MS Flight Simulator X - first screenshots

[flashbacck]

Announced last night at CES

Pretty

 

[pontifex]

and i just bought the 2004 edition of it...

nice graphics though

 

[jammur21]

X-plane FTW

xplane

 

[Broadkipa]

Gonna need a super computer to run that!!

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

Originally posted by: Broadkipa
Gonna need a super computer to run that!!

qft

 

[blurredvision]

It would be absolutely spectacular if they were able to integrate the game with Microsoft's (fairly) new http://local.live.com site. Just have the site stream the satellite images over and have them transferred in-game to make up the ground texture. If they had the time, they could model bigger cities ahead of time to show real 3D buildings (which is already there I would assume). Just an idea, and I don't think it'd be any more taxing on a computer than some of the high-end games out now, I mean, there's not much to the graphics IMO.

 

[Markbnj]

Just an idea, and I don't think it'd be any more taxing on a computer than some of the high-end games out now, I mean, there's not much to the graphics IMO.

Long transfer times, but you could precache I suppose. Couple of other problems, though. The sat images are a patchwork of images from different birds, taken at different times and different resolutions. Moreover they are often shot from completely different angles and elevations.

 

[theMan]

whens it coming out?

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Just an idea, and I don't think it'd be any more taxing on a computer than some of the high-end games out now, I mean, there's not much to the graphics IMO.

Long transfer times, but you could precache I suppose. Couple of other problems, though. The sat images are a patchwork of images from different birds, taken at different times and different resolutions. Moreover they are often shot from completely different angles and elevations.

Well, I must say that my suggestion was completely hypothetical, and something that would be pretty neat if achieved, but thanks anyway for analyzing it to death.

 

[flashbacck]

Originally posted by: theman
whens it coming out?

Holiday 2006's the word. A little less than a year.

 

[biff 24 2000]

hopefully it turns out to be pretty good

 

[Markbnj]

Well, I must say that my suggestion was completely hypothetical, and something that would be pretty neat if achieved, but thanks anyway for analyzing it to death.

Dude, I am so sorry. I can't believe I did that. Responding to an idea posted on a forum with reasons why it won't work! /slapme. I'm ashamed.

 

[Frodolives]

That seaplane is about to get a bird in the intake

Well, the theories on implementation are interesting, but it's bound to be a big cut above the last one I played. I found Combat Flight Sim 3 very dissappointing and uninstalled it the same week I installed. I'm probably gonna reinstall IL2.

 

[tuteja1986]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/microsof...simulatorx/media.html?autoplay=6141987 the developer interview is pretty cool. the dude talks about DX 10 and Shader 4.0. It also talks about Vista and gaming

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: jammur21
X-plane FTW

xplane

X-Plane 8.21 + New Global Scenery


This is X-Plane 8.21 + NEW WORLD-WIDE global scenery (seven dual-layer DVD's covering all of Earth between +/- 60 degrees latitude) for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

The disk requirement to install the entire planet is 60 GIG!

(Linux users will need to grab the latest installers from the Download section of this web site).

holy sh!t

 

[AdamSnow]

Looks nice!

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: flashbacck
Announced last night at CES

Pretty

Awesome, been waiting for this for almost a year. I have FS 2002 which is ok, but wanted to skip 04 and get the next iteration.

Judging by the screenies the waiting is well fooking worth it!

 

[Farmer]

It's worth upgrading for.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: pontifex
and i just bought the 2004 edition of it...

nice graphics though

Same, not that any of my rigs would run that new one though... looks too good.