Crack Flight Simulator X Steam Edition
Matt Dreher
I still use it. I'm a blind pilot using software to fly the airplane and FSX is tried and true. P3d does work, but there are accessibility issues using a screen reader. They can be gotten around, but not with ease.
I also still use it since I have a significant amount of money invested in it at this point and also it's just tried and true here as well. The machine I'm running it on is very much... on the edge when flight simming, that's for sure, and FSX works fine. Until the day I can afford major hardware upgrades it will surely stay FSX for me.
"After trying to get FSX to load off of steam, like wading though a swamp, I finally had enough. Also, I don't know what these people do with the windows registry, but I wiped everything off. Reformatted, got the win 7 professional back on, and dug up my CD's of FSX standard, no acceleration. After cleaning up my computer, I dumped what steam had off into a folder I made. After finally getting past microsoft's hideous roll back failure to install, fatal error and everything else, I got the copy of the SDK and installed that first. Then install FSX, SP1 and SP2. Now, a clean boot like I've never seen or don't remember ever seeing, and certainly not on FSX SE. Sure, some aircraft don't work but guess what? I combined the panel off a FS2004 download and entered that on the steam's F/A-18 windows 00 entry, which gives me a working F10 HUD. Using the steam first VC entry lines, and cutting out the add-on VC entry, I don't have the HUD or instruments working there, but the cockpit is clean with all textures. That's all I need. I have my own feel for airspeed in VC mode anyways. Always have had. Yay! Now, a fully operational F/A-18 without FSX accelerated and, more importantly, without steam's involvement in my projects. My F-4J F-10 HUD doesn't work, but at least it's clean without black colored glass. However, My U.S.S America and Enterprise textures still come out beautiful. AND everything in VC works and looks just fine. Without doing anything at all, my favorite one-of-a-kind Corsair air frame is all completely there, nothing missing, everything works. That black glass on the VC of my UKMIL Hawks have even gone to clear glass. I don't care if the HUD is there or not. Yay! And the entire 747 package, with E1 exite function, E2, E3, loading ramps, and E4, ALL work just like in your accelerated add-on. Therefore, I'm not gonna touch this thing by getting FSX accelerated, or anything else. My pilotable U.S.S. Nimitz has black textures on the hangar deck, but just overhead and on bulkheads on the side. You can still see good enough to taxi. Flight deck textures, lights, tow truck, elevator, and everything else work just fine. P-47 add-ons work as well. All this with out FSX accelration, gold, or whatever else. Nobody wants to take me on in aircraft operations anyways so AIcarriers2 doesn't matter. I land at the carrier scenery in Pensacola, anyways, which shows up just fine. My PC boots up again, and FSX boots up like I've never seen it, or ever remember seeing it before. And last, but certainly not least, I'm finally off that hideous dump of a service, known as steam. And like a character said on a TV show once: "and I ain't EVER, goin' back. "
i have a powerful system running gigabyte nvidia 2070 super card and just purchased a ultrawide 34inch monitor. was really excited to play flight sims again after 15 years. the game feels like im on my amiga from the 90s.
please look at that and see how his looks. his cockpit all zoomed out. and he can move around cockpit easy. I have to right click mouse then choose a cockpit view. I really dont want to get xplane 11 as fsx 2020 is out soon but the way this looks i cant even play it as it is.. yet all the youtube vids look so good
I've also recently started playing FSX SE after a very long hiatus. Now I'm older and getting into tinkering with it. FSX always has and always will require lot's of tinkering, even the Steam Edition. Many of the videos you probably saw were from people who have done the tinkering which is why they look so much better.
FSX SE is not a remake of FSX as most people first assume. From what I understand, what they did basically is go through and fix the many, countless bugs, glitches, and errors in the game and made it run somewhat smoother on modern Windows 10 than the box version. Smoother being a relative term here.
