sixstrings5859
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A Bf 109 !
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Reliving the fun from years past. Started doing this back in 1995 . Just a old timer remembering the "Golden Era" !
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Hello Hertzie,
I had high hopes for Combat Flight Simulator when it first came out. It was my first real flight simulator to the point where I went out and bought a brand new Microsoft Sidewinder joystick along with the game. When I first tried to run it, nothing displayed correctly. I put it back on the shelft for a few months. That was when my neighbor, a retired Air Force Colonel, invited me to check out his (Combat) Flight Simulator installation. I was surprised. Things worked fine over there. Frame rates were annoyingly low, but everything displayed.
I soon figured out he had a 3D graphics card and I did not. That was the next purchase.
Even then, I never flew with a panel displayed because it would drop the frame rates too much. I was a lot more concerned with pretty visual models.
- Ivan.
I had high hopes for Combat Flight Simulator when it first came out. It was my first real flight simulator to the point where I went out and bought a brand new Microsoft Sidewinder joystick along with the game. When I first tried to run it, nothing displayed correctly. I put it back on the shelft for a few months. That was when my neighbor, a retired Air Force Colonel, invited me to check out his (Combat) Flight Simulator installation. I was surprised. Things worked fine over there. Frame rates were annoyingly low, but everything displayed.
I soon figured out he had a 3D graphics card and I did not. That was the next purchase.
Even then, I never flew with a panel displayed because it would drop the frame rates too much. I was a lot more concerned with pretty visual models.
- Ivan.
cletus_zuber
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I first tried CFS1 on a p166, if you all remember those. flew in pastel scenery, but was hooked right away!
sixstrings5859
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Flew on windows XP. Dell gaming pc. It worked like a breeze Then a couple of months later got CFS2. Loved them. Still hooked on CFS3. Bought it in 2001. Blown away with the graphics. Still am by the screenshots in the screenshot posts ! The new 2025 Ankor's shaders are the bomb !
I bought CFS2 and CFS3 as well when they first came out. I even spent the money to assemble the fastest game computer available at the time for CFS3 (A 1.33 GHz AMD Athlon). For a couple months, I had the fastest game computer available. There was something about CFS1 that kept me here though. The stock graphics were not impressive, but there was a lot of room for custom designs. My interest is mostly in flight performance and there isn't that much difference in features between CFS1 and later sims if you know how to tune the AIR files appropriately.
It is still enough to keep my attention though the amount of work necessary to put out a good project at times seems way to much like work but without the pay.
- Ivan.
It is still enough to keep my attention though the amount of work necessary to put out a good project at times seems way to much like work but without the pay.
- Ivan.