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| Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe DVD | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $24.99
You Save: $15.00 (38%)
New (50) Used (11) from $24.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  281 reviews
Sales Rank: 573
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
nv:Software Type: Games
MPN: 9am-00014
UPC: 882224258043
EAN: 0882224258043
ASIN: B000GCJ6MK
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Flight Sim X - FANTASTIC ! October 18, 2006
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
OK, first of all if you are running an older PC or a really minimal set-up this program is going to run slow. NO BIG SURPRISE HERE. I have it running on a Dell 3.5 system with 1 GB RAM and an ATI X600 video card. I have the setting set to about 3/4 full on everything and the game runs fine. The only time I see it srunning slow is when you load a new flight or when the initial game starts, this takes a little while to complete (when was the last time you went to the airport, boarded a plane and actually had it take off on time with no delay). Once I am up and flying, it is pretty quick. Yes I can probably turn some of the graphics down and make it perfectly seemless but I really enjoy the graphics I see at this setting and I can easily live with the way it is running, there is no chopiness at all. When you are flying over major roadways you can see vehicles driving below, not static but actually moving. This is true for vehicles on bridges and boats in the water as well. All of the graphics are intense and remember, I have it set to only 75 percent of the high end. Could it run a little better...sure however I would prefer the fantastic visual effects they have included as opposed to just remaking FS 2004.
Once more, if you are running a really slow or low end machine it may not be worth your money but the way games are today, there is not much in the way of graphically intense games that will run on these PC's.
Experiment with the settings, reboot just before playing and turn off any background programs such as anti-virus software and you should be satisfied with this long awaited revision.
 AMAZON Fails its customers October 18, 2006
14 out of 36 found this review helpful
Well this rating is actually of Amazon, since they failed miserably at honoring their shipping on time. I guess the reviewers to date got theirs somewhere else.
On pre-order for three months, other sellers having been shipping the title for at least a week already (including apparently Amazon UK). Now they delay shipping to their loyal clients.
What poor poor service.
Agree overall with other reviewers October 18, 2006
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
Was excited to pick this up for a while. However, very dissapointed in the fact that with a Pentium 4 2.6 Gig 512 Mb RAM with NVIDIA graphics card and this game is SLOW. Even worse, when all settings are set at low and the game actually runs smoothly, the graphics are the exact same as Flight Sim 2004. I guess I will remain dissapointed until I sink a few grand in a new machine in a few years...
What a bust... October 18, 2006
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
Gameplay-wise, the addition to detail in cities was thrilling, and the very few new planes to try held my attention for a few minutes...
...but at 3GHZ, 1GB RAM and a brand new $200 NVIDIA Graphics card, this game runs HORRIBLY on even the lowest graphics settings. It is very disappointing that this game seems like it was designed only to work on supercomputers. Save your $70 unless you plan on forking out another $1000 to retrofit your system to play this game.
 Flight Simulator X is AWESOME! October 17, 2006
24 out of 29 found this review helpful
I pre ordered this game and was so glad i did! This game has AWESOME GRAPHICS!!! The Water is SO REAL and Missions ROCK!! On my gaming computer which has a 320GB Hard drive Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2GB of RAM and dual SLi 512mb nVidia graphic cards FSX Runs FLAWLESSLY with all slides at Max. But I know not everyone can afford a high end gaming computer so I also tried it on my low end secondary computer with a 2.93ghz intel celeron D processor 512mb of RAM and a ATI graphics card. Flight Simulator runs pretty good but not great. If you have a computer like my seconary computer I suggest getting Flight Simulator 2004 or 2002.
- Pilot Derick
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