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

[Ur round next]

Has anyone seen any boating traffic? I've got mine set to 100 and I'm yet to see anything. Was around greek islands today and again.. nothing

I have over the san francisco bay area mine is set to 100 also

 

[Unisol Magic]

Has anyone seen any boating traffic? I've got mine set to 100 and I'm yet to see anything. Was around greek islands today and again.. nothing

I’ve seen a few off the coast of Dubai

 

[chaparral]

Was using over 10.5GB of Vram at 3440x1440 ....How much would it need at 4K

 

[Ur round next]

In not surprised with the amount of detail we get

 

[Supernova]

Was using over 10.5GB of Vram at 3440x1440 ....How much would it need at 4K

That looks incredible. But looking at the dev console, you’re actually rendering more pixels than 3440x1440. It says 4128x1700. Do you have render scaling above 100? I think you may have.

 

[something daft already!!]

Also, there is a script to reduce the refresh rates in the display screens in the cockpits rather than forcing the sim to update to 60 fps to match your fps for example. It scales the refresh for the screens to like a quarter of your fps and so your computer has much fewer calculations to do. Just bang it into your community folder. Significant fps gains in cockpit view.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tfpdyp608jqmma1/file

Er, I can't seem to access the install folder. Mine is locked and impossible it would appear, to unlock.

 

[Shac]

I note you also seem t have 14 tabs open and windowed.
If you close them does it help at all ?

 

[chaparral]

That looks incredible. But looking at the dev console, you’re actually rendering more pixels than 3440x1440. It says 4128x1700. Do you have render scaling above 100? I think you may have.

Looks like i had render scaling at 120

These were the settings i was using at the time

 

[chaparral]

I note you also seem t have 14 tabs open and windowed.
If you close them does it help at all ?

I try it later with all the tabs closed, but i don't think having them few tabs open would make much difference

 

[philmo]

If it hasn't been posted already, this guy has some great tutorials on the A320 (talks you through ILS and programming the MCDU etc), and is generally just nice to listen to and doesn't sound totally up himself for being a real pilot.

https://www.youtube.com/user/filanjix

Nice - haven’t got the URL to hand but this guy on YT has done quite a few good tutorials: DRAWYAH

 

[philmo]

Thrustmaster hotas 4 purchased yesterday and 5 long hours of downloading and all is good! Had a good flight from Exeter over Dartmoor and around the coast and what can I say... love it!!! Doubt my missus will though..

*edit* one thing that’s annoying though - how do you set weather to be “local” as default? Seems to default to clear skies for me

Might be a bit behind in my post. But reading a lot of people suggesting live weather is hit or miss. They have not listed it as a patch fix (along with auto pilot) which is a shame. Some people have suggested starting as admin helps chances of seeing real time weather.

 

[philmo]

Does he? Surprising - he always comes across like he's just read stuff on Wikipedia, dunno why. GripperSim is an instructor IIRC, and has a great sense of humour.

His flight from Southend to London City was quite good as it made ref to a route he was from experience familiar with. I think flightdec2sim is really good. A real commercial (UK based) pilot.

 

[NvidiaDan]

All I want is the Citation Longitude in the premium deluxe version but paying that much would be madness. Shame there isn't the option to purchase individual aircraft

 

[Rroff]

Weirdly the ground level scenery i.e. when taxing in this game reminds me of Operation Flashpoint - just something about the colours, texture detail and style and tree implementation.

 

[mid_gen]

Got CH Flightstick Pro and Pro Throttle today, all setup fine. Experimented with removing my bluetooth dongle and switching to a wired keyboard....no more CTDs! I've been flying for a few hours now, uninterrupted.

Currently cruising over McMurdo sound in the Antarctic in a King Air. It's absolutely breathtaking....I'm going to end up spending some serious wedge on a new PC once the VR update drops.

My parents were both PPLs and I flew most weekends when I was younger. This is the first sim I've tried that captures the feeling of being up there.

 

[chrismscotland]

Might be a bit behind in my post. But reading a lot of people suggesting live weather is hit or miss. They have not listed it as a patch fix (along with auto pilot) which is a shame. Some people have suggested starting as admin helps chances of seeing real time weather.

I've not got the game yet but I was reading that the weather data provider has confirmed they're sending it OK but there appears to be an issue where the game isn't taking it at times which seems a bit strange!

 

[Ur round next]

We should all have a OcUK group flight sometime

 

[Shac]

Live weather seems to work OK for me.

 

[Ur round next]

Iv never had a problem with Live weather either

 

[muttclugg]

We should all have a OcUK group flight sometime

I thinking this earlier today. Would be a good idea if we can get a few people together.