August 2006 - Posts
...and the saga continues. From what I can gather it appears that FilePlanet has a beta build they can distribute--they've tested it themselves. At this point it looks like the only thing holding up the beta is a way to provide the necessary information
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Ya know it's funny. Before we released the FSX demo the online forums where flooded with posts decrying our decision to include "wildlife" in the game. Posts like, "why are they including elephants when they won't improve the flight model's dual-gizmo-thing-a-ma-whatsit!!!"
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One of the last planning discussions I was involved with as I was making my transition to a new set of responbilities involved releasing a beta version of FSX on fileplanet.com . Not being a PC game "enthusiast" myself I admit I hadn't heard of them but
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Well, my last word, anyway. It seems there's quite a bit of anxiety on the FS boards about whether or not FSX will "take advantage of" multi-core CPUs. I've tried to provide some explanation but it's quickly drowned out by the waves of claims, opinions
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Any Letterman fans out there? Well, here's one to try if you have the FSX demo: Launch any flight and turn on Mouse-as-Yoke (from the right-click menu or by pressing CTRL+Y). Fly around for a bit and then press the middle mouse button (or mouse wheel
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A quick update on the Flight Simulator X demo: Thanks to all of you who've been clicking "Send to Microsoft" whenever the demo has produced the unfortunate "Program Error" dialog. It appears a number of you are encountering a crash in the same tricky
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With the FSX demo not even a week old I want to give a "shout out" to all the folks that have tried it and provided feedback on the various forums and to tell_fs@microsoft.com . Keep it up! Most of the problems reported are known but I've discovered a
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Looks like the upgrades went as planned as the weather servers are back online. Thanks for your patience!
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So much of the buzz surrounding the demo seems to be about performance with a hailstorm of varying reports. The problem is that it's hard to know *exactly* how people have configured the sim. Or is it? Here's a tip you "slider obsessed" might find helpful
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UPDATE: The server facility is undergoing power system upgrades and is likely to be offline until sometime on Sunday. Sorry about that...
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Reports from the field: Strange shading on aircraft that blinks with the lights : this is a bug with the aircraft self-shadowing code. It will be fixed in the final but in the meantime you can either turn off your lights or disable self-shadowing (in
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Here's a few more hints on the demo that I've come across while purusing the forums. It won't help Abe, who's already given up and moving to X-Plane , but maybe it will help you. Overall performance : AI road traffic and autogen can contribute to poor
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Now that people have had a good couple of days to experience the FSX demo I thought I'd post my reactions to, er, their reactions. At the top of my list a new appreciation of how the changes to the way we're doing business is affecting people--many of
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I went home after work last night and monitored the forums to see who had a chance to download and try the demo--lot's of folks, it turns out. As expected reviews varied but I think they were mostly positive. What's been facinating to me reading all the
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Well, the demo version is out the door and getting ready for it's debut on GameSpot later today. It's the first time we've ever done a demo and we made it even harder on ourselves by trying to do it while we were working on the full product . Not many
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...and then I woke up and it was August! How did that happen? Actually I think it has to do with being very busy. It's definitely put the blogging on the back burner but decided to kill some time waiting for the Flight Simulato X demo to finish downloading.
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