No offence at all FalconFly I can understand what you mean
by my thoughts lay different hehe
Well it looks amazing to me, your X850 Pro isn't gonna like it at max settings
believe me it 's very heavy with everything maxed out.
remember this is a flight simulator no simple FPS or RTS game
the whole planet is being rendered in 3D even boats, cars trains are moving about.
The Graphics are quite spectacular for a flight sim. The people of the dutch Flight Simulator boards are very impressed as well. only thing disabled is the HDR effects and blooming, that's too tough for my X1900 XTX really, @ 1440 x 900 x32 with max settings, FSAA x6 AF x16 + max HDR it's a real no go.
Give it a go yourself and Find out
the X850 Pro isn't gonna like it, it can't even do HDR , so it does miss a nice important feature also.
Most people say Flight sims look bad because they don't understand in most cases what they are about, ofcourse you could add alot more like professional ones have but then again where's the logic in that? there isn't any.
I have been do'n flight sim's since 1988 and really this is simply the best one I have seen and along time.
The Antartica shot is alot nicer in movement those darkspots are shadows of the clouds passing byt, seems logic that it looks odd in a screen shot hehe
it looks fantastic when flying w00t!
The handeling of the aircraft, the feel of each type is different, you get the feeling of movement which is also hard to get in many other flight sim's I have been testing and there is even current in the water, you can see the waves break, you can see the ripples on the water's surface, the higher you fly the rounder the world view becomes, I have missed those features in other sims, this one makes usage of meshes in which every coastline, hills mountain ranges are different and made in precise detail to the real thing, do remember the whole planet is being rendered not just a single map or level like in Half Life 2
This some far beyond things like that and far more complex even the aircraft details is far beyond other simulator's I have met.
If I use the same max settings in Rotterdam, Amsterdam area it's no fun at all every building that exsists is there, so crowdy, all the cars, truck, busses, boat, ship traffic is there too so much things all at once , wildlife like birds and other animals are around as well very hectic but nice to see in a sim
it's not only big jets you can use also heli's Ultra lights and gliders to scout around
You can download the weather of the exact location where you are at, in Multiplayer you can be the aircontroler in the Control tower, the possibillities in the game have improved quite alot.
soon Ultimate Terrain for Flight Simulator X will be ready with even more detail.
Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition will keep me away from everything for quite some time, it's just an escape to another place, it gave me my freedom to infinity allrighty
so to be honest the fastest PC's of today could just render this with a fluid play @ 1680 x1050 x32, the setups of today are hav'n a very hard time with FSX, just being able to render everything perfectly in the most dense locations in the most hectic situations.
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