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Not a review - a warning

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A friend lent me his copy of this game - aCoF to evaluate on my machine, just to save me from the possibility of paying full price for a game that won't work well on my machine. I had by then become a devotee of the next newer version - FS2002. While aCoF obviously surpasses FS-2002 on a frame-by-frame basis, comparitive frame-rate more than evened things out for the older game. I knew that the minimum system requirements were conservative, but nothing prepared me for how conservative they were. Despite only "requiring" a 450mhz-class CPU & 128mb of RAM, aCoF ran like a slide-show on my 2.2 Ghz Pentium 4, w 512 MB of RAM, with GeForce graphics acceleration - and that was with options sliders set to 0 or near it. Apparently, software manufacturers like MS believe that they're past the days of having to set the minimum sys-req at half the optimum - now we have to multiply by five to get an honest idea of what's really needed. Though a better graphics accelerator and more RAM, would improve things, personally I'm happy enough with FS2002, and that program looks to have a more permanent place on my PC.

terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 32
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The program gets lost in the tutorials and can't correct itself. If you can't do exactly what the program says to do when the program says to do it, the only way out is to crash the plane and restart the flight. Thus, one is unable to make any progress.

It looked so great, too...

Consider not buying this product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 29
Date: March 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In typical Microsoft fashion, my computer crashed four times while using Flight Simulator 2004. I have more than enough memory and processor speed, so that can not be the problem. All of the computer minimums to run the program have been exceeded, but alas it crashes every time I try to run the program...within the first three minutes.

It has taken me all of a Friday night to try to figure this out. A night away from my family. Why does Microsoft continue to sell products that do not run on thier own platforms? This is not the first time I have had trouble trying to get a Microsoft aviation simulator to work. The last one, Air Combat, Battle for Europe, had the same shortcommings. I did not get that to work either. I guess I'm the sucker for buying into the second aviation product from Microsoft.

But what really gets me is this: after downloading the four disks onto my computer (four disks of worthless, computer crashing code that lasts a mere 240 seconds) at a cost of more than thirty dollars, Mircosoft made it a condition that I sign-up for a .net address with them. This is wrong on so many levels. For those of you reading this too young to realize it, business has not always been conducted like this. Patrons of a particular product or company did not always have to perform, other than payment, for the vendors of the product being purchased. As a patron things were not demanded of you after purchasing the product as Microsoft is demanding of its customers who purchase Flight Simulator 2004.
As a condition of use, AFTER the software was purchased, I was forced to sign-up for a .net address with Microsoft. I gave the company over $30 and was forced to perform for them by way of joining a service I do not want and answering a survey that I did not have the time to answer. All of this or my new game that I paid money for would not work.
The game did not work anyway. It crashed my computer with fatel errors four times in a row. I got less than three minutes of flight time each time I started the program.
It is important to note, again, that I have more than the minimums req. to run this program. My system is sound (or it was before I loaded this worthless program on it).
Again, Microsoft has produced a program that sounds terrific and falls horribly short. With Flight Simulator 2004 Microsoft forces one to join where there is no desire or need to do so, creates instability on otherwise stable computers and charges over $30.00 to do it.
As a private pilot, I could not wait to get this program loaded. I first heard about it while getting a "VFR Not Recomended" weather breifing. It was suggested that I download the latest weather, as I could not fly VFR, and fly to my destination on the Flight Simulator, 2004. I ran to buy it. What a mistake! If I added the $35.00 to the $55.00 I spent on the first flight sumulator program I purchased form Mircosoft, I would have a hour of flight time payed for in a Cessna 182.

Save your money for flight lessons. Do not but this program.

Gary Toler

MS Flight Simulator 2004

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 34
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst flight simulator that I have ever used. I wanted to give it zero rating but was not allowed to do so by the survey software. It is not adequate for children or teenagers, and will be a large disappointment to anyone seeking a simulator that provides quick and accurate performance. Without any add-ons, it requires over 200 megs of hard disk space, which is too much for a good PC simulator, and causes it to bog down too much.

WARNING: Won't work on a few one-year-old PCs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a student pilot, and so was looking forward to practicing with 2004. I have heard a lot of good things about it, and was told there was really no need to go with FSX. So I bought it. When I installed it, I kept getting the splash screen, but the software didn't start. After much searching online, I found out that there are a lucky few of us (less than 10%) where the game glitches and just won't start. BUT, yes there is a way to get around it. First I downloaded an update and installed it. Still no go. Then I downloaded -- and was forced to print out -- page after page after page of single spaced instructions. Each step had a series of substeps, followed by, "If this doesn't work, go to step X." I went through PAGES of instructions, only finally to get to a point where my computer didn't respond with one of the given choices. I was completely stuck. No online or land line help knew what to do. It's too bad. I hear it's good. I'm buying X Deluxe because it actually works on my computer, though I don't have the capabilities of using the new stuff on the new version. At least I can fly. I'm giving 2004 to my flight instructor's son.

It crashed my computer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 23
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Sounded like it would be fun but instead destroyed my computer. Also you really need a joystick

More Crashes Than a Novice Pilot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This program, unlike the excellent Combat Simulator, has numerous bugs that cause it to crash or exit to the operating system on a regular basis. Microsoft has a great concept with Flight Simulator 2004 but lousy quality.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 30
Date: January 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my husband for Christmas. When installed the game locked up the entire harddrive of the computer. We were not able to save anything from the C drive. I would not recommend this to anyone.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 45
Date: September 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

it sucks the graphics r bad and its not fun to fly and do nothing. Now everytime i launch it it crashes. Bad game. DO NOT BUY

Why does this product have a trouble shooting website?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: August 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Have not been able to play this game. Splash screen comes up and then the program tanks. It is looking for Verdana fonts. Why doesn't it come with Verdana fonts. Sounds like the old GM automaker, "Just get the product out and let the Support people fix it. Or let them try to solve it on the trouble shooting website. Hey, how about waiting for the updates." Sound like Ford also.

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