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

[LukieBoy007]

Yeah. Should have thought about it before tbh because I already do it on work projects because it has a big impact on build times, reading so many small files. MSFS is similarly huge numbers of relatively small files.

Wow interesting, I'll give it a go. Cheers for the tip
When you say data directory do you mean the one in appdata?

 

[mid_gen]

Wow interesting, I'll give it a go. Cheers for the tip
When you say data directory do you mean the one in appdata?

Yeah, the one in AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_<randomcharshere>

Just add that folder to the exclusions

 

[Josey Wales]

This is a great game

 

[LukieBoy007]

Yeah, the one in AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_<randomcharshere>

Just add that folder to the exclusions

nice one thanks

 

[Zeeflyboy]

Yeah, the one in AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_<randomcharshere>

Just add that folder to the exclusions

Interesting, will give that a try too... cheers

 

[Dano]

Just ordered a 5800x, 32gb ram and a 1tb m.2 SSD to replace my aging 2500k, keeping my 980ti for now but aiming to replace that with a RTX3080 when I can so looking forward to seeing how much better it will run when it is all set up

 

[willhub]

I hope the UK update will be coming soon.

 

[Zeeflyboy]

I hope the UK update will be coming soon.

January 26th

 

[robfosters]

I hope they update the football stadiums. They look terrible.

 

[Zeeflyboy]

Personally I’m going to hope for very little, that way perhaps I’ll be pleasantly surprised

 

[robfosters]

Is there anywhere that gives the best settings for the 3080?

 

[wellibob]

Thrilled. Managed to snag a
Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition.
Tried playing this with keyboard & mouse and a xbox gamepad. As pretty as this game looks I feel a flight stick is essential and I'm hoping now to play SW Squadrons now also (again was waiting on a good hotas deal) Had FS2020 since launch and probably oy played it about an hour if that. For me it's a bit like playing say Fifa on a keyboard instead of a gamepad. I hope its worth it and the cost was only £64 which I don't think is too bad considering how damn hard these are to find. Ive been fortunate as I have everything I intended to buy since September 2020. I do feel for those who are still waiting on components and I'm aware I'm a lucky boy right now.
Arrives tomorrow and am seriously looking forward as covid is making doing anything outside the home tough.

 

[subroutine]

How well does this run on the Quest 2 and what is the image quality like, reading A320 displays for example ? I had to return my Reverb G2 due to a fault and am getting a refund because there is no stock. I'm considering a quest 2 and this is one of the main sims/games I play.

 

[Zeeflyboy]

See here for some quest 2 vs rift s vs G2 impressions for msfs, for reference he is currently on a 1080Ti I believe.

 

[Participant]

Is there anywhere that gives the best settings for the 3080?

JayzTwoCents did a decent video about Flight Sim settings and what can be reduced with minimal visual penalty.

However the 3080 should do mid 30s FPS with everything on ultra 4K and 1:1 resolution.

Personally I'm on an overclocked 3070 and run most things at 4K ultra but with things like bloom and DoF disabled, 1:1 resolution scaling, and detail settings for scenery and objects reduced from 200 to 150.

 

[subroutine]

See here for some quest 2 vs rift s vs G2 impressions for msfs, for reference he is currently on a 1080Ti I believe.

Thanks for that, it looks more promising than I thought. I would go Index but I have a feeling there could be an update to that later this year given it's life cycle so a Quest 2 would tie me over until then.

 

[chrismscotland]

I love this game but struggling with my X52 HOTAS; just seems to be off quite consistently veering off to the right; I've checked everything but think I'll need to accelerate getting it swapped.
I knew there was a couple of dodgy selections on the hat switch on the stick but able to work around for now (and I don't want to be without!)

 

[Zeeflyboy]

add some deadzone?

 

[chrismscotland]

add some deadzone?

Tried that but doesn't seem to fix; was fine before as well

 

[chrismscotland]

Just heads up that there does appear to be stock of the more popular HOTAS/Joystick options appearing; must have been a shipment received somewhere - decided to "upgrade" to the Warthog HOTAS and send the X52 back