Tristarcaptain 282 Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the Simwork Studio F-4B Phantom, which I stumbled across today. I must admit that it has some really nice color schemes and I find it tempting! Does anyone know how it compares to the MilViz F-4 Phantom (I know that it's a different variant!!) Thanks Martin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,211 Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Well, it's certainly a lot cheaper than the Milviz model(wowzer). I haven't purchased it but the aircraft does come with an added carrier and as it's first release I would guess they put a lot of work into it. I did watch a couple of beta videos and it doesn't look horrible and I am sure they have improved the textures since then. Sounded pretty good but not sure if it has custom sounds throughout to include all buttons and knobs but for the price I would hope so. I am a little surprised at the lack of videos of the finished product yet not sure when it was released. So technically I am no help at all, just love to hear myself type. Can't go wrong with the Milviz products although the price seems really high, only you can decide how much you want to spend and how bad you need it. Hopefully someone has it and can be more help to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tristarcaptain 282 Posted September 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 57 minutes ago, brett said: Well, it's certainly a lot cheaper than the Milviz model(wowzer). I haven't purchased it but the aircraft does come with an added carrier and as it's first release I would guess they put a lot of work into it. I did watch a couple of beta videos and it doesn't look horrible and I am sure they have improved the textures since then. Sounded pretty good but not sure if it has custom sounds throughout to include all buttons and knobs but for the price I would hope so. I am a little surprised at the lack of videos of the finished product yet not sure when it was released. So technically I am no help at all, just love to hear myself type. Can't go wrong with the Milviz products although the price seems really high, only you can decide how much you want to spend and how bad you need it. Hopefully someone has it and can be more help to you. Yeah....Milviz stuff is not cheap, but they are good. I love their F-4 Phantoms, but am not too keen on some of the schemes. I think that the Israeli one should have light gray undersides, not light blue as depicted though! Also, I really don't know why they put in an F-4J in UK FGR 2 markings, when the UK operated F-4J (UK) which would have made more accurate markings! I just HOPE that they follow up and do a Spey powered FGR1/2!! (HINT if MilViz are reading this!) As for not going wrong with MilViz, I do not quite agree...I have their F-15E and every time I load it, it does something to FSX in that it crashes FSX program every time I finish the flight using the usual esc. key. I bought it from FSPilotshop and do not know if I have a dud download from them......I do like that plane though, and love flying it, so I may buy it again from elsewhere and hope that version is OK..... Anyway, thanks for your thoughts, Brett. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,211 Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Have you tried just re-downloading the F-15 and checking for updates, could have just got corrupted in the first download. I would think you would need at least a decent computer to run their products as the textures are very good. Sometimes I have a problem even with their older products. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tristarcaptain 282 Posted September 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Yes, I have done all that. I have been in touch with MilViz and they claim that FSPilotshop has the latest version. So...'tis a mystery!! I have a few of their products, and nothing else does that. Regards Martin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J G 926 Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 On 9/19/2016 at 22:11, Tristarcaptain said: ...I have their F-15E and every time I load it, it does something to FSX in that it crashes FSX program every time I finish the flight using the usual esc. key. I bought it from FSPilotshop and do not know if I have a dud download from them...... Interesting. I have the same issue in P3D fro the MilViz Phantom. If I go into P3D with the F4 as the default aircraft then P3D goes bang. If I go into P3D in another aircraft and swap to to the F4 then all is well. That is until I shut the game, then P3D goes bang again. Its annoying as I just love the aircraft. I have a couple of things going on at the moment, but when I have time I am going to rebuild P3D completely and see if the problem persists. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tristarcaptain 282 Posted September 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Interesting that it is another MilViz culprit!! Rebuilding a flight sim program is way beyond me......good luck!! Regards Martin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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