March 12th, 2020 Development Update

[tweekz 2,165]

16 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.

"We cut the waves cause they were too high" incoming!

[eslader 1,784]

2 hours ago, Concodroid said:

Apparently there are LED light kits for Cessnas.

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

I personally will not use a "simulator" that doesn't include the upgraded lights. I mean honestly! Might as well play River Raid on Atari 2600.

 

😉

 

[ryanbatc 12,859]

Haha.  

[Mgard78 141]

8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

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

Kinda like your “bean counter” argument... 🤷‍♂️

[Mgard78 141]

8 hours ago, GlideBy said:

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.

 

 

I’d like to introduce you to my firend sarcasm...

[siggy 154]

10 hours ago, vortex681 said:

If you keep your existing CPU, that’s going to be a seriously unbalanced system! You’ll be spending a lot of money on a GPU which will be significantly under-utilised.

According to some people on simflight.de, who uttered things they probably should not have, the GPU utilisation is almost always 100% and the CPU's utilisation more around the 40% to 50% mark. They did not mention their machine specs. I think I have seen similar statements elsewhere, but don't remember where it was.

[Brandon01110 407]

On 3/13/2020 at 2:15 PM, simtom said:

Are you running the 'k' version?

Yes sir, o.c. to 4.5ghz

[Brandon01110 407]

On 3/13/2020 at 2:52 PM, Concodroid said:

it's far more worth it for you to buy a better CPU and the 3070 than a 3080.

My plan at the moment is to wait til MSFS is released and see if it runs better on an intel @ 5ghz or with AMD 4.2ghz with double the cores.  Gonna buy the best option at that time also with 64GB DDR4 3600mhz RAM.  The 3080ti will be released mid year more than likely and I hope to purchase that when I can.  So, yes my current CPU will be the bottleneck til I upgrade that.

[simtom 496]

1 hour ago, Brandon01110 said:

Yes sir, o.c. to 4.5ghz

Same here!

[Kpeters 42]

On 3/13/2020 at 12:54 PM, n4gix said:

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

 

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

I noticed that as well! Great job from Asobo.

[Brandon01110 407]

2 hours ago, simtom said:

Same here!

Hopefully we will have more in common soon on the next wave of invites as I dont have access yet.

[Concodroid 84]

On 3/13/2020 at 4:14 PM, eslader said:

I personally will not use a "simulator" that doesn't include the upgraded lights. I mean honestly! Might as well play River Raid on Atari 2600.

Yeah. Without the upgraded lights, what's the difference between this and Airplane Fun 2018 Simulator Kid's Game Transforming Rocket Car 3D?

I see no difference.  Both have planes. Both are games. Both are 3-D.  Both currently have zero dollars in revenue, and an incredibly small market share and user base.

 

[vortex681 806]

On 3/13/2020 at 9:14 PM, eslader said:

I personally will not use a "simulator" that doesn't include the upgraded lights. I mean honestly! Might as well play River Raid on Atari 2600.

 

21 hours ago, Concodroid said:

Yeah. Without the upgraded lights, what's the difference between this and Airplane Fun 2018 Simulator Kid's Game Transforming Rocket Car 3D?

I see no difference.  Both have planes. Both are games. Both are 3-D.  Both currently have zero dollars in revenue, and an incredibly small market share and user base.

I can only assume you’re both trolling here! If not, to reject a sim which offers so much in so many areas just because you don’t like the lights seems foolish. Worst still, to compare it to very old/children’s games is, frankly, even more ridiculous.

[Shack95 2,658]

8 minutes ago, vortex681 said:

I can only assume you’re both trolling here!

Have you considered sarcasm?

[vortex681 806]

2 minutes ago, Shack95 said:

Have you considered sarcasm?

I had, but decided that it would require too much effort on my part 😊

Edited March 17, 2020 by vortex681