For me personally, the price fell under the ‘Too lazy that I don’t want to walk down to the basement and get a disk’ must buy purchase category. It sold like hot sausages in a dog shelter. Inquiring minds needed to know, but more importantly for the Steam Sale crowd, it was *really cheap*, so pretty much an insta-buy for anyone who could spell ‘plain’. Was it the same as the one we have on DVD’s already, would it be 64-bit, or DX-10 with better shaders, would it just be FSX but with really detailed trains on the ground? Is there now deeply unflattering Steam lipstick on our beloved fresh-faced FSX pig? Here’s the store page: This release caused quite a fair bit of confusion. The developer was still listed as Microsoft, but the publisher was Dovetail Games, or more commonly known as ‘The Train Simulator’ people. In the lead up to the annual ‘Steam Winter (don’t say Christmas, whew, got away with it, close one) Sale’ Microsoft’s FSX appeared on sale for a pretty low price of around $5.
In order to boost you download speed to the maximum, we advise you to download and install FlashGet, which is a free program allowing you to multiply your download speed up to 10 times.How do you review a sim that’s been out since 2006? Well, you don’t, and this article talks about what FSX Steam Edition is and how it is different from the original FSX and FSX Acceleration releases. It can be necessary to do a test with another computer and another Internet connexion to check that the problem does not come from your computer. You should also check that your Internet connexion allows you to do high-speed downloads. After activation of your Jumbo please make sure to restart your downloads already in progress, Jumbo URLs will change. If you see statut « Jumbo OK », but your download speed isn’t higher than 220ko/s, then check that your bandwidth isn’t slowed by other programs trying to download in the same time. It should activate your Jumbo subscription. Try to reconnect to your account, using the « Log out » button. If you see « - Statut : No Jumbo », that means your Jumbo subscription isn’t activated. First, check that the statut « Jumbo OK » is placed in the top right side of the website like below : Link to Youtube videos with dozens of tutorials (add your Internet service provider as a keyword)
Here are links to some articles in English that explain how to open your ports, do not hesitate to do your own research on Google using the name of your Internet service provider as a keyword. You must connect to your router (ex Livebox) and add a rule that opens the 8888 TCP / UDP port. Those ports are normally used for the web interface, streaming, and HTTP, therefore, it's safe to open. The problem is that the firewall of the router (ex Livebox, Freebox, Neufbox) of certain users is configured to refuse the port 8888 (and also the port 8080), to know if you are in this case, go to and download any file at random, if the download does not start (like at Rikoooo), then you are among those small percentage of users whose router blocks port 8888 (and 8080 for Simviation). In fact, the downloads from Rikoooo are sent from another local server on port 8888 (ex ) this for a better stability of downloads especially with files of several Gigabytes.
You wait but nothing happens, no file is downloaded, possibly after a few minutes of waiting you receive an error message of the type "Connection timeout" or "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE" or other messages according to your Internet browser.