I had the last true MS flight sim from about a decade ago. It was fun, and surprisingly good at the simulation.
Then nothing was done, apparently, by MS on that game (which is really was).
A year or so ago, with great fanfare, a new Flight Sim was released, partially with the branding of MS, but with what seems to be a lot of development and non-MS company work (I could be wrong, but so it seems to me.)
At that time, my son had a relatively new laptop gaming computer that could easily loaf its way through stuff that made my somewhat older desktop sweat bullets. He was very excited to watch Utube reviews and see all the nice stuff that the program could do. He tried downloading the program with a birthday present funding, and two weeks later still had not been able to get it to successfully download. He took a break for awhile and then this spring tried again, dozens of times, to get it to work on his system.
Now I haven't heard much, and the reviews on all the vender websites (Best Buy, Amazon, etc.) seem to have little to answer some questions I have.
Did the company finally make it so a normal person (not with several high speed feeds running simultaneously and with an ordinary hard drive) download the game?
Does it finally work?
Do you need to be connected to the internet to make it run, or once installed can you fire it up and play awhile and not have to have it authenticating constantly?
How much hard drive room do you really need?
There are numerous warnings on the sites to buy it from that once you toss them the cash, even if you cannot successfully download and install it, you are SOL for a refund if it won't work. For some fortunate reason when it wouldn't install back when my son was fiddling with it, he did manage to get a refund on his non-functional install.
anyway, with all sorts of other distractions, but winter coming, I thought it might be nice to take the old J-3 Cub around the patch a few times for the fun of it without doing an engine pre-heat.
Oh, if someone is using it and has found a good joystick brand and model, or even rudder pedal hookups, would you mention them, too?
Thanks. Dale