MS Flight Simulator X

jannievdberg

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I got my Flight Sim X Deluxe Edition today and what a great sim it is! Even though its official release date is tomorrow, Digital planet made sure i got mine today. The graphics are amazing and gameplay is fantastic! Well done Microsoft:D
 
I want.
But will have to wait as i want BF2142 more.
 
Its worth bending ur plastic for this one!

PC Specs: WinXP 256Ram/Vista 512Ram
CPU 1.0Ghz
HDD 15GB
Video Card 32mb

Believe me if I say that with the above specs you will waste ur money to buy FSX. I run it on a 3Ghz P4 with 1Gig Ram and 128MB FX 5900XT and it chokes on Medium detail. :confused:
 
hmmm i wonder why?
Nv5xxx range vidcard. You know we on Nv8xxx now?;)
 
*sigh* :rolleyes: ..leave it to digitalplanet get confused and basically bollocks things up (tho', it seems to be a sweet deal all the same!) Their product page lists it as "Deluxe Edition PC-CD" ..only, according to the REAL product page, what they're selling is the deluxe DVD set, which you can see when you crosscheck the feature lists on the two pages. Now, the mack-daddy of flight sims is X-Plane which spanks Microsoft's offering to the back of the class in comparision (I mean, in the full set it comprises EIGHT :eek: dual layer DVDs and wants 60gig on your drive for all the maps).

Now, the one local outfit (that I've ever found) that plays in this pool is have2have and, sure enough, they've also got a product page up ...only their price is R824.25! (DANGERwillrobinson!) ..against the R302.10 on digitalplanet for the same thing! Clearly have2avoid are to be steered clear of on this one :cool: ..and raises the question: if they're gouging this badly on this product, how badly do they rip people off on other products? (ok, I'll make one allowance for "never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity") and concede they may have just put the wrong data up, but still - by THAT much??! :mad: ...so now, methinks I'm gonna go klap my plastiek one at digitalplanet while the going's still good!

Actually, coming back to X-Plane, the home site has the single DVD edition for $49 - at ZAR:USD::8:1 that works out to R392 ..say R400 - and have2gouge are hawking it at R784.92 FFS! ..maybe we'll just steer clear of this outfit ..oh, and I've done .pdf printouts of the respective pages for if/when (hah!) things get changed ..which I'll be sending to the h2h crook for him to rebut (..if he chooses)) ...heh - (and between "Schimitar" , "Medievil" and random 'apostrophitis', don't even get me started on how he brutalises my language!)

Oh, and for guys holding out for BF2142, something to think about...
 
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I actually did get a 2 Disc DVD set, so it is the real product!:rolleyes: Digital planet might have just made an error on their website to say PC-CD set. They do however say in the FEATURES:

2 DVD
24 airplanes
45 high-detail airports (21 new to Flight Simulator)
38 high-detail cities
40+ structured missions
Glass panel (G1000) cockpit
Tower controller

I installed it and it actually took up 15GB on my harddrive and there is no way they can cram 15GB onto 2 cds (even with compression).
So its a sweet deal! Go get it!
 
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