March 12th, 2020 Development Update

[simtom 496]

4 hours ago, Brandon01110 said:

i7-4770, gtx1070, i'm gonna get the 3080ti when that is available.  no risk there but going broke  🙂

Hello fellow i7-4770 and 1070 user! 😄 Are you running the 'k' version?

[Ray Proudfoot 8,973]

7 minutes ago, Mgard78 said:

And fixing them, of the dev team... who has larger teams..?

You seem to be arguing for the sake of it. I’m not continuing this discussion, it’s pointless and off topic.

[dave belsey 54]

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I’m not continuing this discussion, it’s pointless and off topic.

Seems it meets the required criteria then.

 

Dave.

 

 

[Concodroid 84]

20 hours ago, Brandon01110 said:

I just spent $158 (minutes ago) on old DDR3 just so I can have 32GB and update my dxdiag for the 16th.  Seems silly but......

You should've gotten it used, with everything but storage used electronics doesn't make a difference.

 

[Concodroid 84]

4 hours ago, Brandon01110 said:

i7-4770, gtx1070, i'm gonna get the 3080ti when that is available.  no risk there but going broke  🙂

I just bought a 2700x for around 179, it's far more worth it for you to buy a better CPU and the 3070 than a 3080.

 

Probably go AMD, as you'll be able to upgrade your CPU later due to the Zen family architecture.

[GlideBy 324]

2 hours ago, Mgard78 said:

Whereas the specialists' products had no bugs.... 🙄

I find this hard to believe.  The more complicated something is, the more bugs it has.

And it is hard for a dev to fix all bugs, when even the Intel CPU has bugs.  As of January 2020 the 4th gen Intel cpu had 175 known bugs.  And who knows how many unknown.  And I remember a CPU bug that was in there for ten years, and it caused a calculation error.  https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/4th-gen-core-family-desktop-specification-update.pdf

And then there are Windows bugs.  So there are bugs in place before any sim starts to run.

I used to work for a hardware manufacturer.  We did extensive testing, and found a slew of bugs.  We prioritize and fix the biggest and the ones most likely to be seen.  But there were ALWAYS bugs left in.  And we got top reviews for quality.

 

 

[n4gix 4,947]

20 hours ago, eaim said:

Anyone know what this actually means from the update?

"We also made lots of progress on WebAssembly support, which is the technology that will allow the porting of native code to our platform."

Is it referring to a tool to aid in porting addons over the MSFS?

WebAssembly allows developers to refactor their C/C++ code into a package that will run in software that does not provide native support.

 

3 hours ago, Kpeters said:

Has anyone actually absorbed the amount of detail that's in this shot? Not only the aircraft but the small terminal at Sirena, Costa Rica. It's just a grass strip with a range station in the middle of nowhere! You can read the posters, all signs, there's luggae. It's crazy. Absolutely love it I'm aching to fly the alpha.

Zoom in close and notice that the landing/taxi lights are simulating LED and not sealed beam lights.

[Concodroid 84]

1 minute ago, GlideBy said:

I find this hard to believe.  The more complicated something is, the more bugs it has.

^This.

You can bug out anything. I, for one, have bugged out everything from Raspberry Pi's to Xboxes.

 

nothing is safe from me HAHAHAA

 

And potentially you, too, if you mess around enough.

[Concodroid 84]

2 minutes ago, n4gix said:

Zoom in close and notice that the landing/taxi lights are simulating LED and not sealed beam lights.

Apparently there are LED light kits for Cessnas.

Not sure why they went with them in the sim, though, seems like more work...

[Krakin 5,775]

I love the subtle reflections on the underside of the Cessna in the grass pic. There's a nice green hue on the parts of the place facing the ground.

[Concodroid 84]

4 minutes ago, Krakin said:

I love the subtle reflections on the underside of the Cessna in the grass pic. There's a nice green hue on the parts of the place facing the ground.

The only thing that ruins the picture is that spinner.

There'll be a mod for that, though.

[rick celik 1,243]

I’m pretty confident that low sun picture confirmed my request before for the heat blur in the distance on hot days! What a great set of shots 

[GlideBy 324]

In this pic, the water in the lakes looks weird.  It looks like they use the same water effects for all water, no matter how big or small the body is.

[Amon1973 1,421]

2 minutes ago, GlideBy said:

In this pic, the water in the lakes looks weird.  It looks like they use the same water effects for all water, no matter how big or small the body is.

I noticed this, I just put it down to alpha testing issues.

[Amon1973 1,421]

52 minutes ago, Concodroid said:

I just bought a 2700x for around 179, it's far more worth it for you to buy a better CPU and the 3070 than a 3080.

 

Probably go AMD, as you'll be able to upgrade your CPU later due to the Zen family architecture.

That's my plan if Zen 3 is significantly better than my new 3800x, I'll just move my existing CPU into my spare B350 motherboard, and put the Zen 3 Cpu into my X570 M/B, I might also move my present RAM onto the B350 M/B, and buy some faster RAM in my X570, it will be like have 2 new computers for not too much money.