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Chappie
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 43
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:47 am Post subject: Ok...I'll Say It |
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Ummmmm..."A day or two" I believe was the quote from Brian given both on the 24th and 28th of July on his zeroAltitude webpage. How many of you watched the Start Trek movie, I think it was "The Wrath of Kahn" where Capt Kirk communicated using cryptic numbers the amount of time it would take to repair the Enterprise in days but it actually meant hours? Is that what is going on here? Do days really mean weeks or months or heaven forbid.......years?
Maybe an unexpected "bug" crept in to his ability to communicate the "Big News". Who knows but I do know we got our chains yanked again.
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dweese
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1720 Location: Belleville ON Canada
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | While I can't say specifically the schedule for the next few days, Joel and I talked briefly today and hope to have some good news for you pretty soon. |
Humm yes he did say days, but maybe it was trekie code for weeks who know, I'm not sure Brian is even a trekie
And ya your right it was The Wrath of Kahn by far the best trek movie ever made, not that I have seen any of them  |
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Frustratedbyslowdevs
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Apple Valley, MN
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: I told you there wasn't a SB |
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He's likely waiting for a company to buy his masterpiece.
Or wait.... perhaps his computer crashed cause he hasn't said anything on here since April....
I have a secondary machine I am going to try to re-format and I will put it on there. It could be my vista as to why the third party stuff isn't working. Or maybe I will just go back to FS2004.
FSX is over-rated anyway.
I have been patient I must say since my last post. I gave the development team a long time to finish things up. |
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Blake7
Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 18
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: I told you there wasn't a SB |
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| Frustratedbyslowdevs wrote: |
He's likely waiting for a company to buy his masterpiece.
Or wait.... perhaps his computer crashed cause he hasn't said anything on here since April....
I have a secondary machine I am going to try to re-format and I will put it on there. It could be my vista as to why the third party stuff isn't working. Or maybe I will just go back to FS2004.
FSX is over-rated anyway.
I have been patient I must say since my last post. I gave the development team a long time to finish things up. |
" FSX is over-rated anyway. "
I think not ... especially when you have a super computer for max performance ! |
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Norman
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 1583 Location: N Ireland
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:47 am Post subject: Re: Ok...I'll Say It |
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| Chappie wrote: | | Who knows but I do know we got our chains yanked again. |
OK, its not my place to say it but here goes.
A few hours before Brian's post I caught up with Joel and asked for a public beta release as is which he was in general agreement. I'm not in a position to comment further except to say no chains are being yanked. |
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ronen
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: |
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great news !!, thanks norman
hopeing to hear more of them soon!
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Blake7
Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 18
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:34 am Post subject: |
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YES !!!!!
Here we go !!!  |
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socalpilot
Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Posts: 15
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: Ok...I'll Say It |
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| Norman wrote: |
OK, its not my place to say it but here goes.
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So it's not official? |
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JimNZ
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 2
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: Yaahhhhh |
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Great stuff Norman.
I'm dusting off my microphone as we speak.
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phrgflyer
Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Wilmington, NC
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Blake7
FSX is overrated. Even a member of the dev team stated that it ran solidly on their machines and when asked what type of machines they were using, stated that they were using 8 core machines.
I understand that the FSX team have given up on any more mods to FSX and are working on the next version at this time.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think not. |
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Norman
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 1583 Location: N Ireland
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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8 core? Brian and I spent some time last year with a number of the devs at Reno where we demonstrated Acceleration.
Intel had sent us the best machines possible at that time which were dual core and they ran FSX without issue. |
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Blake7
Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 18
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| phrgflyer wrote: | Blake7
FSX is overrated. Even a member of the dev team stated that it ran solidly on their machines and when asked what type of machines they were using, stated that they were using 8 core machines.
I understand that the FSX team have given up on any more mods to FSX and are working on the next version at this time.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think not. |
Trust me it works fine on my Dell XPS720 H2c ...
PROCESSOR H2C Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Extreme QX6850 Processor (3.46GHz,1066MHz,8MB cache)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® 32bit Ultimate - English
MONITOR Dell™ 24" Wide Flat Panel
MONITOR Dell™ 22" Wide Flat Panel
MEMORY 4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4x1024]
HARD DRIVE 1TB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x500GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache)
ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVES 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache
GRAPHICS CARD 2 x 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards
PHYSICS PCI CARD 128MB Ageia™ PhysX™ physics accelerator PCI card |
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mwheeler

Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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It is well documented that FSX is CPU hungry. The more you can throw at it, the better it will perform.
I went from a quad core to a dual quad core (total of 8 cores) and have noticed a huge difference in frame rates as well as over all quality with the slider set very high. (no they are not maxed out, but close)
It is a very enjoyable experience and it better be, as I am going to be paying for this machine for some time to come.  |
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Geddy_2112
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Trust me it works fine on my Dell XPS720 H2c ... |
That's kinda like saying my Enzo Ferrari F60 is expensive and goes fast!
But unfortunately not everyone here can fork out $6000 for a XPS720. |
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dweese
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1720 Location: Belleville ON Canada
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: |
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I'm running an intel core2 2.66ghz system with 4gig of ram and a 256meg nivida 7500 card. Some what of a lower end machine by todays standards.
My sliders are in the mid to high range and locked at 15fps. FSX is very flyable and very enjoyable.
15fps does not sound very high based on FS9, but since SP2 for FSX came out. Your fps is no longer a vaid way to judge FSX preformance. |
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