June 19, 20223 yr 73 and first flight sim was Elite IFR in 1991 (made in Switzerland), then the first 744 simulator (was made in Germany, can't remember the name...!), then moved on to Microsoft games, FS95 and each of them since then... Edited June 19, 20223 yr by Bernard Ducret Bernard CPU = 12900K / GPU = Nvidia 3090 VRAM 24 GB / RAM = 64 GB / SSD = 2 TB 980 PRO PCle 4.0 NVMe™ M.2,
June 19, 20223 yr 40 - started with FS 5.1 which I bought in my holiday in the US as I was fascinated by the planes I was traveling with. Made my mother buy it although I did not (yet) have a PC capable of running it. Strategic decision that was. 😄 Happy with MSFS 🙂 home simming evolved
June 19, 20223 yr 61, and initially attempted simming back in the 80's, but gave up for decades due to work commitments etc. Saw the first reviews of MSFS before it launched, and bought it day 1. AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3d, MSI X570 Pro, 32 gb DDR4 3600 ram, Gigabyte 6800 16gb GPU, 1x 2tb Samsung NvMe , 1x 2tb Sabrent NvME, 1x Crucial 4tb Nvme M2 Drive
June 19, 20223 yr 65 ... since FS2 😊 AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
June 19, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Torsen said: 49 and flying since SubLogic on Apple IIe. at the age of 6? AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
June 19, 20223 yr so we have 25 the youngest 89 the oldest, majority over 50. many began on FS1/FS2 and are older than the Asobo developers or Jörg Neumann (56) 😊 Edited June 19, 20223 yr by turbomax AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
June 19, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, turbomax said: so we have 25 the youngest 89 the oldest, majority over 50. most started before the Asobo developers or Jörg Neumann were born😊 And despite the age difference I feel a strong connection. Happy flying my friends!
June 19, 20223 yr 75....since FS2 Kind regards, Hans van WIjhe Acer Predator P03-640 2.10 Ghz Intel 12th Gen Core 17-12700F 64GB memory, Noctua NH-U9S Cooler, 1.02 TB SSD HD, 1.02 TB HD, NVidia Geforce RTX 3070 16GB Memory, Windows 11 (x64)
June 19, 20223 yr 63, simming since 20 years (FS 2002/4). I'm pleased to see young simmers (below 40) here too. 🙂 - Harry 9800x3D (Strix x870e-E) - 64GB RAM (DDR5 6000, CL 30) - RTX 5090, 34'' 1440p OLED HDR - Windows 11 Pro (1TB M.2) - MSFS 2024 (MS Store, 4TB M.2).
June 19, 20223 yr 72, Psion Flight Simulator on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Blue sea, green land and pointy hills. What a long way we have all come. Brilliant. Regards...Kenny
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