This is interesting over at Amazon.com they are offering FSX for $69.95US release date 19th Sept 2006Listed under Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe DVD Are you ready?gwillmot

Which would imply that there is not going to be any sort of requirement for Windows Vista.....Ed GreenKCLThttp://www.panelshop.com/Banners/DEV.jpg

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This is about the fourth time this has been mentioned.:-roll

It has been known for quite some time that Vista is NOT required to run FSX. Vista will eventually enable DX10 functionality in ADDITION to WinXP/DX9.It is really unnecessary to speculate about a potential release date, but late September/early October would be a reasonable guess-timate, because a) Avsim plans to offer FSX during their convention in mid-September and :( MS has inoffically announced a release date of October. It's probably somewhere in between.

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Theres more FSX threads? :(

You all have fun trying to get FSX looking good with DX9. Heck there is not even DX10 hardware out until likely next year along with Vista. I forsee a ton of people coming on the forums wondering why there machine can't run FSX with all sliders to the right! Heck, my understanding is that all video cards on the market now won't work with DX10 anyways!

Yes actually a lot of cards will be compatible with DX10. What cards do you think they are using right now to test it then.

None. Point me to a link that says they are testing DX10 with DX10 compatable graphics cards.

>None. Point me to a link that says they are testing DX10 with>DX10 compatable graphics cards.I am testing Vista beta2, with a 6600GT DX9 card, and it deffinately says dx10 as the version that the system is using, so it obviously has the ability to backward capacity to DX9 if necessary. I wouldn,t worry as i'm sure msoft have and will have all bases covered when necessary

>None. Point me to a link that says they are testing DX10 with>DX10 compatable graphics cards.I know Nvidia is supposed to have their DX10 card in September ready for testing; right now though there are none at all as you said. Atleast that I know of which doesnt mean anything.

No current cards are DX10 compatible nor DX10 compliant.All the testing is being done with WinXP/DX9c. The initial FSX release will be DX9 only.Doug

DX10 will not run on DX9 hardware as it's a totally different API. To get around this non-backward compatibility issue, Vista also has a DX9L API which is what the current cards utilize with Beta 2.Doug

Releasing a game that only would run properly on a OS that is in beta stage and on hardware that will be available sometime late 2007 or who knows when, who in there right mind would do that, certainly not anyone who wants to keep their job or make money.Good reviews on major gamesites are very important for sales, i know most here would buy it even if it was a slideshow with sliders all the way to the left, but if FSX was thrashed on say IGN and Gamespot in their reviews, i bet that would have a very very negative effect on sales.