Most computers with DX9 or DX10 compatible hardware run with G4.5 just fine.

dbcisco attempted to run G4 with an integrated "laptop" type display which is not suitable for most games, let alone simulation software.

He is equating not having adecuate hardware with "bugs" in the program, which is incorrect.

If you have a DX9 compatible machine, and/or one of a more recent vintige ( e.g. within the last 3-4 years ) you'll do fine.


G4.5 and Aerofly Deluxe Pro seem to have the best flight models.

AFDP features planes we rarely see here, as they are mostly European RC aircraft.
It also does not have all of the advanced features of G4.5 nor the advanced physics editing etc.

FSOne WAS a decent enough "entry level" RC simulator, but there have been no updates in a long time, nor any support from the developers. They may no longer be around.


Neither AFDP nor FSOne feature advanced and extensive 3D airfields which G4/G5 does, though both have somewhat rudimentary ones, that at one time were considered state of the art.


In 3D airfields your "viewpoint" or your virtual pilot can move through a 3D rendered world. Objects interact, etc.

If you plane hits a tree, leaves fall off realistically. If your plane noses over you may see grass clippings flying from the tips of the prop, etc... all things that add greatly to the "suspension of disbelief" that puts you "IN" the sim.

All of this requires the CPU processing power of a decent computer with an adecuate video adaptor.

And as with all software, yesterday's associated "start of the art" hardware requirements, become todays, commodity base level hardware found on the marjority of systems... something that happened with G4.