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Me BAD! Got caught up in the excitement!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got caught up in the anticipation of wanting the newest combat flight simulator game and I've been enjoying CFS1 and 2. I should have stepped back, taken a breath and read the reviews. But if you insist on getting this game, you can it soon in great numbers in the cut-out bins and online auctions all over at a significant discount. I know you'll find my copy there. Let's cut to the chase. First and foremost - it's too dull! Maybe you could say it's more realistic but I want more action in my games. Too much time wasted flying to the next wayward point after an encounter in some of the missions. The graphics are killing this game. My Dell is six months old with a P4, 1.6ghz, 80 GB HD, 256mb SDRAM, nvidia Geforce2 MX400 32mb. I surpassed ALL the minimum requirements and it's still too slow to play. I was going to blow $200 on the fastest Geforce 4 ti card I could find but people are still complaining about their performance. I don't see the point in paying that kind of money to play a game that has other problems while my other games play fine with my existing system. I have the graphics turned down as much as I can tolerate and I'm using 16 bit for the color setting. It's finally tolerable as long as I don't shoot or something doesn't explode or more than four aircraft are in the air at the same time. Other complaints; I don't like the oversized dials taking up so much of my screen and you can't get them to look like CSFS2. I haven't found a way to set up another view to look behind or down but I'm betting my machine would slow to a slug even if I could. I've never flown a real WW2 fighter but I'll bet they were easier to fly than some of those in this game. I did enjoy flying the Me-262 and seeing the trails behind me. This game takes nearly a minute to load. Setting up the game was no fun either. I wouldn't load until AFTER I loaded the newest graphics driver from nvidia. Several of the commands were different from the previous games in the series. The gunsight sits right over the dashboard blocking all view below it. So you can make you choice before loading. You can dogfight with fuzzy graphics or you can take a lovely trip over Western Europe but you can't do both at the same time. I should have spent my money on IL-2.

1 Star isn't low enough

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After purchasing a new P4 1.8 processor with 510mb of ram and a 64mb 3-D controller I discovered that Microsoft does not support the driver or controller.

Microsoft tech support went on to say that they don't support ANY Intel Graphics cards, and that they know that they don't list this on the product requirements....

Just don`t buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When you buy a game from Microsoft, you expect that it will run in an updated computer. I have an IBM Thinkpad with Windows 2000 operating system, the game troubleshooter says that it won`t run on this computer. Also have a HP Pavillion, pentium 4, 1.8ghz, 512k ram 32mb video card, XP operating system and cfs3 won`t run on it either. I`m really disappointed.

Microsoft Flight Sim 3, the Battle for my Dollar: LOST

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is my first Combat Flight simulator. I wish I could take it back. I have M.S. Flight Sim 2000 pro, and love it. This sim 3, Battle for Europe, bombs. Or I guess, I should say doesn't when it should. Anyway, nothing but aggravation. Most of the keyboard commands don't work. How to text is sketchy, at best. The training movies not only didn't run, but locked up the computer. The booklet implies that once you load the software it is just a matter of double clicking the icon on your desk top to run it. Not so. I have to load to "the proper disk" each time I try to play. It is definitely not worth the trouble or the money I spent on it.

Do I Need A CRAY to Run This POC?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I received CFS3 as a gift thankfully! What a POC!! My CPU has no problems running CFS and CFS2. After reading many of the reviews, it appears I am having the same difficulties, ie. graphics are choppy and slow to reset...Game stops during operation...WARP to next scene is like a slow motion movie...etc. During product installation, I too received the message, "The Video Drivers Installed on this system are not supported. Contact your video card manufacturer for information on upgrading to a new version". I downloaded the updated driver from NVIDIA to my 32md NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGP Graphics Card with TV-Out and the product finally ran.....badly!!! I've adjusted the various sliders as noted in the Troubleshooting Display Problems checklist with no success. To those thinking of purchasing CFS3, make sure your CPU is superior to my configuration: Dell Dimension 4300, Pentium 4 processor, 1.6GHz, 256MB SDRAM, 133MHz, 40GB, ATA-100, 7200 Hard Drive. Drop me a message if you have any input on making this product run correctly. Otherwise, I'm shelving it until I upgrade to a new CPU.

