Strange.... XP10 has everything what fsx lacks.. with constant update, sloped runway, 3d cloud, cloud shadow, global 3d lighting, fully use of cpu & gpu, the famous "plausible world", the famous "blade element theory"..... but for unknown reason to be frank, after flying the demo, I decided to stick with fsx.

That's exactly wat i think to, every time i fly the XPX demos.I tried them all including the beta's, and i shall keep on trying them from time to time, but i never had that feeling to fly in a "real and living world", the feeling i have in my expanded FSX only.

Now Seriously, Do we have reply on Microsoft for a simulation? Realistically speaking, FSX is all messed-up from the begining, so what about X-Plane...Is X-Plane better?...Use of all cores, weather engine, etc etc.--- I keep wondering if no one esle is capable of making a simulation for us, why don't we all (simmers and developers) pair-up with X-Plane and together we make X-Plane the "Bomb." Why waste time tweaking and tweaking MS FSX when we can go straight to something much better, and have the developers work with X-Plane?

Now Seriously, Do we have reply on Microsoft for a simulation? Realistically speaking, FSX is all messed-up from the begining, so what about X-Plane...Is X-Plane better?...Use of all cores, weather engine, etc etc.--- I keep wondering if no one esle is capable of making a simulation for us, why don't we all (simmes and developers) pair-up with X-Plane and together we make X-Plane the "Bomb." Why waste time tweaking and tweaking MS FSX when we can go straight to something much better, and have the developers work with X-Plane?

After making my FSX look decent by buying loads of good payware during my simming years I am not going to make sudden switch to X plane 10. I have it and I like it, but still it yet cant beat my FSX with loads of addons... Though maybe I will try converting some of my sceneries to X plane 10, but still it will stay as my secondary simulator for now.But definitely it has high potential to be future of flight simulation, unless Microsoft makes FS11 which seems very unlikely.

I will wait until XPX gets to version 10.2 or 10.3. This was advice from a gentleman who went through the same update, update, update da da da, until finally they worked out the bugs for versions 8 and 9. I think it has potential, but there does not seem to be any clarity as to where they will go with it and what will actually get fixed/changed or enhanced. I just hate to put out 80 bucks until I see something solid so to speak.Bob

Another wild card could be Windows 8. If someone need a new computer a few years down the road and that person likes to use FSX. Also, assuming Microsoft does not react to the disappointment of traditional simmers with respect to Flight, I would really root for XP-10 and its successors. Furthermore, in 5 to 7 years, I would love to run XP on a mac system. They seem to have a much better OS, compared to PCs. Getting massive security updates from Microsoft on what seems like every other Tuesday, gets old after a while, and I think it starts to slow systems down.