Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread

Cavallino · 21 Aug 2020 at 23:16

no idea what said:
YouTube is your friend. Squirrel, Frooglesim, flightdeck2sim to name a few, all of which have done and are going to do tutorials

Ah sweet man... do you know if they are literally going to be doing stuff "from scratch"? I.e. idiots guide to flying?
I thought FSX had a lot more training stuff than this does in all honesty.

How to use radios etc as well... no clue at all

andy_mk3 · 21 Aug 2020 at 23:20

Cavallino said:
Ah sweet man... do you know if they are literally going to be doing stuff "from scratch"? I.e. idiots guide to flying?
I thought FSX had a lot more training stuff than this does in all honesty.

How to use radios etc as well... no clue at all

I know Squirrel is going to be doing a full series of tutorials, I'd imagine he'll cover most things. It helps that he flies irl too. https://youtu.be/t_yOXAKjyHs

Flightdeck2sim is live in youtube right now he's always good to watch

Marky · 21 Aug 2020 at 23:37

2StepSteve said:
I've taken a closer look tonight and performance and quality. I refuse to go lower than High-End in settings, it just looks miles better than medium.

So at 4K I am GPU bound by my 980TI, I get around 20FPS over San Fran with dips in frame rate. It's playable, but, not great.

Switch to 1080p frame rate is a lot better, but now CPU bound by my 4470K. However, running non native res is not nice on the best of days, on a 32" 4K monitor, it just looks really horrible.

I'm in two minds what to do to improve performance here. I could either buy a second monitor, either 1080p or 1440p and run with that, or stick with 4K and spend a lot on a new build when the time is right for components. Damn this sim and damn 4K for spoiling me, not sure I could go back. But then you look at the highest end GPUs and they are scraping in to the 30FPS @ 4K, add some fancy 3rd party aircraft in to the mix, and we will be back in the 20FPS territory again. Gotta love flight sims.

I think 4K is going to be out of reach for this game for a little while, in my opinion.

McGraw · 21 Aug 2020 at 23:51

2StepSteve said:
I've taken a closer look tonight and performance and quality. I refuse to go lower than High-End in settings, it just looks miles better than medium.

So at 4K I am GPU bound by my 980TI, I get around 20FPS over San Fran with dips in frame rate. It's playable, but, not great.

Switch to 1080p frame rate is a lot better, but now CPU bound by my 4470K. However, running non native res is not nice on the best of days, on a 32" 4K monitor, it just looks really horrible.

I'm in two minds what to do to improve performance here. I could either buy a second monitor, either 1080p or 1440p and run with that, or stick with 4K and spend a lot on a new build when the time is right for components. Damn this sim and damn 4K for spoiling me, not sure I could go back. But then you look at the highest end GPUs and they are scraping in to the 30FPS @ 4K, add some fancy 3rd party aircraft in to the mix, and we will be back in the 20FPS territory again. Gotta love flight sims.

Use res scaling

chaparral · 21 Aug 2020 at 23:57

Guess where i am

Tombstone · 22 Aug 2020 at 00:02

Is that a golf course on the left side of the screen, please someone tell me that they havent built a golf course next to the Pyramids

Brun · 22 Aug 2020 at 00:11

no idea what said:
Word of warning if you're planning to do a flight in the Bonanza, it goes about 133kts flat out when it should be more like 170kts I think. Had to cut my flight short lol.

Difference between IAS and TAS?

DanTheMan · 22 Aug 2020 at 00:36

Tombstone said:
Is that a golf course on the left side of the screen, please someone tell me that they havent built a golf course next to the Pyramids

Looks like it from Google maps! There seems to be quite a few actually.

Devrij · 22 Aug 2020 at 00:44

I had a real blast today. The Bush flights in the activities section are really fun. The Vfr navigation kinda keeps you on your toes while you enjoy the scenery, and it's a bit more hands on than the airliner flights which are all instrument focused. I'm usually all about the airliners, but it was a really nice change of pace. Also, for anyone trying to learn the airliners from scratch, the checklists are your friend. They'll help you get from cold and dark to the runway and beyond. I'm still a bit rubbish at following a flight plan, and that's my main challenge. I followed ATC instructions to JFK but they wanted me to go from FL190 to 2k feet and land all at once.