1. I don't belive they altered the original textures or the way FSX looks for the most part in SE. This is why it looks and feels the same without tinkering. Though you can find lots of great addons and posts on how to edit the fsx.cfg file here on this site and others that greatly improve the way it looks and feels.
2. They're both very CPU intensive sims and they use surprisingly little of the GPU's available resources (I have a Sapphire RX 5700 XT Nitro Plus). At most, my GPU usage in task manager, only uses 22% while the CPU usage (I have a Ryzen 7 2700X) is at 100% usage often while in flight. This is just the way FSX was designed, no getting around it. The best GPU in the world won't help one bit. You're actually better off investing in a better CPU. Even with my CPU I still often can't run scenery and graphical settings on all max.
3. You do still have to tweak the .cfg file. You still need to add or change things like: HIGHMEMFIX=1 (Allows FSX SE to use more than 1Gb RAM), Wide_View_Aspect=True (Will give you wide screen view you'r looking for), as well as many others can greatly improve it's performance. I've gottem my .cfg file mostly the way I want it now and it's way better than stock settings.
FSX SE is great and totally worth the price for anyone that plans to play FSX a lot because so many flaws have been fixed compared to any box versions. Even if you're not the tinkering type, you just want to get out and fly, I still believe it's worth it because you will run into less issues (though I do recommend at the very minimum the 2 different .cfg edits I suggested above). I personally, have learned to accept it with it's flaws and quirks that cannot be fixed because when it comes down to it, I still have endless fun flying this old sim again.
Remember, FSX is 16 years old and defintely has it's own unique, quirky personallity and only so much can be done to fix it so I just recommend you strap in, start the engines and take to the skys. Once you begin to accept it for what it is and forget about pulling out your hair, trying to figure out how to get to work perfectly, you will have a much richer and more enjoyable experience.
Starting at the top: FSX is a horrible program. If I were to teach software engineering, at a junior or senior level, and I wanted to give an example of an morbidly obese program that constantly gets in it's own way and steps on itself, FSX would be the example. I figure that MS went to, probably, 10 to 20 SW jobber shops, with each shop doing a portion of the simulator, then they hired some individual for, maybe, 20 minutes to tie all of the parts together. Now, along the way there was certainly no QC when tying the parts together. Now, it has been postulated that the operator, i.e. me, has to go in and "tinker" with the various parts of FSX to get the program to run a semblance of smooth coordination, to which i can only ask, "Why?" I mean, I didn't pay this money to finish MS's job for them.
Another question has been asked, "Why doesn't MS fix their current system before offering all of the DLC's?", and that is a valid question. One thing that has stood out for me is pricing of the DLCs. Example: Carenado (a SW jobber shop) builds various aircraft sims for sale. They have a Cessna C337 Skymaster, as an example. They offer two versions, one version for X-Plane and none Version for FSX. The X-Plane version costs $30 bucks, the FSX version costs $10 bucks. Why the difference? I figure it's the old supply and demand thing. Supply of DLCs is not a problem, as the user downloads the product off of a server that can supply a bazillion of them if it is asked. So the only thing left is demand. FSX is so clunky, so difficult, and ptobably so unpopular that Carenado has to cut back on it's pricing just to make the DLCs for FSX attractive. But the answer to the question is simple: it doesn't cost anything to add more DLCs, but it costs to repair.
And remember, MS's attitude about their SW is that you will do it their way. So, no matter how counter-intuitive, how clumsy, how frustrating it is to use their SW (including their "games", and their games within the games) if it doesn't do what you want it to, it's your fault. All in all, I think NS FSX is going to be following X-Plane in flight simulators for a long, long time.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X (abbreviated as FSX) is a 2006 flight simulation video game originally developed by Aces Game Studio and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and the tenth installment of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, which was first released in 1982. It is built on an upgraded graphics rendering engine, showcasing DirectX 10 features in Windows Vista and was marketed by Microsoft as the most important technological milestone in the series at the time. FSX is the first version in the series to be released on DVD media.
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