June 26, 200619 yr I didn't fly the Lear myself actually, I was taping someone else doing the flying. As for quicktime, its the only format my digital camera records in unfortunately.
June 26, 200619 yr Deluxe and Standard Editions? ..... :-boom Quote from MS Flight Team Lead: "We’ve made some guesses"
June 26, 200619 yr Also got to test fly FSX at the Expo. The stand I was operating (Seneca College) was in the same hangar and since it was such a slow day for us on Sunday I pretty much spent the entire time over at the FSX booth. Hal and the other Microsoft personnel were very friendly. Members of the flight Ontario team were also helping run the booth and it was nice to be able to voice my appreciation for their beautiful scenery.FSX was running on Dual Core AMD's if I remember correctly and 512MB ATI video cards. I don't remember how much memory they were equipped with or what the OS was (possibly XP with all the visual effects disabled) but I was told they were aiming for minimums of 512MB and that the build we were playing was also running on Vista. Hal and others mentioned several times that the DX10 stuff he had glimpses of was several orders of magnitude more impressive than what we were seeing in this early beta. That's exciting considering things looked pretty sharp in the first place!Framerates varied from around 15FPS (Red Bull Air Race, probably due to the airfield) to 25FPS (Oil Rig) but I imagine from this stage, development will be highly focussed on optimization. I didn't bother playing around with any graphics settings so I'm unsure what level of detail I was seeing. The virtual cockpit of the Bell 206 Jet Ranger was much smoother than in 2004 and the 2D panels of the other aircraft seemed to be similarly improved. Anway, was a great showing, can't wait to see FSX again!Big thanks to Hal, Microsoft and the Flight Ontario team!
June 26, 200619 yr Why are people complaining about the two versions? How does it matter? am I missing something?I don't get it.I'd buy the delux version like the other one didn't even exist. So thats the end of that!Manny Manny Beta tester for SIMStarter
June 26, 200619 yr Author Well, it's early to speculate about framerates, but my guess would be that it won't be as CPU-heavy at FS9, because DX10 is supposed to transfer more load to the GPU and I am sure the code will be optimized for that (and for DX9).With all the FS9 eye candy and default planes, I can easily hit 50-60fps now with an AMD 3800+, 1GB DualDDR and a 7600 GT. 3rd party AI traffic usually produces the biggest FPS hit regardless how you turn it - it costs me at least 20-30fps at 100%.
June 27, 200619 yr There will be two different editions: standard and "Deluxe". Deluxe will have more content on the DVDs.
June 27, 200619 yr >Why are people complaining about the two versions?The last time there were two versions (2002??) those who had the basic version had many problems with addons because most addons required gauges or other small things from the deluxe version. So, of course, these people would come on to the forums constantly and whine about it. It just makes it difficult for making addons and providing support.
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