Ok, the _official_ preview is online now:http://dev.fsinsider.com/news/Pages/AccelerationTrailer.aspxQuery: looks very smooth in the video. What hardware was it running on, and which OS (Vista or XP)?

While theoretically someone might have shot that in real time, there IS another possibility that's not all that far-fetched (keeping in mind that this IS a promotional video, not just something someone put together on a whim):Considering that FSX supports it natively, the video might have been shot at 1/2 time rate at half of the final video FPS (15 FPS if the final video will be 30 FPS, for example), then sped up through post-processing. This gives the computer more time to load everything up without hitches while recording the video, and even if there are miniscule jumping it will be very hard to notice by the time the video playback rate is doubled.

>While theoretically someone might have shot that in real>time, there IS another possibility that's not all that>far-fetched (keeping in mind that this IS a promotional video,>not just something someone put together on a whim):>>Considering that FSX supports it natively, the video might>have been shot at 1/2 time rate at half of the final video FPS>(15 FPS if the final video will be 30 FPS, for example), then>sped up through post-processing. This gives the computer more>time to load everything up without hitches while recording the>video, and even if there are miniscule jumping it will be very>hard to notice by the time the video playback rate is>doubled.Being that it's is a promo video by MS I doubt they would try a stunt like that. If they got caught they would never be able to live it down, and besides it isn't necessary with those type of graphics. I could get 30FPS easy with that level of graphics! Check out my "Airshow video below, which was done real time, and was done pre SP1!

(Note: No music as per AVSIM Rules)

>Being that it's is a promo video by MS I doubt they would try>a stunt like that. If they got caught they would never be able>to live it down, and besides it isn't necessary with those>type of graphics.Personally I don't consider it a "stunt", my understanding is that it's a pretty common way to record video when you want the results to be top notch.>I could get 30FPS easy with that level of>graphics! Check out my "Airshow video below, which was done>real time, and was done pre SP1!>>

Nice acrobatics there! :)

Hey, I cannot see the video, is it Divx format or something?I'm using WMP and it says it doesn't have the proper codec

>>While theoretically someone might have shot that in real>>time, there IS another possibility that's not all that>>far-fetched (keeping in mind that this IS a promotional>video,>>not just something someone put together on a whim):>>>>Considering that FSX supports it natively, the video might>>have been shot at 1/2 time rate at half of the final video>FPS>>(15 FPS if the final video will be 30 FPS, for example),>then>>sped up through post-processing. This gives the computer>more>>time to load everything up without hitches while recording>the>>video, and even if there are miniscule jumping it will be>very>>hard to notice by the time the video playback rate is>>doubled.>>Being that it's is a promo video by MS I doubt they would try>a stunt like that. If they got caught they would never be able>to live it down, and besides it isn't necessary with those>type of graphics. I could get 30FPS easy with that level of>graphics! Check out my "Airshow video below, which was done>real time, and was done pre SP1!>>

>>(Note: No music as per AVSIM Rules) >I'm subscribed to your videos on youtube, under the name chris627.:( My guess though is that was shot in real-time, I caught a few stutters in there.

Yes, all I recieved was a sound file??

The file uses some codec that doesn't apparently come built-in with WMP10. On one of my XP accounts WMP simply told me it could not open the file. On another account (still the same computer and XP installation though) it downloaded a codec file and the video played just fine. Try creating a new (temporary) guest account on your computer, maybe?I was also able to view the video with VLC, although there were a lot of visual artifacts present.