Hi folks, I’m a long time simmer who has been out of the scene for at least five years and looking to get back in. I have owned many versions of Flight sim going

 

all the way back to FS98 up to FSX. I am just now reading up on Prepar3d and of course FSX-SE. I own quite a bit of FSX add-ons so switching Flight Sims

 

would make those obsolete, so I will hold off on Prepar3D for now. I just built a new rig with the following specs in order to restart where I left off.

 

Windows 10 64 Bit

 

Intel Core I7 6700K 4.0GHz (Overclocked to 4.6GHz)

 

Gigabyte G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard

 

G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB 3400 DDR4 SDRAM

 

GeForce GTX 980

 

Samsung 500GB SSD

 

Corsair H110iGTX liquid cooling.

 

The questions I have are:

• Is there a noticeable difference in going with FSX-SE over my FSX deluxe edition?
• Will most of my add-ons work in the Steam edition or do I have to hunt down and re-download updates?
• What are the must have add-ons for scenery, airplanes and environment I should look into?

 

My preferred airplanes are airliners and I mostly sim in the Flight levels so pretty scenery except for the detailed airports I fly into are not too high on my must

 

have list to start. I would appreciate any and all input.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

bash

What add ons are you wanting to use? FSX:SE is improved over FSX because certain improvements were made, albeit minor ones. Dovetail was not allowed to alter the code like LM but the difference is significant for some.

 

Certain add ons won't work in FSX:SE. The Reality XP gauges and various other things. You have to look at the forums are find out what is compatible. A list exists and some things work despite not being officially supported. The PMDG MD11 is one that works fine is FSX:SE but it's not supported.

 

Then if you're running Windows 10 that's another issue too.

I haven't had any issues with fs2004 scene installed on fsx.steam, but aircraft.cfg files are very different. So look for fsx specific aircraft. So far, with all the environment textures I've loaded, nothing made more of an impact on looks as scenery tech landclass. Worth it.

What add ons are you wanting to use? FSX:SE is improved over FSX because certain improvements were made, albeit minor ones. Dovetail was not allowed to alter the code like LM but the difference is significant for some.

 

Certain add ons won't work in FSX:SE. The Reality XP gauges and various other things. You have to look at the forums are find out what is compatible. A list exists and some things work despite not being officially supported. The PMDG MD11 is one that works fine is FSX:SE but it's not supported.

 

Then if you're running Windows 10 that's another issue too.

 

 

I haven't had any issues with fs2004 scene installed on fsx.steam, but aircraft.cfg files are very different. So look for fsx specific aircraft. So far, with all the environment textures I've loaded, nothing made more of an impact on looks as scenery tech landclass. Worth it.

 

Thanks guys. I was looking to load REX and some detailed airports like EGLL etc and go from there. I was very impressed with the performance

 

i got doing touch and goes in the Cessna 172 last night that I want to go full steam ahead and see what will bring my system to its knees and

 

adjust from there. Frame rates set to unlimited were in the 350 FPS level flying at KFRG. I don't remember it being that high on my previous

 

installation, granted I did not crank up autogen or move sliders that much to the right yet.