Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

a66as said:
Have installed this as its on battle pass but my laptop struggles with it on max settings probably due to the CPU, was playing with controller but the controls were quite clunky.

I guess if you want to play these types of game seriously you have to invest in a property joystick?
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I'd tweak you're settings down first as the smoother it is the easier it will be to control. You can play on a controller, have a search of youtube there are a few guides to using and setting up controllers
 
If you read the forums there are only small gains from the fixed foveated rendering, and absolutely no one has got it working with eye tracking yet.

But yeah, if you're selling youtube content it's obviously a MASSIVE VR UPDATE!
 
I assume for the fixed foveated rendering on headsets without eye tracking like mine, it's as basic/rudimentary as rendering the centre of the image normally and the outside at a lower resolution/quality?
 
Spot on.

I used it (via the OpenXR Toolkit) to good effect with the Reverb G2. After swapping to the Quest 3 it's pretty useless because the excellent edge to edge clarity makes the lower res really visible.
 
Brun said:
Spot on.

I used it (via the OpenXR Toolkit) to good effect with the Reverb G2. After swapping to the Quest 3 it's pretty useless because the excellent edge to edge clarity makes the lower res really visible.
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Thanks. I've got >60 hrs in this game and whilst I'm still really enjoying it I'm seriously considering giving it a break until they've fixed the game. I've been doing quite a bit of career mode and multiple times I've had my plane suffer huge damage (and therefore cost) through no fault of my own, it has just happened again tonight as the remote location it spawned me in had a glitched/uneven grass runway, I was taxiing over it and bam, it destroyed the plane. Infuriating as it sets me back many hours each time it happens. :mad:
 
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For something so hyped, I do find 2024 (and 2020 for that matter), more annoying that fun. How on earth have they spent so much money for something with so many "areas of opportunity".
 
Quad Views rendering in VR gives massive performance gains with eye-tracked foveated rendering. The foveated rendering in OpenXR toolkit only gave about 15% gains, as that was only shader based. Quad views with eye tracking renders the entire view for each eye at a low resolution, then renders a smaller, eye tracked high res section of the part of the screen you're looking at.
It's is literally a game changer for demanding sims like Flight Sim 2024. DCS has had this for a while now.
 
Ravenger said:
Quad Views rendering in VR gives massive performance gains with eye-tracked foveated rendering. The foveated rendering in OpenXR toolkit only gave about 15% gains, as that was only shader based. Quad views with eye tracking renders the entire view for each eye at a low resolution, then renders a smaller, eye tracked high res section of the part of the screen you're looking at.
It's is literally a game changer for demanding sims like Flight Sim 2024. DCS has had this for a while now.
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Are there particular headsets you need for this? I want to dive into VR but haven't bought a headset yet.
 
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r22snapper said:
Are there particular headsets you need for this? I want to dive into VR but haven't bought a headset yet.
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For eye tracking there aren't many and most are discontinued.

Quest Pro
Various Pimax headsets.
Some Vive headsets.
Big screen Beyond 2E (Out in June).

They're all far more expensive than non eye tracked headsets.

PSVR2 supports eye tracking but that isn't enabled on PC.
 
I tried it with foveated rendering on and off and couldn't really tell much of a difference, on I did get some flickering at the edge of the view.
 
Question, Do I need to sub to an Xbox gamepass tier to be able to play online, or any multiplayer game for that matter?

I still have an active gamepass ultimate subscription, but recently moved over from Xbox to PC.

Thanks
 
I've lost interest with the game but I occasionaly dip into it when I FOMO going abroad so I do a flight from Manchester airport to portugal.
 
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