Product Description

Flight Simulator X will awe flight simulator fans and real pilots alike. All-new eye-popping graphics, actual missions to accomplish and a wider range of airports to visit recreate the experience of being a pilot, right down to the smallest detail. Complete point-to-point objectives and skill-based tests, or just fly around the world if you'd prefer that to ferrying passengers or cargo. Whatever you choose to do as a pilot, it's available here in Flight Simulator X Deluxe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #199 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2006-10-17
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Fly 24 different airplanes, including Ultralites for when you don't want to deal with all the knobs and dials
• Visit 24,000 of the world's airports, on all 7 continents
• Authentic road layouts - fly over your home town and navigate by the streets below
• Simulates advanced GPS technology
• Deeply immersive world to providing more structured gameplay elements

Customer Reviews

Terrible, do not pay money for this
I've had this game for months and have barely touched it. The reason is because it runs terrible even on my machine which is pretty strong, c2d @ 3.6, 4 gb ram, 8800gt overclocked. Despite these specs this game runs like crap on all settings. Even with everything on low it is not a smooth experience. I think this game is just programmed really bad. I run Crysis on high/very high and all other modern games like cod4 but this game runs terrible. Do not pay for this game. It's not worth free.

Great JoyStick
Installed with out a hitch. Makes Flight SimX much more fun to fly. Controls are just about right. Buttons are easy to reach and understand.
All in all a great product.

Great Game
Ok the other reviews are fairly old so this comes from a year and a half perspective off of th eoriginal reviews.

General: Overall, FSX is a great game with OK scenery. Airports look great. Traffic is great as well, it runs pretty well on my rig.

My computer specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.40GHz, 4GB of DDR2-800, nVidia GeForce 8800GT Superclocked edition with 512MB, Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit.

Settings:
I have everything set to ultra high. Well almost everything.
General Ultra High with Antisoptric and AA(also have the nvidia control panel running alot of high things). Running at a 1366x768x16 resolution. FPS Locked at 30.

Aircraft: Ultra High

Scenery: Custom.Pretty much ultra high except for autogen set to normal and scenery complexity set to very high and water set to low 2.x.

Weather: Ultra High

Traffic: Ultra High

I get about 30 solid FPS doesnt really go below 20FPS except for random 9FPS stutters that last like less than a second.

This is now considered a mid-range PC today I would say and it gets that well of a frame rate. Made in Fed. 2007. Upgraded the card to 8800 and ram to 4GB. GREAT GAME!!!