Free Microsoft flight simulator X demo download! [Archive]

orionlion82

08-12-06, 07:04 PM

Yeahhhh! finally...

awww, crap.
my X45 is more than a thousand miles away, and ... i can solve that with a trip to wallmart. they must have a joystick or two out there for cheap...

it seems to me that the parelells between FS9 and XP - and Vista and FSX are the whole thing about more eye candy...

meanwhile, my download wont finish till 1:00am...
horray for demos!

Vipersfate

08-12-06, 07:43 PM

Thanks for that information, I'll use my xbox controller!

hafa

08-12-06, 08:06 PM

Meh...

Downloaded it, installed it, ran it.. other than the improved cockpit interface (which is nice, BTW) I didn't notice all that much improvement over FS2004.

Scenery is still blocky and lacks detail, airplane details show incremental improvement and the views were better in FS2004. Resource consumption is way up and the UI changes don't really improve the experience all that much.

The demo certainly didn't inspire me to "upgrade" from FS2004; let's see if they do a bit better in the beta versions...

Arca_ex

08-12-06, 09:22 PM

Umm, is there anywhere better to download it?

I'm getting 280KB/sec when my connection is 760KB/sec...

d94

08-12-06, 09:34 PM

Umm, is there anywhere better to download it?

I'm getting 280KB/sec when my connection is 760KB/sec...
im gettin 230k =/

BTW, anyone know how i could get my 360 controller to work wit my puter? :D

Arca_ex

08-12-06, 10:29 PM

Umm, that was horrible.

Maybe the final version will be a multi threaded application, because I was using 100% CPU on CPU #1 out of four logical CPU's, 10 FPS is a horrible expierience.

orionlion82

08-12-06, 10:43 PM

wow.
im kinda glad that i lost the download.

i was getting 30kb on a 256...
and crashed a few times.
i could only imagine my framerate with this hardware... (at stock this evening because something is dying)

Derek8819

08-12-06, 11:42 PM

Yeah they definetly will need multi cpu support!

kyleboy77

08-13-06, 11:38 AM

im gettin 230k =/

BTW, anyone know how i could get my 360 controller to work wit my puter? :D

If its a corded controller it should just plug in... with maybe some drivers for it. But if its wireless i think you are out of luck at this poit, I dont think microsoft has released the wireless pc adapeter yet.

Arca_ex

08-13-06, 07:41 PM

i just still can't believe the demo is multi threaded, I've been dying for a flight sim game.

So is the one thats out now (FS2004) a multi threaded application? if it's not there is no way I will be able to play it lol. Pent EE 965=4 threads :D

deathman20

08-13-06, 08:58 PM

I don't know what you guys where talking about my CPU's was maxed and was getting 26FPS. But the graphics where finicy and crapped out just shortly after. I then procedded to uninstall it.

Arca_ex

08-13-06, 09:57 PM

Well with my CPU, I have four threads, two cores with hyperthreading=4 right. Since it's not multithreaded it uses 100% of logical core #1 out of 4. So basically my 965 at 4 GHz was being used 25% and I was getting 11 FPS max on low to medium settings.

NsOmNiA91130

08-14-06, 06:15 PM

Amazing, considering my system got 30+ with medium settings at 1024x768.

kwongnewman

08-14-06, 06:32 PM

The graphics are decent if you turn everything up. I'm running 1280*1024 w/ everything max and it feels smooth for me.
I hope the full game will be less of a resource hog though...

FastRedPonyCar

08-15-06, 08:53 PM

I maxed all the graphics out just to see what it looks like and it looks NOTHING like the screen shots. The water looks ok but the terrain looks like as low res textures as you can use and the buildings look like they just dropped a lot of those little monopoly houses on the terrain.

Does it automatically just drop detail level to maintain a certain framerate? Or was that as good as it gets? Cause I was looking at N64 quality graphics.

