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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight
Studio : Microsoft
by Microsoft
Brand : Microsoft
Model : G13-00079
Platform : Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Release Date : 2004-01-13
Publisher : Microsoft
Minimum Age : 5.0 Years
Maximum Age : 20.0 Years
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0805529390072
UPC : 805529390072
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 162 reviews)
List Price : $19.99
Our Price : $16.94
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Dynamic weather system based on realistic atmospheric physics, with true three-dimensional clouds that form and dissipate
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Worldwide scenery with accurate 3D terrain and auto-gen objects that fill in the world with appropriate buildings and vegetation
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Enhanced interactive air traffic control (ATC), including traffic at all airports around the world
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Improved support for 3D graphics hardware acceleration in multiple windows and across multiple monitors
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For 1 or more players over LAN or Internet
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Product Description |
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Flight Simulator 2004: A Century Of Flight celebrates the world-altering invention of powered flight -- by taking you on a tour of great aircraft from the past and present! Complete set of historical and modern-day aircraft to fly, from the Wright Brothers' Flyer I to the Boeing 747-700 |
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 |
The game is comprehensive but seems to overwhelm the video card in my 2004 desk top and flat screen display. The resolution being stipulated by the game is not available. The result is that occasionally the Windows based desk top OS shuts down and restarts. I don't have that problem on my 2006 lap top.
Otherwise the game meets expectations even using the keyboard and mouse. |
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MSFS2004, The Simpit Heart |
Having been in Naval aviation for 21 years as an structural mechanic, and now retired, I wanted to keep my hand in the game so to speak. I started to build a generic simpit starting with a dedicated tower, powerful enough to run all the graphics of these new programs. In researching the Micro Soft programs for flight simulators, each review suggested MSFS2004 was the best, even better than the new FSX. I am still tweeking the simpit to become what I want, but the MSFS2004 has already proved to be an outstanding program.
Using an Acer 19" LCD monitor, coupled with a Fresnel lens (from 3DLens in China, lens F550) I have an outstanding visual for the flight. There is a real 3D look to the clouds and ground. I can take off from my home town municipal airport and pratice "Touch and Go's" or nip on down to Las Vegas. While the specifics of each town are not exact, the ability to suspend disbelife is very easy. The instamentation, I use a second screen to display cockpit instraments, makes it a lot of fun to pratice IFR approaches.
All in all this is an outstanding program, either to just "play" with or to run the heart of your simpit. |
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No simulator better than FS-9 |
I belong to VATSIM and have been for more than 4 years, and even living in Monterrey Mexico there is the VATMEX club (Mexico's branch for VATSIM as there is for almost all countries) we fly almost every day (I'm pensiones and retired) and every Wedenesday we have a Regio flight with Tower Control, wel almost avery day we have air traffic control.
But Flight Simultor is our best choise as FSX is stil under constant upgrades.
I highly recomend Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 a Century of flight.
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MS Flight Simulator 2004 is perfect for older PCs |
I deliberately purchased FS 2004 instead of the newer version, Flight Simulator X. Why on earth would I buy an old version? Because I didn't want to have to replace my 4 year old computer with a "gaming machine". I downloaded the demo version of FS X and was very disappointed with its slow graphics and overall sluggishness, even with the refresh rate turned down. But FS 2004 works great on the PC I already have. Graphics are snappy, and I can even keep a bunch of browser sessions running in the background (helpful for looking up AirNav information).
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Nice Sim and loads of fun to play ! |
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I had bought this as an upgrade to an earlier version. It is fun to play with, though quite basic compared to what is available nowadays. It does not require too much of system resources and provides hours of entertainment and some flight learning. |
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