Phoenix Demo

[Sqwidge]

Just downloading the demo, will I be able to use my play tranny on this?
Can anyone tell me the specs so I know whether it will run ok or not?

[Gate88]

Not unless you have a lead!

[Boggy]

i think the "demo" is just a video

[Sqwidge]

Lmao so the demo isn't a demo?
That sucks as I wouldn't fork out £80 unless I had tried it first.

[tiddler]

The demo is not playable. And Tbh its Cr@p. More often than not it wont even install and run properly. I wouldn't bother if I was you.

The proper program however is brilliant

[waveydavey]

I think just trust the fact that it's worth the price, it'll save you a fortune in avoided crashes, it certainly did me.

[Gate88]

Lmao so the demo isn't a demo?
That sucks as I wouldn't fork out £80 unless I had tried it first.

You dont need to try it, take it from me, you want it!

[Brian Gifford]

Thing is, Nik, there is an awful lot of positive feedback on here for Phoenix. You know that nobody on this forum would praise something that wasn't up to scratch. It's saved me a fortune, as I'm sure it's done the same for a lot of other people on here.

Bite the bullet, mate, and buy a copy.

[karandras]

yeah the demo is just a video to basically ensure your system can cope with pheonix.

Just picked myself up a second hand copy and it is definately worth the money imho.

[Sqwidge]

I already have a sim, I have RealFlight 4.5 so only wanted to try the demo for comparison reasons, RealFlight is also quite ram heavy so after something a little less draining on the old resources, after having spoken to other people and watching comparison vids on Youtube Phoenix does look good but there are numerous comments about sound ie RF has the 'wind beating rotors noise' if you auto etc, does Phoenix not have this?

As for the Phoenix demo, I DL it and I can't get it to run, it says 'Error writing to the temporary location' so not even sure my laptop will run it, as there are loads of people on here with it could someone type up the minimum specs for me please.

[Boggy]

• IBM-compatible PC computer with 1.0 Ghz Pentium 3/4 or AMD Athlon/64 compatible processor

• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system
• 256MB system memory (RAM)
• 1.5 GB free, uncompressed hard-disk space*
• ATI Radeon 9800/NVidia Geforce Ti4200 with at least 128MB memory
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or higher
• DVD-ROM Drive for installation
• 1 free USB 1.1/2.0 port
• 100% DirectX 9 compatible sound card (optional)


Phoenix model flight simulation :: Support

[tiddler]

Min system requirements as per my original version 2.0

Windows 2000/XP/Vista
DirectX9 or higher
1GHZ 100% Pentium 111/4 or AMD Athlon/64 compatible processor.
Geforce 4200/ATI 9800 With 64MB memory
100% DiectX compatible sound card (optional)
256MB Ram
750MB free disk space.

I wouldn't worry about the demo not working. It hardly ever does

[sowerbylad]

Demo works fine on my desktop but no go on laptop. Depends a lot on your graphic on your laptop. Alot of laptops fall down unless you pay serious money in my experience.
Regards, John.

[karandras]

Demo works fine on my desktop but no go on laptop. Depends a lot on your graphic on your laptop. Alot of laptops fall down unless you pay serious money in my experience.
Regards, John.

Runs perfect on max settings on my 2 year old acer laptop that cost me £350 new from tesco's - so spending loads isn't really required.

[steve g]

in my eyes phoenix is well worth the money its taught me so much, as far as I'm concerned its value for money (don't cost anything to crash on the Sim) as long as your PC has middle of the road graphics & memory you'll be good, its saved a lot of money, gives you all the stick time you need, plus you can fly with up to 8 other people at a time online