Over the past month or month and a half, I've been consistantly checking the release date for FSX. It seems that October 3rd is no longer the release date for FSX. This is according to Amazon.com, EBGames.com, and Gamestop.com. It appears that on these websites, the new release date is October 17th -- an additional two weeks of nail-biting, teeth-grinding waiting. I can only hope that the original release date is still the target release date but it's hard to say.There are usually a few reasons the release date is pushed up like this. Most likely, the ACES development team probably needed an additional two weeks to add or fix something. Or it is entirely possible that due to the number of people in the hobby, that additional time will be needed to manufacture enough copies of FSX once it goes Gold. Please keep in mind though that these reasons for a delayed release date are just merely speculatory.

IF the beta is any indication, they have a whole bunch of stuff to fix. Something has already been done about the current blurfest slideshow that is FSX right now according to some of the ACES guys, but there's a lot more problems. I'd rather wait 2 more weeks or another month for that matter if that results in a stable and fluid performance eventually.

Suits me just fine, I'm heading to DisneyWorld from Oct 8'th to the 16'th and I want to concentrate on my trip, not the fact that I had to leave FSX Behind me :)

Well, the beta is an out- of- date build and many of the major bugs are fixed, according to P-12C.

Wouldn't worry me if they canned the whole release until sometime next year post Vista and DX10 which was the original plan. Maybe then there will be enough wow factor to entice me to upgrade and most of my favourite addons will be FSX compatible and I will have a new you beaut system to run it. As things stand now, there is just too much I will need to leave behind in FS9 for an upgrade to FSX that at best only offers a minor improvement in eye candy in some areas. Furthermore my FS9 partition is over 60 gig and I just don't have any room for both FSX and FS9 on my current system.Bruceb

I can

Yes I've started buying FS9 addons again as the realisation has dawned on me that I will be using FS9 for another year at least.Bruceb

Personally I've been hearing end of October for a long time, and had 27th in my head for some reason. I can live with that, still not sure whether to upgrade PC yet or not, or wait till next year when Vista comes out. From what I've heard FSX runs just as good as FS9 anyway, if not a little better, and the demo seems to run more smoothly than my FS9 with similar settings and more going on so....

The FS-X demo and the news & screenshots from the FP BETA 3 had the same effect on me. FS9 + plus triple A addons seem to beat FS-X every time. For a clear example look at the screenshots here http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=53914Its logical that a scenery addon that concentrates on a small area of the world build mostly by hand with care and attention beats raw converted data.The FS-X aircraft look good and they are more detailed then the FS9 defaults but then can never hope to compete against the top add-on aircraft.The thing is with FS9 I can choose to improve the program in the area I care about and at this moment it will be the best you can get. Sure FS-X will improve the general detail of the entire earth but the thing is general improvement isn't enough. I fly VFR in Europe above francevfr photoreal terrain like the Southern Alps http://secure.simmarket.com/product_info.p...roducts_id=1988 and discover Yellowstone in great detail http://secure.simmarket.com/product_info.p...roducts_id=2030Then I switch to my 2nd FS install (for airliner opperation) and I take the PMDG 737 up flying above Ultimate Terrain addons and FSGenesis mesh and if possible I use a detailed rendition of the airports in my routes.Due to FS9's flexibility it will be a long time before I switch to FS-X

There has never been a published "release date" for FSX. Amazon and the rest of the retailers are just guessing and providing earlier-rather-than-later dates to entice you to preorder through them. It'll be released when MS says it'll be released.Doug

Umm no, fs9 with all upgrades still does not even come close to fsx in eye candy. Fsx is night and day better than fs9 graphically. Anyone that says differently has either not played the beta, is lying or has all the options in fsx turned to as low as they go. I own fs9 with BEV and FE, tons of 3rd party planes and other addons too extensive to list here and the default install of fsx blows it away, and i mean BLOWS it away. Fsx with every option turned to low MIGHT be equal to fs9 with all addons and all option turned to as high as they get. Thats the difference we are talking here in how good fsx looks. Water is superb, autogen houses and trees are superb with no clipping or poor placement. The traffic is mediocre but hopefully it will be tweeked.Turn up the autogen to extremely dense, all effects to mid or high and it is a sight to see. With dx10 it will be near photo realistic. So please let's not say that fs9 with addons is just as nice graphically as fsx, because it's certainly not. Not sure if you are a beta tester or not but it doesnt sound like it. I am a beta tester and i am very impressed. It is still pretty buggy but overall i can see that it will be a great product, especially if they improve the frame rate.

Wrong thread buddy.

We don't control what date the retailers put on their web sites. Go figure...

All websites try to GUESS at a release date and hope it is close. They try to get close and leave it at that. MS and ACES studios never released a date except for Holiday 2006. Now with that being said and me being a MS FSX Beta tester I can tell you that it hands down beats the add-ons for FS2004. Plus you get the features such as the missions and the living world that just completely add to the realism. You will find that flying with FSX will be the MOST REALISTIC experience EVER. Also I can say that with a decent machine you will be able to run FSX comfortable. With my Athlon64 3200+ 1gb ram and ATI x850 agp video card I get decent frame rates and I can still see clouds, trees, birds, and cars. Hope this helps you all make an informed decision.

I see your point, but isn't it kind of an apples-and-oranges comparison, to put Tongass+FS9 next to FSX southeast alaska? *Of course* Tongass+Fs9 will be way better than stock FSX. But take stock FS9 vs stock FSX anywhere on the globe, and it's pretty clear the bar has been raised.RhettAMD 3700+ powered by Gerbil wheel + gerbil, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 gigs Corsair TWINX, blah blah, etc. etc.