Orbiter and IL-2:1946.
I use Orbiter more than any other simulator but it simulates spacecraft rather than aircraft so I don't classify it as a flight simulator. Rather, I put it in a class on it's own as a spaceflight simulator. Of the flight simulators available (meaning atmospheric flight with aircraft), I'd say FSX hands down. It's realistic and visually stunning. I have very high end computer hardware and it really comes to life on my system.
Do you have Win 7 64 bit by chance? If so next time you go in can you go through FSX menus. (Like right click view menu) alot and see if it crashes for you? From what I am reading my issue is very common in X64 bit Win 7 due to 2 different DLL files being called for those menus.
Do you have Win 7 64 bit by chance? If so next time you go in can you go through FSX menus. (Like right click view menu) alot and see if it crashes for you? From what I am reading my issue is very common in X64 bit Win 7 due to 2 different DLL files being called for those menus.
Wow, that Hind thing was impressive!
Alas, I seem to be the only Flight Gear fan here It is to this day the most realistic flight simulation I have ever encountered, if rather heavy-weight. I had to go online and download real sectional charts and airport information to use it, and that Piper Warrior is not very forgiving. Love it!
FG is still the best in the business, IMHO:thumbup:
YS Flight is also a good light-weight alternative, and will be my backup until I can get a joystick to work with Linux.
I downloaded the X-Plane 9 demo, I definitely felt the realism, the runways felt more 'natural' they weren't 100% smooth and flat as they are in FSX,
I found the graphics to be terrible unless they were in the immediate area of a runway, the water and clouds especially stood out to me, the clouds were just a flat texture layer of smudged white spread across the sky and the water seemed very still,
Orbiter isn't a flight sim, it's a space sim and is disqualified from that poll.
Linux Mint 12Which distribution? I've got a Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas that works fine on Ubuntu.