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Never heard of VATSIM before looks good if you know what you are doing, very difficult to understand the controllers a lot of the time though, I suppose real pilots must have the same problem,
In the Sim, for the novice I hope there are built in aids to help from route planning to flying that you can turn off one by one as you get to know them
 
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I've never tried it on a computer (because the last thing I want to do is have to deal with ATC lol) so I guess a lot of it would depend on the standard of the guys doing the controlling but I can say that yes you do sometimes, although rarely in Europe as the standards of English and use of standard phraseology is generally great) get the same problem in real life.

You do "get your ear in" though after a while and someone who's been flying for a while will likely be able to understand what a controller is trying to say where a newer pilot struggles, especially where accents are involved. A lot of it comes down to knowing what to expect, for example a controller may clear you to a waypoint and use the name (eg a good one is Grostenquin "grow-tan-can" in the FMS will show as GTQ) and unless you have a little knowledge of the local area you'll probably struggle to know wtf they are talking about... or clear you for a particular arrival or approach type, and again if you already know what to expect you'll probably understand it better.

I still remember clearly though years ago when I was based in Switzerland flying to an Irish airport for a maintenance task, the swiss captain completely lost the plot after passing into Irish airspace - Every radio call was followed by a blank stare at me then asking "what the hell did he just say!?".
 
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I should imagine the GPU and internet connection have a greater bearing on performance than the CPU, but I'm sure anything less than 4 cores on the CPU will struggle and I'll be plumping for 8, either Zen 2 or 3 depending on vfm.

This game's going to be remarkably successful I think, which it'll need to be to make an ROI on what must have been a huge investment.
 
I have a 970. Even something like a 1650 Super at £150 would be faster, but I'm going to get whatever the new 5700XT is or equivalent in a few months and deal with whatever the 970 manages in the meantime. It should be more than acceptable in terms of playability.

The other beauty of this game is that it will keep improving for as long as it exists, whether through world data and texture improvements or community updates, even after MS updates stop.
 
An Asus ROG Strix B450-F ATX
Corsair Vengeance 32GB
Ryzen 7 2700X is around £380 ... all ideal specs - then a 5700XT for around £350 which should be able to play with very high graphics and a smooth frame rate, for around £600.

This game could bring me out of gaming retirement. I need a new computer anyway as my i7 930, 6gb RAM rig struggles sometimes with Adobe Premiere and video editing - I'm amazed it works at all with the cheap £30 1GB Graphics Card I have.
 
The game is ram heavy too but am sure everyone’s aware of this. When I had a 3600 I saw it peak 100% sometimes but honestly it’s definitely more gpu intensive. Think multiplayer hits the cpu a little harder but I didn’t play much MP in alpha
 
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This concerns me. MS Say recommended is a GTX970 and Ideal is an RTX2080. Hope my 1060 6GB can handle it. I can't afford (read: justify to the Mrs ;)) to be upgrading my gfx card at the moment.
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Same here waiting to finally upgrading from my i5-2500k system which handles all games so far very well, but will have to keep my 1080, can't afford to replace that as well
 
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FBi7 said:
This concerns me. MS Say recommended is a GTX970 and Ideal is an RTX2080. Hope my 1060 6GB can handle it. I can't afford (read: justify to the Mrs ;)) to be upgrading my gfx card at the moment.
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I wouldn't be too concerned. Its GPU heavy but that's 1440p with most stuff cranked. 30fps in Heathrow and 60+ everywhere else. It's a good experience.

I'd imagine cpu usage will increase with the likes of Pmdg planes.

My ram usage is always at least 16/17gb in total, 8 think 32gb is a must.
 
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I wouldn't be too concerned. Its GPU heavy but that's 1440p with most stuff cranked. 30fps in Heathrow and 60+ everywhere else. It's a good experience.

I'd imagine cpu usage will increase with the likes of Pmdg planes.

My ram usage is always at least 16/17gb in total, 8 think 32gb is a must.
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Thanks for that.

Generally the only game I play is P3D and find 1080p suits me fine. I only had 16gig RAM when I uploaded my dxdiag thingy but upgraded to 32gig shortly afterwards. Was never able to reupload a new dxdiag.
 
I'll be upgrading my 980ti, but with 16GB of RAM I think I'll have to upgrade there too at some point. Can't afford both though along with the price of the game.

I'll be getting the base edition to start, but would really like to fly LHR so will be interested to see how upgrades work.
 
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