HighFlyer82

I recently said goodbye to FSX and got P3D Academic version, but I am having major issues with water in P3D and nothing I try seems to fix it. Bascially the water looks awful, it has no animation, no visible normal map. It just looks like a water texture that is sliding across a plane. I've tried bumping the water settings to max but it doesn't make a difference, I have also reinstalled P3D several times, but nothing works. I think this problem was triggered when I installed REX4 and applied new water textures, prior to that I remember the water looking good. But wouldn't a reinstall fix whatever REX4 may have messed up? Any help would be appreciated as i'm at a loss for answers and I can't play P3D with the water looking like this

Hi all I am planning on overclocking my CPU for the first time tomorrow, and would like to know some things before I just jump right in. I've been looking at peoples PC specs on this forum and noticed a lot of people have OC'd CPU's so I thought this would be a good place to ask. Ok so my first question is this: -Can I achieve a stable overclock of anywhere between 4.0 to 4.5ghz on the following hardware? (Im not interested in pushing it any higher incase of damage) MOB: Asus 1155 P8P67 Evo CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k PSU: OCZ 550w GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950 RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Case: CiT Vantage w/ 4 Fans and also: -Should I manually overclock the CPU, or use the built-in Overclock Tuner feature? -Can you recommend any good software that can monitor CPU temperatures, voltages and clock speeds? Thanks in advance

You see, FSX didn't have a combat feature, which means they would actually have to write some original code for Flight! IE... Never going to happen

Not a bad review, I agree with some of the points made. But I think giving it a 5/10 is a bit generous.

There are some minor graphical improvements over FSX, but gameplay wise I see it has a gigantic step backwards. TBH I see no reason why anybody that owns FSX would want to play it, unless they have performance issues with FSX.

99% game, 1% sim

The awkward moment when Google Earth's flight simulator feature is better than Flight

I dont think this means anything, Flight is just FSX with most of the good stuff taken out, the code is essentially the same just with certain things disabled. And it would make more sense to have these featured included with release and not as an add-on.

A surprising amount of the scenery in Flight are actually FSX models, Im spotting more any more things (e.g. the cruise ships, jetways, some house/building textures). Scenery in Flight isn't really an improvement over FSX, it just blends with the terrain better

Its a greedy and flawed business model. MS Flight's target audience (from what I can tell) is primarily children and maybe young teenagers. If the DLC for flight really will add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars, I can imagine them not selling much of anything, I mean, kids don't have money for stuff like that, their parents do, and I'm pretty sure no parent would spend that much money on some overpriced game addons for their kid.FSX at the time of launch was what, $60? And for that, you get global land coverage, thousands of airports, loads of aircraft, AI aircraft, and all the other little things that make FSX great. For flight, you pay $20, 1/3 of the FSX retail price, for a few small islands that aren't even completely custom modelled. If that isn't a scam, I don't know what is.

They deserve it.Don't feel bad for the guys who coded it, all they have done is taken FSX, deleted all landmass except Hawaii, and placed a few hoops in the sky. The graphics are the same as FSX, IMO, with a very minor upgrade to shadows and lighting. That's it. It makes me question what on Earth they've been doing for 2 years, from what I've seen so far, it should've take no longer than 5 months to complete, tops!

Let's also not forget, FSX has more bugs than the Amazon Rainforest, one could consider themselves lucky if they complete a flight without a a fatal error occurring, a bug, glitch, or down right blue screen.

I dread to think what it would be like if they released the entire Earth as DLC, the graphics quality of Hawaii is dire (a fractional improvement upon FSX in some areas ~ buildings, and a regression in other areas ~ water, ground textures), so if they put that little effort into creating a small island like Hawaii, just imagine the quality of large continents like US, Africa, and Australia. It's quite clear MS have been lazy with Flight, by trying to do as little work as possible yet raking in as much money as possible, and I'm certainly not going to fall for it. I pity those that do.

Looks like FSX has got at least another 3 years ahead of it. No serious FSX enthusiast is going to want to play this game.

I'll try the game out considering it's free but there is no way on Earth I am paying for any DLC, mainly because they led us on to believe this was going to be a Flight Simulator, not an Arcade game, and I don't think they deserve money for that.