I loved fsx, but i am tired of the crashing constantly that happens with the game. Even with my new i7 comp I still get crashed freqently. I have been flying Microsoft flight recently and have been enjoying it, but i want to go back to a real hardcore sim game. Is xplane worth buying now or should i wait a month or so until maybe some new stuff comes into light?

In my independent opinion, gettit now!

 

New stuff? The CRJ is on sale for $30.

 

I love MS Flight, but for a real sim, yes xplane 10 is very good. What GPU you have? That plays a bigger part in xp10. I have a 560 OC Ti and it runs very well, even running HDR with my old slow i7 920

Do yourself a favor, get X Plane. It's obvious FSX is showing its age, and Flight is, well, Flight. I think we all know the inevitable.

As Simon pointed out, the CRJ is most likely the best, and most accurate procedural add on for X Plane right now and can easily stand up against a range of top level FSX add ons. Even Peter James, (Fly III developer), is in love with XP10 and the CRJ.

And the CRJ is just the beginning. 737 classic, 747 classic, 747-400, are just a few of the procedural aircraft that are on the way and heavily in development.

Ill add my voice to the previous posters. Yes, get it, its awesome! Im saying this as a heavy ex-FSX user. It took a little time to get use to the differences, but Im so glad I got it. I don't spend much time with FSX anymore.

 

Rob

Get it.

before you get it ...try the demo. Xplane still has a lot missing, the demo will let you see if you can deal with whats still missing from the sim.

Please, allow me to correct you.

 

before you get it ...try the demo. Xplane still has a lot a few things missing, the demo will let you see if you can deal with whats still missing from the sim.

take it with the CRJ and/or DC3!

 

of course it's a WIP product, but the flying immersion is second to none (i personally find this steady evolution quite exciting)

Ill add my voice to the previous posters. Yes, get it, its awesome! Im saying this as a heavy ex-FSX user. It took a little time to get use to the differences, but Im so glad I got it. I don't spend much time with FSX anymore.

 

Rob

 

+1 I never gave XP much notice to me it seemed like it was incomplete. I had/have FSX with about a ridiculous amount of add ons and didn't seem to see any reason to switch. I mean keeping FSX tuned up and running well on my system was already a labor of love/hate and I didn't see the need time or desire for another sim. However, I was do to move and I promised myself that once I got established in my new location I'd give XP10 a solid try. That was back in March and now I hardly fire up FSX at all.

 

Sure I miss a lot of things, probably my scenery, AI traffic, and FSUIPC the most but XP10 is solid and stable it has not crashed on me once, the flight model feels more alive especially when I am flying IFRin GA aircraft, night flying and the lighting system just slays FSX IMO, and the most important aspect to me is that it continues to evolve and improve.

 

Honestly I think if your frustrated with FSX now then go ahead and get it. The demo is nice but the default aircraft don't really do the sim justice. Right now I have the JR CRJ200 the FlyJSim Dash8 and the Carenado V35 Bonanza and I like them all nice planes. If your still happy with FSX, which I do miss mostly for atmosphere, then you could probably hold off a little longer.

 

 

which I do miss mostly for atmosphere

 

Blaze, can you elaborate more on this "Atmosphere" subject? What exactly do you miss, what do you find wrong/incomplete, etc...

I am on the fence also my friend. I find the price right now the only thing holding me back.

 

 

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I can't confirm those overly enthusiastic "buy it, immediately" comments.

 

If you have an ATI GPU - don't buy it right now ! I have an i7/2xATI5870 System which runs FSX in high dense addon scenery with high end aircraft addons and HD cloud textures in real world weather with multiple cloud layers (that opposing to X-plane actually look like clouds) and addon ATC and hardly ever get below 30FPS (where i capped FPS), running rock stable!

In X-plane I'm getting abysmal performance, even when switching off all the graphical goodies. In the Carenado F33A and the payware DC-3 I'm getting roughly 10-15 FPS - which means it's just unusable. LR promised to add performance improvements to the next update - we'll see.

 

There are many things I like about X-Plane, and I certainly think there is a great potential for this platform in the future. But for the time being it has still lot's of problems and unfinished areas (performance, ATC, AI Traffic, seasons,weather, scenery).

 

Tierborn made the right suggestion - download the demo and play around with it. You can fly 15mins in each session which is pretty long actually to try out things. And then make the decision to buy now or wait for a couple of updates to get it in a more mature state.

Do yourself a favor, get X Plane. It's obvious FSX is showing its age, and Flight is, well, Flight. I think we all know the inevitable.

As Simon pointed out, the CRJ is most likely the best, and most accurate procedural add on for X Plane right now and can easily stand up against a range of top level FSX add ons. Even Peter James, (Fly III developer), is in love with XP10 and the CRJ.

And the CRJ is just the beginning. 737 classic, 747 classic, 747-400, are just a few of the procedural aircraft that are on the way and heavily in development.

 

Except...............new & exceptional products are still coming out all the time for FSX. It's not like it's a an old sim with no help from the outside. Just as X-Plane is a base sim, that needs plenty of 3rd party help...............the same still works for FSX.

can you elaborate more on this "Atmosphere" subject

 

Hello

Probably the lack of Ai and the limited ATC and having no buildings or gates at the airports.

If they fix these then I will give XP10 a serious look, but these really are show stoppers for me

Here we go again...

 

Fsx IS showing its age, both in looks and its inability to run smooth on an average system. Flight poops all over it for looks and fps, and xplane is a great Sim and eyecandy combo. If I could get my orbx to run ultra smooth with VRS or PMDG I'd be more optimistic.