Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight

**Wing_Z** · July 29th, 2010, 01:07

- Released on 29 July 2003

Happy 7th birthday to the best, and most popular, Flight Simulator.

And, thinking about it ... Flight Simulator has now been around for 30 years, too!

***Wild Bill Kelso*** · July 29th, 2010, 05:16

Time flies when you're having fun...

Thanks for reminding, Charl!

***awj112*** · July 29th, 2010, 06:26

Nice one Marcus...

***Odie*** · July 29th, 2010, 10:16

Originally Posted by Wing_Z

- Released on 29 July 2003

Happy 7th birthday to the best, and most popular, Flight Simulator.

And, thinking about it ... Flight Simulator has now been around for 30 years, too!

Sits right beside FSX on my sim computer....still alot of goodie left in it !!

**Cazzie** · July 29th, 2010, 10:46

Still the best, loads of payware and freeware products, the last generation of aircraft designed for it by out distinguished designers here were and are first-rate, scenery just got better with HDE and REX, products for FSX still include the same in FS2004 format as a rule. Frame rates with sliders full right are off the wall good with the newer computers.

I fly it three times for every one time I fly FSX. By far the best Flight Sim Microsoft has ever released.

Caz

***huub vink*** · August 1st, 2010, 04:48

When Mathias asked me whether I was interested to beta test the Classics Hangar Focke-Wulf I had to re-install FSX. I hardly used it so I had decided to uninstall it.
After a long period of flying in FSX I started to appreciate it, which I had not really expected.

However there are far too many absolute gems made for FS9, both aircrafts, mods and scenery, which is why I still have a very large fs9 install on my computer. Like Cazzie, I still fly fs9 more often than FSX, mainly because it has aircrafts or scenery which doesn't port over very well.

FSX however has caused a big change. New aircrafts are mainly developed as payware. Many freeware designers still stick with FS9 and there are also quite some developers making models for CFS2 which work perfect in FS9. Therefore I think FS9 is still very much alive and will stay like this for many years to come.

Cheers,
Huub

Below one of the many reasons to keep FS9....

**Milton Shupe** · August 1st, 2010, 05:23

I have to agree .... FS9 still going strong for me.

adhockey · August 1st, 2010, 19:57

Originally Posted by huub vink

Many freeware designers still stick with FS9...

Unfortunately, one of my favorites, Tim 'Piglet' Conrad, is not one of them. His stuff is always top notch.

Thankfully we have ol' Milt and some other greats to keep FS9 alive.

**Lionheart** · August 1st, 2010, 22:22

My fave sim of choice! Thank the Lord for FS9...

Tonight, I just finished figuring out the last details needed for compiling super models into FS9. Former limits of 4MM Vertex distance and 65K polygons is now shattered. Super nice small parts can now be created and no welding occurrs, and the limit now is approximately 1.3 million polygons compared to 65K polygons.

Test compiles of model files have been over 10,000 megs.

**Wing_Z** · August 1st, 2010, 22:38

Even if I have to buy a new supercomputer to run it (I don' t know if you do, but even then) this is surely the Holy Grail.
All FS9 lacked was more detail to compete with the later edition.

Man, this is big news.

Let me rephrase that: BIG NEWS

..Still not right...

There...

**Lionheart** · August 2nd, 2010, 04:37

Runs smooth as glass on my humble, 2 year old iMac Apple computer, with 32bit exterior textures and lots of nice clouds.

No super computer needed, no liquid nitrogen cooling systems required, no quad dual cores, no tandem mother boards, etc, etc, etc....

***edmoore235*** · August 2nd, 2010, 05:38

Running a copy of FS 2004 on a nine year old Soyo motherboard running Windows 7 Home (32) with a P4 478 pin - 2.66 with a 533 FSB and a 512 L2 cache on 3 gig of DDR ram - AGP 4x 1 gig ATI video and IDE 250 GIG WD hard drive plus IDE R/W DVD.... flight sim works very well - HAPPY BIRTHDAY (ACOF) !!! Take care - Ed

***Felixthreeone*** · August 2nd, 2010, 16:56

Did Bill just post what I think he posted???????? Unbelievable!!!! Bill Ortis is the MAN!!!!!

**Wing_Z** · August 2nd, 2010, 17:01

I was wondering if I was an audience of 1...beating a drum to an empty auditorium!

Slightly OT, I do love coming to AVSIM's front page of a morning to be greeted by 38/39 FS2004 entries. Some nutter posted an FS98 model to spoil the show

***Felixthreeone*** · August 2nd, 2010, 17:45

Ohhh man oh man oh man! This is HUGE!!!! I am totally blown away....WOW. I can't wait to see what this could do for FS9....its like an injection of AWESOME