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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 cover
Developers
ACES Game Studio
Publishers
Microsoft Game Studios
Re-releases Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows October 19, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time, Relaxed
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Simulation, Open world, Vehicle simulator
Vehicles Flight
Art styles Realistic
Series Microsoft Flight Simulator
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person simulation, open world and vehicle simulator game in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
25-character product key. Released on 3 CDs.
Windows

Version differences

The Professional Edition includes additional planes, the Flight Instructor's Station feature and a plane/building editor.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Microsoft Games\FS2002\FS2002.CFG

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Display settings.
Display settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main menu is always 800x600 (larger resolutions letterbox the main menu when exiting a flight). HUD is stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
UI does not scale with resolution and is extremely small in 4K.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Framerate cap is fully configurable.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Engines, cockpit, environment, navigation, lessons/flights, and air traffic control.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Subtitles for Air Traffic Control messages only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Subtitles for Air Traffic Control messages only.
Japanese
Japanese release.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
16
Online play
16 The official MSN Gaming Zone service was shut down on June 19, 2006.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer MSN Gaming Zone

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, Me, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II (300 MHz)
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1a compatible


References