December 6, 20169 yr ust a reminder of where we flightsimmers have come. Sadly, I can remember all these variations and this will tell you that I am, in fact, Old As Dirt, but also answers the question as to why old timers here are always awestruck with what we have. I remember that version. I used to love to play the WWI biplane mission. Yeah, it really is amazing to see how far we've come.
December 6, 20169 yr Moderator Just a reminder of where we flightsimmers have come. Sadly, I can remember all these variations and this will tell you that I am, in fact, Old As Dirt, but also answers the question as to why old timers here are always awestruck with what we have. I remember first getting FS2000 and thinking how incredibly realistic it was. I must have had far more imagination back then as even the latest and greatest sim doesn't feel or look very real to me :-)
December 6, 20169 yr I think that was the case with most FS releases. Everytime we would think "it can't get any better than this" :smile: In 20 years, we will look at X-Plane 10/11, and think "oh man, how could we even fly with such crappy graphics?". Let's see when holodecks become affordable.
December 6, 20169 yr hehe, I remember I thought "what a gorgeous graphic" while looking at green vectors in Microprose FS2 or 3 Riccardo Viecca
December 6, 20169 yr At some point, flat screens will become legacy tech and everyone will be flying in virtual reality and wondering how the ancients flew with no real sense of depth perception. In fact, in some ways, its early days now....... all over again. The elephant in the room is that very few of our current sims push the type of framerates that allow immersive VR, and I don't see that changing for quite a while. Probably the closest are DCS, War Thunder, perhaps Outera and most definitely Aerofly FS2 I think VR will be a real stretch for XP11 Hmmmmmmmmm................ Perhaps he should try Aerofly. :smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81Sy1mTzw8 We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
December 6, 20169 yr I have no doubt VR is the future. The problem is how to sustain high fps at high resolution (>=4K) in VR for flight simulations. Guess Intel has to roll out 10GHz CPU to save people like us. 9950X3D / 64GB / RTX5090 / Pimax Crystal Light / Win11
December 6, 20169 yr Beta 2 in a couple of days lotsa fixes Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
December 6, 20169 yr More details here: http://developer.x-plane.com/2016/12/some-bugs-were-working-on-for-public-beta-2/
December 6, 20169 yr I have no doubt VR is the future. The problem is how to sustain high fps at high resolution (>=4K) in VR for flight simulations. Guess Intel has to roll out 10GHz CPU to save people like us. Foveated rendering is the solution.Maybe next generation https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zZS5hqIkc
December 6, 20169 yr Also, don't know how much those VR-enhancing/optimizing features on video cars like GTX 1080 may help. 9950X3D / 64GB / RTX5090 / Pimax Crystal Light / Win11
December 6, 20169 yr More details here: http://developer.x-plane.com/2016/12/some-bugs-were-working-on-for-public-beta-2/ Good to see, thanks for the heads up. Engage, research, inform and make your posts count! -Jim Morvay Origin EON-17SLX - Under the hood: Intel Core i7 7700K at 4.2GHz (Base) 4.6GHz (overclock), nVidia GeForce GTX-1080 Pascal w/8gb vram, 32gb (2x16) Crucial 2400mhz RAM, 3840 x 2160 17.3" IPS w/G-SYNC, Samsung 950 EVO 256GB PCIe m.2 SSD (Primary), Samsung 850 EVO 500gb M.2 (Sim Drive), MS Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit
December 6, 20169 yr Skid sounds may be better in beta 2 – Austin messed with the tire physics. Try beta 2, then discuss with Austin! Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
December 6, 20169 yr Skid sounds may be better in beta 2 – Austin messed with the tire physics. Try beta 2, then discuss with Austin! Might he finally have fixed that mad ground weathervane ? Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
December 6, 20169 yr Ben Supnik says: December 6, 2016 at 4:56 pm Skid sounds may be better in beta 2 – Austin messed with the tire physics. Try beta 2, then discuss with Austin! This should make Jcomm and me happy. :smile: Let's see what comes out of it. "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
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