MS Flight Sim X

Flyers,

Just a quick note to all those people thinking of buying MS Flight Simulator
X to save your money!!! It is a DOG!

Anything short of technically advanced aliens accidentally leaving a
super-duper ultra secret main-frame galactic defense optical computer with
advanced hardware and software not even considered yet on this planet...you
will not be able to enjoyably run this sim. Trust me!!

I set the resolution down so low that I had no trees, houses, cars,
hangars....NOTHING. The terrain resolution was so low that it looked like
flat, runny, butterscotch pudding and the frame rate was so slow it was
pathetic.

The sound makes occasional popping noises, the sim freezes, loading a flight
once after clicking "Fly Now" took 15 minutes to load. I'd love to tell you
how many minutes the second flight took to load, but it crashed my computer
after twenty minutes of hard drive grinding trying to claw the proper files
into memory.

Just clicking on the button to change the aircraft took over a minute to
bring up the list. It ate up 15 Gig on my hard drive and I swear it
shuffles around and loads every bit of the 15 gig somewhere just to fly a
local flight AND only giving you marble-cheese cake looking terrain.

My computer is a P4 2.4, 1 gig of memory and a 120 gig HD with half that
space empty. I have a GeForce graphics accelerator with 128MB of memory and
all the latest drivers. So although it's not the fastest computer on the
planet it is reasonable.

MS states that you only need a 1 Gig processor, 256 MB memory, DirectX 9c
and a graphics accelerator card with 32 Meg memory. Yea!! Right!!

Kobra