Stupid Question Time

[NigelC]

Going to buy FSX

This might sound daft, but Standard, Deluxe, Gold, Acceleration etc etc.

Which one gents?

Nigel

[Effoh]

Hi Nigel,

Gold gives you the Deluxe and the Acceleration Pack, which brings you slap up to date with SP2 and all the bells...currently £19.97 at Amazon.

[DaveB]

Yup.. there IS only one choice and that Amazon offer is IT

Be prepared for some anguish and the UK looking like nowhere you've ever been to before

ATB

DaveB

[Effoh]

Especially around Baldock!!

[Nigel H-J]

Nigel, don't forget your survival pack to ensure smooth installation of aircraft and sceneries.

Anti-Depressants: for those periods when you're either going to throw the computer out of the window.....or yourself!!

Aspirin: for when you keep banging your during peak frustrations!!

Alcohol: For when you either triumph with no glitches and want to celebrate your achievement......or obliterate yourself to forget your frustrations.

Nigel.

[Ben Watson]

Nigel, you'll love it

[DanKH]

I second Bens remarks :-)

[NigelC]

Gold duly ordered from Amazon

Many thanks guys

Nigel

[speedbird591]

Nigel, you'll love it

Yes. It's definitely the way forward. Whereas the basic, default interface is more 'arcade' than 'simulator' it's the expansion potential that makes it work. FS9 has probably been stretched to the limit but FSX provides a very powerful baseline for increasingly realistic add-ons. But that does mean a lot of extra expense in the form of scenery add-ons to get the benefit of it. And then there's the need for a powerful PC to run it effectively - so it's not a cheap option.

I installed it recently on my laptop, despite Ben's reservations , and after a lot of fiddling got better frame rates in FSX than in FS9 for similar graphics quality. And of course FSX runs more smoothly than FS9 at the same fps so I was pretty happy.

Unfortunately, that didn't last! It had all gone so well that I was having a strange feeling of optimism (which sadly turned out to be indigestion). On a wave of euphoria I bought the Captain Sim FSX 757 because I like flying it in FS9 and because it was cheap(ish). Disaster! Frame rates of 1.0 to 1.5 at UK2000 LHR

So - off it came but it had wreaked havoc with both the FSX and, somehow, with the FS9 installations! I don't know what it's done but I struggle to get 7 fps with the VC10 in FS9 at KaiTak, which won't do at all.

I did have this happen once before and it involved a re-install of Windows, but I'm not in the mood to do that now I've upgraded to W7. So, I either do that and stick with FS9, spend upwards of £1,000 on a desktop and add-ons just to run FSX or give up flight simming completely and go back to being a male underwear model

Moral of the story: FSX is the future, but it ain't cheap!

Dunno where I go from here.

Ian

[DaveB]

After reading that, I'd be a candidate for modelling incontinence underwear

ATB

DaveB

[speedbird591]

Don't bother sending me the catalogue, Dave!

Ian

[DanKH]

Sorry to hear about your struggles Ian!

At least I'm sure the blame is to be put on CS, and not FSX in this case....

Installers and especially some of the "proffesionals" does make a heluvajob ... literately!

Normally I refrain from using them and giving the possiblity I normally install them in a dummy folder and then manually transfer it later on.... that insures me that it doesn't tamper with something I don't want it to.

[Ben Watson]

Wish you'd have said Ian... The same thing happened me with the CS 757. Needless to say, its been confined to the bin as an expensive mistake. You shouldn't need to reinstall windows, just FSX... I've no idea what the CS 757 does, but I really wish it didn't bother. When you uninstal FSX, make sure you delete all of the FSX folders too. Including the ones in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX if it still exists after you uninstall.