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FSX Purchase


Richard Jenkins
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What are your purchase plans for FSX?  

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  1. 1. What are your purchase plans for FSX?

    • I have pre-ordered and will be waiting by my mailbox.
      24
    • I will wait until it comes out in the stores.
      56
    • I will wait until I see reviews about it before deciding.
      97
    • Will stay with FS9.
      46
    • What is FSX?
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Richard Jenkins
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FSX is coming soon...

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Nick Comber 959257
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What is FSX?

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Ross Carlson
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Personally I'm going to wait until the add-on aircraft that I fly are modified for FSX and user reviews show that they're stable. In other words, I might wait a few months to allow the user base to find any issues in the FSX versions of the add-on aircraft that I use, and to allow the developers to release patches, before I buy FSX and download or purchase the add-ons.

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Tom Solon
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Forgive if this has been discussed. But I do recall somewhere that FSX will not be compatible with VATSIM? If so, I will not purchase FSX until it is.

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Norman Blackburn
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I flew a few days ago online using FSX.

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Martin Georg 811874
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I´m missing the option "I´m a betatester and don´t need to buy FSX"

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Martin Georg

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Nicholas Bartolotta 912967
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What is FSX?

 

 

Ditto on what Ross said, I have a ton of both payware and freeware additions to FS9, and there is no way I am going back to default.

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Brian Beach 915973
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*quicklyrunningandtakingcover*

 

I haven't seen Ruth in a while

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Norman Blackburn
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You were looking in the wrong part of the world

 

She is alive and well and just back from holidays.

Norman

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Peter Nolin 954217
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Great idea with polls. Good choice dear admins. X-Plane comes first for me. Maybe after 6-12 months I will purchase FS X if the price is lowered. And that because of the "learning center". I will probably not even fly.

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Sean Reeder 961605
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I dont want to advertise or anything but Pc Aviator has a really good deal on the deluxe version

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Kyle Weber
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Or the option, "I won a free copy already and am expecting it on the release date."

Kyle Weber

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Steven Rogers 901202
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What about 'I plan to download the torrent 30 seconds after it is released'?

 

Of course that would be illegal, and I'm sure noone will do that....

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Sean Reeder 961605
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an 8 gigabit torrent wont be very succesful IMO

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Aggrey Ellis 964561
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I get very fast speeds. I could do it in a few hrs maybe. Rogers Jk Ill buy it. They worked hard.

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Trent Hopkinson
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I will be waiting for at least 3 (three) payware addon aircraft, (with at least 2 of those being PMDG) and the Vista Australis VOZ scenery is ready for use with FSX, After which I will wait till I have a computer which can actually run it all at more than 5 frames per second, and then buy it. It may take as much as 12 months, or as little as 3. Maybe however I can convince my parents to get it for me in christmas when (if?) I graduate my uni course at the end of the year.

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Steven Rogers 901202
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Just saw poll results, and what a perfect normal distribution we have here. It just proves that people on Vatsim are 100% average.

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Javier Larroulet
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hehehe good one.... we are a standard bunch of people, and we can say that with a statistical accuracy of... perhaps 95%?

 

Sean, just a tecnicality: 8 gigabits is quite low for a torrent (roughly 1GB... 1 byte=8bits). Now an 8 gigabyte torrent will be much less successful. But then again, it's nothing that can't already be found on the torrent environment. It just takes longer to download

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Chuck Blake 811841
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I'm sure I'll buy it at some point, but not before Vista is out and all of the 1st generation DX10 compatible video cards have burned through and they are releasing 2nd generation cards. By then, a few great payware add-on aircraft will have been released and I'll have more money for a BIG system overhaul.

 

With this answer in mind, I feel it only fair to say that I'll stick with FS9 for a while...

Chuck Blake

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Ruth McTighe 824054
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*quicklyrunningandtakingcover*

 

I haven't seen Ruth in a while

 

It's nothing to do with me this time

 

Ruth

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Justin Vaughan 963783
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I need to update my system first Planning on doing the whole windows vista upgrade to in order to acheve maximum graphics and ehance gameplay

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Wycliffe Barrett
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SFX

 

I'll buy it, in fact I get it each month already, so whats all the fuss about.

 

Wick

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Wycliffe Barrett
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I would be really interested in the comments of anyone who has downloaded the Demo from Microsoft.

 

The beta testers can keep out of this as you have probably been testing something even in better shape than the demo, well I hope so anyway.

 

I ask this as I downloaded the demo yesterday and was staggered at what i saw on my PC, I still cant work out how at 15fps it (fsx) looks better than my FS2004 setup which runs at 40fps.

 

Probably something to do with those wizards and magicians they have locked away at the Microsoft Village.

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Wycliffe Barrett
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And has anyone tried to install a payware aircraft into the demo folder.

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Martin Georg 811874
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The beta testers can keep out of this as you have probably been testing something even in better shape than the demo, well I hope so anyway.

 

The demo which you guys have the opportunity to try out is a slightly revamped variant of the beta 2 release. I did not try the demo by myself, but found beta 2 to be still very slow and sluggish. Beta 3, which appeared around August 10, was a completely different experience: About 60% faster, almost free of major bugs and generally very flyable. And from what I´ve heared, the RTM-Version (RTM = Release to Manufacturing) has another 1000 bugs fixed, and is considered to be even faster, due to the debug code being removed.

 

Generally I would consider 12-15fps as the minimum "flyable" level in FSX, and this corresponds to FS2004. In FS2004 this was also my minimum level of acceptance.

best regards,

 

Martin Georg

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