The Beauty Of FSX - Fly with me over New Zealand!

Hello folks, this is just a short clip that i took while playing FSX on my Mac Pro. I just wanted to show the world that gaming can be done on a Mac. Look for yourselves.
Fraps was locked at 30/fps - otherwise the game delivers between 25 and 110 fps in VC, depending on scenery, lights, traffic etc.

Mac Pro 5.1 Specs:

- Intel Xeon 2,8 Ghz
- 16 GB RAM 1066 Mhz
- ATI 5870 1GB GDDR5
- WD Caviar Blue 500 GB with Windows 7 64bit via Apple Bootcamp

ATI Catalyst Settings:

- AA 8x with Edge Enhancement (24x) (Quality Setting)
- AF 16x (Quality Setting)
- VSync On
- 1920 x 1200

FSX Settings:

- Everything Maxed Out - all sliders to the right including all shadows - lights -
reflections

FSX Tweaking:

- LOD Radius is set to 8.5
- Textures set to 2048
- Texture Load is set to 80

Software used:

FSX AC Pack
Carenado V35B Bonanza
NZ Vector Land Class
Godzone Real NZ Scenery Marlborough Sounds
REX 2.0

Special Hardware:

- TrackIR 4 Pro with TrackClip Pro
- Saitek X52
- Logitech G35 Headset

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• FSX
• Flight
• Simulator
• Microsoft
• Simulation
• Aircraft
• Plane
• Jet
• Landing
• Flying
• Beechcraft
• V35B
• Bonanza
• Carenado
• Virtual
• Cockpit
• Simming
• Benchmark
• Gaming
• Mac
• Macintosh
• Apple
• Mac Pro
• ATI
• AMD
• 5870
• 1GB
• REX
• 2.0
• TrackIR
• New
• Zealand
• Scenery
• Photoreal
• Fraps
• Godzone
• Vector
• Land
• Class
• Vector Land Class
• Marlborough
• Sounds
• Windows
• 64bit
• Weather
• Effects
• Clouds
• High
• Definition
• HD

[guipinsan]

of course you can game on a mac. specially if your paying 2000$ for it...

[nume1981]

@guipinsan You are absolutely right. But since i dont use this as a gaming rig in the first place it is nice to see that you can actually do some nice gaming on it. This way i dont need a second rig just to play my sim games. :)

Cheers

Nume

[remzi133]

Nice video! Subscribed!