**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

[VaderDSL]

For joystick issues, and weird control input problems, do the solutions in

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftF...5/how_to_fix_msfs_sensitivity_jumping_all_is/

help at all?

 

[On Holiday]

Managed to sign up to the MS ultimate pass for £1 for the first month to try this, then I think £10.99. Will see how I get on with the mouse and keyboard this weekend with the now old 2080 RTX . I couldn't sign up to the cheaper beta for £1 (then £3.99 a month), maybe as already done a trial before. If good, and if I like flight sims, I'll cancel the trial within the month and buy the top end version for lowest price I can find. I don't spend enough time gaming at the moment to justify a monthly fee.

What type of controller would be best for this? An Xbox controller type of thing or Joystick? I only usually use keyboard and mouse for other types of games.

FYI you can set subscription to cancel, let it expire and sign up for the £1 trial every month.
I've done this for the past 4-5 months.
Have got the page bookmarked so it really is just a few clicks.

 

[VaderDSL]

FYI you can set subscription to cancel, let it expire and sign up for the £1 trial every month.
I've done this for the past 4-5 months.
Have got the page bookmarked so it really is just a few clicks.

you mean with the same ID? Or do I have to create new accounts?

 

[Vern1961]

For joystick issues, and weird control input problems, do the solutions in

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftF...5/how_to_fix_msfs_sensitivity_jumping_all_is/

help at all?

Might be worth a try if I can find that screen in the options. Doesn't look like anything I've seen yet.

 

[On Holiday]

you mean with the same ID? Or do I have to create new accounts?

Yup, same Microsoft account.
I wouldn't bother otherwise as progress in some other games is tied to the account.

 

[Type_R]

FYI you can set subscription to cancel, let it expire and sign up for the £1 trial every month.
I've done this for the past 4-5 months.
Have got the page bookmarked so it really is just a few clicks.

this is good to know thanks! Seems like a wasted £3.99 here for the standard gamepass...will have to switch.

 

[mid_gen]

Was enjoying a nice cruise in the 787 out of LHR....but made the mistake of pressing a key and it crashed again :/

 

[Stu999]

I keep getting told off for flying faster than 250kts under 10,000ft. Why, is that a rule?

 

[MichaelAwkward]

Just completed my Ryzen upgrade from Haswell -

Before:

After:

Now limited by GPU, but not in red only yellow, which is what I expected - much much smoother panning the camera and solid 30fps+ with the same settings where as before it would dip when panning to as low as 12fps. Still need to do some testing to see if it's still crashing as before (which I suspected was down to the slower DDR3/general game bugs).

Getting twice the CPU score in 3DMark also, so looks like it was well worth doing.

 

[Marky]

Was enjoying a nice cruise in the 787 out of LHR....but made the mistake of pressing a key and it crashed again :/

Damn that is super annoying... I can’t think of what that could be.

I keep getting told off for flying faster than 250kts under 10,000ft. Why, is that a rule?

Told off by ATC? Maybe for noise purposes?

 

[Stu999]

Told off by ATC? Maybe for noise purposes?

It comes up as an on screen prompt rather than ATC chatter.

 

[Vern1961]

It comes up as an on screen prompt rather than ATC chatter.

I believe it is a speed restriction applied in some airspace, notably North America.

 

[Stu999]

Cheers @Vern1961

 

[BriT]

Some Citation fun, although the plane has some pretty big bugs.

 

[Vern1961]

Well it does appear that actually putting your joystick through its range of motions after adjusting the sensitivity and dead zones is what is required to set the values.

Tried a couple of GA flights including the St Barty's landing challenge and seems quite a bit better (though it took three attempts to nail the landing). So a bit of cautious optimism finally though why the hell don't they say on the adjustment screen that this is a calibration exercise and you must move your stick and throttle to complete the setup.

 

[Morfinel]

Can't find anywhere with a joystick in stock, some silly priced ones on ebay..

Try shop starting with C ending with X they have some cheap used joysticks.

 

[hyperseven]

Good, simple vid at setting up unsupported hardware.

 

[Ur round next]

Whats that a 4 hour flight? What do you actually do during the flight! ??

I did the full flight took about 4 and a half hours with live weather on mate

I never trust the CPU First officer so flight, ATC Takeoff off and landing, And everything else in-between

 

[swannyUK]

Hi guys,

Long time flight and racing simmer here.

Have we got an OCUK flight sim community up and running? Maybe a discord server or something.

I don't have any friends that play flight Sims (I'm on XPlane 11, DCS and FS2020). Thought it might be cool to organise a few fly in events?

 

[andy_mk3]

Just got my Delanclip set up and working. Never really used it until now. It's super helpful though. Good enough until VR comes at least.