I'll tell you now that my 3080 struggles to get non-chunder inducing framerates in VR on my Quest 2 with many settings lowered (except render res, which is my next stop). It is a beast of a game to run. In pancake mode though, it does wonderfully at high/ultra and there are plenty of settings to tune to help a 3060ti manage (I game on 3600x1600 res btw). CPU is very important, and more about core speed than core count, although both are important.
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I'll tell you now that my 3080 struggles to get non-chunder inducing framerates in VR on my Quest 2 with many settings lowered (except render res, which is my next stop). It is a beast of a game to run. In pancake mode though, it does wonderfully at high/ultra and there are plenty of settings to tune to help a 3060ti manage (I game on 3600x1600 res btw). CPU is very important, and more about core speed than core count, although both are important.
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Never tried the xbox version but the lack of hardware add ons would completely ruin it for me, I have lots of logitech/Saitek panels and just couldn't do without them, I also have a quest 2 but I can't get the sim running very well with it but that's just probably me as I really couldn't be bothered to experiment with all the settings, even when I lower vr settings right down it don't run great but then again I'm not to fussed as I'm using the flight panels anyway. Pc version will pull ahead of console version anyway which apparently is already evident after latest updates. I'd take the PC version any day as in a year or two the xbox version will be left standing in the visual department. Not slating the xbox but if you're really serious and passionate about flight simulator the PC is the way to go, consoles should have stuck to arcade style flying games but I suppose the xbox version is better than nothing.
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Man of Honour
I can't comment on VR but I've played the sim on both PC and Xbox.
After seeing how well it ran on Series X I was hoping that would sate me and let me just game on console (rather than looking for another GPU!) - as I only ever really play FPS otherwise.
Technically it looks good and runs in 4K really well albeit capped at 30FPS; however I just found controlling it a bit annoying v the PC; it just all seemed a little more clunky and "slow" even with a mouse plugged in; I also missed the multitude of 3rd party stuff (including the excellent A320nx from Fly by Wire), proper liveries, tracking tools like Volanta of SimToolkit Pro.
Suffice to say I've ended up springing for a ridiculous cost GPU now but I don't regret it!
I would say mcuh depends on what resolution you want to play in; the Xbox will easily play in 4K
Re the community folder, I see lots of posts about changing its name, moving it etc before doing an update and putting it back one the update is installed so you don't lose any mods that you have installed, but why does Microsoft keep updating it if that is the case and are you missing something new if you delete the new Community Folder to replace it with your existing one.
Nothing being updated or changed re the community folder.
It is simply to avoid the potential problem that newly incompatible third party mods in the community folder get loaded as the sim starts with a new update and cause issues.
Once the sim has successfully updated you can then move/rename the folder back and see if any issues occur.
Most of the time it’ll be unnecessary, but I did have one update where it crashed during the download repeatedly until I emptied the community folder… so it just saves you potential grief.
It is simply to avoid the potential problem that newly incompatible third party mods in the community folder get loaded as the sim starts with a new update and cause issues.
Once the sim has successfully updated you can then move/rename the folder back and see if any issues occur.
Most of the time it’ll be unnecessary, but I did have one update where it crashed during the download repeatedly until I emptied the community folder… so it just saves you potential grief.
Thanks, thats explains it then
Soldato
Looks like the PMDG 737 is finally coming this quarter 
https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-f...rt-4q21-with-some-juicy-737-previews-shall-we
https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-f...rt-4q21-with-some-juicy-737-previews-shall-we
Soldato
no issues here
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Early reports for gamers is don't ! very buggy and glitchy would wait a good year or so.
There is the option to purchase addons both through the built in marketplace, external payware sites (such as individual developer websites, simmarket, orbX etc), and also there’s a large amount of freeware hosted in sites such as flightsim.to
The steam and windows store versions are basically functionally identical, however it’s worth noting that the windows version gives you both Xbox and pc versions, and also carries over most markeplace purchases between the two. Steam is steam alone, including any in game purchases.
Ouch too late.. I updated this evening. FS2020 seems to be working fine though!
Caporegime
Soldato
What's the best way to reset all bindings?
Soldato
Just tried VR again, the first time since they first released it as I was left very disappointed with the performance. There seems to be a bit of an improvement since then, my GTX1080 is begging for mercy trying to drive my G2 on nearly all low settings, but it's a lot smoother than it used to be and is now actually playable with a decent enough experience. Also have OpenXR set to 50% scale and MSFS at 80% scale.
Can;t wait to upgrade my GPU one day, holding out for the next generation at this point though, I think they are going to be much more capable of driving VR games.
Can;t wait to upgrade my GPU one day, holding out for the next generation at this point though, I think they are going to be much more capable of driving VR games.