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Is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 better than Microsoft Flight Simulator X?

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In many aspects it is better, it takes full advantage of modern Directx10 capable graphics cards.

It demands more PC resources but given that it was released about 4 years ago almost any new PC is able to run flight simulator x aka FSX.

This Wikipedia article has covered all the new features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_X#New_features

I highly recommend the move to Flight Simulator X

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