Buckster

are you sure about that ? I'd be surprised ? can the GTX660 cope with decent amounts of FSAA with its limited memory bandwidth ? not sure about others on here,but for Flight Sims (less so on action games) - I run them at 1900x1200 with 8xAA minimum, most of the times (DCS A10, FSX etc) 16xAA - and looks great could the 66o cope with this ? as if it could I wouldn't mind something slighly cooler in my case

thanks for your findings :) with reference to the memory overclock and benchmark results - it could be one of 2 things (1) those results are well in the margin of error for any benchmark (2) one thing to note DDR5 has built in error correction, which can start being used if overclocked too high. IE it will realise that errors are being made and will internally (on the memory itself) correct in real-time - BUT this does slow it down, therefore higher clocks can indeed get lower performance. Note that there are no outward signs (ie stability or corruption) - just lower performance. I'm slightly confused why you're getting better performance from the 660Ti though as in most modern benchmarks its not really that much quicker than a 580, and it has much lower memory bandwidth than the 580 (which I'd have thought was useful for FSX) personally I wouldn't upgrade my oc'd 480 for a 660Ti anyway be interested in further results

I think it happens when the program puts the aircraft not high enough above the scenery and it suddenly bounces out of the sceneryI got it when I tried placing a plane on the top of the highest mountain

C46 or DC3 please :)

X-Plane at a guess ..... !

no poll?

definately still a flight sim

worrying potential business model for this product ...Play Flight (free version) - and if you like it- and get into it - then buy FSX :)

to be honest - MS have always had the latest and greatest popular Boeing in their sims...767 originally wasn't it ?then 737then in FSX - 737-800so a 787 is not unlikely I'd say

no I wouldn't - but not really a fair poll to be honest - as its don't designed to be something you "buy" - but voted no none the less

I agree with sharing your passion - do I think Flight is the avenue for getting our children etc into flightsims ? no ?I let my son (7) try flight this evening and he seemed very unimpressed (he has played FSX in the past - in small doses)his comments - almost straight off the bat were(1) graphics looked bad(2) where are all the planes I can fly ?no (1) you could argue - but (2) I totally agree with. I got into flight simulators playing the likes of FS4 on my dad's work laptop (I was about 10 ish at the time) - I used to love trying all the different aircarft, flying at different locations, and even making my own aircraft !! :) Did the scale of the program put me off ? no - its there to explore, see what you can find etc - you don't need to be guided through everythingI then went onto to buy all the succeeding FS series, Falcon 3, 4 etc etc - its what got me into flight simsbtw - when he tried FSX - after flying some smaller aircraft, his mind was wowed by trying a jet airliner - could he lower the flaps, go to full thrust (I have a X52), take off at right speed, then "fly around" and explore, look around cockpit etc ? sure he could, he found it pretty natural. He loved the fact that it was an aircraft that he sees at our local airport, and one hes been on. Was it too complex for him ? no. OK admittadly something like PMDG aircraft, or a full ILS landing would be way out of his ability, but all I'm saying is I think a FSX style game is plenty good and easy enough to get people into flightsims. It worked for me - it seems to have worked for my son.I just don't think everything has to be dumbed down so much - and people don't really need their hand lead through everything ....YMMV - just my views

I let my son try flight" this evening(he's 7) this evening - as I've possibily been playing Flight with too negative "eyes"he didn't like take to it at all - his first comments were(1) Graphics do not look good (he has played FSX in the past)(2) Where are all the planes - what exciting planes are there ?I remember as a youngster playing FS4 and what got me into flightsims was playing around with lots of different aicraft, landing at locations all round the world. This got me into flightsims.

banding here too - GTX480

all settings set to high - running off an SSD drive toonot sure what's with that tree shadow either ? its upside down isn't it ?I'll retry mission after quitting and re-going into the program see if was just a glitch

I think the Island looks fine from high up - but I think the missions should have been picked in such a way that doesn't show up the scenery flaws so clearly :( could have been avoided by making you fly higher or something. Or alternatively make the areas you are asked to go to "right" and high quality, blending textures etc - rather than jarring landscapesor do I have a graphics setting wrong ? (all set to high)