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[spesimen 135]

  I doubt it's a huge seller anyhow.  FS is already a niche product, then it's 10 years old on top of that.  Not to mention there is X-Plane and Prepar3d. 

 

back in march 2015 dovetail said 200,000 copies sold. pretty impressive for a 10 year old sim. in the last 9 months i'm sure that number has increased a bit more.

 

my .02 on the issue is it's performance and stability is totally worth the upgrade especially at $5 . it kind of revitalized fsx for me since before the steam version i avoided getting payware airports since they killed my fps too much, but now i am loving them despite having a fairly old computer.

 

the only addon i can't use that i miss is the fslabs concorde and supposedly that update is coming pretty soon.woo!

 

cheers

-andy crosby

[Orlaam 306]

back in march 2015 dovetail said 200,000 copies sold. pretty impressive for a 10 year old sim. in the last 9 months i'm sure that number has increased a bit more.

 

my .02 on the issue is it's performance and stability is totally worth the upgrade especially at $5 . it kind of revitalized fsx for me since before the steam version i avoided getting payware airports since they killed my fps too much, but now i am loving them despite having a fairly old computer.

 

the only addon i can't use that i miss is the fslabs concorde and supposedly that update is coming pretty soon.woo!

 

cheers

-andy crosby

That's pretty good but not much in the grand scheme of things.  I never played FSX.  When it came out I had FS9 built up pretty good and FSX was just too much trouble with no add-ons.  I tried it and removed it within a few days lol. 

 

Steam is good though now with add ons.  :-)

[mmcwill1 32]

Flight Simulator has fueled my passion for flying and fast computers going back to the late 80s, early 90s.  I've got CDs going back to Flight Simulator 2000, Professional Edition, and if I look hard enough, I could probably find 3.5s of earlier versions.  So when FSX-SE and P3D came out, I eagerly installed them along with FSX Acc. and X-plane.  I had to have them all!  It really became a nightmare to manage.  When I finally installed a SSD, I did a clean install of Windows and loaded FSX Acc.  All of my add-ons have worked great, from some of my older planes to some of the newest planes and airports, and I haven't felt a great need to upgrade my system from my circa 2012 build.  I find myself spending much more time flying than trying to manage different sims and tweaking add-ons to get them to work.  Every once in a while, I get the urge to install P3D or SE, but when that happens, I will go pick up a new add-on, install it, then fly for a couple of hours and the urge goes away.  I'm waiting for the next great version of FS (64?) but until then, I think I'll stick with FSX Acc.

 

Mike McWilliams

 

Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard, Intel i7-3820 CPU, AMD Radeon R9 200 3 GB video card, Corsair DDR3 16GB SDRAM, Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD

[ryanbatc 12,844]

P3D v3 - fixed the vas issue - I've moved on to greener pastures. I only have FSX installed for some beta testing

[Boeing or not going 578]

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?l=english

 

There are over 3k users playing FSX Steam Edition currently, that is pretty good statistics.

In that case, you are going to be on FSX Gold for a while..  :smile:

Too bad. Cannot bring myself to upgrade, P3Dv3.1 looks so great... but $100 for the GTN packages, 150 for the 777, 120 for the 737, 20-80 for RealAir and A2A P3D versions... I don't have the disposable income I used to have a few years ago when I would purchase every new addon available for FSX. I might dual boot when the PMDG 747v2 is released and buy the P3D version of that. I am stuck turning off all my custom AI and not use Orbx regions to save vas in FSX:Accel.

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

Too bad. Cannot bring myself to upgrade, P3Dv3.1 looks so great... but $100 for the GTN packages, 150 for the 777, 120 for the 737, 20-80 for RealAir and A2A P3D versions... I don't have the disposable income I used to have a few years ago when I would purchase every new addon available for FSX. I might dual boot when the PMDG 747v2 is released and buy the P3D version of that. I am stuck turning off all my custom AI and not use Orbx regions to save vas in FSX:Accel.

 

 

Don't feel too bad.. I have P3Dv3.1 installed and it works fine.. but I fly FSX more.   :smile:

[Boeing or not going 578]

Don't feel too bad.. I have P3Dv3.1 installed and it works fine.. but I fly FSX more.   :smile:

I spent Oct-Dec downloading all the flight plans I could find and repaints and adding them to FSX. But when I fly now I have to only activate the scenery I fly to, and run 0% traffic to get respectable fps and not oom. I tried a lot of AI traffic but my FSX cannot handle it with addon aircraft.

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

That has always been true with Flight Simulator, right from the beginning.

 

Add enough addons, and you will get to the point where you overload the simulator.

 

P3D is no different in this regard.   :wink:

 

Best remedy is usually faster hardware.. and/or cutting back on settings.

[Boeing or not going 578]

That has always been true with Flight Simulator, right from the beginning.

 

Add enough addons, and you will get to the point where you overload the simulator.

 

P3D is no different in this regard.   :wink:

 

Best remedy is usually faster hardware.. and/or cutting back on settings.

I had FS9 running fine but with FSX and all the Ai textures plus the larger detailed virtual cockpits of current aircraft, it fills up the vas limit.

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

As I said..

[Boeing or not going 578]

As I said..

But P3D is better, it will dump unnecessary scenery outisde where you are flying to help with vas, unlike fsx. Iif I take off in an Orbx region, and leave, it will dump the scenery from memory in P3D.

[StoneEyes 1]

Thanks to a computer crash, I started over with a new build around an i76700k, an OEM Win10 pro OS, and FSX-SE.  The only things I salvaged were my hard drives and SSDs plus I added a 1 terabyte SSD 'C' drive. 

 

Other than installing the legacy SDK' I also found it necessary to add to install NET. Framework 3.5,  4.5 comes with Win10.  With those changes everything installs and works perfectly.  Of course the faster hardware doesn't hurt either. :smile:

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

But P3D is better, it will dump unnecessary scenery outisde where you are flying to help with vas, unlike fsx. Iif I take off in an Orbx region, and leave, it will dump the scenery from memory in P3D.

 

Yes, P3D has better memory management - that does not mean you cannot overload it  :wink: