Microsoft Flight Simulator X Acceleration Expansion
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Video Game Reviews of Microsoft Flight Simulator X Acceleration Expansion
Customer Review: "Like The Real Thing"
Summary: 5 Stars
This is far better than anything I have ever flown. The fa/18 jets are great.Customer Review: Ho Hum
Summary: 2 Stars
It isn't as bad as some have indicated, but unless you are dying to get an F/A-18, P-51 or another helicopter, you would probably do best to pass on this and wait for SP2 which is free.
I'm not going to mention the missions because I wish MS had omitted missions from Flight Simulator X, altogether. They are too game-like for anyone who takes the word simulator seriously.
Acceleration does add some minimal DX10 features, but nothing to get excited about. They call it DX10 Preview because it is a very small subset of what DX10 is capable of.
Customer Review: awful, buggy, should have waited until after first update
Summary: 2 Stars
such a piece of junk. as an fsx expert, i expected to have to uninstall and reinstall most everything. but this is ridiculous. uninstalled and reinstalled 12 times. had to reinstall fsx and fsx/sp1. sometimes acceleration won't even install due to direct x incompatibility. awful product. even Microsoft should be ashamed. don't buy it until they release the inevitable "update" which is really a patch which should have been included. I agree with the reviewer who thought he knew better and other complainers were just newbies...don't make that mistake.Customer Review: Caveat Emptor - Bring a Parachute - Save Often ( ; )
Summary: 1 Stars
I chalked up the bad reviews to bone headed users and bought this...but I apologize, I was wrong and they were right after all. It's no fun at all if it won't work.
It installed with no issues. It fired up with no issues. Then random crashes sometimes 5 minutes into it, sometimes 15 minutes into it sometimes 30 seconds into it. Get the picture? FSX is now virtually unplayable on my rather high end system (3.0 core2 quad - 4GB RAM - 8800GTS 640 - 680i mobo, etc and running just fine before this, thank you very much). I thought they were on the right track after SP1 which was great (they should have waited until this was ready for the initial release). But this? FSX Accelerator! If I was an attorney...
Oh and dx10? A joke. I defy anyone to tell the difference between 9 and 10 to the naked eye (that is if you can get it to go for 5 minutes before it crashes. It doesn't look like the "artists rendition" we were all led on by. Trust me, you will be extremely disappointed.
I hope they stop socking each others ducks at Aces and Microsoft and get to work. Tell them to do their bloody job for heavens sake and stop stealing our money. Don't by this. Wait.
***UPDATE*** ***UPDATE***
All of a sudden FSX Accelerator started working properly. I have been able to fly for the last 2 days. Unfortunately I don't know why since I have changed nothing hard or soft and Microsoft updates 11/13 were already installed.
So far I like what I see though if I did not know DX10 was functioning I wouldn't have noticed, so that's still a disappointment.
Some of the missions now have cool little intro movies and most importantly my frame rates have not been hurt though I don't exactly see any improvement there either.
So I would move this up to 3 stars now and remove my warning. If things stay stable, maybe... well, we'll see. I can't give it 5 because of the DX10 and frame rate promises. No doubt idiot marketers hype as usual. When will they learn?
Customer Review: Acceleration May Slow You Down
Summary: 1 Stars
First off - I am a huge Flight Simulator fan and have been for many years. With that said, this is a bit of a disappointment. I did not get any of the installation errors that others have reported. However, after installing Acceleration, the video quality of Flight Simulator dropped significantly. Before I was getting 30-40 FPS with very smooth motion. After "Acceleration", the graphics are just choppy - still getting the same frame rates, but panning the view around the aircraft now causes the graphics to move in steps rather than the fluid motion before. This is true not just on Acceleration content, but on all FSX content. Not sure what the installer did, but it wasn't good. Hopefully a patch or update from Microsoft will address this.