What are the good PC games you've played?

[Jun aka Pekto]

sir jun,

Q lang po. whats the best flight sim? in terms of graphics and realistic. TIA.

currently playing on WOE (wings over europe.)

Realistic? Realistic is a relative word. For civilian flight sims, X-Plane 9 "feels" the most realistic. MS Flight Simulator X isn't the most realistic unless you buy for-pay add on aircraft. But, it's more fun than X-Plane 9 and it gives an adequate enough "feel" of realism.

For modern combat sims....... I'd say Falcon 4.0: Allied Force is the most realistic. Lock On: Modern Air Combat would be a distant second.


As for graphics........ It's hard to pick which one. I do favor FSX because of of the freeware utility, Tile Proxy which uses Google Earth/Yahoo Maps/etc for terrain.BUt, X-Plane 9 isn't bad. You've seen the screenshots I posted. The X-Plane 9 terrain on the screenshot is the default terrain.

[beereo]

1. counter-strike
2. grand theft auto series
3. need for speed series
4. sims series
5. half life

[Jun aka Pekto]

A freeware Sam and Max game: Abe Lincoln Must Die

[rion]

COD 5 new Map Pack is just Awesome!

[Jun aka Pekto]

[rion]

bonga! PAL!

[Jun aka Pekto]

[Negus]

^^Jun, is that your new gaming rig? what GPU did you install? I'm wondering how good/or less performance is when run with DX10 and Vista.

[Jun aka Pekto]

^^Jun, is that your new gaming rig? what GPU did you install? I'm wondering how good/or less performance is when run with DX10 and Vista.

Nope. This is the same rig I assembled back in summer of 2005. AMD X2 4200+/2gb ram. The only difference now is I replaced the ATI X800XL with an nVidia 8600GT (a freebie from a friend) which is somewhat equal to the X800XL in most games but way better in FSX and X-Plane 9.

I have to make some compromises such as No Traffic and No Scenery Shadows. But, everything else is maxed or almost maxed out.

I don't need absolutely 24 frames per second all the time although it nice to have it. At high altitude, even 10-15 fps is sufficient to give the illusion of airborne flight. I get around 20-35 fps which is perfectly fine with me.

As for a new pc, I was supposed to assemble one last Christmas. But, the wife hasn't given the go-ahead plus all my flight sim games (LOMAC, Falcon 4: Allied Force, Pacific Fighters/IL-2, and X-Plane 9 all run fine with the current rig. It's FSX that hogs the most resources. Even a quadcore with a good video card will be stressed with all of FSX's settings maxed out.

Add:

With Vista and Win 7 Beta, FSX ran fine. But, Tile Proxy was quirky with those two OSes. So, I went back to XP.

[Negus]

http://www.instantaction.com/

productivity waster especially Think Tanks.

[Jun aka Pekto]

I'm nowhere this good yet in formation flying. Someday,maybe.

http://www.bobholland.com/fs/photos/.../610/index.htm

[Jun aka Pekto]

Over the Utah Canyonlands

[C#@RD]

Left4dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead

[Jun aka Pekto]

OV-10 Bronco over Utah Canyonlands (freeware hi-res scenery)


Currently downloading some freeware SoCal scenery......

[Jun aka Pekto]

Over Glacier National Park in a Tucano.




The real thing

[roninblade]

im playing The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind again.
also downloading a Mac port of They Hunger - a Half-Life mod I played years ago.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Mock dogfight

[Jun aka Pekto]

Flying over SoCal near LAX

[rion]

l4d survival mode.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Trying out some ORBX FTX scenery in FSX. The island of Tasmania is a freebie.