| Flight Simulator X - Gold Edition (PC) |  | From: Microsoft
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Platform: Windows Vista
Genre: flight-simulation-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows Vista
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MPN: EGC-00007
UPC: 882224749305
EAN: 0882224749305
ASIN: B001E95V5K
Release Date: September 19, 2008
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Product Description
Contains:
Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition
Flight Simulator X Acceleration (Expansion Pack) Flight Simulator X: Deluxe Edition
Flight Simulator X is the culmination of nearly 25 years of the landmark Flight Simulator franchise and its most significant addition to date. The 10th addition to the highly successful Flight Simulator franchise, Flight Simulator X will immerse players in a beautifully rich and realistic world, offering a completely new and innovative gaming experience with dozens of new aircraft to choose from, including the AirCreation 582SL Ultralight and Maule M7-260C Orion with wheels and skis. Gamers of all ages, types and skill levels will experience firsthand what it is like to be an aviator travelling the globe either alone or online with others.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration (Expansion Pack)
Flight Simulator X: Acceleration, is the action-packed expansion for Microsoft's amazingly successful and award-winning Flight Simulator X video game. With newly enhanced DX10 graphics, Flight Simulator X: Acceleration gamers of all ages, types and skill levels can race against friends in amazing, highly detailed locations around the world, test their skills and heroism in many new missions, fly three exciting new aircraft, and share rewards, photos and videos with friends and the broader flight community.
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 The Ultimate November 10, 2008
Mr. Ian W. Ogilvie (Scotland)
67 out of 68 found this review helpful
There's a good variety of planes and helicopters, a stunning choice of airports and comprehensive teaching section. You can choose any weather condition, time of day/night and season, so if you want to put your flying skills to the test you can try to land in a gale force wind. I like the variety of views that are available. The scenery is mostly excellent although there are a few landmarks needing brushed up. This seems to be pretty much a total control program - it would be hard to think what needs to be added to it. Best of all it's easy to just take a leisurely flight anywhere you please if you don't want to tax your brain too much - and it doesn't take too much to get flying. For the realist fans you can make it as close to life as possible. I like the humourous comentaries in the lessons though. At one point (when I missed the runway by several hundred yards) I was told "well, at least you managed to land on airport property". It's not cheap, but it is top quality so is worth buying.
Great simulation, but you need a good PC to appreciate it July 3, 2009
ruuman (UK, Surrey)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
Anyone buying this game should be aware this isn't an arcade shooter, this is a genuine simulation with 100's of real world airports, accurate plane models and a full living world to fly through.
I've just upgraded my graphics card to an ati 4890 and can now fully appreciate this game. it's almost like flying over Google Earth, but looking down on the roads I can see cars and lorry's cruising up the motorway as I crash into my house!
If you like full on sims this is well worth the money, if you really enjoy it purchase a track ir head tracker too, this allows you look around the cockpit with your head, while you use the mouse and keyboard for just flying the plane, it's very cool.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X Gold Edition February 19, 2009
Sam Routledge (Hampshire, England)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am very pleased with this product becuse of the range and the quality of what already comes with the package. I would recommend this product more than the other versions becuase it comes with the delux edition and the accelerate expansion pack with it. When the graphics are set on to high settings, the scenery, planes and weather all look fantastic. The extra missions you get with the acceleration pack are fun and challenging. There is a wide range of payware quality addons that are around for it but be careful because there are still alot of them around for FS2004 and check the compatability before you buy. Over all it is a fantastic package and I have enjoyed it.
Mind-blowing in it's breadth, the ultimate civilian flight simulator March 25, 2010
Siko (Shropshire, England)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Please note, this is not a game, although you can have a lot of fun with it !
Full world terrain to an excellent detail level...check.
Amazing graphics (even given it is several years old now)....check
Hundreds of real airports...check
Good variety of planes and helicopters with well modelled interiors/exteriors, virtual cockpits and flight models....check
HUGE amount of free stuff available on the internet (just look!)...check
HUGE amount of payware available to upgrade just about anything....check
Amazing training guides and fun missions to fly....check
Well thought out online environment with huge potential....check
Very highly spec'd PC required to play ? Hmmm....check !
Perhaps the major downside to this incredible piece of software is the fact you will need a monster PC. A lot of people complained when it came out because it ran so slowly on 'most' PCs...and they were bang on. My system is a new, fairly well spec'd Core I7/5770/4gb Ram machine that scores 7.5ish (out of 7.9) for just about everything in Windows experience on Win7. It runs Rise of Flight, Napoleon TW, Arma 2 etc smoothly at highest detail settings at 1920x1080. Even it struggled at times with FSX at full detail (eg over London in an F18!) and if you have anything moderately old or with a poor graphics card, you will have to accept lower resolutions or lower detail.
That said, if you can run it with full detail, it looks and flys great. I have around 3000hrs in real aircraft and it compares really well to the 'real' world flying experience...the addition of full ATC transmissions, the ability to file flight plans and to fly in just about anything...to just about anywhere...is incredible. The only minor downside I can find (apart from the beast of a PC required) is that at times it is too real and can become more like work than fun. Whilst I haven't tried the online options yet, they are well integrated into the overall experience and for example you could have a player operating as ATC at a major airport (with full radar/tower picture etc) and several players flying circuits/IFR etc.
I will finish by saying that for the money £18ish.....you are getting the absolute bargain of the century in PC software....you get so much for the money before you even go online and see what you can download for free (legitimately!). This is the ultimate sandbox, flying simulator, it's dirt cheap and awesome. Go buy.
 Great game but some Windows 7 64 bit problems (fixable) March 1, 2010
A. D. Bailey
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm very much enjoying FSX. About the only fault I can find with the gameplay is some occasionally confusing mission instructions appearing. For example, I played one mission where I had been told to maintain 210 knots. I was then told to descend to a particular height and part way through my rather slow descent, I was told by the control tower to reduce speed to 180 knots. However, when I reached the end of the descent, it told me to level off and maintain 210 knots. It meant 180, but said 210 because it was expecting me to have completed the descent before I was told to reduce speed by the tower. Anyway, only a minor criticism...
The more significant problem is a number of random crashes on Windows 7 64 bit (I don't know if 32 bit is affected). The crashes usually happen when manipulating the menus at the top of the simulator, particularly after the simulator has been running a while. The error log reports problems with UIAutomationCore.dll. Doing some research on the web, it turns out that a number of people have this problem and that there seem to be a few problems with FSX and the new version of the system file, UIAutomationCore.dll, that comes with Windows 7. I managed to find an older version to download (from Vista) and placed it in the Flight Simulator program directory. FSX now operates using this older version and I haven't had a single crash since.
So, pretty disappointing from a Microsoft branded product, but at least it can be fixed if you're prepared to search.
(For those interested, the version of UIAutomationCore.dll that I have with my Windows 7 installation is 7.0.0.0, product version 6.1.7600.16385, file size 733KB. The old version that I downloaded is version 6.0.6001.18000, product version 6.0.6001.18000, file size 148KB. For avoidance of doubt, I would strongly advise against *replacing* the new file, even if you can bypass the system file protection. Placing the older file in the program directory is entirely adequate.)
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