I discovered that by minimizing the graphic settings I could improve on this a little, but it's still worse than the FS9. The frame rate even at this stage isn't good. Next, you get a clearance from the Air Traffic Control to taxi into an active runway. There is a chase plane view which can be accessed by pressing the S key and this view allows you to see outside the plane and view the surroundings. The controls are rather simple, except for the frame rate, and at this point you may want to set your settings at medium low.
The game default places you in a virtual cockpit, however, you may still choose the 2D instrument view. When you have chosen and your selection has loaded, you then see a cockpit. The game offers 24 planes from which to choose. After the screen appeared there was a menu that looked like the menu in Flight Simulator 9, along with a sweeping musical score which could have come straight from an Indiana Jones movie.
#Fsx acceleration reviews install
It took a full 30 minutes to install and once it finished loading there were a few minutes of waiting before the menu finally showed on screen. You might be wondering why, but the capabilities of the machine are crucial to the quality or even the basic playing of the simulation.įlight Simulator X comes on 2 DVDs and which represents quite a lot of information even by today's standards. It has a Pentium 3.0 GHz processor with 2GB of RAM and an ATI Raedeon X 850 with 256MB RAM graphics card. It is important for me give the specifications of the PC on which I ran the game.