The POLL

[aristoteles]

What is odd to me is that developers keep on saying that FSX is the future, that most of the add.ons sold in the market are for FSX and then, once and
again I have the opportunity to check that FSX is primarily used for short VFR flights with megacomputers, low frames, no autogen and many options
off, sliders still much to the left after more than a year of its release (even though FS users must be the ones in the world with best computers).
FSX has divided the community, more than ever before, has made the devs to earn less money since they have to choose between one or the other, what
halves their benefit, or develop for both platforms what doubles their efforts. FS users are saying, "we like FS9 better, please develop for FS9", but
the market is split in 2, and devs have no choice now. Sad. Before FSx runs like FS9 with steroids (that is, NOW), FS11 and a new engine will be in
the stores, and devs will follow the same market strategy...

Today, I checked a poll in Simflight, and well, after more than 2400 votes in what I consider a serious FS site, the results speak by themselves. If
you check AVSIM downloads as of January you can realize how a good add-on like KaiTak 9 Dragons still bends a 1,4 TB bandwidth to its knees.But some
devs simply can´t go back so they simply tell us, that FSX is the way to go, with the hope that we support their efforts and make their product worth
the time they are investing in it. Microsoft did that, so everyone must follow, such is their power they have in the industry. Sad. It´s not small
add-on developer´s fault to see their profit slowly go down, because of this divided market, but they haven´t been as succesful as the would like to
convince users that FSX is the way to go. New phenomen in Fs history. PSS is out of business, and most of the most complex add-ons are constantly
delayed or become vaporware. You know why, no surprise, only the strongest will survive now. Sad.

Check this poll: (Today´s results).

http://www.simflight.com/modules.php?nam...&pollID=47

So it´s a 31% of the market worth the effort, devs? I sure must be missing something here.

[Joeflyer]

PSS is out of business?? When did that happen?

As far as FSX goes, it seems some folks within the FsP forum are quite happy with it, but I find many more who aren't happy with it. I read
enough reviews about FSX, mostly negative...less positive, that keeps me from making the switch. So, it doesn't surprise me when I see
a poll that favors FS9 over FSX by a huge margin.

[Wally]

For the moment im staying loyal to FS9, i have no problesm with it, and on ym computer i can fly on it with evrything almost to the max.
something i wont be able to do with FSX. I at the moment dont NEED all the extra goodies FSX provides if I cant take fulla dvantage of
them, so I wont be investing time and money into doing so, although I would WANt them,, hehe

[DanSteph]

I must say at first and during a long time I was 100% against Fsx. The fact that it's harder to program didn't help
also.
Now that I tried it since a long time I really start to appreciate it. Of course I have a good computer now, dual core
and GTS8800 but it run with slider at 60% in wide screen (2560x1024) at 40 FPS and I'm very pleased with it.

I think for Fs11 that a complete rewrite of FS is now necessary, FsX is NOT very optimised in my opinion and I'm
sure one
can get same result with better framerate.

If you ask me I still think that FsX was not a major step in simulation, But anyway in the next two years most
peoples will purchase FsX
and use it. Fs9 will dye maybe more slowly than former version but this is life.

In anyway once FsP"x" complete I'll upgrade FsP "2004" version.


FsX SP2 2560x1024, 40FPS: (screenshot reduced to 1280)



Dan

[xhado13]

This is a great topic. See I truly wonder if the devs look at this, or maybe they do and just don't want to face it.
Personally, I have FSX installed on the new rig, and I average about 25FPS (which is what its locked at)
And I plan on uninstalling it soon, since it isn't getting much action.

But like you mentioned Aris, I only have it for short VFR flights/shared cockpit (which I just tried yesterday with my good friend Jack) Honestly,
it's a good game, and I have learned to appreciate it some like Dan. I'm yet to try an add-on with FSX (i.e. LDS767) to see what the frames would drop to.

But, now im getting 40+ FPS(locked at 25 though) in FS9 which is what I REALLY wanted. I'm just sooo happy I can actually fly the BSR2 at SFO without
pressing 'Q' for better FPS.

I would like to mention Aerosoft though. A lot of their products are both for FS9/FSX. Some FSX exclusive, but not too much (mainly because they
already had an old product for FS9 I think)
I just appreciate them because they do make some great, quality products for FS9 and FSX.
Dan as well, working non stop to get FSPx working, but we can't hate him for taking his time because he doesn't want to release a crappy product. He
needs to make his good money he deserves, as does everyone else.
And, btw. I do look forward to that FSP upgrade for FS9

But one thing I don't think a lot of payware devs realize, is that there is still LOTS of good money in FS9. Do you/they have any damn idea how many
GREAT looking products I see for FSX that I would buy for FS9 in an instant?!

Kinda like LDS757, aren't they releasing it ONLY for FSX? Cmon now...

But for PSS, I think they shut down temporarily. At least from what I heard. They may make a comeback? Not sure.

[Joeflyer]

Right on, Luis. I tried PSS's website and it's down. Wonder what their problem(s) is/are?

[DSW334]

I think MS went wrong with the multicores. That's where they lost it for FSX. They made a wrong assumption that multicores wasn't something capable of
becoming a standard. After they realized they were wrong, they came up with a patch. But this patch is far from optimal I think. They just made
multicore possible and that's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

For the add-on suppliers I can totally understand they are flabbergassed and don't know what to do. Are you going to release a state of the art add-on
for fsx which result in complaints by users about low frame rates. Or are you going to persue fs9 and loosing a lot of your potentional customers..
But whatever you choose.. There will be a lot of unhappy customers.