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If you haven’t already got FSX, or are interested in civil aviation then it seems like a slam-dunk. For the regular price of $25-ish you get an old but extensive flight simulator with 24,000 airports, the complete set of 24 aircraft from FSX Acceleration, and some fixes for stability and multiplayer. So what we have so far is actually some pretty good value. The multiplayer options are nice and simple, with integration of the Steamworks stuff of ‘friends’ and server browsing.Ĭan I Interest You In the Rust Protection? The convenience factor (if on a decent internet connection, as a lot who use Steam are) is nice, and there have been a couple of minor patches out already.
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The download size was about 10GB, and came out to be 16.4GB when on disk. The start-up screen has been altered, in that awful ‘web aware’ way, but essentially nobody has moved your cheese – all options and menus are more or less as is.
Those sort of optimizations may be not allowed as part of Dovetails/Microsoft’s agreement. Unfortunately the ‘preview DX10’ mode is still very poor, and doesn’t have the same sort of optimizations that have been available via the popular ‘Steve’s DX10 fixer’. With the initial release of FSX we all struggled manically to maximize performance, when really the solution was just to hibernate for 9 years and wait it out – so simple on retrospect. On an, 16GB, R9290 it finally handles 60 frames per second over an airport (as long as the airport is small). It seems more or less the same, maybe marginally better on a modern PC. The general advice is certainly check before purchasing anything new, but unless the installer is especially custom or the integration complex, then it will probably just work fine. Dovetail have set up a compatbility list here:
Popular payware like PMDG have updated, while I’ve read things like Captain Sim do not work so far. It isn’t recommended you have both Steam and non-Steam versions installed, although I didn’t seem to have any issues with this. Things like FSUIPC have also been updated to include the new (recompiled) SDK libraries for this edition and TrackIR etc uses a newer simconnect.dll. Some of the more active FSX add-on developers are updating their installers to work with the Steam edition, as really the only change has been to the location of the Program Files and the default naming of settings from fsx.cfg to fsx-se.cfg. Dovetail have announced they are working on an actual flight sim sequel, but that is still some way away and this isn’t it.
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Prepare3D is still for the ‘pro market’ and with licensing costs to match, and that’s where the FSX code will continue to evolve. This is not a true sequel, but more a ‘The DLC Shot First, Special Edition’. Dovetail can tweak but not alter the codebase radically.
MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X ADDONS UPDATE
Dovetail have struck a deal with Microsoft to update the base code, but only in terms of recompiling it for some basic optimizations, some tweaks for the beloved Windows 8, Multiplayer updates for Steam (rest in pieces Gamespy) and the incorporation of Dovetails ‘add-on’ licensing DLC. So what is FSX Steam Edition? In summary it is the same sim (FSX and the Acceleration disks) we all know and love, but with a couple of tweaks to allow it to work on more modern computers. For me personally, the price fell under the ‘Too lazy that I don’t want to walk down to the basement and get a disk’ must buy purchase category. It sold like hot sausages in a dog shelter. Inquiring minds needed to know, but more importantly for the Steam Sale crowd, it was *really cheap*, so pretty much an insta-buy for anyone who could spell ‘plain’. Was it the same as the one we have on DVD’s already, would it be 64-bit, or DX-10 with better shaders, would it just be FSX but with really detailed trains on the ground? Is there now deeply unflattering Steam lipstick on our beloved fresh-faced FSX pig? Here’s the store page:
This release caused quite a fair bit of confusion. The developer was still listed as Microsoft, but the publisher was Dovetail Games, or more commonly known as ‘The Train Simulator’ people. In the lead up to the annual ‘Steam Winter (don’t say Christmas, whew, got away with it, close one) Sale’ Microsoft’s FSX appeared on sale for a pretty low price of around $5. How do you review a sim that’s been out since 2006? Well, you don’t, and this article talks about what FSX Steam Edition is and how it is different from the original FSX and FSX Acceleration releases.
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