Make sure you have the latest DirectX installed.
If you want the Acceleration SDK install it from the disk. Boot the sim and allow it to complete the install and boot the default flight. Install Acceleration which will install SP1 and SP2 automatically. If you have the Deluxe version and want the SDK installed, install it off the DVD now.Ĥ. Install RTM, fire up the sim and let it complete the install and boot the default flight.
The only tweaks that should be looked at are ones that are designed for dual/quad core, the light scale for the airports, the tweak which removes the sims ability to preload the default flight and only if the system is very slow, perhaps work with the added autogen lines, but otherwise Aces did a bang-up job of getting FSX to run without having to tweak the config as of SP2Īnd yes, a clean install getting rid of the old install and allowing FSX to update asĪces intended with SP2/Accell is the best way to go.ġ. Many of the tweaks used in the past, like what happened with SP1, are no longer helping the sim and in many respects cause problems. Yes, with the changes SP2 incorporates, you all need to be careful of editing the FSX.cfg file. I'm giving this 76 and I don't care what anybody else thinks, especially not my colleagues who think flight simulators are stupid.The below post is from Nick N. These races can be taken online if you want to crash into a mountain over the internet, taking yet another step towards FSX becoming a game rather than a cloud rendering tool.Īcceleration suffers from a few buggy hiccups accompanied by a rude return to the desktop, but that's rare - otherwise it's an expansion that's clearly been designed with passion.
The Hornet's missions are modest recreations of carrier operations, taking off with catapults and landing with hooks and elastic bands (no guns, missiles or explosions though), and the P-51 Mustang opens the game up, along with the original 300S, for Red Bull air races. There are two different kinds of winch too, one for people and one for things - I bet you didn't even know that - and they're both here. Winching things is amazingly difficult, and harder still is setting things down again.
I'm a nerd for this sort of crap, I admit, and I was surprised to find myself enjoying the EH101 helicopter more than any other aircraft in the game.
They're each drastically different from one another, and are painstakingly realised both visually and - I'm going to guess here having never flown any type of aircraft - aerodynamically. The P-51 Mustang is a little one what can do stunts and races, the F/A-18 Hornet is a fighter jet what can take off from boats, and the EH1O1 is a helicopter, which can winch crates from the ground and people from the sea.
Maybe humour is the wrong word there - but the light-heartedness of some of this flight sim's missions are a spark of warmth and charm in an otherwise cold, clinical genre.įlight Simulator X: Acceleration adds three new aircraft, along with a series of missions for these aircraft and previous aircraft alike. After that, it's the offbeat humour which somehow integrates itself into the serious-faced, pre-flight check-laden wondrousness of modern flight. If There's One thing I love about Flight Simulator X, it's probably all the planes.