You look like such a happy fella in your avatar. 

 

Just an observation, Jim.  :rolleyes:

Even though that is an off-topic post, I will respond by screaming: "I am, I am", at the top of my lungs.

 

Another thing I want to keep FSX alive is for someone to convert everything to 64 bit so my DX10 fixed stuff won't OOM FSX and my future simulations.

Thank's Phil, for FSX & all the amazing work you guys put in to it :Hug: it truly is a masterpiece!

As Phil said FSX is doing very well & there's nothing to worry about in foreseeable future, finally some real words of wisdom!

I'm enjoying it very well, thank you, chilling out & cooling down...being glad I have a platform, within where I can, go to any place in the world, in any weather, with some amazingly detailed addons, online with other simmers...wow that's just amazing!

 

Hehe fsx look so old and performs so bad that i just sit and laugh instead of flying!

Well, my experience is exactly the opposite! I laugh every time I start up my FSX because it performs fantastic & looks stunning :lol:

Thank's Phil, for FSX & all the amazing work you guys put in to it :Hug: it truly is a masterpiece!

As Phil said FSX is doing very well & there's nothing to worry about in foreseeable future, finally some real words of wisdom!

I'm enjoying it very well, thank you, chilling out & cooling down...being glad I have a platform, within where I can, go to any place in the world, in any weather, with some amazingly detailed addons, online with other simmers...wow that's just amazing!

 

Well, my experience is exactly the opposite! I laugh every time I start up my FSX because it performs fantastic & looks stunning :lol:

Dynamic lighting has been around for like 10 years now. This is the part that makes me think fsx is garbage. Even though pmdg has like 10000 lightmaps, without dynamic lighting everything looks soooo obsolete! . Fsx look obsolete...

Thank's Phil, for FSX & all the amazing work you guys put in to it :Hug: it truly is a masterpiece!

As Phil said FSX is doing very well & there's nothing to worry about in foreseeable future, finally some real words of wisdom!

I'm enjoying it very well, thank you, chilling out & cooling down...being glad I have a platform, within where I can, go to any place in the world, in any weather, with some amazingly detailed addons, online with other simmers...wow that's just amazing!

 

Well, my experience is exactly the opposite! I laugh every time I start up my FSX because it performs fantastic & looks stunning :lol:

Dynamic lighting has been around for like 10 years now. This is the part that makes me think fsx is garbage. Even though pmdg has like 10000 lightmaps, without dynamic lighting everything looks soooo obsolete! . Fsx looks obsolete...

 

 

Dynamic lighting has been around for like 10 years now. This is the part that makes me think fsx is garbage. Even though pmdg has like 10000 lightmaps, without dynamic lighting everything looks soooo obsolete! . Fsx looks obsolete...

 

this is technically incorrect.

 

scenery and autogen uses texture-based lighting, yes. and does have a tendency to look a bit "flat"

 

models are rendered with dynamic lighting calculations though. what do you think specular highlights, bloom, and shadows are? some effects like nav lights might be texture maps, but not all of model rendering is.

 

water does some interesting things to get its effects. as does the skybox to get the atmospheric effects.

 

in an apples-apples comparison of other "full world rendering" simulation engines, FSX still stands pretty good considering it was originally released in 2006 and the last patch was 2007.

 

comparing it to Crysis or Battlefield or some other shooter that isn't under the same constraints and thus has solved the problem differently, that is apples-oranges.

 

with that said, if you are unhappy with it - then don't fly it. but to come to just provide a negative comment - there are better things to do with life. go do them.

" if you are unhappy with it - then don't fly it. but to come to just provide a negative comment - there are better things to do with life. go do them"

 

Thank you, PHil; rest assured - he is in the minority here, so please don't go away thinking "the same old same old" - we FSX enthusiasts - (some of us since Bruce's days!) do not feel that way, and we shall keep your torch burning for long years yet!

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit, and - please - don't be a stranger! (besides - we can always use an extra hand on the DX10 forum....)  :lol: 

Hehe fsx look so old and performs so bad that i just sit and laugh instead of flying!

 

We all the rights sold to Lockheed with the creation of P3D? Notice a fantastic developer like PMDG will not develop product for P3D anytime soon.

 

An ideal scenario would be to reassemble ACES under new Microsoft leadership and develop an SP3 that makes the program 64-bit and DX10 or DX11 compatible, and making the program take advantage of today's CPUs and GPUs wouldn't hurt either.  

 

I've been using MSFS since 1989. Right now my flying is 75% FSX and 25% XP10. If developers like PMDG embrace XP-10, and FSX remains the same, things will gravitate toward XP10 and its follow-ons.

 

Just my humble opinion..

 

This has always struck me as a solution that would have benefited Microsoft far more than the Flight fiasco.  A "Platinum" version of FSX that embraces modern graphics cards and processors, included their upgraded sceneries like Alaska and anything they had in the pipeline, would probably have sold well.  I would have bought it.  

 

Colin Ware

Seattle

Dear Phil,

 

FS X is a great product that you and your colleagues created. I use or think about it most days, not too many other items fall into that category!

 

Best wishes,

 

Michael

Even in 2013 seeing incremental advancements in hardware that make it easier to run fsx at decent settings. Buy general avaition planes and photoscenery and use the tools to remake basic airfields and add custom objects.

I think the future of FSX lies with FS9. If more new users purchase FS9 they will become more interested in flightsimming and then look to see what else is out there and they will discover FSX and hopefully purchase it. That will keep things alive by bringing in new users. Then they can move on to other great, wonderful, simulations.

 

Yah Jim, We know..but hey listen, we know you're afraid to get rid of that dead slow AMD proccessor and thats why you prefer the easy running less demanding flat cartoon world of FS9 rather than FSX.

 

Try switching over to a proper CPU system based on Intel and then you will troll less and fly more and then Everyone will be happy!

 

Cheers Jim and have a great weekend!

Thanks for going off topic.

 

FSX, DX9, while waiting for the interim magic of DX10 and then 64bit and DX11 because that is the future fix for everything, so I've been told.

 

 

in an apples-apples comparison of other "full world rendering" simulation engines, FSX still stands pretty good considering it was originally released in 2006 and the last patch was 2007.

 

So true. It really is amazing that a simulation platform that has to process and render so much information, and with high speeds virtually. And despite its faults, and bugs, look at what PMDG produced through the years and now all this time we have the 777. Who wouldve though back then that something like the 777 is such detail and complexity would be running in FSX. The world is endless when DX10 comes along, and perhaps DX11.

 

And a personal thanks for your huge contribution to FSX as it continued my avid flying since MSFS 1.0

All the best Phil.