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13 of 38 customers found the following review helpful:
 Review on Amazon, 2006-10-19
************The MSFS X gets an A+ but Amazon gets an F*******************
This game is a blast, I played it at OSH, and it was very cool, I'm looking forward to the ATC part. I am however, VERY VERY disappointed in Amazon. I ordered this back on August 25th. I come to see on Tuesday that it won't ship until next Monday. Now I can wait 6 days for a new simulator, but the fact that Amazon implied in their wording that this product would ship that day that it was released, and it didn't, caused me to cancel my order and buy one from a local vender that will come tomorrow. I called Amazon customer service, Google for their number, and they said that it was a delay in their supply chain, kind of hard to believe when I ordered almost 2 months ago. Very disappointed in Amazon
23 of 26 customers found the following review helpful:
Snore X, 2006-10-19
P4 3.0; 1GB ram; 256MB nvidia graphics card. This configuration is 4 times greater than the minimum requirement for this software.
This game is unplayable; even at the lowest possible graphics settings, it's to SLOW.
Building scenery takes FOREVER. Rebuilds are SLOW.
Also noticed that it uses lots of memory and isn't too good about releasing allocated memory. I had an instance running that started at 200+MB went up to 800+. I closed the app and it never released that memory. Reboot was the only way to get that memory back.
Unless Microsoft plans to patch this game ASAP, I would skip it for now. It's not worth the aggravation. Can't really play this game, very disappointed, but it's pretty typical of Microsoft to release crap before it's time.
14 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
 Reviewed this product @ EAA Flyin in July, 2006-10-18
First off Microsoft is not going to release their product early to anyone, and if you got your game the 17 or 18 of October, they did a good job, because the Game was released on October 17, 2006.
There were about 10 games set up at Oshkosh, and they were being run on duel core computers, and were running slow, when the planes got over populated areas.
The Engineers, who developed the game,said that the game will run best on duel core computers, with the Vista operating system. They said that Vista will realy bring out the scenery of the sim.
I asked him if it would be better to wait till Vista comes out, or just upgrade from XP to Vista, he said it is better to have a clean operating system, than up grading to Vista.
Vista operating system will be out sometime in November, So I am going to buy a new duel core computer with Vista installed. If you got the game, go to Oshkosh, and they have a great simulation of the EAA flyin there. I fly over it in the Hang glider.
18 of 34 customers found the following review helpful:
 Shame On Amazon - POOR SERVICE!!, 2006-10-18
I, too, am extremely unhappy with Amazon for their terrible handling of the release of this product. Despite having pre-ordered over a month ago, my order was substantially delayed. Even more upsetting is I had several other items in this order that were waiting for this game to ship to take advantage of Amazon's free shipping, and now those items are delayed also. If I had known that, I would have just ordered them separately so I would have had them a month ago!
Amazon has become too much of a giant to have decent customer service any longer. It's bad enough to pay the exorbitant prices for priority shipping, but even when you do it still seems to take a week for someone in their warehouse to physically ship it, making it pointless. From now on I'll just pick up the items I need at local stores and save myself the headache!
20 of 23 customers found the following review helpful:
Flight Sim X - FANTASTIC !, 2006-10-18
OK, first of all if you are running an older PC or a really minimal set-up this program is going to run slow. NO BIG SURPRISE HERE. I have it running on a Dell 3.5 system with 1 GB RAM and an ATI X600 video card. I have the setting set to about 3/4 full on everything and the game runs fine. The only time I see it srunning slow is when you load a new flight or when the initial game starts, this takes a little while to complete (when was the last time you went to the airport, boarded a plane and actually had it take off on time with no delay). Once I am up and flying, it is pretty quick. Yes I can probably turn some of the graphics down and make it perfectly seemless but I really enjoy the graphics I see at this setting and I can easily live with the way it is running, there is no chopiness at all. When you are flying over major roadways you can see vehicles driving below, not static but actually moving. This is true for vehicles on bridges and boats in the water as well. All of the graphics are intense and remember, I have it set to only 75 percent of the high end. Could it run a little better...sure however I would prefer the fantastic visual effects they have included as opposed to just remaking FS 2004.
Once more, if you are running a really slow or low end machine it may not be worth your money but the way games are today, there is not much in the way of graphically intense games that will run on these PC's.
Experiment with the settings, reboot just before playing and turn off any background programs such as anti-virus software and you should be satisfied with this long awaited revision.
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