CFS III

[evangilder]

I am running a P4 3.00 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM with the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and it's smooth for the most part. Every once in a while I get a jitter, but that's usually because of something I ran prior to CFS III. If I start the game after a fresh reboot, I don't get any jitter. You know how Windows can be with memory (mis)management.

[JonJGoldberg]

I have about the same P4HT 3.02Ghz 2GB RAM 1xATI9800pro 256M Windows XP-Pro. Windows generally messes me up so I use a few cache managers, & have a 4GB drive set up for swap files.

[evangilder]

Yeah, I always tweak the crap outta windoze, regardless of the machine it's on. If I could find an OS that did everything I do, I would switch in a heartbeat.

[JonJGoldberg]

ditto...

[alx]

Originally Posted by JonJGoldberg

... I await CFS-4 to restart what I have going on in CFS-2.

No way. Microsoft has discontinued the Combat series and "disbanded" the
developing team. No CFS4 in the future. And almost surely the next
Flight Simulator release will be the last of the series.

[JonJGoldberg]

Really. Where can I learn more...

Not true. At this moment they are advertising for people for their flight sim team.

http://fsinsider.com/jobs.htm

[JonJGoldberg]

...Thank you. Wish I could apply...

[alx]

I was out for some days, sorry. Here is a list of post where you can learn more about the end of M$ CFS series. Not too much because the things is more than a year old, so many threads went deleted. In the first you can also read something about the "advertising".

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/ya...num=1133843069

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ead.php?t=4386

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ead.php?t=5446

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ead.php?t=5746

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ead.php?t=5914

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...ead.php?t=7422

And please consider that all people that were in contact with MS about CFS ((Unofficial test teams and such) signed a NDA and can't say much.
Anyway the sad thing is that CFS4 is really dead.

[alx]

Perhaps this is more significative, particularly posts 8 - 26 - 36 - 40 - 41

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...9&page=3&pp=20

All I can tell you is that this is a brand new ad on the FSinsider site. All those links at Simouthouse and others are from an ad ages ago.

[alx]

Originally Posted by Anonymous

All I can tell you is that this is a brand new ad on the FSinsider site. All those links at Simouthouse and others are from an ad ages ago.

They came from the time when the news were known, of course. BTW, following MS habit and timing of previous sims, CFS4 should have been announced at Electronic Fairs about mid 2004 and released at the and of the same year, but...
Anyway, you can think what you like. The sad, but true fact is that currently nobody is working on CSF4.

And, going a little deeper in that ad, can we find inside it a single reference about PC games?

[Knight_74]

And you hold what position at Aces studio?

Here is yet another ad, again posted in the past few months:
http://members.microsoft.com/careers...=1&interval=10

[alx]

Originally Posted by Knight_74

Here is yet another ad, again posted in the past few months:
http://members.microsoft.com/careers...=1&interval=10

Guys, as I said before, anyone can think and trust what he likes. I don't want to go polemic, but, please read well the ad. ACE studio refers itself as creator of CFS, FS and such, but nothing is said about what the "recruited" should do. Only a generic "designing, constructing and implementing 2D terrain textures". This could apply to almost every kind of game.
Anyway, CES starts in a few days. Almost every developer reveals the plan for the current year in that fair.
And be sure that I would be the first person to be happy if the news about the end of CFS series were false.