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(Msg. 16) Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:55 am
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My top five:
IL2/FB/Pacific Fighters
Falcon 4 Allied Force + Stopworks Pits + HiTiles or Open Falcon + HiTiles
Lock On
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 but only with lots of scenery and aircraft
addons
XPlane (
Longbow 2 doesn't quite make my cut, nor does Battle of Britain II because
of the bugs, nor do the older but good ones like F-22, EAW, and of the Janes
sims just because they are lacking in the graphics department and I don't
spend time on them anymore.
> Were their even more then a handful released though?
The top five provide more than enough flight-simming at the moment for me to
handle.
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> "Anthony" <aevansjr3 RemoveThis @hellno.cox.net> wrote in message
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>> Anyone have any idea the top 5 games? Were their even more then a handful
>> released though?
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> The IL2 series is by far the top ww2 sim.
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(Msg. 17) Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:09 am
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Tactic wrote:
> XPlane (
I was looking at the latest X-Plane at their website. That sucker takes
uup 60gb of HDD space! That has to be the biggest footprint of any game
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(Msg. 18) Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:10 am
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To be fair, most of that is taken up by fancy sceneries and mesh. Compare
that with a similarily endowed FS9 and 60GB is not so bad.
My FS9 comes in at 48Gb with Mesh added and N American fancy scenery -
could be a lot more with little effort. Also bear in mind both these items
are simulations where the entire globe is represented, not restricted to a
small area of the world. Given the size of HD's these days, these large
programs are no big deal. My first HD was 40 Mb !! and would not handle
some of the d/l's we have nowadays.
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> Tactic wrote:
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>> XPlane (
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> I was looking at the latest X-Plane at their website. That sucker takes
> uup 60gb of HDD space! That has to be the biggest footprint of any game in
> history - easily. >> Stay informed about: Top flgiht-sims |
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(Msg. 19) Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:55 pm
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Canuck wrote:
> To be fair, most of that is taken up by fancy sceneries and mesh. Compare
> that with a similarily endowed FS9 and 60GB is not so bad.
> My FS9 comes in at 48Gb with Mesh added and N American fancy scenery -
> could be a lot more with little effort. Also bear in mind both these items
> are simulations where the entire globe is represented, not restricted to a
> small area of the world. Given the size of HD's these days, these large
> programs are no big deal. My first HD was 40 Mb !! and would not handle
> some of the d/l's we have nowadays.
I've got 460gb of HDD space but there is no way I would give up 60gb of
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:55 am
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Don't understand your logic here, if the space is there and doing nothing,
use it - makes no diff to the computer. Otherwise you are just missing out
on a while load of fun.
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> Canuck wrote:
>> To be fair, most of that is taken up by fancy sceneries and mesh.
>> Compare that with a similarily endowed FS9 and 60GB is not so bad.
>> My FS9 comes in at 48Gb with Mesh added and N American fancy scenery -
>> could be a lot more with little effort. Also bear in mind both these
>> items are simulations where the entire globe is represented, not
>> restricted to a small area of the world. Given the size of HD's these
>> days, these large programs are no big deal. My first HD was 40 Mb !!
>> and would not handle some of the d/l's we have nowadays.
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> I've got 460gb of HDD space but there is no way I would give up 60gb of
> that for any one game. >> Stay informed about: Top flgiht-sims |
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(Msg. 21) Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:55 am
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:14:09 +0000, Canuck wrote:
> Don't understand your logic here, if the space is there and doing nothing,
> use it - makes no diff to the computer. Otherwise you are just missing
> out on a while load of fun.
The logic is that if I allowed games to use 60gb of space then I would
soon have no space. No game is worth 60gb. I have a 5.x version of X-Plane
and it wasn't long before it was incompatible with my video drivers and I
didn't care for it all that much anyway. Terrible GUI. >> Stay informed about: Top flgiht-sims |
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(Msg. 22) Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:55 pm
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Garrot writes:
> The logic is that if I allowed games to use 60gb of space then I would
> soon have no space.
True, but that assumes that you continue to buy more and more games.
I have only five games on my machine: Sim City, The Sims 2, two chess
games, and Flight Simulator. The Sims 2 and Flight Simulator chew up
a lot of space, especially the latter; the other three don't require
much space. I'm not buying anything else in the foreseeable future,
and I still have the majority of the drive empty.
> No game is worth 60gb. I have a 5.x version of X-Plane
> and it wasn't long before it was incompatible with my video drivers and I
> didn't care for it all that much anyway. Terrible GUI.
Flight Simulator has the advantage of causing the least problems of
all simulation games, although if you start adding things stability
declines rapidly.
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(Msg. 23) Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:55 am
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:45:15 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:
> True, but that assumes that you continue to buy more and more games. I
> have only five games on my machine: Sim City, The Sims 2, two chess games,
> and Flight Simulator. The Sims 2 and Flight Simulator chew up a lot of
> space, especially the latter; the other three don't require much space.
> I'm not buying anything else in the foreseeable future, and I still have
> the majority of the drive empty.
I've got too many games and even with 620gb over two computers I can fill
that up with just games if I choose to. >> Stay informed about: Top flgiht-sims |
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