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

ne0 said:
I've added full autopilot to the 'A' button on the joystick (for those moments when I'm about to crash into a mountain, for example). Added interior light toggle to a switch plus parking brake and gear up/down. I changed the brakes button from default to another button close to it on the joystick. Not much really. I don't bother with things like mixture as I wouldn't have a clue how to use it! :p

One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to dim avionics display. In some planes there is a dial which I can use with the mouse but would like to map it to a dial on my x56. I'm using HDR which look amazing at night but sometimes I want to dim the avionics screens slightly as it hurts my eyes lol.
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I've managed to map mixture/propeller RPM to the two radial controls BUT I want to map them instead to control the altitude/heading on the A320. Will play around with it today at some point.
 
Dano said:
My 2500k (4.4ghz) is almost constantly at 100% on all four cores, my 16GB ram I have yet to see anywhere near maxed out and my 980ti is all over the place but generally well under 100% use.

It's probably the first time since I got the 2500k that it's showed its age in my usage and an upgrade is sadly out of the question for now, hopefully by the time the next round of AMD CPU's are out I will have the disposable income for a decent step up :)
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I share your pain, I've got an overclocked Core i5 2500k partnered with a GTX 980 and 32gb ram and FS2020 can be pretty unplayable. I've managed to source an i7 3770k from an old PC at work and I intend to trial this in the next few days and see if that makes a difference. I honestly cant justify a new motherboard / CPU set up either at present so will report back if it improves matters.....
 
Is there a way to kick certain people off your session?

It's annoying when you have people flying IFR and clearly not even attempting to follow their plan, listening to ATC telling them they're 20k below plan etc....
 
SIGH

They haven't fixed the device connection/disconnect crashes. Just tried to use my bluetooth keyboard after it has gone to sleep, one hour into a flight. Crashed.

Back to my emergency wired keyboard until they patch it......
 
VortexA1 said:
You're welcome.
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Flying around Portsmouth now, looks really good, but I don't know if that's just me thinking it's better than other areas after reading the article, as everywhere I fly tends to look already very impressive!

Found a video that has helped me get rid of small stutters: https://youtu.be/0Tka4CUeIwE?t=75

Again, not sure if the new patch has addressed this, but I did what was shown in the video with the .exe and no stutters here :)
 
Type_R said:
What apps are people using to check fps?

I have a [email protected] /32gb 3600 C16/ 980ti on a 4k screen. Honestly on ultra settings (unless I'm in the 747) it is quite playable.
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In options, go to developer, and enable developer mode. Then in the options menu at the top, select the show fps.

Gives you a frame time graph for CPU main thread and GPU.
 
They haven't fixed the device connection/disconnect crashes. Just tried to use my bluetooth keyboard after it has gone to sleep, one hour into a flight. Crashed.
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You do know you can go into device manager and under usb serial bus controllers you can select root hub and then properties / power management.
You will find a nice clickable box that says Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.

Deselect that box and see if that cures the problem.

You just need to ensure you select the correct USB hub or just do it to them all. Its really for power saving with laptops not desktops.
 
Shac said:
You do know you can go into device manager and under usb serial bus controllers you can select root hub and then properties / power management.
You will find a nice clickable box that says Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.

Deselect that box and see if that cures the problem.

You just need to ensure you select the correct USB hub or just do it to them all. Its really for power saving with laptops not desktops.
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It's not the USB device that the problem, it's the wireless keyboard that disconnects after a period of inactivity.

I only use the keyboard for ATC selections, so quite often there's an extended period between using it, and it's gone to sleep. Soon as I hit a key and it wakes up, the game crashes.
 
With regard to auto pilot i think i am giving up atm and will just use GA aircraft.
Was in the A320 last night and I tried entering an alt of 11k and climbed straight through to 18K and still going up.
Tried changing heading left by 90 degreees and still flew on original heading.
The only thing it did seem to autopilot correctly was speed.

In the end I turned auto pilot off then thought lets try again and immediately went into the "Death Spiral"

I gave up in disgust at that point.
 
Shac said:
With regard to auto pilot i think i am giving up atm and will just use GA aircraft.
Was in the A320 last night and I tried entering an alt of 11k and climbed straight through to 18K and still going up.
Tried changing heading left by 90 degreees and still flew on original heading.
The only thing it did seem to autopilot correctly was speed.

In the end I turned auto pilot off then thought lets try again and immediately went into the "Death Spiral"

I gave up in disgust at that point.
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Autopilot is *usually* ok for me if I use it like this.

Enable Autopilot first.

Set your desired altitude, then turn Vertical Speed (VS) mode on and set your desired climb/descend rate. It'll then go that desired altitude and level out.

To go to a desired heading, set the HDG and then turn Heading Select Mode ON.
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Have it follow your flight plan, by turning NAV mode ON.

Speed control, and FLC I've not really dabbled with. I do sometimes rarely get a death spiral, but I haven't been able to diagnose it yet. Sometimes when I load in with a flight plan the AP is just borked.
 
Yeah AP is broken right now. 747 especially seems knackered to me. A320 is usually alright, although it climbs erratically compared to before where both behaved normally for me.

I'm kinda putting MSFS on pause until I get a new gpu anyway so I don't mind waiting for a fix while I wait for a gpu. Until then, GA will tide me over for the times I do need a quick fix
 
Been really enjoying getting to grips with the A320; done a few full length flights across Italy, across the Alps and then into Germany; AP has been fairly reliable today; although I am struggling to land!!

Just had a fly around London; can locate our London office and the hotel I usually stay in / bars but I'd love to see some bettery scenery; the City looks dire with few if any recognisable towers aside from The Shard.

Needing to start with the new PC build though; my PC is struggling with this!
 
chrismscotland said:
Been really enjoying getting to grips with the A320; done a few full length flights across Italy, across the Alps and then into Germany; AP has been fairly reliable today; although I am struggling to land!!

Just had a fly around London; can locate our London office and the hotel I usually stay in / bars but I'd love to see some bettery scenery; the City looks dire with few if any recognisable towers aside from The Shard.

Needing to start with the new PC build though; my PC is struggling with this!
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There's a London building pack on the marketplace already. I haven't tried it yet.
 
I cant get the auto pilot to work for the love of money in the 747 using the ingame flight plan from the world map no mater what...The A320 on the other hand is completely fine tho
 
Not sure if this has been linked before, but there is a really good head tracker to use with your phone: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/...rned/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I've downloaded it and given it a quick go and it works really well.

I don't have trackIR, but looking at the comments, it works smoother than that.

I'll play around with it more later today, but so far I'm very impressed!
 
ralv585 said:
Not sure if this has been linked before, but there is a really good head tracker to use with your phone: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/...rned/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I've downloaded it and given it a quick go and it works really well.

I don't have trackIR, but looking at the comments, it works smoother than that.

I'll play around with it more later today, but so far I'm very impressed!
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I've downloaded it too, looks like a very cheap alternative to Track IR. I'm also wondering if it's gonna work with racing games too, see no reason why it wouldn't.
 
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