Flightsim.com are reporting that FS2004:ACOF has gone gold - heres snippet of the press release.
Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight for Windows has gone gold and is clear for takeoff. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is scheduled to land on store shelves on July 29 in North America for an estimated retail price of $54.95 U.S. Virtual pilots will soon have the opportunity to relive history as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight takes them on a journey through the friendly skies.
Enthusiasts around the world will experience the history of aviation with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight. As the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of powered flight in 2003, A Century of Flight allows virtual pilots to feel what it's like to take the controls of nine historic aircraft -- the record-breakers, the workhorses and the innovators -- such as Charles Lindbergh's Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, the Douglas DC-3 and the world's first successful powered aircraft, the 1903 Wright Flyer. Engaging, interactive multimedia provides a wealth of historical information on the planes that shaped aviation history and the pilots who flew them. Informed and insightful articles help players discover all that Flight Simulator and its fleet of 24 aircraft has to offer. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight also introduces an updated, dynamic weather system, enhanced automatically generated (auto-gen) scenery and detailed visual effects, as well as 15 modern aircraft, including the Robinson R-22 Beta II helicopter.
SimHQ have posted a review of the latest Intel speed king - the P4 3.2GHz CPU.
Our multiplier is 16. So we have 200 * 16 = 3200 or 3.20GHz. AMD released their own ‘equivalent’ Athlon 3200+ a few weeks ago. It was a strong chip overall but we did find that it had some trouble keeping up with Intel’s 3GHz flagship CPU running on their newest 875P “Canterwood” 875P chipset driven motherboard. Both AMD and Intel are now running dual-channel DDR400 which is giving both companies excellent RAM performance.
ATI have released the Catalyst 3.5 driver/control panel set. Improvements include: Performance Improvements: As with most CATALYST releases, the performance has increased in numerous situations. Here are some examples observed in CATALYST version 3.5. Improvements in the ATI OpenGL drivers have experienced performance gains such as: • GL Excess performance improves 12-14% on the RADEON 9700 PRO and 9800 PRO. Modest benefits are noticed on our other graphic products as well • Unigraphics performance (ViewPerf Ugs-03) improves 27% on the RADEON 9800 PRO, 52% on the RADEON 9700 PRO, and 79% on the RADEON 9500 PRO • Data Explorer performance (ViewPerf DV-08) improves 9% on RADEON 9800 PRO, and the RADEON9700 PRO. The RADEON 9500 PRO improves by 14.5%
Some compatibility/stability fixes include: • Playing the game Nascar Racing 2003 in OpenGL mode no longer results in the display going black. • Playing the game Serious Sam 2 with the display resolution set to 1024x768 32bpp no longer results in the wrong OpenGL renderer being listed when setting the graphics to OpenGL. • Enabling Pixel Shaders in the game Asheron's Call 2 no longer results in display corruption appearing as the game is played. • Playing the game Project IGI2: Covert Strike with a RADEON 9700 series card installed in the system results in the ground terrain disappearing and re-appearing as the character is moved. •Running the ATI Tranquility screen saver found at DriverHeaven, on an ATI RADEON 9000 series card, no longer results in the system not responding under Windows XP.
FS2004 Approaches! comes for Microsoft Flight SImulator 2004 but Fs2002's users can use it too.
We're currently developing many ABL approach adventures that covers a large variety of worldwide Airports. Adventures includes: In-flight start situation, real weather, Complete Ai/ATC interaction; Ai/Traffic available during the adventure; Speed restriction; Flight rating; Cabin announcement; gear, flaps, parking brakes, warnings; Check List; Speeds Calls, flaps, gear; GPWS; Radar Altimeter
HotDogOne.Net has been updated with 89 new photographs from last years SBAC Farnborough International Air Show. Highlights include plenty of photographs of the Eurofighter Typhoon, and a fourship flypast of Typhoon's DA1, DA2, DA5, IPA1.
There is a new war story up at the official LO-MAC website. There are some intresting screenshots too!
Quote: The fuel gauge ticks upwards and at 10,600 lbs I get the order to disconnect. With over 8000 extra pounds of fuel the flight characteristics of the aircraft have changed and the flashing flight path marker at the bottom of the HUD shows me that I'm flying very nose high. Time to get down into denser air. I push the stick forwards and dive away from the tanker, skimming the tops of the clouds as I point my nose northwards towards the Crimea.
NaturalPoint, makes of the very popular TrackIR device have announced a new copmlimentary product that makes TrackIR more accurate and keeps the sun out of your eyes!
NaturalPoint increases the accuracy and ease of use of the trackir with THE NEW trackHat.