BTW, I flew for like 29 minutes approaching the island landing only for this. What a waste of time. Note the ultra realistic grass and crash debris.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/fastredponycar/Games/missionfailed.jpg

sephiroth_749

08-15-06, 09:23 PM

first time i ever played a game like this. The overall experice was pretty good.

NsOmNiA91130

08-15-06, 11:51 PM

I maxed all the graphics out just to see what it looks like and it looks NOTHING like the screen shots. The water looks ok but the terrain looks like as low res textures as you can use and the buildings look like they just dropped a lot of those little monopoly houses on the terrain.

Does it automatically just drop detail level to maintain a certain framerate? Or was that as good as it gets? Cause I was looking at N64 quality graphics.

BTW, I flew for like 29 minutes approaching the island landing only for this. What a waste of time. Note the ultra realistic grass and crash debris.

Well, no duh. It's a friggin' demo. And, it's on DX9. This game was designed for DX10, and then they went "Oh, gee, let's make this DX9 too". Is it gonna look like the DX10 screenshots? Hell no. Plus, why the hell is everyone getting such crap performance? I run medium-high at 20-35 FPS. With bloom.

ShadowPho

08-16-06, 10:08 AM

Well, no duh. It's a friggin' demo. And, it's on DX9. This game was designed for DX10, and then they went "Oh, gee, let's make this DX9 too". Is it gonna look like the DX10 screenshots? Hell no. Plus, why the hell is everyone getting such crap performance? I run medium-high at 20-35 FPS. With bloom.
Mine will be done in 8 minutes @ 800KB. Then I will see how the performance is.
BTW- Are you running this game on Linux? If so, HOW??? I always wanted to run Linux on my main rig, but I still wanted to play all the games!

ShadowPho

08-16-06, 12:03 PM

it needs SP2.......I guess I wont be playing this as I still have SP1.

deathman20

08-16-06, 02:34 PM

And why not upgrade to SP2?

ShadowPho

08-16-06, 09:10 PM

And why not upgrade to SP2?

Because it works! :D Why upgrade when it works perfectly fine already? :beer:

Once before I installed SP2, and I had to reinstall my Windows in 3 months.

FrEaK44

08-16-06, 09:31 PM

my x600 can't handle it very well and i couldn't figure out how to control the plane or was i just that i could detect the movement cause of the lag from the video card

Yuriman

08-16-06, 11:03 PM

Because it works! :D Why upgrade when it works perfectly fine already? :beer:

Once before I installed SP2, and I had to reinstall my Windows in 3 months.

Well apparently it doesn't work perfectly fine, you can't play the game! :D

I used to be biased against SP2 as well... but its all in the 3rd party software. I'm setting a new record, at over 6 months on my current installation, and it still feels like a fresh install.

deathman20

08-17-06, 07:24 AM

In the beginning people had issues with SP2... I never experianced anything wrong with it. I'm currently on month 10 of this install and plan on going to very late this year or early next year.

ShadowPho

08-17-06, 11:26 AM

I am not that desperate to download, install ,configure, disable stuff just to play a demo of a game.
although the plane looks cool :D

WejRepus

08-17-06, 12:09 PM

that demo was about as much fun as the dentist:
the tools look all cool, but the second they get used on you it sucks hard

ShadowPho

08-28-06, 07:36 PM

Ok, I reinstalled my WinOS recently, and this time I got WinXP SP2, so time to try it Out :D

orionlion82

08-28-06, 08:44 PM

[QUOTE=FastRedPonyCar]I maxed all the graphics out just to see what it looks like and it looks NOTHING like the screen shots. The water looks ok but the terrain looks like as low res textures as you can use and the buildings look like they just dropped a lot of those little monopoly houses on the terrain.

Does it automatically just drop detail level to maintain a certain framerate? Or was that as good as it gets? Cause I was looking at N64 quality graphics.

