Flight Alaska vs FSX Alaska (and FS9)

**angels355** · 07-03-2012, 12:34 AM

Thanks you guys for the enthusiasm and information! Just got home, had to get a painful doohickey taken off my foot at the podiatrist, I feel better now. A nice looking Bonanza B35 flew over the freeway while I was driving.

I'm going to try to fire up my new FSX and see how things look, and try turning up the mesh.

I do comparative studies all the time when I'm buying things. Guess it drives some salesmen batty, but it's better that I make a good decision.

**angels355** · 07-03-2012, 02:43 AM

Here is a screen shot from my new FSX install, believe this is Denali, navigated to the coordinates and this is the biggest thing in the neighborhood. I increased my mesh to 100%. Still getting 36 fps locked at 36 fps although during the flight it would sometimes dip to 28-9 fps. I have a Q9450 2.66 ghz core 2 quad w/ 12 mb L2 cache, 4 gb ram, 1 gb vram Asus 550 ti with I think about 196 video processors, OCZ 750 modular psu, WD Caviar Black 1 TB hdd 6 gb/sec. W7 Home Premium 64 bit. Had two Firefox tabs open while flying and taking the screen shot. It's OK, the 747-8F is in sharp focus and flies like a dream which is what I like most.Hope to build an i7 2700 system.

**dtmicro** · 07-03-2012, 03:18 AM

I think IF once you go photo-real, it's hard to go back. I know as soon as I played with Tile Proxy I now want to maintain photo-real graphics always no matter what the cost. I will be experimenting with that FS Earth Tile thing now instead since Tile Proxy is a performance hog.

This game works really well with 3D projectors, out of all the 3d I've experienced on projectors it is some of the best.

**angels355** · 07-03-2012, 03:37 AM

Is that a type of nvidia shutter 3d system?

**jomni** · 07-03-2012, 03:45 AM

I never got TileProxy to work nicely. And being a fast and high flyer, all I see is a blurry mess.
I also think it's illegal based on the T&C of the map providers.

**angels355** · 07-03-2012, 04:17 AM

If I recall this is FS9 with a freeware Mt Rainier. I think this was taken with a socket 478 P4, 2.8 ghz, W2000, can't remember if this had a 256 mb agp card or if it was after that one fried and was using a 128 mg ati agp card. Any way the hardware was very modest.

**Adam24** · 07-03-2012, 04:27 AM

That 747-400 looks very scenic. Anyway, I think Flights Alaska is better, but many things remain yet undiscovered. Just like in FSX 7 years ago...

**angels355** · 07-03-2012, 04:52 AM

Here is the other side of Denali on my FSX:

Here is Mt Rainier from my FSX. FSX is a nice improvement over default FS9.

**angels355** · 07-03-2012, 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by Adam24

That 747-400 looks very scenic. Anyway, I think Flights Alaska is better, but many things remain yet undiscovered. Just like in FSX 7 years ago...

Lucky for me that I just started in FSX so have a ways to go before I get tired of it. History can have some really strange twists due to circumstances. Take the modern day unlimited nitromethane dragsters, where did they originate from? Is the Model T Ford the most advanced automobile ever designed? Heck no, however, amazingly, that is where these dragsters came from. The modern day dragster is a Model T Ford, a little modified with "addons". It would be better to have a more modern sim but FSX is all we have right now, even though it's long in the tooth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Wjp...eature=related

EDIT:

By analogy Flight is the modern Smart Fortwo from Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_fortwo , modern, I'm sure it has an mpeg 3 player that makes it worthwhile, and it will get you around as economically as possible, but it doesn't have the panache of the modern day Model T Ford plus addons.

**Adam24** · 07-03-2012, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by angels355

Lucky for me that I just started in FSX so have a ways to go before I get tired of it. History can have some really strange twists due to circumstances. Take the modern day unlimited nitromethane dragsters, where did they originate from? Is the Model T Ford the most advanced automobile ever designed? Heck no, however, amazingly, that is where these dragsters came from. The modern day dragster is a Model T Ford, a little modified with "addons". It would be better to have a more modern sim but FSX is all we have right now, even though it's long in the tooth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Wjp...eature=related

Well, XPlane 10 looks promising, dont you think? Its still far away from FSX, but its progressing. Well see in a few years...