fs 2004

[Ubergeek87]

Originally Posted by Skybird

FS2004 superior for IFR, FSX superior for VFR.

What makes FS2004's IFR flight superior to FSX's?
I would have thought they'd be nearly the same. The only thing I can think of that would be different is that FSX probably has newer navdata by default.

@joel
you can find your more important system spec by going to:
Start | Control Panel | System (note the cpu and ram in the general tab) | hardware tab |device manager | expand "display adapters" that's the name of your graphics card.
The path may vary a bit, this is for XP with the control panel on 'Classic View'

[Skybird]

I am more thinking about technical stability; and the easiness of complex addons (like PMDG, Level-D and Flight-1 ATR) running with FS - or not. Complex cockpoit modeuls are reported time and again to not run as reliable with FSX as they do with FS9. The reasons for this probably are diverse, from software to hardware-related issues.

when saying IFR, I NEVER refer to any Microsoft default airliner. They are far too simplistic, for my taste. As a matter of fact I use no default sports plane for VFR either. the dedicated addons packages that focus on simulkate a given piece of hardware, and only that one, may appear expensive, compared to what you get with FS as a full package - but they make all the difference. They are what turns a dedicated and wanted game into an actual flight sim. FS is no simulator when it leaves Microsoft's production halls, but a game. That it is modular and so easy to change - this is it's real capital and potentially can turn it into a sim. If that would not be the case, many flyers interested more in the sim than game aspects would turn their backs on it, me included.