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#MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X 2017 SIMULATOR#
#MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X 2017 UPDATE#
Best of all, the Microsoft Flight Simulator Game of the Year Edition will be available as a free update for existing players on PC. If you have these addons for FSX, your sim will look very similar to the video.The Microsoft Flight Simulator Game of the Year (GOTY) Edition celebrates all the positive feedback, reviews and awards garnered, but it is also a “Thank You” to our fans – new and old – that have made Microsoft Flight Simulator such a phenomenon. It will be very comparable to P3D after that, and saves a lot of hard earned cash.Īs a note to the video, it looks like it uses these following addons: Aerosoft Milan, FlyTampa Dubai, PMDG 777, Orbx Global, and some kind of ground-handling addon like FS Dream Team GSX. I can then update cloud textures with the freeware HD environment, and the water using the freeware FSWC. I'd instead update FSX using Steve's DX10 fixer to get some better shadows and lighting, and slap on Orbx Global Base as a starting point. If I were to do it again, I'd probably not spend money on P3D (based on how dated it's scenery and nav database is, and addon incompatability).
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Outside of that though, FSX does have pretty much the same stuff, and flies exactly the same.
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You will see a lot more P3D videos these days because P3D is newer and updated more frequently (a lot of FSX users tend to switch to P3D due to novelty, or the perceived feeling that they are flying a more commercial simulator). I think I dropped about $300 just for bare essential addons alone. The addons for P3D also cost more due to licensing mumbojumbo (for example, $134.99 USD for a PMDG 777, vs $89.99 for the FSX version, with mostly the same features).
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While it is 64-bit, it is unfortunately incompatible with a lot of my old FSX addons. I run P3D Version 4 on my machine, and while it does has some perks (uses my video card efficiently, and has excellent lighting effects), it still uses a 2006 navigation database, and uses the same scenery as 2006 FSX out of the box. Prepar3d is supposed to be for training purposes, but the majority of the users are gamers and fsx enthusiests anyways lol.Īlas, P3D isn't much of a milestone above FSX (and I am stating this as a user of P3D myself).