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Vapor Reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 47 / 93
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Vaporware is how people refer to software that is promised .... but never appears on the shelves on time. Vapor Reviews should be the term used to apply to people that write reviews of software that has not been released. FS2002 won't be available for 'real' reviews for another two months. Don't trust vapor reviews any more than you'd trust vaporware.

aweful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What the heck happened to microsoft!!! I used to think that micro. could put out a good title seeing splinter cell and all,
but this is the absolute, no dought, worst thing that I have ever played! Okay let's start with the load times, I have an XP and it is really fast with just about everything, except for this game! It takes like 3 hours to load the training sequence,
and when you finally get into the game, the plane dashboard takes up half the frickin' screen! And you don't have control of the stupid jet, you have to stear by adjust the wing thrust with button combos that you have to have six hands to do, the only thing that is good in this game are the graphics, but you can't even enjoy that because by the time it's done loading you'll be dead! Oh, and did I mention that it crashed my computer and we had to get a new one!!! I would avoid this game at all costs!

horrible! DO NOT GET IF YOU HAVE NVIDIA GEFORCE 256 CARD!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: February 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

my first assumption of this game was 5 stars and i had been looking forward to this game but IF YOU HAVE AN NVIDIA GEFORCE 256 GRAPHICS CARD IT WILL NOT WORK!!! NOR WILL NUMEROUS GAMES FROM MICROSOFT!!!

Flight Simulator 2002 w/Compaq 1.3 S3 graphics card

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have a Compaq 1.3 mz processor, 512 ram and a Savage S3 32 meg video card. All graphic games work great with the exception of FS 2002. The panel is fine but the landscape is mostly a blurred mess. Flightsim 2002 also fails and causes the PC to reboot. I had sent failure info to Microsoft but no answer as yet. The graphics on FS2000 is about the same but no failures.

Crash! (and I'm not referring to the aircraft)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This software should be one of the slickest pieces of sofware out on the market. If it only ran. I get frequent system crashes, and spend nearly as much time rebooting (from a cold start, every time) as I do flying. I'm running almost new hardware, way beyond the listed system requirements, and this is the only program that hangs me up. What a disappointment!

Dud CD...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: January 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I tried to install it and found that the install CD was pitted badly and it would not install on my PC. Microsoft told me that it would take three months to ship me a replacment install CD! I opted send it back for a refund instead. It took two months to get a refund from Microsoft which did not cover shipping costs that I incured. At this point I am wondering to take a chance and buy another potential piece of junkware from Microsoft or spend it elsewhere; perhaps on games that run on Linux that I boot to instead of Windoze most of the time since being burnt by Microsoft.

However, this is NOT a game:

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 35
Date: October 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

http://www.x-plane.com/

So, either play, or go buy a REAL simulator, licenced by FAA to be used in a simulator setting. Loggable!

An OK Product

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I admit Flight Simulator is a great program. I have bought Flight Sim 98, 2000 Pro, and now 2002 Pro. Each program is better than the last, but only slightly. I find the ATC feature sort of cheezy. I expect they will fix this in a hurry though by the next version.
The Frame Rate has increased with the new version, which is a delightful surprise. The scenery appears pretty much the same with the exception of randomly appearing and disappearing buildings.
The packaging is .... All I got was a box, pamphlet, program, and CD envelope (not even a jewel case). The Quality is no longer there as with previous Microsoft products. If you have (or ever) purchased Microsoft Train Simulator, you'll know what I mean.
If you do not own a Microsoft Flight Simulator, I recommend buying it. I don't however, believe [it is] is worth it simply as an "upgrade". Stick with Flight Sim 98 or 2000 until they develope an upgrade worth paying for.

Expected too much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: November 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all this software seems to have bugs. The game causes PC to freeze constantly. Can t use the game / am depending on Microsoft's tech support to get the game functioning.(?)
However the main issue, after all the enthusiastic previews, I expected much more. Apart from the new ACT communication features, nothing really new in comparison to FS 2000. Still one and the same generic engine sound for the B737/777 and the 747 - sounds like a vacuum cleaner / not like a jet engine! Exactly the same engine noise as heard on FS2000.
I have a Computer with Pentium III / 450 Mhz Processor and 128 MB Ram, that s by far not enough power to run a software like this and they should make this clear.

This game is unstable!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just received Flight Simulator 2002 for Xmas and having a real problem using it. Seems that I get continual "freezes" or pauses every few seconds while trying to fly any of the aircraft in the program. This is not only annoying but almost unusable, since it's is hard to make fine adjustments during flight (especially trying to hover the bell helicopter).

I would, however, appreciate any help, tips, or suggestions
that could possibly cure this problem. For reference I am running Windows XP on an 800MHz Athalon CPU, 512Mb of RAM, a brand new G-Force 2 video card with 32Mb of RAM, and a 20 Gb hard drive.

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