NaturalPoint, the leading manufacturer of head tracking systems for PC games, announced today the long-anticipated release of its new trackHat. Designed for use with the company’s popular trackIR head tracking device, the trackHat is a stylish and practical fashion accessory critical to any trackIR user’s wardrobe.
The new trackHat eliminates the need for the trackIR’s reflective dots. Instead, users can simply wear the black-and-silver pilot-style hat whenever they want to use their trackIR.
The trackHat also increases the reliability and accuracy of the trackIR by placing a larger reflective area further away from the user’s center of rotation, or as it is more commonly called, ‘head’. Says Jim Richardson, NaturalPoint’s president: “We’re really excited to be offering the trackHat- it’s one of the most common requests we get from users. No more going to dinner with a silver circle on your forehead!”
The trackHat is immediately available from the NaturalPoint store at games.naturapoint.com/store/store.wp2 at a special introductory price of $19.95.
For more information on the NaturalPoint trackIR, visit www.naturalpoint.com, or call 1-888-865-5535.
The Belgian Tigers have sent me this press release for there display at RAF Waddington, which takes pace on the 28th and 29th of June 2003.
RAF Waddington Display - 2003
I can confirm that we will have AND will use FS2004 (gold edition) on our demonstrations at Waddington AS. This as far as I know is the first showing of this product to the big public.
Our sponsor MS Belgium has send us the flightsim and in the next couple of days our 2 MSFS virtual pilots are looking at the posiblilities to make a demonstration on the sim. We are also very lucky to have an ex-AWACS operator who is helping our people out with this matter and he will also be coming with us to the show.
We are even considering (not confirmed yet) to have interactivity on this sim with 1 pc while the main interactivity for the public will be flown on IL2FB with a competition (with prices from microsoft, hehehe nooop sry no FS2004 yet, lol).
Our own team will show demonstrations on Falcon 4.0SP3, IL2FB and offcourse a demo on FS2004 and one on 2002.
To support our favorite websites frugalsworld and flighthanger.net we have supportposters to collect money supplied by us by HotDogOne and developed by Stitch. I want to thank both of them for the time, work and money spend to make this happen.
Timetable. (As always with these events - subject to change)
.....- 0900 checking and warming up on the sims. 09.00 - 09.30 F4 09.45 - 10.15 IA (2 competitions incl.) 10.30 - 11.00 IL2 11.15 - 11.45 IA (2 competitions incl) 12.00 - 12.30 MSFS 12.45 - 13.15 IA (2 competitions incl) 13.30 - 14.00 F4 14.15 - 14.45 IA (2 competitions incl) 15.00 - 15.30 IL2 15.45 - 16.15 IA (semi-finales + final) 16.30 - 17.00 MSFS
I hope to see you all on the show.
Dirk "Pacman" Verbist President Belgian Virtual Tigers
www.virtualtigers.com www.falcontigers.tk
I will also probably be around on the Saturday taking photographs. And I am really looking forward to seeing the Belgian Tigers crew and off course MSFS2004:ACOF!
G2I have update their website with the following news:
The announcement of the release date for Falcon: OIR is delayed. We will publish news here as it occurs. Falcon:OIR and Falcon V arealive and well . Events do not always transpinre as planned. Please accept our apology for the delay.
SimHQ have posted this bit of news regarding the G2I announcement:
SimHQ has been contacted by G2 Interactive regarding the Falcon: OIR and Falcon V announcement. We understand that G2 Interactive had planned to make their announcement today. Some issues that were originally intended to be resolved are still not finalized. When those issues are settled, G2 Interactive will make their announcement regarding Falcon: OIR and Falcon V.
Terrapin has updated Flighthangar.net with a preview video of SP4 shot by C3PO. Also on the video front is a new short Blue-Angels video clip, and a zip with three video's from myself showing the USS Harry S. Truman.
Additionally you can also download the chatlog transcript of Frugal's second StarChat from the Chat@FlightHangar server.
HD1.Net has been updated. It now contains all of the photographs that were on the original site, and I am hard at work scanning some photographs of the USS Harry S. Truman as I type.
The talented individuals at Project I3D have released a small patch to remedy the auto-wing sweep problem that some people have been experiencing.
Hi guys, been receiving a lot of e.mails regarding the winds auto-sweeping in FS2002.. we were origionally aware of this problem during the beta stages of the aircraft .. however, it was fixed, by remocing a guage from the panel.. so the wings/flaps could be operated as normal.. If you are experiencing the problem, ive figured it out, somehow the old CFG for back intot he public system.. you need to download this Panel cfg and place it into the panel folder in the B1B Folder in the FS2002 Aircraft directory
