Microsoft Flight Sim X

Hey guys, my dad is an aspiring pilot, with only a few more hours in the air to go until he recieves his pilot's license. Some of his flying sessions however are few and far between. He loves everything about it, and I thought that a good way for him to stay sharp on everything was to get MS Flight Sim X. I'm not sure how realistic it is with gauges and such, but I'm downloading the demo right now to find out. My question is: if I do decide to get that for him will it run on his pavilion dv1000? Its got the wonderful little Intel GMA in it, so I'm worried that it won't. Graphics aren't important, just playability. If anyone has an answer to this or an experience with it, please share, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

Hah, i've a bunch of reviews at www.hardocp.com and they say it's a pretty poorly coded game since their high end systems can't play the game at max/near max settings.

Just check out their last 5 desktop reviews (check under gaming section of each review)

I'd say get him flight simulator 2004, that should run better. It's probably cheaper too.

 

FSX chugs along even at low settings on many high-end systems. Your GMA doesn't stand a chance... Fs2004 (century of flight) is a little less severe, and will probably work if he tunes down all the graphical settings.

 

Thanks for the replies guys. I had no idea. I find that a little odd that FEAR gets 67 FPS at the same res that FSX gets less than 50. Glad I asked.

 

Ya FSX is a hog. Looking on some FS forums I have found out that there is pretty much no system that can run it at max. Even the 8800 from nVidia has a hard time apparently.