Concorde X

[PaulC]

Hello Gents,

Does anyone have the Concorde X?
I really want it as I loved the FS9 Flight1 model. I think I'm a frustrated Flight Engineer at heart, I down hours flying it, more do than anything else I've had.

The minimum System Requirements are exactly on my rigs capabilities. Some models work fine with that, others (mainly Just a Flight stuff for some reason) bring it to its knees.

If anyone has it I'd be keen to hear if it is frame-rate friendly as for the price I don't want to jump in blind.

Cheers!

Paul

[dodger]

Hi Paul,

There is this one,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Concorde-add- ... 2a3c91490a

I do not know whether it would be any good,

Roger.

[DaveB]

The reviews I've read over at FSPilot Shop are overwhelmingly low for this model Paul. I had a look at it a few weeks ago and was immediately put off by the $74.99 USD price tag It's a little more acceptable in GBP (£45.22) but with so many folk having problems with it, I'll be keeping my purse in my handbag

I've not checked minimum specs but again, from the reviews.. I'd conclude you need rather more than what might be stated. All in all.. too much of a gamble for me.

ATB
DaveB

[dodger]

Hi Again Paul,

Yup silly me although it's a Fiver you may be better off spending that Fiver on 9 Toilet rolls in the supermarket

Serves me right says he for not looking at it!

Roger.

[J0hn]

Is this the Flight Labs (Sim Labs?) one?

If so, I took a punt a few years back. Tried it a couple of times - never even got to the runway, let alone off the ground and it hasn't seen the surface of my hard drive since. In fact, I don't even know where it is.

Looks really nice but for me, it was too much, and not knowing if things weren't working because I did something wrong or because it was bugged.

Currently 50 euro (plus VAT - so 60 euro) from their site, but I see you have to pay extra to be able to re-download it.

Bloody cheek.

[PaulC]

Hello.

Oh dear...
I love the fs9 one, it was very technical too, if you didn't like reading manuals or doing things slowly it wasn't for you.
I've read plenty of reviews which rave about it but, apparently you gents aren't keen.

I'll go with your views!

[DaveB]

Hi Paul

I'd love a decent Concorde but I'm not prepared to read pages and pages of manuals in order to fly it on a computer in my front room at home. I'd be rather more keen to 'read up' in order to fly in the real one believe me . Manuals don't phase you so that's 1 thing in it's favour It is obvious from the reviews at FSPS that you MUST read the manual thoroughly in order to get it anywhere and many have failed though as JD said.. he was never sure it was him or the model being buggy. I get this from some of the reviews at FSPS too.

I've no hands-on experience of this one mate.. I'm only going by what the reviews at FSPS are saying. You'll find one review over there.. short and sweet from a chap running an i7 system and it runs ok on that. Noting the trouble you're having with the Canberra (and TriStar).. if I were in your shoes, I'd be cautious at spending that much money. Incidentally, I've tried the Canberra on my old intel Dual-Core 3gig pc and it didn't run particularly well. As for the TriStar.. I tried it once and gave up. Both run ok on my i5.

If you're prepared to gamble the asking price.. give it a go

ATB
DaveB

[TSR2]

I really liked the FS9 one, and there was an update to make it work in FSX (if I remember). Yes it was complex, but once I had a few flights under my belt it was good fun... challenging, but good and it kept you going on a 4 hour flight

[PaulC]

Hmmm,

It gives the requirements as;

Minimum: Dual Core CPU, 4GB RAM, 512MB Graphics card running Win XP SP2, Vista or Windows 7 (32 or 64bit) Flight Simulator X SP2 or Acceleration.
Recommended: Quad-Core or i7 Processor, 4GB RAM, 1024MB Graphics Card, Win7 64bit.

I've got- Dual Core CPU, (2.6h) 4GB RAM, ATI HD4870 Graphics card which is 1024MB running Windows 7 64bit.

I can't justify a new PC at the mo, nor will I for a while. I upgraded my graphics card for a bargain about two years ago and got the RAM up to 4GB but I can't see where else to go.

According to the req's I'll be fine, but then it should be fine for the Canberra, but it's unflyable...

I know it's my dual core that's the issue but my knowledge ended at upgrading the graphic card!

I'm really tempted to get FS9 back on and reinstall the Flight 1 Concorde.

[TSR2]

What is the model of CPU Paul? Quad core should make a huge difference as FSX is optimised for Clock speed, rather than cores.