Just want to say, for the record, Flight Simulator X is way better than

[shortylickens]

anything else.

By a wide margin.

In fact its motivated me to get a joystick again.
I sold my last two many years ago cuz I was tired of older flight sims and all the jet games were gimped to make better use of pads.

 

[Mutilator]

Well it has definitely helped me out along the way to getting my private pilot cert.

It's even better when you use a yoke, throttle, rudder pedals, track ir, and various addons like REX Essentials Plus HD, Ultimate Terrain X USA, and GEX North America.

Oh and uh using FlightSimGPS to connect it to my Ipad Mini w/Foreflight running for a moving map GPS so I can practice my real life cross country flights & verify my checkpoints are in order.

 

[mmntech]

I've tried X-Plane and it's not as good as FS X. It has the perfect balance of realism with user friendliness. The problem was its hardware requirements and poor multicore performance. I think you could do a lot more now with DirectCompute and proper multithreading. It's a shame Microsoft shut the studio down, so it's unlikely we'll get another proper release. MS Flight was an unmitigated disaster.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

How is MS Flight compared to X?

 

[BlitzPuppet]

How is MS Flight compared to X?

A joke.

 

[Kalmah]

How is MS Flight compared to X?

It's not even a simulator.. they tried to cross-breed simulation with arcade or something. Sim enthusiasts don't want to fly a plane that 99% of the cockpit doesn't even work, and arcade gamers don't have guns, rockets or missiles.. lol.

They tried to cover two separate target audiences and failed at both.

 

[Kalmah]

I've tried X-Plane and it's not as good as FS X. It has the perfect balance of realism with user friendliness. The problem was its hardware requirements and poor multicore performance. I think you could do a lot more now with DirectCompute and proper multithreading. It's a shame Microsoft shut the studio down, so it's unlikely we'll get another proper release. MS Flight was an unmitigated disaster.

Yep, I remember chugging along at like 7fps. lol. Man did it look good though.

I want to play again, but I think I spent an entire year installing mods, using tools to re-design airports, made my own AI traffic, re-painted aircraft, installed new aircraft etc... I don't have the ambition to do all of that again. I'd like a game that is all ready to go. I'm afraid that I'll install vanilla fsx and be disappointed. Not to mention spending hours tweaking the sensitivities and button assignments for my x52 flight stick.

We need a new FSX.

 

[shortylickens]

How is MS Flight compared to X?

A joke. At least they had the good sense to not put the word Simulation in the title, cuz it would have been a lie.

We're still waiting on Flight Simulator 11.

 

[videogames101]

I counter with the DCS series.

 

[Dankk]

I counter with the DCS series.

Yup. In terms of pure realism, the DCS series pretty much blows every other flight sim out of the water.

 

[Craig234]

MS Flight no longer develops any content. I bought some DLC but haven't palyed it yet.

 

[BladeVenom]

How is MS Flight compared to X?

MS Flight is basically a big FU to gamers and simulator fans. Proof that MS wants to get rid of PC gaming, and only wants there to be Xbox gaming.

 

[Anteaus]

I counter with the DCS series.

Apples and oranges. Both are flight sims but they satisfy completely different needs. They don't really compete with each other.

FSX is about operating in simulated civil airspace, with all of the requisite real world navigation aids and airports. MS never really put huge efforts in flight fidelity, though the default models are adequate. FSX is basically a sandbox. Unless you're willing to put some money into third party addons and decent flight controls, FSX will fall short of it's potential. FSX is quite extrordinary with the right mix.

DCS is about high fidelity military aircraft in very small but highly detailed flight environments. The downside is that if you're not blowing stuff up, you really can't do anything but do flight testing. The aircraft are a joy to flight, but you are still limited geographically.

I own the entire DCS line as well as FSX and numerous aftermarket addons.