Pros: Real-World weather system
Cons: Resource Hungry
All In All, the games a solid Title, The Improvments are great if using on a Newer Computer, Visuals rock,Very nice, Any Pilot Want-to-Be's definattly want to check this out
Pros: ATC, Real World-Weather, enhanced clouds etc.,
Cons: Hungry on resources
Well i ve brought this coupla days back.Running a 1.8Ghz P4,1 Gig DDR with NVidia 256Mb RAM Grpahics card...mmm..dunno what the model is.aint really well-versed in this pc stuff. Neway first things first the graphics were amazing compared to FS2002 no more flat clouds and the airport environment was enhanced too. The ai traffic with the box was as usual with unknown flights which never existed like american pacific and liveries i never even heard of. 2 Days later i downloaded projectAI and UT2004. I was running both the AI programs minus FS9 Traffic. Framerate at Heathrow?4FPS ..well the airports were filled close to reality but the approaches at 4FPS??Comon...well i think Microsoft really spruced it up...but there was still no luck.I dun have anyother software running on my pc except for the basic stuff...still kudos to Microsoft for the good job but i guess we need a 10GB RAM and A 512MB Graphics card to run this smoothly. Finally i think it is a good buy but still nothing comes to reality!
Pros: 3D "virtual ccockpits" now interactive, Advanced Weather
Cons: requires 1.8GB of hard disk space
Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight PC Game
starstarstarstarstar by jon_buddy (05/16/2005)
Pros: 3D "virtual ccockpits" now interactive, Advanced Weather
Cons: requires 1.8GB of hard disk space
This version now includes historic flights. Re-fly some
of the world's best histrical flights, including
the first U.S. Mail route and the Wright Brother's
first flight.
Also this version features advanced (Dynamic) weather.
This includes (when connected to the internet) to have
the weather (you fly in) automatically updated every 15
minutes.
:) A MUST BUY for all flight enthusiasts!!! :)
Pros: Real World Weather
Cons: Resource-hungry program
First of all, I also have Flt Sim 2002 (and love it). My computer is currently running a Pentium 3 system at 1 gig. with 512 megs of RAM on a platform of Windows XP Pro. My 2002 Sim runs just great on it and since I didn't see any greater system requirements indicated on the packaging or ads for the "2004", I expected similar performance to "2002". To make a long story short, I was in for a shock... jerky and somewhat unreliable performance at even the lowest graphics quality settings! The "real world" weather is a great experience, but I didn't particularly like how other flying aircraft were now nothing but some text floating around in the sky to define the aircraft.
Tech support at Microsoft was very courteous and tried to be helpful, but after several written exchanges between them and myself, it was apparent that my current computer wasn't up to the task of running this program even half way right. For now, until I get my new super computer, I give up... I'll just stick with my Flt Sim 2002.
It looks to me like if your hardware isn't the latest and the greatest, you might be in for a disappointment. Let's see what happens when I get my new hardware.
Very fun to play. More realistic. Good graphic.
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