Combat Flight Simulator 3

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, i bought a new video card for this game, and it was worth it. The graphics look so stunning if your system can perform with the graphics turned all the way up. A real trick is to turn off the scenery lighting, i believe, which frees up your frame rate.

The single player is good, if not a little slow to get to the finish. Admittedly, I haven't finished my first campaign yet. It is a little frustrating in that respect.

I haven't even tried to do a bomber campaign because I crashed my stupid B-26 Marauder since the norden bombsight apparently does not behave like it should. If you want to play a good bomber game, i suggest Microprose's "B-17 The Mighty 8th." I had the original back in about 1991, and the new version sports superb graphics that DO NOT require massive system upgrades. I played this game all the way through, and found it to be very enjoyable.

I found multiplayer to be difficult, but maybe that speaks more for the people I played against than my own ability.

I am a little disappointed that i have to sit around and wait while it warps me from one spot to the next... What happened to just cutting to the next action scene??

All in all, it is a fair game, but it comes at the cost of having the greatest computer on the block to run it to its full potential. Even if you have to turn the graphics down, they are still impressive. Let's not forget that the flight realism is better than in CFS 2 as well. I give it 3 stars, simply because it wasn't as addictive as I had hoped.

TAKE NOTE BEFORE BUYING

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought the sim and it just wouldn't work. I have a good spec PC 2.5mhz P4 with Radeon 7500 card, 512 meg RAM etc and it didn't want to know. After messing about on Microsoft's knowldege base and going around in circles I decided enough was enough. I'm not prepared to risk updating my graphics drivers when this is the only sim of many that I have that doesn't work. (See also a customer review in Feb 2004 listing problems with graphic cards.) MICROSOFT, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER! Luckily I bought from a source where I could return my sim for a refund, which I've done. CFS 2 will have to do!

A botched job

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 38
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As one who possesses and enjoys CFS, CFS2 & FS2002, I had high expectations for this game. They have not been met. The many faults of this game have been listed elsewhere and I agree with them all. Particularly annoying are the erratic and stuttering framerate that seems impossible to fix entirely, the myriad bugs in mission record keeping, the inconsistent cockpit graphics, poor flight models, and the very strange AI (my wingman shot me down while we were waiting to take off on one quick mission!).

Post-patch update.

Well, the patch has just come out as of this week (1st week of February), and it has helped a lot. The game is running much more smoothly, many of the more annoying graphical inconsistencies have been fixed, and it is certainly more stable. My 8-year-old son is having a blast with it as a 'line-em-up, knock 'em down' shooter. But for me it will remain a game and not a simulator - IL-2 is still tops in the realism & flight model department. But better than it was and certainly more fun.

Try again

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is a big disappointment..Doesn't even come close to IL-2 Sturmovik.

It's JUST nice

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, you gotta be flight sim addict to even start to like this game. Next, you need a really, really, good pc and a really, really good video card to get this game to run well. Consider upgrading your pc if it is equipped with only the "good" stuff. The graphics are very nice and I like being able to choose colors and emblems for my own plane. I'm not too crazy about the flight physics of the airplanes tho. For example, the P-47, which was top rate fighter in Europe. In this game, it was given all the flying characteristics of a rock! It can be outturned, outclimbed, OUTDIVED, and outsprinted by the lowly German Ju-88. Not true! I'm also not too impressed by the tracers that come out of the airplane's guns. They look like either snowballs or stars. Very strange. Another disappointment was the lack of an inflight map to help you find your way around the battlefield. Let's face it, part of the fun of being an airplane pilot is being able to navigate from one place to another freely. With an inflight map, you could go into free flight(no combat) and just go on a leisurely tour of the European countryside flying in a warbird. But you can't. It's missing. This feature would have made this game sooo much more enjoyable. Combat Flight Simulator 2 is better. But I'll still play this game because the planes look so authentic.

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