Wow, its like bad freeware...

Solotwo · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: Wow, its like bad freeware...

And thats all I have to say about that...I REALLY hope this is nothing like what the final product is going to be, because if it is, I'll stick to my payware'd up FS2004.
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WantFSX · Guest

It will get much better after this. I hope anyways....the game crashed 2 or 3 times when I pulled up the 2d panel. It had really slow framerates at first then it kinda warmed up to 30+fps...really weird.

CoasterXtreme · Trainee Joined: May 13, 2005 Posts: 64

I am not impressed at all. It has been how many years and I see the same game. I am a game programmer and the changes they have made would take a few months at most to complete. What you see in the demo is what is going to be released in a few months. They will spend probably about 4-5 more weeks making more plane models and fixing up some existing models. The main systems for the game are already there and will not change in a few weeks. They used the same window system for the game and just changed textures. I could have done that in a few minutes. I certainly will not be purchasing this game.

Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:22 am Post subject:

I think they spent to much time on the water textures and not enough on how the land looks. It doesnt look like it goes together.. The vehicles driving on the roads have got to be a joke.. Some of them were just axles and wheels Laughing

I highly doubt your going to see anything different from the demo. They finalize everything in the game at least 2 months before it is released because they need time to make thousands of copies of the sim and ship them around the world. Personally, i wouldent mind if they delayed it to make everything better. They shouldeve let out a demo a long time ago to see peoples reactions and see what they shouldeve improved.

IMO i think the only reason they made the demo set on a couple islands was so they could make people not think about how the land looks and see how great they made the ocean look. Thats pretty stupid and cheap for microsoft to do. Rolling Eyes

BashDaBish · Guest

When you installed FSX it gave you the option of reading the readme file. I suspect you may not have read this so I shall provide it for you. It is clear FSX is not complete.

Major Known Issues
At the time we created this demo version, Microsoft Flight Simulator X was not yet complete and work is ongoing.
Setup
§ The Flight Simulator X demo version is not compatible with the Flight Simulator X beta versions.
Aircraft
Some aircraft in Flight Simulator X demo may not be finished.
§ Some of the incomplete items, such as untextured aircraft models and animations that don’t work, are obvious and will be implemented before the product ships.
§ You may also notice that the “level of detail”, or LOD models are not completed—as an aircraft moves away from you, it will abruptly swap to a low-detail model.
Scenery
§ Taxiway and apron textures will sometimes exhibit regular patterns of mismatched textures, especially at the intersections of different surface types. Taxiway fillets may appear with texturing different from that of the intersecting surfaces.
§ Airport boundary fences currently block out views of terrain and buildings behind them.
§ Autogen content (generic bridges, buildings, trees, etc.) and placement are still in progress.
§ Autogen exclusion is currently not working properly, so you may see trees and buildings appearing on airport polygons.
§ Some scenery objects in this pre-release demo version are not complete and may display as black or incomplete shapes. This will be corrected in the final product.
Configuration
§ The retail version of Flight Simulator X runs on Korean, Japanese, and traditional Chinese Microsoft Windows operating systems. This demonstration version of Flight Simulator X will not run on Korean, Chinese, or Japanese versions of Windows.
§ After changing time of day or location in the simulation, terrain textures occasionally won’t update, or some textures will change to black or bright colors. To resolve the issue, restart a flight. Cycling views will also occasionally resolve this problem (press S).
§ Anti-aliasing is not working on RADEON X300/X550 series cards.
§ Anti-aliasing does not work for the Free-Flight aircraft preview window for any configuration.
§ Windows in Virtual Cockpit mode may not be transparent in video cards that only support shader 1.1.
§ CH throttle quadrant's range of motion is currently limited.
§ If you are using an Xbox 360 controller for Windows with Flight Simulator, make sure you plug it in before starting. Plugging an Xbox controller in while Flight Simulator is running may cause problems with control assignments.
§ Flight Simulator will not render in windowed mode with Windows Vista Aero/Glass enabled. Disable this feature in order to use windowed mode on Vista.
§ Bloom effects are not functioning.
§ TOSHIBA: TECRA M4 users may experience a blue screen when altering screen resolutions.
§ Shader Model 3.0 card users (GeForce 6100 and ATI Radeon X1300) should update their drivers to see self-shadowing.
§ The setup repair function is not working properly. If you have problems with your installation, please uninstall and reinstall Flight Simulator.
Missions
§ The missions are still a work in progress and are currently being tuned. No known bugs should prevent you from flying the missions in the demo.

Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject:

my specs = P4D950 + 7950GX2 + 2GB667 + raid036GBraptors.
Oblivion runs at 99% detail smoothly

FSX crashes(resets pc) with SLI enabled, and in non sli it runs at 15 FPS in max detail, and looks like a some sort of google earth plugin when you get the frame rate to 30FPS.

No one in their right mind would release a demo as Censored

as this,I suspect the design team will be fired and the release date put back to mid next year. >: (very FN disapointed, I paid nearly 1k for my vid card with FSX and Oblivion as justification for it).

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CrashGordon · Chief Captain Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 4709

This is an example of MS shooting itself in the foot. Did they really think that releasing a buggy demo would make people want to run out and get the product when it was released?
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SamIntel · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject:

Geeze, well, this is lousy, it looks worse then FS9 on my pc. I tried maxing out all the settings, but it sure didn't accually do it. If I had a better PC I bet it would look great. But I bet you'll need a super computer to run this thing.
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BashDaBish · Guest

I have AthlonXP 64 3200, 2Gb ram, 2x7300GT in SLi and I am not having any issues (yet) apart from some of those in the readme file. I am telling you this to help restore a small bit of faith. Only those with problems are posting.
FPS is limited to 20FPS as I can't find the setting to adjust this as yet.

As always in most games there will be issues. FSX will be made right. FS9 needed an update to 9.1 to iron some glitches and a dare say FSX obviously needs some work before it is released.

Some will have problems and some won't. Those that do will be mighty miffed which is 100% understandable.

CRJCapt · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject:

I figured that it would be bad. Yesterday was like a shark feeding frenzy of people downloading. All of the hype, countdown and people saying " I want it now!" Well here it is, you've got it. I think my friend will be as disappointed as I've read everyone else is, I downloaded for him but I'm not going to run it. I'm sure the production version will be much better. Smile

aajparker · Trainee Joined: May 11, 2006 Posts: 18

I think they have done a good job with this game.

If you want the game to look better turn the settings up!!!

Im getting 20FPS and it ant crashed yet.

encarta2006 · Trainee Joined: Feb 23, 2006 Posts: 46

Guest · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:35 am Post subject:

replying to my "google earth plugin" and other rants, I have to say after turning the water detail down to 1.x, it's fixed the frame rate issue and cSLI crashes, I have maxed out all the custom sliders and it runs with out incident. So my advice for any other 7950GX2 users is to wind back the water detail slider to 1.x and give it a try.

encarta2006 · Trainee Joined: Feb 23, 2006 Posts: 46

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

FSX looks and acts like it's just FS9 with some fix'um up'ums.

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