Flight Sim X mission

[screaming_emu]

I took some screen shots while doing a mission in flight sim X where you fly across the English Channel in IFR. I forget the names of the airports and I'm too lazy to re-open flight sim to find out so you're gonna have to deal


Holding short of the runway



Takeoff (duh)



"What kinda soup?"
"CHUNKY!"



So the ILS really does lead to the runway



Short Final


EMU WINS!!!

[RingwaySam]

Wow, that looks awesome! Im going to have to buy it soon, first I need to upgrade

[JJR]

Joe, you've gotta work on your taxi skills, or I'm not parking you when you visit KALB.... Stop on the T or no Jaguar crew car dude......

[DAL767-400ER]

What, a poor junior pilot can afford FSX? Can't be your own then .

[JordanD]

Now FS looks kind of like X-PLANE, just a little bit better. Still the same crappy model though. Nice shots though, the scenery's pretty cool.How were your framerates?

[Genessee]

Looks good. I've been trying out the missions myself and have been enjoying them. They definitely add a nice little dimension to simply flying around in the game.

[screaming_emu]

Joe, you've gotta work on your taxi skills, or I'm not parking you when you visit KALB.... Stop on the T or no Jaguar crew car dude......

You know what's funny...I still can't park a damn airplane very well. I never quite understood how I could grease it on on the runway centerline going 70, but I can't park it on a line going 4

Now FS looks kind of like X-PLANE, just a little bit better. Still the same crappy model though. Nice shots though, the scenery's pretty cool.How were your framerates?

I dunno, the model isn't bad. I'm especially impressed with the thermals they put into this game, truely shows they've thought of pretty much everything.

Looks good. I've been trying out the missions myself and have been enjoying them. They definitely add a nice little dimension to simply flying around in the game.

Yeah, I like how they designed the missions to show off what FSX has to offer. That being said, that Swedish soaring championship was friggin boring.

[Genessee]

Yeah, I like how they designed the missions to show off what FSX has to offer. That being said, that Swedish soaring championship was friggin boring.

I haven't gotten that far yet. I still have the 'tin wings'. Someone will need to make a "Swedish Soaring Bikini Team" championship addon..

You know what's funny...I still can't park a damn airplane very well. I never quite understood how I could grease it on on the runway centerline going 70, but I can't park it on a line going 4

Another one of lifes great mysteries ....

[screaming_emu]

I haven't gotten that far yet. I still have the 'tin wings'. Someone will need to make a "Swedish Soaring Bikini Team" championship addon..

FSX has been a great procrastination tool for me. When I do something like these missions I have to do them all in order, I think I'm about half way through. I wish instead of giving these bogus gifts, they actually let you unlock planes or something. That would be cool. Oh yeah, the african safari one sucks too. They make you look all over a park in africa for 1 baby elephant. Took me like an hour...and damn I hate those ultralights.

[Crism]

Joe what are the specs on the computer you're using? What kind of frames are you getting?

[screaming_emu]

Joe what are the specs on the computer you're using? What kind of frames are you getting?

Dell D820

1.7 GHz Intel Core Duo Centrino processor with 1 gig RAM

80 gig hard drive

15.4" widescreen Display

NVidia G72M on 256-MB video memory


When I'm in cruise I get about 15 frames/sec, and when I get close to a busy airport/big city with lots of scenery it slows down to about 6 frames. Not perfect, but you can certainly keep playing. Overall I'm quite pleased with it.

[Crunk415balla]

Looks very realistic! I am buying a copy today.

[MaxPower]

Looks very real. Love the quality Joe. Amazed and jealous

[Genessee]

Dell D820

1.7 GHz Intel Core Duo Centrino processor with 1 gig RAM

80 gig hard drive

15.4" widescreen Display

NVidia G72M on 256-MB video memory


When I'm in cruise I get about 15 frames/sec, and when I get close to a busy airport/big city with lots of scenery it slows down to about 6 frames. Not perfect, but you can certainly keep playing. Overall I'm quite pleased with it.

I've been doing some benchmarking with FSX, and it seems the big bottleneck is with the graphics cards.

I'm getting about 50 to 60% CPU (on Core1) and 10 to 20% CPU (on Core2) used, and approx 83% RAM used (of 2GB OCZ Platinum XTC). The video cards (I can't tell the difference between the two, if FSX even uses both) seem to really get bogged down.


I'll have to try a new set of video cards and see what happens

[pbateson]

FSX mission of 747 landing in Singapore is difficult