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Old 26-05-2005, 13:20   #22
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Re: Flight Simulator 2004 questions

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Originally Posted by Caspar
ok, I've taken the plunge and bought fs2004...

...after the 4 disc install (min is 2GB and max is 3.8GB) I loaded up a plane just to get going...but tbh found the graphics pretty crap

The plane itself looked ok, cessna, but the scenary was poo Luckily, I knew the default scenary was basic and had already bought the Abacus European Terrain addon.

Question: Is there a better scenery pack for the UK?

...but after the install, I saw no difference in detail

Question Do you have to enable to addon scenery somewhere?

TBh, I thought the whole Sim would play better. I have a GeForce 5900 Ultra 256MB (cheers KP! ) with ALL the settings at their highest...and the buildings still look shoddy

I was expecting to be able to fly over my house in a chopper and see it!...at the moment I'm finding it hard even to find my house! ...roads aren't where they are supposed to be!...tho it could be my nav!

Do I have too high expectations expecting to be able to see my house! ...which I'm sure I read somewhere that you're supposed to be able to do...

Also, I bought some Military choppers, but they seem to go ape after a few mins!....the chopper just jumps about the place looking at the flight path it's shows exactly that things arn't right (will post a screen grab of a flight path!)

Another question is...is it possbile to get some panel view on a seperate monitor. I have my main screen and a 17"CRT as a shared desktop. I can move my mouse over to the second monitor, but I'm unable to drag any of the panel views accross... Is there a setting to span the game accross a second monitor?


p.s. I bought some Military Choppers...and wanted to bomb my old school
Firstly, you bought the wrong thing for better scenery, you need to buy VFR Terrain AND VFR Photographic Scenery, the terrain is just a mesh, it'll just bung the crap FS2004 textures over it, the Photographic scenery changes the textures.

You more than likely won't see your house, or any other house you might recognise, unless it's a national monument.

With regards to two monitors, you have to have FS2004 running in Windowed mode to be able to use more than one monitor, I have it running over 2 with no problems.
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Originally Posted by McGraw
The one in the link above is the same as the link I posted without the DVD and printed manuals.

Obviously you can get PDF manuals.

Don't buy it if you don't like things complex!

A full pre-flight and engine start procedure still takes me about an hour.

It is fantastic though and thoroughly recommended.
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Some screenshots.

http://forum.justflight.com/forum/to...?TOPIC_ID=8606
You should try "Ready for Push-back" starting a 747 cold and quiet took me at least an hour too.
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