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#4019417 - 10/07/14 09:21 PM She's Still Got It!  
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I found the backup drive with all my FS9 addons on, so I thought I'd resurrect FS9 and see what I can do with it.

Here's the results:














Inline advert (2nd and 3rd post)

#4019425 - 10/07/14 09:34 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: Pielstick]  
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Looks better than my FSX!lol, great shots thumbsup

#4019439 - 10/07/14 10:09 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: trindade]  
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Wow....just.....wow

what exactly we looking at?...so I can replicate smile

whats the FPS like compared to similar in FSX?

....wow


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#4019442 - 10/07/14 10:13 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: Pielstick]  
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Looking at those shots I can see something's wrong with the aircraft at Heathrow.... after digging around I found out I had double AFCADs installed for some of my airports!

All sorted now, here's how it should look:

Heathrow








Gatwick







Luton





Stansted





London City




Yeah I know my AI is hopelessly out of date. About eight years old I reckon, if you look carefully you'll spot a few airlines and liveries that have been consigned to history biggrin

#4019449 - 10/07/14 10:25 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: skunk160]  
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Originally Posted By: skunk160
Wow....just.....wow

what exactly we looking at?...so I can replicate smile

whats the FPS like compared to similar in FSX?

....wow


It's stuff I picked up over many years of using FS9.

The base scenery is Ultimate Terrain Europe, with Ground Environment Pro 2006. The airports are all UK2000 Xtreme Series. The AI pack is one that I downloaded many years ago on a recommendation. Sky, cloud and water textures are from a very recent environment pack I found last night, as are the SweetFX and ENB settings. If you want specifics let me know.

Looking through this HDD I found I've got hundreds of airports that I collected over the years, and loads of airliners to fly. Enough to keep me busy for a while I think.

If you tried similar in FSX you'd get an OOM. With FS9 it's butter smooth on my 2011 gaming laptop (haven't installed it on my desktop). The ground textures and autogen are clearly inferior to what you get in FSX, especially if you're an Orbx junkie the ones in FS9 will now make your eyes hurt. Likewise virtual cockpits in FS9 are a big step backward from FSX, so you're firmly back in the era of the 2D panel.

Still, IMHO this is far and away the most complete airliner flying experience, far better than FSX. The simple fact you can fly into and out of big airports with realistic amounts of AI aircraft, with real weather and complex aircraft addons makes it superior to FSX for this type of simming.

Last edited by Pielstick; 10/07/14 10:28 PM.
#4019464 - 10/07/14 11:13 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: Pielstick]  
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Yeah i wonder now why i didn't just modify my FS9 install only. Would have been cheaper and ran better.

#4019495 - 10/08/14 12:51 AM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: Pielstick]  
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Century of Flight. Love the ol' girl. I'll probably reinstall as well when new pc arrives.


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#4019838 - 10/08/14 05:54 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: Pielstick]  
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Oh no, the Deus Ex syndrome. Now I need to free up some space on the HDD and a lot of time for FS9...



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#4019852 - 10/08/14 06:09 PM Re: She's Still Got It! [Re: Pielstick]  
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Yeah know Deus Ex just really didn't do it for me. Maybe I didn't play it enough to get into it or something, but it never grabbed me.

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