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Title: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: TheZohan on October 21, 2009, 07:05:32 PM: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/117130

maybe they could work for Hitech!
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Spikes on October 21, 2009, 07:07:32 PM: Yeah this is kind of old news, really sucks...FSX will be the last :/
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: saantana on October 21, 2009, 07:24:39 PM: I'm sad about the news, that was my first taste of a flight sim ever on my friends old computer back in the middle east.
We would spent hours playing that thing, most fun was controlling the helicopter with a keyboard flying in the city.

Good times :cheers:
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Chalenge on October 21, 2009, 08:46:38 PM: It will re-emerge later... bet you on that! :old:
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: OOZ662 on October 22, 2009, 02:35:42 AM: Or someone will fill the gap, like Cities XL did after SimCity became a child's toy.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Have on October 22, 2009, 03:27:03 AM: They have started a new company of their own: http://www.cascadegamefoundry.com/ (http://www.cascadegamefoundry.com/)
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Harp00n on October 22, 2009, 05:54:22 AM: Quote from: OOZ662 on October 22, 2009, 02:35:42 AM
Or someone will fill the gap, like Cities XL did after SimCity became a child's toy.

CitiesXL?? They charge money for every little addon that should have been already in the salesversion! :furious

Imagine a popup-window in AcesHigh that will ask for 5 $ everytime you download a new skin...
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Anaxogoras on October 22, 2009, 06:14:19 AM: I learned flight sims with the black-and-white version of MSFS on a 512k macintosh. It's too bad others will be denied the pleasure.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: jay on October 22, 2009, 06:45:29 AM: im kinda glad they got ride of flight sim there newest version had bad graphics and way more controls confusion then AH
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Saxman on October 22, 2009, 07:56:38 AM: Quote from: Harp00n on October 22, 2009, 05:54:22 AM
CitiesXL?? They charge money for every little addon that should have been already in the salesversion! :furious

Must be following Rise of Flight's business model....
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: OOZ662 on October 22, 2009, 07:59:12 AM: I have no money whatsoever, so I haven't been able to try CitiesXL at all.

Didn't say they replaced it well... :D ...but they filled the gap of "City Simulator" when SimCity became PlopBuildingsOnGrass.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: trigger2 on October 22, 2009, 08:50:31 AM: Quote from: jay on October 22, 2009, 06:45:29 AM
im kinda glad they got ride of flight sim there newest version had bad graphics and way more controls confusion then AH

Not at all, the control surfaces, at least IMO, were quite close to the actual aircraft (other than actually having to change your mixture, and all the auto crud). Just gotta learn your controls, what they do, and how to do it. ;) Hardest thing for me to do in FSX was figure out how to control my ILS equipment in this beast... ;)

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m56/alecksismeboo/2009-5-30_20-38-33-51.jpg)
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m56/alecksismeboo/2009-5-30_20-35-1-529.jpg)
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: sluggish on October 22, 2009, 01:03:48 PM: Quote from: Harp00n on October 22, 2009, 05:54:22 AM
CitiesXL?? They charge money for every little addon that should have been already in the salesversion! :furious

Imagine a popup-window in AcesHigh that will ask for 5 $ everytime you download a new skin...
DUDE!! Don't give them any ideas...
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Yossarian on October 22, 2009, 01:16:49 PM: Quote from: jay on October 22, 2009, 06:45:29 AM
im kinda glad they got ride of flight sim there newest version had bad graphics and way more controls confusion then AH

If you've got a good computer, FSX has amazing graphics!
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Spikes on October 22, 2009, 02:41:37 PM: Quote from: Yossarian on October 22, 2009, 01:16:49 PM
If you've got a good computer, FSX has amazing graphics!
My old dual core can't play it, partially the reason why I'm building a quad core and some kick arse components to boot.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: flight17 on October 22, 2009, 03:02:41 PM: it probably could spikes...

there is a quirk in FSX that for some reason even with a dual core, it will only run with 1. to fix it you have to manually go in and fix the main FSX.cfg. there was a whole page on one site that had everything you needed to know on how to get the performance up without buying new stuff. i really wish i could find it again, because i really want to fix it.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Chalenge on October 22, 2009, 05:05:41 PM: Flight17 I believe the fix was in SP2 or Acceleration and that should be all you need. Check the post by NickN on tuning (not that I listen to everything on that topic) as I believe he says so. As I recall SP2/Acceleration can feasibly use up to 32 cores but it may not have been quite that much (and not that that many cores will ever actually exist).

I have no idea what jay was trying to say but whatever it was failed to hit the mark.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: flight17 on October 22, 2009, 06:33:27 PM: SP2 was the worst thing i ever did for my game... it crippled me... had to uninstall the whole game a couple of times because of it.
Title: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator CUT!
Post by: Chalenge on October 22, 2009, 11:43:23 PM: Yes well some of the associated files are required for the winch program I use with sailplanes (I practice broken cables a lot) so even though I use Acceleration I have to install SP2 and then uninstall it and then install Acceleration. Until I started using True Image it would cost me a week of program tuning to get FSX setup and working right should the program get broken somehow.