Anyone play flight simulators (PC)?

[L60N]

Shouldn't be a problem. I bought a new machine just a couple of months ago with:

Intel Core i5-650 3.2GHz processor
6GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
Stuffed in my old nVidia 9500GT w/1GB memory
Win 7 64 bit
Some sort of motherboard that's name I'm too lazy to type in

It's not a ubermachine, but it should be plenty adequate for most anything I do, including that game.

I really appreciate everyone's input on this. I don't buy a heck of a lot of games but, when I do, I really like to get a good idea what I'm in for so I don't waste money on something I can't return.

I dont think you'll have any bother running FSX at a good frame rate with a decent amount of scenery too.

FSX is a good 5 years old now so adequate machines (by todays standards) should have absolutely no problem with it.

 

[Rich]

I dont think you'll have any bother running FSX at a good frame rate with a decent amount of scenery too.

FSX is a good 5 years old now so adequate machines (by todays standards) should have absolutely no problem with it.

Cool. I've given up on putting together "bleeding edge" machines; it's a rather unique time where hardware has outpaced software in the consumer world so any decent mid priced machine should be able to handle just about any game. I do some other stuff that's fairly intense (graphics design, video conversion and the like) and the one I just bought breezes right along.

 

[L60N]

Yep your absolutely right.

Mine is 4 years old:

Q6600 cpu
4gb XMS2 ram
Asus p5n32esli mobo
Artic freezer pro cpu cooler
ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU
320 gb ram raid 0

This old thing can run Battlefield bad company2 maxxed all day long no problem.

 

[Phil47uk]

Probably not the best message board site to ask this on, but you guys have diverse interests.

I was watching a small plane circle around outside my window (slow day) and thought that it would be cool to learn to fly and buy an airplane. Well, buying an airplane isn't even remotely in the cards so a flight simulator sounds like the next best thing.

Any recommendations for a good one that's pretty realistic? Thanks in advance!

I flew sims for years and got so good at it ( Much to the annoyance of my wife ), that I could take a 737 out of Heathrow, fly real time to Geneva (Switzerland ) using NAV charts and bring it in on a CAT 111 approach in thick fog using instruments.
I got cured of my obsession when my wife treated me to an hour up in a real Cessna..I passed all the ground checks with the pilot and he put me in the left hand seat from the word off.. I flew the thing all round the Dorset coast and brought it in for a landing in Dunkerswell. I need some help with the landing simply because I didn't know the plane ( A bit like driving someone elses car ) , plus there was a crosswind.
All in all though it was a darned sight easier flying the real thing, than the simulator for the simple reason that you can feel the input and movement and you have full peripheral vision.
Just as a consolation I once knew a full time heavy cargo pilot who came round and had go.. He was most impressed by the sim.
At the time I had Microsoft.

I haven't bought a sim in years now but fly every now again on the X box in sim mode on Sturmovik.

I'd say it's definitely worth getting a good sim simply to learn what the controls do and how they respond etc, then after a while book in a real lesson.