Morfinel · 22 Aug 2020 at 08:54

Aparently if you are on game pass the Deluxe Bundle or Premium Deluxe comes with the standard game its not an add on, so you can get it there cheaper, and Microsoft CS confirmed its not DLC.

mid_gen · 22 Aug 2020 at 08:54

2StepSteve said:
I've taken a closer look tonight and performance and quality. I refuse to go lower than High-End in settings, it just looks miles better than medium.

So at 4K I am GPU bound by my 980TI, I get around 20FPS over San Fran with dips in frame rate. It's playable, but, not great.

Switch to 1080p frame rate is a lot better, but now CPU bound by my 4470K. However, running non native res is not nice on the best of days, on a 32" 4K monitor, it just looks really horrible.

I'm in two minds what to do to improve performance here. I could either buy a second monitor, either 1080p or 1440p and run with that, or stick with 4K and spend a lot on a new build when the time is right for components. Damn this sim and damn 4K for spoiling me, not sure I could go back. But then you look at the highest end GPUs and they are scraping in to the 30FPS @ 4K, add some fancy 3rd party aircraft in to the mix, and we will be back in the 20FPS territory again. Gotta love flight sims.

4k is fine on my 1080, with the render scaling dropped to 75-80%, so you can get a sharp UI and there's very little blurriness.

mid_gen · 22 Aug 2020 at 08:56

Morfinel said:
I suspect is not your spec but the servers or internet, during alpha I never had loading taking more then 1min on 120 Mbps

It's installing on my 5820k/32Gb/2070 rig at the moment so it'll be interesting to see if it fares better. All on wired ethernet.

phatboy · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:12

Anyone else using an x52 pro by any chance?

Trying to locate a stick profile but there doesn't seem to be anything about

MichaelAwkward · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:17

mid_gen said:
4k is fine on my 1080, with the render scaling dropped to 75-80%, so you can get a sharp UI and there's very little blurriness.

If the render scaling is 70-80%, it's only the UI that's 4K.

1440p with 80% render scaling is outputting the game at 2048x1152 for example.

mid_gen · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:18

MichaelAwkward said:
If the render scaling is 70-80%, it's only the UI that's 4K.

1440p with 80% render scaling is outputting the game at 2048x1152 for example.

Yes exactly, you get the UI at 4k and the rest of the game at the reduced scaling. The upsampling is pretty good. Very playable at 4k without ridiculous hardware.

MichaelAwkward · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:23

mid_gen said:
Yes exactly, you get the UI at 4k and the rest of the game at the reduced scaling. The upsampling is pretty good. Very playable at 4k without ridiculous hardware.

Err... but you're not playing at 4K, that's my point.

phatboy · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:42

phatboy said:
Anyone else using an x52 pro by any chance?

Trying to locate a stick profile but there doesn't seem to be anything about

If anyone else has trouble with this, found the solution thanks to AVSIM forums, leave the controller unplugged, load the game and get the controls option menu. At this point plug it and it should be recognised, select default layout and then go and save a copy of it straight away.

Seems to all be working fine and if the game "forgets"the stick again I have a profile set to go

chrismox · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:46

Devrij said:
I had a real blast today. The Bush flights in the activities section are really fun. The Vfr navigation kinda keeps you on your toes while you enjoy the scenery, and it's a bit more hands on than the airliner flights which are all instrument focused. I'm usually all about the airliners, but it was a really nice change of pace. Also, for anyone trying to learn the airliners from scratch, the checklists are your friend. They'll help you get from cold and dark to the runway and beyond. I'm still a bit rubbish at following a flight plan, and that's my main challenge. I followed ATC instructions to JFK but they wanted me to go from FL190 to 2k feet and land all at once.

if you’re enjoying VFR flying, get yourself some free charts here - https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/vfr/

They’re large PDFs, the sectional ones cover the whole of the USA. The terminal charts are higher scale and cover the more congested areas. The detail in Flight Simulator is perfectly good enough to find most of the details that these charts show and allow you to do VFR navigation just as you would in the real world.

chaparral · 22 Aug 2020 at 09:52

Could you imagine what a flight sim would be like if google & Microsoft teamed up and released one using google maps and google street views :eek:

Guessing that would take one hell of a system to be able to run something like that, plus would need a crazy speed internet connection

Maybe in another 10 to 15 years

chaparral · 22 Aug 2020 at 10:51

Just been flying over where that huge explosion took place

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