow-ladies Ya Say??ROGER? ..Yes the GREY AND BLUE HEADED OLD TARTS...Having Planted their spouses,and the recipients of HUGE INSURANCE CASH..They are like PREDATORS now....All PAINTED VARMINTS..Strutting around In Scanty Floridians Men's Hunting Apparel...The would wear Grass skirts and a Coconut Bra if they have too..From Old GEEZER to OLD GEEZER they go.Smiling from their PRUNE FACES..Aggressive in their Syrupy Hellos.....All the OLD GEEZERS are subject to an interrogation by them...After the Warm up They Ask The BIG QUESTION...Like this..OH YER SO HANDSOME..OH YOU WALK WELL OH YOU YOU HEAR WELL,OH YOU SEE WELL...Then The ole BAGS hit you with this...THE BIGGIE..THE MAIN QUESTION...YOUR AFFAIR depends on you answering this to the affirmative....CAN YOU DRIVE ??They slyly ask If you Say Yes? Yer a HOT GUY...but the clincher question is....CAN YA DRIVE AT NIGHT??.....If You reply in the affirmative to both of these questions????YER A MARKED MAN..THE OLD DRIED UP BAGS HAVE NOW SET their sights on you...They will assail you with flashing Eyes,String Bikinis,..Phone Calls,and FEIGNED EMERGENCY'S. HELP I FEEL DOWN AND CANNOT GET UP!..Or CAN YOU DRIVE ME TO MY GYNECOLOGIST??.THEN TO MY HAIRDRESSER....Its then YOU HAVE BECOME A DEAD MAN WALKING..For they will seduce you..AND GET YER INSURANCE CASH AND BANK ACCOUNTS ..The Only defense against these ,Seducing ,Stinking Ole Ladys,..is to NEVER LEAVE YOUR DESK TOP FLIGHT SIMM..FLY AWAY FROM THEM.Thats IS like "KryptoniteE TO THEM WITH FATAL RESULTS TO THEM They Dry up with No attention....And when Yer time Comes ROGER,and it will ,AND MOST IMPORTANT,IF YER ABLE ? "JUST SAY NO!! And say i Got my FLIGHT SIM TO KEEP ME WARM!!...CIAO MY FRIEND!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2016 9:18:41 GMT -5
Amazing! I have a 42" Panasonic digital TV and I've always known that in theory I could connect it to my PC using an HDMI connection. Well, earlier on as my FSX is sooo smooth with my new graphics card compared to what I had before, I did just that and did a short flight in my downloaded Savannah. I have to say that it was stunning and if I'd been using pedals instead of just my old Cyborg 3D Force joystick, with the enormous screen just in front of me on my desk, the scale was almost the same as the real thing. I've also found that when you download the Orbyx freeware world airports, they also generously provide you with their full scenery library which includes a massive amount of fantastic stuff, including all of their animated people, animals and objects plus tons of beautiful static aircraft and scenery objects, all of which you can load into ADE. As a result, I couldn't resist wasting a day yesterday and making my own version of one of our local airfields, LFDS Sarlat-Domme, using stock objects plus animations that passes pretty well for the real thing. I've also just downloaded Gmax as I can't find a stock building that looks anything like the Sarlat aeroclub's so intend to make my own, and if I'm not careful I'll find myself back in scenery design again  Roger |
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