This differed from FSX because when that was released, thousands of users had trouble running it on their computer systems with problems with frame rates, lagging and such a slowdown that it was almost unusable.įS2004 has stood the test of time, and still now, people are using it and not upgrading to the latest version. FS2004 provided a major leap in terms of environment textures, 3D modeling and weather systems from the previous releases and could be run on almost all of the latest computers at the time of the release date. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 was released on 29 July 2003, and ever since that release date, developers have been creating add-ons for it. Many users prefer FS2004 to later releases of Microsoft Flight Simulator because it's friendlier on frame rates and can be made to provide graphics equal to that of FSX, but with double the frame rate speed.
This aircraft is an add-on, not part of the default aircraft set.īecause FS2004 is probably the most popular flight simulation package ever released, freeware developers have released thousands of files that can be installed into it. Image shows a Air Canada Boeing 747-400 landing at Paris in FS2004.
