and WOW was it fun and fast, i put in some payware "cls" and "pmdg" aircraft and some scenery/texture addons and fs9 blew me away with 70 to 100 fps(on the runway ot KJFK with MAX Traffic) with max settings. My home city even looked better than it did in fsx, i'm confused on that, lol. Even night time looked better for me than fsx and i loved the street textures, road signs and street lights. I'm not sure i saw road signs in fsx. Have you guys tried fs9 lately with your new pc's? And it was all so smooth with no stutters at all, it was even smoother than FLIGHT. Now it's time to get the credit card out and buy REX for fs9. :yahoo:

I did a long time ago. Unfortunately, I like to fly in the RV7 in the FTX world. I also enjoy the Duke, Mustang, and 737NGX which are NOT available for FS9. Have fun!

and WOW was it fun and fast, i put in some payware "cls" and "pmdg" aircraft and some scenery/texture addons and fs9 blew me away with 70 to 100 fps(on the runway ot KJFK with MAX Traffic) with max settings. My home city even looked better than it did in fsx, i'm confused on that, lol. Even night time looked better for me than fsx and i loved the street textures, road signs and street lights. I'm not sure i saw road signs in fsx. Have you guys tried fs9 lately with your new pc's? And it was all so smooth with no stutters at all, it was even smoother than FLIGHT. Now it's time to get the credit card out and buy REX for fs9. :yahoo:

 

I also had very smooth performence in FS9 and when I used REX for FS9 I experienced a significant drop in performence. And that was on a

AMD Phenom II X4 3.4 GHz

4 Gb PC6400 RAM

MVIDIA GTS250 1 Gb

Win 7 x64

IF my new PC Build does not make FSX good, I am going to install FS9 as well

 

When they built FSX, I don't know if it did any good when they introduced the earth curvature thingi, I never felt the need for it in FS9. IF they had not implemented that, we could have upgraded the FS9 sceneries to FSX easily.

 

But I do like the FSX's water very much. in addition to high resolution photo textures. If we had these two with FS9, that would have been awesome!

 

Manny

Hi,

 

I spent considerable time in 9, but to be honest I cannot remember the look and feel. I do remember having many WOW moments though. I cannot even remember what addons I bought. Did we tweak FS9 like we have with FSX? Again, I cannot remember a thing about it. Hmmm, now you have sparked a little curiosity. Uh OH, I think I threw away the disks. I wonder why I did that :Thinking:

Yea, I agree it can be fun with more FPS than I know what to with. I still have it FS9 loaded but to be honest I haven't gone back to it for months (tear swelling up in my eye).

 

But after a run like last night in Vegas at dusk with the city in photoreal 30cm detail, my FSDreamteam airport hopping with baggers and caterers, airport bustling with fuel traucks and baggage carts, freeway traffic in the distance, the roars of reversers and take-offs in the far distance, all at a stable 30FPS, it's just so "ALIVE" I can't find a reason to go back.

I still have it installed but it my be worth revisiting. I love the FlightOntario scenery for low and slow VFR.

I went back for a flight in FS9 the other day to fly around my custom Mount Rainier from Swanson to compare to my FSX and Orbx Swanson. I enjoyed it but its not as "fullsome" as FSX with the sliders pushed as far right as I can.

I just can't handle the low resolution ground textures. It looks like a blurry mushy mess outside of airport sceneries.

Yea, I agree it can be fun with more FPS than I know what to with. I still have it FS9 loaded but to be honest I haven't gone back to it for months (tear swelling up in my eye).

 

But after a run like last night in Vegas at dusk with the city in photoreal 30cm detail, my FSDreamteam airport hopping with baggers and caterers, airport bustling with fuel traucks and baggage carts, freeway traffic in the distance, the roars of reversers and take-offs in the far distance, all at a stable 30FPS, it's just so "ALIVE" I can't find a reason to go back.

 

fs dreamteam works with fs9 and has all the moving vehicules

No problem for me. I use and enjoy both. FS9 for heavy iron. FSX for low and slow.

Well i think it's great that FS2004 has still so many users, it really was one of the best Flight Simulator editions ever made and very flyable with more modest hardware, but i must say that since i started with FSX in september 2011 (yes very late!) on my new computer, i never went back to FS2004 and finally deleted my 10 Gigabyte installation of it.

 

In FS2004 i never had the impression to be in a real world in daylight. In dawn, dusk or at night things were better.

I did also mostly fly the iFly B737, Just Flight B737 PIC and other big aircraft, because with GA aircraft at lower altitude i didn't like the more repetitive textures and especially the low resolution 'blurry' landscape.

 

But since i have FSX and decent hardware i prefer GA flying in FSX with my FEX, UTX and GEX fantastic detailed high resolution graphics, some great freeware, payware like Madeira X, the free FSrealWx for very realistic weather, the moving road, lake and sea traffic (and of course lots of air traffic to) and a very smooth and constant framerate, tuned by Bojote and limited by Nvidia Inspector to 30: the feeling of beeing in the 'real world' is overwhelming !

 

I really enjoy the better GA aircraft now, i fell in love with taildraggers like the Maule, i even started with soaring and it's great!

 

I found many free gliders at:

 

http://carrier.csi.c.../fsx/index.html

 

http://www.fsglider.de/p_sg4_e.htm

 

I discovered free programs like CUMULUS X and WINCH X:

 

http://www.luerkens....nline.de/peter/

 

and i am going to buy the Aerosoft Discus Glider X.

 

http://www.avsim.com...ft/DiscusX.html

 

According to some realworld soaring guys the Discus simulation is very realistic combined with CUMULUS and WINCH in FSX and a real alternative for a gliding simulator like 'CONDOR', wich has lots of functions, great flight dynamics but the graphics are really outdated.

 

Now you can frequently find me above the Suiss Alps enjoying one of the gliders and just the sound of the wind and i am even planning to start a real world glider training to get my GPL !

 

How a simulator can make you happy! :yahoo:

I was running both for a while, but since the NGX I only use FSX. Also, FS has some excellent birds that are not FS9 ready (like the J41 and many Carenado birds).

I do miss having the framerate locked and steady at 60 with 100% ultimate traffic and the iFly 737. Also can't remember the last time FS9 crashed on me. No flashing textures or tearing. The only thing I would say I hate is the pulsating water.

I'm close, so close to making FSX my GA sim and going back to FS9 for airliners. It's difficult because the FSX addons are amazing.

 

One more CTD or single digit framerate moment should do it.