wingit 0 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Thank you for your comments and welcomes and looking around at forums and informative sites this is really up there when it comes to realistic and genuine attitude. Well a question on the flightsim development in general. Can someone give me some thoughts on where the flightsim community and developers are going, well let Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 You might start by looking at this thread. It's about a year and a half old and was written not long after MS announced the Aces Studio was being closed down... viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2655 Since then, X-Plane has not made any serious moves, but Aerosoft has announced a long range project to build the successor to FSX, independant of MS. At this point, to the best of my knowledge, that's the most credible thing going on, though there's still nothing to prevent MS from jumping back in whenever they think the market is ready. In the meantime, the steady flow of add-on products - hardware, software, freeware, payware - and the constant improvement in PC and peripheral performance continues to keep FSX and even FS9 alive and healthy. If anything the pace of new releases is accelerating, since the development houses have worked clear (pretty much) of the backlogs of fixes and modifications and compatibility issues that were dumped on their plates from the successive releases of the likes of FSX, it's subsequent Service Packs, Acceleration, Vista, Win7 and 64 bit hardware in general. I believe the add-on insustry is alive and well, is mostly prospering. They give every appearance of doing better and better as they emerge from the fix-it and compatability issues into true development of new products. Even though the base softare has gone static since the release of Acceleration, I don't see much in the way of stagnation in the add-ons. A few of the smaller software houses are in some trouble as a result of the global recession and general business downturn, but I sure don't see the wheels falling off the MSFS genre of products in a general sense. It's not dead yet... John Link to post Share on other sites
SEATAC 400 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 I could not have said better myself. FSX has so much unleashed potential. As Microsoft said when they came out with FSX, they wanted the software to be about 3 years ahead the hardware so that the power of FSX could be unleashed as the hardware caught up. Many developers are only just now switching full force to develop for FSX as they leave FS9 behind. The new hardware and software add-ons are coming full force now. FSX is going to be around for a long time to come. Link to post Share on other sites
wingit 0 Posted July 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 Thank you for the information so far. I have been messing with FSX for several weeks well actually it's its several months, how time flies when you Link to post Share on other sites
rob16584 42 Posted July 18, 2010 Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 Hi John, Most of use use FS9 because it is very stable, plus we have so many add-ons for it and have used it for a long time we have now found that 'sweet spot' where it runs as we want. As for scenery, if you look in the scenery library in the settings menu within FSX you should see what is installed in there. Another way could be to put the cd in the drive and if the auto installers offer to uninstall the scenery you know it's there :smile: Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted July 18, 2010 Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 why is there so many still using the previous version of flightsim Good answer there from Rob. He said what I would have but used about 10,000 fewer words. Put another way, it Link to post Share on other sites
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