Heads up Flight Sim fans

[kowalski655]

Flight Simulator X is now on Steam,and its the Gold edition with the Acceleration pack. And for the next day or so its only 4 quid!!!
IMHO the best flight sim,and now a pittance. Literally thousands of free add ons that should be compatible with FSX installed in Steam, its a great sim and a total life snatcher Got to be worth a go for the price of a pint!

Ive just reinstalled my old disc version and have spent days downloading all my old stuff..probably 30 gigs + so far,with more to come!

ETA some screenshots ,just to tempt you

Edited by kowalski655 on Thursday 18th December 18:11

[davepoth]

IIRC this is back on steam because a company has bought the whole thing from Microsoft - so they might start developing it again.

[kowalski655]

Yep,the people who made Train Sim, so they are uber nerds

But a billion times better than Woodcutting Simulator or Tow Truck Simulator!

[ecsrobin]

What spec computer are you running. My friend is an uber FSX nerd flying an air liner round the world but his decent spec computer doesn't have graphics that good. I want to upgrade mine as I just want to plod about in my captain sim C130 but it struggles big style so it sits in the corner of a garage right now.

[kowalski655]

Mine is:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
GeForce GTX 745 3.1GB
13 GB RAM
And a st load of hard drive space
Runs 50fps on max settings (although no complex add on scenery added yet) no hassle usually

[essayer]

This is awesome

Also picked up Euro Truck Simulator 2 for £2.99

[Gun]

First purchase of the Steam Christmas sale!

[LeeThr]

Damn I always wanted this when it first came out but ended up with just the standard edition. Just a shame there's no cash in my bank account till pay day next week and I have no hard drive space either

May have to go do some man logic/magic.....

[FunkyNige]

LeeThr said:

Damn I always wanted this when it first came out but ended up with just the standard edition. Just a shame there's no cash in my bank account till pay day next week and I have no hard drive space either

May have to go do some man logic/magic.....

It's the price of a posh pint of beer...

[LeeThr]

FunkyNige said:

LeeThr said:

Damn I always wanted this when it first came out but ended up with just the standard edition. Just a shame there's no cash in my bank account till pay day next week and I have no hard drive space either

May have to go do some man logic/magic.....

It's the price of a posh pint of beer...

I know, but my bank balance is that of a typical student, there's about 5p in their at the moment, just hope it's still on sale on payday. Then I just need to find some hard drive space.

[kowalski655]

Only 80% off till tomorrow

I got it just as a back up,and in case Dovetail do something with it

[kowalski655]

OK,now that hopefully lots of people got this in the Steam sale,and are happily flying and crashing, how about getting in some serious flight time,and have fun with....(ta-dah!)... the Flight Simulator Round The World Race!

Since 2003 3 teams have been chasing each other round the globe, resulting in some great flying and some darn close racing(<1 hour winning margin 1 year IIRC)
The website is here http://www.fsrtwrace.com/ for more info if anyone fancies a go. The 3 teams are the main Sim sites,Avsim,Flightsim,& Sim Outhouse. I have flown several times for Sim Outhouse as they fly warbirds usually (although how frikkin cool would it be to have a PHer team take part )

Anyone else done this?