Because you are in the FS2004 section of the forum, perhaps?
How does this answer my question? Especially seen that EVERYWHERE I go, those who speak well of the M$'s "
X" only seem to be fallen in a mystical adoration of the beautiful graphics?
On first, there was someone that hypothesized that the removal of the 99.999 feet MAX high ceiling would be the birth of new planes able to enter and navigate the low earth orbit... completely forgetting that the dynamics of FS(
whateverthenumber) do NOT contemplate orbital mechanics and/or even speeds needed in that place (
max speed reachable in all FS versions, even X, is a little below Mach 5... a laughable limit for a wannabe simulator of orbital flights) ... and in fact the removing of that unobtrusive and rarely reached in flight before ceiling has proved to be a red herring, if I ever saw one.
Then came those who said: "
the earth is spherical now"... wow.. at M$ have reached this conclusion after even the Vatican... it's a world's record... :isadizzy:
...and it's a good thing finally that they did admit to reality, but one must weights the advantages and the disadvantages even in these things...
Had the migration to the "
X" been like the migration from FS2002 to FS2004, under the point of view of escalation of CPU/GPU/MEM demands, the news of being able to finally plan a polar flight which would not suffer of strange behaviors would have been nice, but here came the ABSURD power requested to the PC's... even if you manage, manipulating the .CFG files, to make FSX look exactly like FS9 under the point of view of autogen density (
or even less populated if for this) and the look of the water, even if you change the 3D clouds with lighter ones (
like it was done in FS9 at its starts) you'll see that you'll NOT get the same performances you got in FS9.
This is not normal... and where does all that power drained in excess go then?
Mystery.
...and until that mystery is not revealed, and eventually resolved, FSX is not worth to use. Simple as that.
Of course, I am talking about MYSELF. As I said in my previous message, I believe that those who WANT to use FSX, probably DESERVE it. Be my guest and ruin your flight experience at your leisure, only be a pal and NOT ask me to do the same, please. :ernae:
