mutley 4,498 Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 See home page for new shots http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/ Link to post Share on other sites
pacinka 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Better... in fact, the last three shots are brilliant! However, it is still looking like a Hawaiian flight simulator. Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 I agree with you John, it's looking better and better. And judging from the last video posted there's dynamic lighting/shadows in the VC that actually takes into account where the sun is. I know that some think that the scenery only equals what we're already seeing in FSX, and that is true but only with addons that together cost way more then FSX did to start with. I'm not sure why they expected a quantum leap in texture quality over what we are seeing today in a new sim. Let's just hope that Flight comes equipped with full utilisation of hyper threading and 64-bit support so we actually can utilise the power and amount of RAM we have available in our hardware today. And that the detail in the mesh they are using on a global scale is up to the standard in these shots. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 997 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Let's just hope that Flight comes equipped with full utilisation of hyper threading and 64-bit support so we actually can utilise the power and amount of RAM we have available in our hardware today. And that the detail in the mesh they are using on a global scale is up to the standard in these shots. From their new page, discussing the 'high performance' spec machine: OS: Windows 7 64-bit RAM: 6GB Which strongly implies that it does. More worrying though is the disc space requirement, which is only 10GB. FSX took up 18GB on disc, so that rather implies there is only about half the content... Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted November 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 That's just for Hawaii Tim! Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 997 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Fair enough. In that case, x-plane 10 here I come... Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Microsoft Silverlight cannot be used in browsers running in 64 bit mode. You are running on a browser that may not be fully compatible with Microsoft Silverlight. Yeah, well - I'm using, er, Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) - pity it isn't supported... (soft snoring, off)... Cheers - Dai. P.S. And, No, I'm not installing a 32-bit browser, Thank You!! Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 @Tim - there's a nice Comet coming out for XPlane-10 soon-ish - http://www.cbfsim.org/cb-bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21510 Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 997 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Ah, if only I was actually an airliners fan... LOL Btw! Dai, MS have announced that the next build of Silverlight will be the last. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted November 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Great link Chuck, I must include it when I get the X-Plane forum up and running Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 I wonder if they'll make it 64-bit compatible? Why's this a problem - is Flight gonna be 32-bit? Don't think so, somehow... Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted November 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Of course not, it will be compatible on both systems! Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Well, actually the recommended spec of 6 Gb RAM sort of indicates a pure 64-bit software since a 32-bit software only can access about 4 Gb... Even if you run FSX on a 64-bit OS it will never be able to allocate more than a total of 4 gb RAM + Video RAM if I have understood things correctly. Link to post Share on other sites
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