Thread: Flight Sims (fs04/fsx v x-plane)

Thanks Danno... they need to get a non-advertising-sponsored host though. It's very difficult to find the download link among all the ads for that other conversion program... heh..

Hi ehidle thanks very much for your offer. I already installed X-Plane. I've used FS04 for a few years but not heavy duty stuff (pretty much taking the plane off, sticking it on auto pilot for a few hours, letting it fly to it's destination, then me landing it). I'd like to do something similar with XP9 in the begining, so I want to set up the radios, auto pilot, stuff like that. I also like realistic looking airports and I...

Originally Posted by pedex As far as I know, even an uber high end rig still won't play FSX with good framerates with all the eye candy turned on.....like FS2004 it will take quite awhile for hardware to get caught up with what the game is capable of. Just to max out FS2004 you need a 3ghz CPU and up around a nvidia 6800 or better to get 30fps under most conditions with all details turned on. With FSX that same hardware will literally...

Use this SUPER programme to convert between any video format to any video format.

Maybe X-Plane doesn't suck, maybe I suck.

I just downloaded the XP9 demo, and all I can say is wow.

Originally Posted by ehidle In the Rendering Settings menu, you can set the level of Airport Detail. I use "TOTALLY INSANE," but you need to have some serious video hardware to play at that level. You can also set your texture resolution higher if you have enough video memory. If you get the XP9 PDF manual, they have an entire section devoted to figuring out how much stuff you can turn on. Be sure to turn off the...

+1 this is exactly what I was going to say - install Parallels or VM Ware and run Windows on your system virtually. Originally Posted by patentcad X Plane blows. Get Parallels or VM Ware, install XP-2 and then MS Flight Sim on your Intel based Mac if it's that important to you. You can do that.

Originally Posted by ehidle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvIMTE4Sloo That one blows my mind every time... Originally Posted by mustang1 @ehidle: Wow! /Thread. +1 If I had that I'd never get anything done. I had an early version MS Flight Sim, it only had 3 planes and I'd get lost for hours at a time.