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There is zero chance of this happening. Microsoft are out of the flightsim business for good this time.

I tried X-Plane several times (versions 8, 9 and 10) but I don't like it.

Prepar3D, which is a different FSX, is very good and I have found it to be more stable than FSX. With some 3rd party addon developers already making their current ones compatible with P3D, that is the way I'm heading. In all honesty, I don't know which is easier to develop for, but P3D appears to be just some minor differences to FSX, maybe just as simple as redoing the installer for P3D. And you don't have all that BS about the gauges needing to be Trusted which is very annoying in FSX.

The Aerofly Flight Simulator look stunning as well, but like Flight, it only covers a small area. I am planning to buy it because I love the look of it.

Yeah, currently what keeps me using FSX for now is FSpassengers addon which isn't developed anymore and doesn't work with Prepar3d... But one developer, ones who made Real Environment Xtreme are working on similar addon and probably it will be prepar3d compatible too, then I will likely move.

And yeah, I develop sceneries myself and at least in case of most sceneries you don't have to modify anything other than installer to make them compatible with Prepar3d.

you guys are scaring me, I can't believe that this topic would have anything to do with FSX.

as mentioned, Its been public knowledge since the release of FSX that MS was done with flight simulator and it was so obvious that FLIGHT was for casual gamers(I'm not one) MS made a venture, it failed, big deal...sorry.

I had a look at some screen-shots from Prepar3d and I have to say I wasn't impressed. The ones that stick out in my mind are of a 747-400 and it looked like a plastic toy it may run smooth but if the models look like that I'm out.

FSX is it imo for a long time...ya hear that Captain Sim? please don't go anywhere.

"I had a look at some screen-shots from Prepar3d and I have to say I wasn't impressed. The ones that stick out in my mind are of a 747-400 and it looked like a plastic toy  it may run smooth but if the models look like that I'm out."

Prepar3d is just updated FSX and graphically its not any different from FSX. Maybe that picture was taken with Prepar3d ran on low graphics settings or just some bad freeware addon model, but sim itself is just more stable FSX at the moment.

So you can basically add all your addon aircraft and sceneries to it from FSX and they should look and work just the same way I believe, though some complicated addon airplanes could have problems, not sure.

Personally I am not going to switch to Prepar3d until it offers enough advancements from FSX and still stays compatible with most addons made for it.

dbhally wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2012 at 11:07pm:

The Connie for P3D is done by another company, and it seems to be exactly the same as their FSX version.
Sad, but true.

Christopher Low wrote on Jul 31^st, 2012 at 7:57am:

Now this makes me happy.

I have been saying for years that we've got 64-bit processors and no software. Unfortunately 99% of the population believe that all you need is a 64-bit OS. Finally a move forward from Far Cry2.