Re: Simulator better than RealFlight G3.5 ???

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:24:46 GMT, "Chuck" <chuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in <ydlZk.462817$yE1.255007@attbi_s21>:

I have been park-flying RTF's for about a year now and still like to
practice (and play) when it gets dark outside. A friend showed me his
RealFlight G3.5 simulator and its OK but are there any better?

I have RF G4.5.

I moved up from G2.

I enjoy it. My local hobby shop carries it and I
was able to buy it with some gift cards.

I have seen other simulators--played with one once
out in Toledo.

I'm running G4.5 on a Vista x64 system with 6 GB of
RAM and ... hang on ... 256 MB video card. The system
glitches routinely a moment after takeoff and at
the point of crashing. My friend has a similar
system with a little less RAM and a bigger, hotter
video card. I've got the dual-core CPU set up to
ramp up the clock on demand (I don't want it running
hot when I'm doing stuff like this).

We speculate that it's my slow hard disks, maybe.
I have a RAID array set up for mirroring.

After the obligatory glitches, all the rest of the
flight is smooth until it's time to crash.

It's plenty good enough for my purposes for now.
Someday I may give some other system a go ...

Marty
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