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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: New X-Plane out

this one looks even better than Fs9, thats my opinion. Great work. Just too pricey for me. www.x-plane.com. Great job guys.

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

Myth,

Yeah it is pretty cool. I have the v8.0, so I already ordered the updates for mine. Did it a week ago. Should have it any day now.

I was serious when I said X-Plane was catching up in scenery. You can't beat the flight dynamics, beats FS9 no problem for realism.

When I get the 6 DVD's installed, I'll post some shots of it. Man, that is a huge package, 60 gigs.

RD

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject:

60 gigs? geezus christ, thats just amazingly large :S half the size of my xp partition! ten times of what i have free at the moment!

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:

the city scenery and scenery in general beat fs9 hands down in my opinion Laughing

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject:

Myth,

BELIEVE ME. For flight dynamics and realism, you CANNOT beat X-Plane. The modeling is very good. Add on textures for the a/c are as good as Exxmans paints. OK, maybe a little better.

I don't know how you fly. But if you think your going to get a 747 inverted under 3,000 ft, and survive, forget it. Not in X-Plane. In FS9, yeah, you can do it, all day. But it is not real.

Now take into consideration this. I spent $30 for FS9, and another, lets say $100 for some scenery and a/c add-ons, all for FS9. So in total of me having this for less than a year, I have $130 invested.

Now with the X-Plane, I have $50 for the DVD V.8, and just got the global scenery for it for $40. I have $90 invested in it, and it kicks FS9's butt all over the place, in every aspect.

It depends on what you want. Do you want to *play* around while flying, then get FS9. If you want real world flying, and the *oops* factor. Then get the X-Plane. I love both of them. But what I can do in FS9, I cannot do in X-Plane, flying wise.

RD

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject:

of course, everything you just said is true. and i beleave that x-plane is surely one of the most realistic ones out there. of course it is hard to compare these two, but x-plane simulates a lot of aircraft while Falcon 4.0 Allied Force only one. Seems logical to me that the latter is more detailed in the sim part... but of course i might be wrong. and fs9 still is too arcadeish to compete with these two mammoth sims. And it's only around 30$ on ebay.

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject:

I ordered x-plane last week and looking forward to it as well. I agree with rd on the cost factor. I hope It is as good a I am expecting.

I have been checking around for a bit and dont seem to see many add-ons. For example, My cities airport CYXE. Fs9, Bruce Ellisons' add-on and Ultimate Terrain have that down pretty good. I,m curious what x-plane has to offer in that regard. Any comments?

Thanks

Richy.....

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject:

Richy,

Sorry man, I don't know. I fly X-Plane when I am in the mood for serious flying. As for the scenery, until this was posted, I really didn't pay much attention to it. Same with airports and towns. Just logged a flight, flew it, then landed. Which is harder to do with X-Plane.

Myth, I have never tried Falcon. But your reasoning is understood and well taken.

RD

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject:

How is it for graphics/animation quality compared to FS9 guys? Hmmm...gotta check into this one more.

*adds to list that he will send to Santa*

Exx

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:

So basically, X-Plane is for the people who are serious in flying/simming and want the greatest amount realism and MSFS is for people that just want to have fun with it.....of course im not saying that people who have MSFS aren't big into flying/simming (myself included) because not everyone has the money to buy a new sim...or if its really that large of a program, a new hard drive lol

Sean

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:49 am Post subject:

Exx,

I check my mailbox daily. When I get it and loaded I will let you know.

Richy....

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:06 am Post subject:

Capt Sean and others,

Please do not get me wrong. FS9 is great. I really do love flying it. It is very fun to fly, I have never had a bad flight.

Exx, there is a demo that you can get for X-Plane http://www.x-plane.com/demo.html :Try it out you might like it. But, be warned. It is nowhere near the actual V8 DVD that I have, plus the plug-ins.

I might have to get another Hard Drive for the new scenery. 60 GB, that is huge man.

RD

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:29 am Post subject:

Wow...thanks guys. Will check it out and also keep an eye out for your opinion Richy...

Exx

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject:

Today is a good day! I just recieved my 7 DVD disks for the new X-plane. Off I go to the store for new hardware. I have 1 question though.

New DFI MB has 4 ram slots AMD (939)

I was told that 4-512MB sticks of ram is faster than 2-1GB sticks..He said The 2 1gig sticks will only be at 8ooMHz while the 4-512 will be at 2000MHz. Fill up all slots for faster performance.......? Any comment.

Thanks