Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe (PC)

A lot has been said about Flight Sim X regarding the system requirements, almost to the point where the rest of the sim is forgotten. This is a shame because its such a great simulation with plenty of aircraft to fly, from jumbo jets to gliders and helicopters and thousands of cities and airports to fly to. The ground detail is by default quite generic unless you're flying across the USA, but many of the terrain packs available for Flight Sim 2004 are also compatible with this so the landmarks and roads you expect to see can be added in later. There is also a way of incorporating the photography from Google Earth into it, although I haven't yet got to grips with the program thats available to do it.There are a large number of missions to try, starting with the very basic taking off and landing in a light aircraft to landing a chopper on an oil rig in a storm. Speaking of storms, there is also a function to allow FSX to download the weather conditions for the area you are flying in, for a bit of extra realism.Sure, the system requirements are quite high. It would have been silly for Microsoft to create a game that didn't push modern PC's to their limits. From reading various blogs from Microsoft staff involved in FSX, their intention was to make it so that it was quite resource hungry to keep it fresh. On the options screen nearly every setting is on a slider, so you can gradually increase the settings depending on how well it runs and you can even set a target framerate.I'm currently running it on Windows Vista with an overclocked Athlon X2 CPU, 2GB RAM and a Geforce 8800GTS graphics card and it runs quite nicely with most of the sliders on full. Unfortunately it can be quite jerky when looking around the cabin.The reason why a lot of systems struggle with FSX is because it is quite CPU intensive, unlike a lot of games that rely on the graphics card more than the CPU, so even with the best graphics card, it'll splutter if your CPU isn't up to the job.There are a few updates on their way though. "Service Pack 1" is allegedly going to move the load further towards the graphics card to improve performance. There is also a Direct3D10 update on the way, allowing FSX to utilise the more efficient driver model and DirectX features in Windows Vista, whilst adding a bit of extra detail along the way. There is also an expansion pack coming too called "Adrenaline", but this may require Vista and a Direct3d10 compatible graphics card to run properly.

Dvds didnt all load ! Missing files Not happy!!

Good product to install but my PC through up an error code which stopped me loading it fully. Not the products fault, but issue well documented on Google, but hard to resolve. Had to resort to the Steam version.

Flight simulator X is the best simulation game that I have ever seen and ever played on. The reason why it is so good is that it's realistic and all of the planes that you get and you get about 50 have VC (Virtual Cockpit) which adds to the feel of the plane. There are only two downsides to FSX and the first one is that it takes about 45mins to install and that's a long time but it doesn't really matter. But the second downside to FSX is that GAMESPY the company that used to host the multiplayer for FSX has decided to stop and now there is no multi-player in the sense that of what it used to be and now you have to use the Direct Connect button in the LAN part of the multiplayer and you can write in the IP address and connect to the sessions that way. You can find a list of sessions by going to this website:[...]So overall it's a great game and I give it a 5 star rating because it is the best in the market and compared to XPLANE another flight simulator it's so much better.

The spec on the box made this game look suitable for my machine it appeared to be well above the minimum requirements.Allow at least 3 hours plus to load it onto your hard drive.then be ready to be dissapointed by the graphics they are about the same as the old Amiga back in the eighties even flying the microlight is just stop and go.I popped into PC world and had a chat with a shop assistant hoping to upgrade my computer, he informed me that he had a top of the range all singing all dancing piece of kit and even that wasn't up to scratch so perhaps the machine has yet to be made that will run it properly.Don't think that it will be any good to you in the future as it is a one off instalation and cannot be used again if you upgrade. on the positive side it has a good range of aircraft.

I was exsited when i first saw this game advertised on Microsoft's offichal site. I orderd the game for £15.20 using prime delivery that was deliverd special dlelivery, next day by Royal Mail. The pakageing was in high standerd, 2 Cd's containing both 4.0 GB, 8 Gb taken up from my D hardrive, Im using a 32bit computer with a intel graphics card, 2.0 GHZ, Windows 7 Ultimate, The graphics are amazing, once you apply your own custom graphic settings in the settings of Flight Simulatour X, high deatil of plane interier, and ground services, soround sound, brings the hole exsperiance alive. Fantastic misshions ranging from beginner to intermedert. Loads of planes and helecompters,i recomed that asswell you buy this game. order the exstention pack for even more exsiting fun. an overall rateing of 5 stars an Excellent game, no need for high profomence computers aslong as you reach the equierd standerds.Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Deluxe Edition (PC)

This is a game that has the ability to open up in front of you and really immerse you in a rewarding and addictive flight simulation. On current machines and Windows 10, you might never get more than 3 minutes of flight before it crashes. And at this price who can afford that? I am somehow more frustrated that I know I would love this game, but it is unapologetically unreliable and I wish I had never wasted my time and money on it.