Some shots from the new demo

[Mac]

I've spent some time tweaking my demos settings so that I get a good mix of quality and performance for my system. I'm stressing that because I
want people to realise that before they start flaming saying FSX looks rubbish etc.
My system specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon64 3000+
MSI Socket 754 Motherboard
2x 512Mb RAM
Western Digital Caviar 200Gb IDE HDD
Asus FX5600 256Mb, AGP 8x
Creative SB Audigy 2 Sound.
Obviously FSX is optimised for, and will run better on faster systems, my system is fairly old to be honest
Now that that's out the way, on with the pics!
While playing with the options, I noticed you could change the music that is played during the menu's. I don't know if this was in the original demo.
I found that droping a .WAV file (sorry, no MP3 support ) into FSX/sound/uimusic directory would give you something else to listen to. I can
imagine in most cases it probably would anoy you more, or in my case, leave you rolling on the floor laughing


The two new aircraft they added were the Robinson R22 Helicopter and the Learjet45. Those that prefer using the 2D cockpits are in for a treat with
the lear, with its newer looking cockpit setup. *ahem* Ignore the registration

And those that like the VC's, you can now see through the glass

Now for the graphics, I had big black boxes in place of trees as soon as it loaded up, which cleared up after about a minute or so, a bit too long if
you ask me. The ground and water textures are pretty clear, and the effects work on my setup (In the last demo, they were extremely blurry and had no
effect) Cars also have textures, but unfortunatly, nothing has been done with the landing lights at night.






Mmm lime green!
There is also vehicle traffic at airports. Not that they give way to aircraft! I had a baggage truck go stright through me at the runway threshold.
Crashs weren't enabled when it happened, so I don't know if you would have a reset because of it. Pushback trucks are animated and do push you back!
The feul truck just sat at the feul parking spot, applying the parking brake and shutting the engines off just set my feul back to 100% stright away,
no animation or nothing.
Personally, I think anyone who said they didn't like FSX because of the last demo should give this new one a go before commiting to boycotting it,
it's a fair bit closer to the realease version than the last one, its far more stable, more feature rich, graphically better and faster to generate
them. Worth a thumbs up

[American Jet]

Yes, this new demo is better but may I remind the others thats ITS NOT THE FINAL RELEASE. Landing lights will be fixed, I think they
said the fuel trucks will be animated, and many more things I cannot shoot off the top of my head. Please give everything time. On
October 17th, 2006 everybody will have a chance to buy the final version.

WARNING TO DIAL-UP USERS THESE SCREENSHOTS WILL TAKE ABOUT 1HOUR FOR YOU GUYS TO SEE. IM USING CABLE
INTERNET AND ITS TAKING ME 20MINUTES.

[andy14]

Pushback trucks are animated and do push you back!


How can you get them to push you back cause when I pressed Shift P no puchback showed up to push me

Thanks

Andrew Sullman

[jeremy19446]

American Jet wrote:

WARNING TO DIAL-UP USERS THESE SCREENSHOTS WILL TAKE ABOUT 1HOUR FOR YOU GUYS TO SEE. IM USING CABLE
INTERNET AND ITS TAKING ME 20MINUTES.

20 minutes on cable? Took me 5 secends on DSL.

[Mac]

American Jet wrote:
WARNING TO DIAL-UP USERS THESE SCREENSHOTS WILL TAKE ABOUT 1HOUR FOR YOU GUYS TO SEE. IM USING CABLE
INTERNET AND ITS TAKING ME 20MINUTES.

I made sure each pic is under 100kb. Are you sure your settings are right?
You can see the pushback truck waiting in front of the learjet in pics 2,3,4,5 and 7, It won't 'just appear'



Post Edited ( 10-02-06 22:23 )

[American Jet]

Well it seems he fixed it. The loaded in a second for me now.

[xhado13]

Took me two seonds on cable

by the way great shots, its lookin good



Post Edited ( 10-03-06 00:19 )

[Lt. Air Force]

Ditto to the 2 sec


Lt. Air Force

[XM DUDE]

Is there a newer demo out or is this a tweaked original demo?

[xhado13]

Well when you think about it, its kinda the same things lol. Its tweaked yeah, textures are fixed, the vehicles actually have bodies so they
arent ghost riders anymore lol

[Cydon Prax]

I have a worse system that than and had no problem with loading any scenery; the tree's loaded instantly as with traffic. My only problem
was my 15FPS, which, is actually a step up from FS9 in which I averaged 9. The water textures, feal, everything is superb; I don't see how
people can say flight dynamics have not been touched. If so, Than why does touching the ground and lifting off feel so different than in
fs9? I don't know about all of you, but I actually like it-- better FPS than I'm getting in FS9 with better scenery and a nice feel to the default
planes? Plus movable jetways, trucks, you name it!.. Well, Microsoft atleast pleased one customer this release!

Anyone try a payware aircraft in the newer demo? Things get so messed up your inclined to laugh at it.

[XM DUDE]

Ok so where do you get the newer demo?

[Mac]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en
As Andy14 has said in another topic, be careful when uninstalling it, as it can mess with your FS9 install. Get the registry tool from here if you
encounter problems
http://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=library

[Valoran]

pics loaded instantly on 3mb cable. Try restarting your computer to reset the connection.