#4534048 - 08/18/20 10:40 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Have you guys seen black walls under bridges? Every bridge I see has a black wall underneath it.
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#4534067 - 08/19/20 08:05 AM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Have you guys seen black walls under bridges? Every bridge I see has a black wall underneath it. Read a review which said there are a lot of 'visual artefacts' with landscape features (buildings, rivers, bridges) that have not been hand modelled but rather just taken from Bing. IE rivers that start or end nowhere, cars driving above roads, window textures on buildings not lining up... didn't stop the reviewer from giving it 10/10.
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#4534070 - 08/19/20 09:52 AM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Thanks. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't my PC. Last night, I pulled off a water landing in the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This sim is a hoot!
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#4534096 - 08/19/20 03:05 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Steam Version: Got it basic-installed (92GB) -- required one restart then went straight through. Does not recognize my favorite stick (VKBG). My basic/cheap Thrustmaster recognized but elevator control needs major calibration -- giving a serious control problem. Must sort out controls before serious flight -- flying on "medium reality" for now. Actually surprised the VKBG is not recognized -- virtually every stick sold should have been "programmed in", I think. I did fly around my "neighborhood" for a few minutes. I live 2 miles from the center of a major airport -- fortunately not on any flight paths -- rarely hear aircraft noise. Too many trees around the airport that are too thick to see through on the ground -- not realistic. From overhead my house and good size lot are covered by trees -- not realistic. The large bridge next to the airport across a major riverbed is literally broken -- someone must have crashed into it (kidding) Maybe my first mod will be to rebuild my airport and the street I live on -- after I get my favorite controller working which might take just as long (kidding about the controller -- I hope)
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#4534097 - 08/19/20 03:18 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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I have to be honest,I was both impressed and unimpressed with the graphics. I have to run on med details with full streaming. At height it all looks pretty good but if you start hedge-hopping you start to see the cracks. Maybe at higher detail levels there is an improvement. I did switch momentarily to 'high' settings but it was a stutter-fest.
I've yet to fly over a hand-crafted area so maybe that is better. I decided the first place I would fly to was my mum's house (hi mum!). I did it in the Cub so I was reduced to using the VFR map (I assume there is no other way in the Cub) and had to use a real world map to navigate to my city via the river and road network. I did find my mum's street but it was just generic scenery,very disappointing but I guess it was to be expected.
I'm not sure if I will extend my X-Box Game Pass past the month,I think I'll know if I want to buy it by then.
*edit* Anyone know how to show frame rate? (non-Steam version) thanks.
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#4534146 - 08/19/20 08:42 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Thanks Trooper,that did the trick. I think I need a new video card Actually the game pretty much has my CPU sat at 90-100% and the same for the GPU. Father Christmas better have a fully loaded sack this year!
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#4534148 - 08/19/20 09:06 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Hi Chucky,
I can recommend MSi Afterburner for checkin what your system is doing. You can configure all kinds of parameters to be shown on the OSD.
Greets
Karsten
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#4534223 - 08/20/20 02:50 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Thanks Trooper,that did the trick. I think I need a new video card Actually the game pretty much has my CPU sat at 90-100% and the same for the GPU. Father Xmas better have a fully loaded sack this year! Me too... I can see an RTX 2080 Super heading my way at some point!
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#4534629 - 08/24/20 06:56 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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#4534851 - 08/26/20 11:39 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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#4534942 - 08/27/20 04:19 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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"Some of you don't know why some of us love a civilian flight simulator ..." There are, obviuosly, a lot of us who do. Only days into the release, Microsoft had 2.6 Billion dollars in sales.
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#4534951 - 08/27/20 04:43 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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"Some of you don't know why some of us love a civilian flight simulator ..." There are, obviuosly, a lot of us who do. Only days into the release, Microsoft had 2.6 Billion dollars in sales.
Over the next three years yes, but their launch sales must still have been solid ... when I went online to my favorite PC kit store a week before the release, all their controller stocks were sold out. Coincidence? Peripherals makers must also be enjoying bonanza sales! I still haven't got airborne. It took me three days to download (don't believe the line 'if you interrupt your download it will resume where you left off...') and by then my gaming window had closed and it was work work work again. Hope to get into the cockpit this weekend!!
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#4534983 - 08/27/20 07:59 PM
Re: New Microsoft Flight Simulator announced !
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Over the next three years yes, but their launch sales must still have been solid ... when I went online to my favorite PC kit store a week before the release, all their controller stocks were sold out. Coincidence?
Peripherals makers must also be enjoying bonanza sales!
Same here, the biggest home electronic chain here was sold out on all joysticks.
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