Flight Sim X-Gold
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Flight Sim X-Gold
Customer Review: Training aid for pilots!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a student pilot you are going to love this game! It helped me on my VFR pilot training. Now that I'm thinking about getting my instrument rating, I know this software is going to help me a lot as well! You have to have a very good graphics card on your system to fully enjoy it.Customer Review: Flight Sim X - Gold
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent product. Scenery and clouds realistic. If you have owned a previous version of Flight Sim before you will definitely like this version, there are a lot of cool enhancements. Am running this on a new Imac 24 inch computer using boot camp program that came with computer. Only advise for doing this is to make sure you make a large enough partition, other wise you might have install issues, I made a 100 gig for my windows products.Customer Review: Great Level of Realism
Summary: 4 Stars
This flight sim goes to the next level of realism. Very nice!
The only problem I have is that finding information that will let you know what the best system resource is used for this simulation is very difficult to determine.
Customer Review: Make sure you have a good videocard!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is very easy to install and configure. It can be very easy or very difficult depending on how you set it up. Great graphics if you have a good video card otherwise turn the graphics options down.Customer Review: Beware
Summary: 1 Stars
The graphics are awesome. The simulation is great. Lots of fun.
You get all that....if it works.
Beware, if you do not have a stable, up-to-date, top of the line system, it will not work. If you have a computer over 1 year old running XP or Vista, it is most likely will not be stable. If you cannot or do not do windows updates, you are not current. All your drivers, video/audio cards need to be current.
Your video card needs to be at least 256 Mb, 512 Mb is best. You need at least 2 Gb of memory, 4 Gb is best, with dual core and at least 2 GHz speed.
If all of that fits your situation, and you are still interested, make sure you get it with the Acceleration package. It has the SP1 and SP2 updates and some fixes not available anywhere else.
Hint.If the short-cut icon does not appear on your desktop after the install, you may have problems. Also, if your do an uninstall, even a REVO uninstall, it will not be completely uninstalled. Microsoft should give you a complete list of the things you need to do to do a complete uninstall, because each time you do a reinstall, it will just make things worse.
I got my FSX and ACC package for XMAS along with a new Saiteck top of the line joystick and pedals. Along with the FSX book for pilots. An outlay of around $200.
I installed the FSX package and not the Acc package, It installed ok, but would not start up. So, uninstalled it (MSFTs recomendation and my first mistake). Installed it again with the Acc package, this time it started up but I would get a fatal windows error when trying a few things.
My computer is a Notebook and is a 'gamer' notebook. Pretty much top of the line in terms of performance. Got it in March of 2008.
After doing several uninstalls and reinstalls, I called MSFT support and paid the $39 fee for help.
After about 10 days of trouble shooting and trying this and that, MSFT finally told me I would have to do clean formatted reinstall of vista.
MY registry was so contaminated with FSX entries that it would take a life time to remove them all. The REVO uninstaller, which is the most complete freeware uninstaller in the business (even used by MSFT), could not clean up everything.
Not doing the Vista reinstall, now haggling with MSFT to get a refund.
Good luck,
Kent