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Looks Neat!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have a Dell 266 PentiumII with 64mb of ram, a 4mb video card and 3d graphic card. This game works horrible! It takes about 10 minutes to load an airplane! But, now I have a 600 PentiumIII, 128mb ram, a 32mb 3d video card and it works great! The graphics are amazing! I recomend at least a PentiumIII chip with a good video card and at least 96mb ram.

Cool game but your alone.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: September 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Flight simulator 2000 is a very detailed game. The only things I don't like about are,

You are alone in the air, Theirs Very rarely any air traffic, and if their is it's only a plane or two.

Also if you plan your own flight by wsing the flight planner mode, don't even bother going through all the trouble finding the right nav, com, and transponder code because it's no use. The radios don't work at all in flight plan mode.

Also, I strongly recommend getting a joystick if you decide to get this game. Knowing from my experiences it is very hard to fly a plane yust using the arrow keys.

Don't get me wrong, this is a pretty cool game if your into flight sims.

Choppy, chunky, clunky

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Got this and the Sidewinder II force feedback stick for Christmas. I couldn't WAIT to play it, so I installed it on my mother-in-law's NEW Celeron machine right a way... BIG mistake! The box grossly understates the requirements, but it says "Pentium", and it MEANS "Pentium"! Don't even try on a fast (500 MHz) Celeron. At home, I installed on a 400 MHz PII, 128 MB ram, and set the visuals to a compromise point, so I could at least get 15 frames/sec.

I think they should have ditched some of the thousands of airstrips, and save the space for better terrain detail. Flying over flat, blocky, repeated aerial photos just isn't that exciting. Trying to please everyone in the world by putting in their local po-dunk airport has make the overall product suck. It is fun to fly out of your hometown once, but since there is a tremendous lack of detail, the novelty quickly fades.

The 3D buildings have poor detail, and dynamic scenery, like clouds, are always "popping" up in your face as the machine frantically tries to keep up. This creates a huge lack of details in the distance, and an unrealistic feel. It is much easier to fly at night, because the shimmery, blocky ground graphics do not distract you. Flying VFR (visual) should be easier, but the detail is so poor, you can't tell one road from another.

When you land, there is nowhere to really go, except up again. There is nothing to greet you at the airport terminal - not even traffic to avoid. If you can even find your way to the terminal, that is. Again, the ground detail makes it very difficult to see where you are going. The terminals are just static blocks. It would be fun to actually deliver your passengers to the gate, or something. It would be cool to have a "passenger meter", showing the discomfort of your passengers when you pull some serious negative G's in a 737. Some screams and cheers in the background would be appropriate, and would give some sense of accountability when you barrel roll through the Grand Canyon!

The force feedback to the SideWinder blows. It felt like I had a gator by the tail! I have flown planes before, and they do NOT fight you the way this game/stick combo does. Turn the force off, because it spends all its time trying to force itself back to center, using the FS2000 settings.

On the positive side, the flight models seem very accurate (if you don't use the force feedback stick!). This simulator would be somewhat valuable for pilots practicing IFR, navigation, and approaches to specific airports. The sound is very good, but gets crackly when the visuals drain your system resources.

When somebody builds a sim that I can look down and RECOGNIZE houses, streets, etc., I'll try this again. Otherwise, I'd stick to games/sims that rely on action and strategy, rather than realism, for their fun factor.

one of the best games this year

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Flight Sim 2000 is a great game if you have a good computer. I currently have a 500mhz computer with the new 3d card and it runs great. The graphics are really good and the game is a lot of fun to play. i suggest buying this if you have a powerful computer.

The Plumbing works..don't fix it !

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Although F/S 2000 has much improved graphics and sound, it is nowhere near as user-friendly as F/S 98. The flight options are much harder to access and even with allot of disc space, the program crashes quite often. I have yet to complete a flight. I have uninstalled F/S 2000. I will continue to use F/S 98 . I hope that Microsoft can work out the kinks in the program. It does seem like others have had these problems. If you are looking to purchase F/S 2000 be warned of these existing problems. It may be better to wait until M/S can modify the program, and rebates are offered.

The next best thing to real aviation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

FS2000 is a great flight simulation game for many reasons: First, you get to choose from a variety of 8 different aircrafts (from the Cessna 182 to the Concorde). Second, because if you want another aircraft, more scenery, different panels or anything else on FS2000, you can get it anywhere on the internet and install it to FS2000. Third, because if you have the proper accessories (such as a joystick), you can feel as if you were flying a real airplane (many pilots use FS2000 to train themselves).

Private Pilot Certification

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

one thing I really enjoyed about this program is finally being able to have our efforts as an armchair pilot noticed. With this program, you can take a private pilot checkride, and upon passing, be presented with a printable award. You can then go on to get an insturment rating, commercial license, and air transport license. The planes are equipped with gps and moving map display, which really helps navigating. The weather effects are much better with this program, you can actually see the rain, and the wind shear is very realistic. You will need a fairly quick computer to run the program, in order to get a decent frame rate. I use a 400 mhz machine and get about 27 frm/sec, which looks OK. With the rebate from Microsoft, you really cant go wrong if you enjoy flying.

not bad!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

this game is a very cool game. despite what some people say, fs2k runs pretty good on my AMD K6/2 333 with 32mb of RAM and 8mb of generic video RAM. however, dont expect to get an extremely powerful game here (and im talking about most people who dont have enough computer crap to go along). i can get some very playable decent framerates. detail is also very vivid, however, switching views and whatnot makes the computer shot to hell within your next 2 minutes. you can press only 1 command at a time to be safe but when you take the aircraft off it is smooth sailing most of the way. tip: you need patience...because of load times. but anyway, you should have a fun time with this most decent game.

Navigation aids particularly helpful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

With basically all VFR and IFR nav aids in the database, it is an excellent tool for practicing cross country flights, devloping a routine (I am a student pilot) and executing a flight plan. With *real* weather, and the GPS indicators for gs, you can even "fly" the flight using the same VOR frequencies you will use in the air. I am amazed at this software.

Not the best on a laptop

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought with my new 500mhz PIII and 128RAM, this would run great. Well, think again! At first it froze up the system since it wasn't compatible with my graphics accelerator (it had to be turned down for it to run). Another thing to consider: Joysticks. Most laptops do not have a 15 pin game port (I found out the hard way) and I had to order one that was USB compatible. I have to admit it is fun once I got it running but I wish I could use the full potential of the program. I can only get 8-9 frame rates per second!

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