Microsoft FLIGHT Archive

According to the latest episode of tenminutetaxi, the flight project is on hold while Microsoft re-evaluate its profitability. The information apparently comes from a MS insider. Anyone have any more info on this or how credible it is?

Hello people, Just read a thread on the GameSpot forums about performance issues with ID Software’s Rage which features new megatextures in the ID Software Tech 5 (generation) graphics engine. Issues have arose regarding texture tearing, image popping and blurries, sounds familiar... Well, the interesting bit was what the ID Software Community Manager said on the forum... "The texture streaming is limited by the performance and number of cores of the main processor (CPU). The higher the resolution at which the game renders and the higher the anti-aliasing setting, the more texture data is needed to texture the environment. If you do not have a high end CPU you may momenta…

Quote from John Nicol on the P3D forum Hi Guys,One of our philosophies is that we believe it would be beneficial to users and third-party developers for us to really build a solid core infrastructure and provide tools to the development community that allow them to be creative and build their own solutions. Prepar3D is a primarily a Simulation Framework. We need a good solid Developer Network in place to do that as well. With that in mind, we agree that it would probably be best to build what we can and open things up a bit and allow the talented companies and people that build scenery, aircraft, vehicles and other add-ons etc to do what they d…

A must listen for everyone. MS Flight Discussion starts around 17:00 http://www.fsbreak.net/

I found this on a business journal site I subscribe to. I details a huge all-hands MS employee meeting that quickly went south as droves of employees got up and walked out of the meeting with MS CEO Steve Ballmer. It links several other websites one is a known MS Employee Blog where they post up anonymous comments. (My second link below) It seems that MS is focusing hard on their Xbox gaming division as profits blew away expectations and they talk about the declining sales of PC's and PC games... according to the report front he meeting PC sales and PC gaming sales really tanked recently and they are expected to continue to fall as folks leave PC's for such technology as…

This is in the new beta driver 285.38.......it's also under MS flight....any suggestions....

This is The new X-plane 10 Night Screens.

I need to contact Microsoft regarding one of their PC games, could someone please give me their email? I can't find it anywhere, I don't want to have to pay money to email them. PS: I live in the United Kingdom. Thanks guys!

Does anyone remember Flight Unlimited by Looking Glass Studios? This was a very great looking simulator (much better looking than FS98). It had advanced ATC, great flight modeling, photoreal graphics and was as open as MSFS. The BIG reason that it never gained a really large following is because it had a very limited coverage area - only covering the Pacific Northwest. As I was sitting here thinking (yeah I know that's dangerous) why would MS ONLY be showing pictures of Hawaii after a YEAR? They are working on putting realistic hotels, telescopes, dreamy water falls, detailed airports, sun rises, sun sets, fluffy Hawaiian grass and trees...but nothing else! After an …

Have at it the lot of you.

I'd love to see a much better rendition of Hillary-Norgay. It was a hoot to fly in to in older versions, then FSX seemed to get it messed up.

Could we deduce from this pic of the MS Flight Home Page background, that Flight may actually have cloud shadows?

A new improved cloud System on FLIGHT and 80% chance of release date to be announced around Christmas 2011

Forgive me if this has already been posted....I cannot verify it and don't know how legitimate. Pay particular attention to the release date in upper left above the video. There's hope!! http://www.gameshado...crosoft_flight/

Hi all, been a reader and flight simmer for years but never posted so hi all.After reading every post all people seam to care about is the graphics of the sim? "Looks like fsx nothing more than fsx sp3 " etc etc.What about the important things that matter the most, I.e flight model?? Weather systems ( ridge lift, thermals, wave, turbulence etc) all these things are what matter to the way the aircraft reacts when flying, fsx is ok but the flight model especially the rudder which is not modelled correctly at all needs updating, ground friction needs to be modelled correctly I could go on,Maybe flight looks like fsx because this time around and hopefully they are concentrati…

I was wondering if Flight will support to the least DX10? As DirectX 11 GPUs become more common and given Nvidia's slow adoption to DX11 resulting in select GPU models released in 2010 to actually support DX11 while most remained in DX10.1 (including mine). I feel that going DX11 only would displace a lot of prospective users looking into MS Flight. Thanks!

I don't understand why there is so much confusion right now... Can someone please sort out the FACTS and THEORIES.

Not heard anyone say if it would or not support 3D.If monitors will support 3D without glasses in the next couple of years (from what I read this is likely) why build 3D in to flight?Some questions.Is there much visual 3D impact in a flight sim compared to an action game?Would it take much of a performance hit to achieve it?

http://airdailyx.blogspot.com/2011/09/exclusive-for-airdailyx-interview-of.html#comments

I refer to the anonymous post at AirDailyX - http://airdailyx.blogspot.com/2011/09/microsoft-flight-not-on-hold.html I have created a temporary account here at AVSIM so I can post. It probably contravenes forum rules, but having signed an NDA with Microsoft I am not about to risk getting sued. I am a US based developer. I am under NDA with MS. They had a developer program in place, but they shut it down a few weeks ago. No explanation, no reasons, just shut down completely.All the information shown above on the AirDailyX blog is correct. Flight will be Hawaii only and there will be no third party content or addons, payware or freeware.As a developer I am furious about…

This has been mentioned before but i'm begining to think that Microsoft Flight will be free to download for everyone, being only based on Hawaii. I've always thought the third video with "fly for free" didn't make a lot of sense. Fly freely or fly as free as a bird would be a more accurate thing to say If it meant having freedom in the skies. Because we are only seeing hawaii, and only seeing small airplanes it may well be a base pack that everyone starts off with. Then the marketplace comes into play and you buy/add to your simulation what you are interested in. Jets, gliders, props etc. The parts of the world you are interested in Europe, America etc. Who is going to pr…

At MS Build 2011 conference a session was given on running XBox Live games on the Win 8 platform. Win 8 seems too far away for Flight (at least, if the FSX-vista fiasco timeline is representative). ISTM though that XBox of some sort is still the direction MS games needs to go. I don't see "Games for Windows" going anywhere. scott s..

Hi , in case someone missing .. http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/#news7 brds Martin

Looks like the rumors that MS pulled the plug on Flight where wrong. Check out the new shots! http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/ Also don't forget to check out the news section where they show FSX vs. Flight!

With the announcement of MS Flight today, we are opening this forum for members to share information, provide assistance and share their thoughts on the new FLIGHT entre' to the community. Welcome aboard!