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I bought this as an upgrade to my beloved FS9, but it exceeds that version of FS in almost every regard. The only issue I had (still have) is that Acceleration cannot be activated - and all this fixes for this common problem do not seem to work for me. But FSX works just fine without it, aside from the inability to use certain third-party aircraft designed to work with Acceleration. The Acceleration issue is the only reason I don't give this program five stars.
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FSX needs a fast CPU, it's a 32bit program (old) and it won't allow full use of CPUs cores and high RAM. Graphics are decent. For better graphics, don't waste time and money with free add ons. Just get ORBX global and ORBX Vector and you'll be set with a new better looking simulator. A 5i or higher will do decent, but will never allow highest settings without serious FPS drop. ORBX has much better landclass, better scenery buildings, trees, etc. Accelerator version needs better computer hardware, do it's not for everyone. FSX is not like a regular computer game where you go walk, drive or fly in a set world or area. And that makes it CPU, RAM, and Graphics Card with more than 1GB memory intensive. With flying peripherals, it taxes your computer more. Nevertheless, it's worth it. FSX20 us coming out. Check it out.Read full review
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After trying the Demo I had to get the game to try out all the features. Still working on doing every, plenty of missions to keep you busy, and it has more airports to fly to/out of then I expected including the local grass fields in my area! Highly recommended if you really enjoy flight simulators but make sure your computer has the rights components. I have a laptop with what I thought would be pretty good requirments, but if you want to do all the cool stuff like highly detailed airports and all the traffic and scenary top notch your going to need a really good graphics card and plenty of memory. All in all still great game even with less detailed graphics in able to run smooth. 4/5 for the fact you need a good computer system in order to take full advantage and the limited number of aircraft (can find more downloads on the internet however)Read full review
MS Flight Simulator X is still topstanding among other flight simulators, however it's a little demanding on specs when you choose to set on the higher graphic features, traffic complexity, textures, ... Even with a fairly potent machine you'll find that sometimes the flow isn't as smooth as one could expect. And the image quality is great but not 'awesome' or anything near perfection, but still very enjoyable. For the image quality versus performance, you feel like they could have done better. But i really appreciate its realism, ATC communication, its tutorials, lessons, multiplayer interaction, expansion ability (inclusion of new maps and aircrafts), controller devices configuration, and its 'completeness': if you try to fly from anywhere in the world you'll find the corresponding airports, even minor regional ones, and the main characteristics of the bigger cities and landscapes worldwide and terrain like mountains, lakes, rivers, etc.Read full review
My six year old son is all about airplanes, so this is excellent for him. He enjoys it allot. I spent some 14 hours and three days how ever trying to activate the product in order to use it. Microsoft tech support was helpfull and available and to there credit. This was a challenge to get the application to work in windows 7. We are talking command prompts and switches as well as four uninstall and re install as well as allot of time online discerning the articles in Microsofts extensive online forums. The activation process is what prevents me from giving FSX an excellent five star rating. The simulator is excellent and all in all worth the expense and time spent installing the product.
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