BTW, I flew for like 29 minutes approaching the island landing only for this. What a waste of time. Note the ultra realistic grass and crash debris. (quote/)

note your gear up, flaps in spoilers not ... ohhh it dosnt even matter ... ehhh... total failure to execute a go around, or even make in on the runway.
i done have the rig for flightsimming anymore, or even the software,- im just a has-been... but heres how its done - from back in the day.
http://www.oc-rev.com/forums//showpost.php?p=3712&postcount=34

i want to see how this does on DX10 - pure and simple.
maybe someday ill get back into it, but the real world experience compared to the hype has me doubtful.

hafa

08-29-06, 03:11 AM

Ok, I reinstalled my WinOS recently, and this time I got WinXP SP2, so time to try it Out :D

I ran it on a fresh Vista install and was thoroughly underwhelmed...FS2004 is vastly superior...

Abominable1

08-29-06, 09:23 AM

I ran it on a fresh Vista install and was thoroughly underwhelmed...FS2004 is vastly superior...

I ran it on a fresh Vista install as well and found the performance of both the OS and game to be extremely unacceptable. The game is a resource hog, know that! It Gobbled up 650 megs of my ram and crippled Vista to 95% non responsiveness when trying to access the task manager to end the process. It took about one minute to end the process from the second I hit Crtl Alt Del.

The graphics of FS have aslo taken a turn for the worse as they look like they are from the MTM era which was from around 1999. Just totally dissapointed in this.

ShadowPho

08-29-06, 10:51 AM

umm... is it a joke?
They must be joking. So far the game crashed 6 TIMES ON ME. Also, what graphics? The ground is green. Clouds are white. Plane has one part and two wings.

?
Am I missing the point?

soulrider4ever

08-29-06, 11:03 AM

Thanks for that information, I'll use my xbox controller!

Springbok

08-30-06, 12:50 AM

When it started up the trainer level the graphics were set to 640x480 and poisoned my eyes, then it crashed. Uninstall ftw.

deathman20

08-31-06, 05:08 PM

Well lets see how the Beta looks, just got my download information for it. Its 8.4gig download!!! So we'll see how this compares to the demo. Going to take a while though, about 1 hour 40min per 2gig chunk.

orionlion82

08-31-06, 06:56 PM

Rozal

08-31-06, 07:22 PM

Keep in mind that It is a beta and is designed more so for Direct X 10

deathman20

08-31-06, 09:03 PM

Well all I can say is its gotta be better then that crappy demo they put out.

I know its designed for DX10 which more ore less amazes me they still put out a beta for it.

bobthemoo

08-31-06, 09:05 PM

downloading now.......and the screensaver :D

deathman20

09-01-06, 07:43 AM

Well its installing now just finished downloading it (missed a download over night). Anyways its a 15gig install and now going to run off to work. So I'll report back when I get home and get a chance to play with it.

deathman20

09-01-06, 07:04 PM

Well only took an hour to install if not mistaken.
13.6Gigs... 1,563 Folders and 42,420 Files later...

Well keeping an open mind thinking it should be fore DX10. At 1024x768 with low/medium settings I'm lucky if I even held 20FPS. I was mainly at 14-15FPS. But oine thing is for sure it utilizes Dual Core. I was pegged at 98-99%.

It takes forever and a day to load, uses a load of HDD space, actually I think its competing for Vista OS on size lol. Mix results I'd say currently but I'll play with it over the weekend. Right now my impression, it works better then that crappy demo they put out but its still not great by any means. Last FS I played was a few years ago and heck those ran very nicely even on crappy computers.

SolidxSnake

09-01-06, 07:14 PM

i only ever liked USNF '97 and USAF for flight sims..

i think USAF had better GFX than the screenies i'm seeing of flight sim X...

dfonda

09-02-06, 04:24 PM

deathman20

09-02-06, 04:27 PM

I am hoping the small airports near my house will be well represented. How great would it be to land in your own backyard.
I have always wanted to learn how to fly. Plus its a great excuse to get more WS's. lol

Well, name a city and I'll see if its on the list. I know our small town has an airport and its listed. Actually its listed as an International Airport.