2 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

When I say 'hounded' it means he got totally sick of the enmity he left.

I think you'll find him these days active on the Alpha forum.

Hook

1 hour ago, LHookins said:

I think you'll find him these days active on the Alpha forum.

Hook

Jog my memory, what is his name?

22 hours ago, Luke said:

They're not dolls.... they're action figures!

Cheers!

Human simulation. or HS2020

7 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

Jog my memory, what is his name?

Alan?

Sounds right.

Here we go again, just like "study level" on aircraft.

To me MSFS2020 is revolutionary in scenery, 3d modeling of aircraft, weather, etc. Prepar3d is established but lacking in realistic world scenery and is still using old FS2004 methods with work arounds. I'm still using Prepar3d v4.5 but don't see any real improvements to justify a full priced purchase of v5.0. 

 

On 7/4/2020 at 9:29 AM, Rob_Ainscough said:

 

I’ve asked on all 3 platforms (MSFS, P3D, XP) to include an auto benchmark process that a user can run and appropriate graphics setting will be configured for them.  BUT, what happens is User X sees a video from User Y, and wonders why his sim doesn’t look as good, User Y provides the “tweak” and we come full circle.

 

Back when I was a beta tester for MS Flight I begged them to include this very thing, a flight sim benchmark. A pre-loaded short flight plan that would ignore any tweaks and lock all settings to level the playing field for a fair comparison between fellow simmers. This would be a great addition to have in the new sim, FS2020 or P3DV5. And as an added benefit flight simulation would get more exposure from some review sites now running benchmarks.

16 minutes ago, SP2472 said:

still using old FS2004 methods with work arounds

You know this for a fact, v5 is DX12 something that Asobo intend for MSFS in a future update as this is MS way forward.

2 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

You know this for a fact, v5 is DX12 something that Asobo intend for MSFS in a future update as this is MS way forward.

I know but nothing looks different "to me". They should have at least improved the generic textures with high-res quality even the Orbx True-Earth never changed.

Edited July 21, 20205 yr by SP2472

7 hours ago, SP2472 said:

Here we go again, just like "study level" on aircraft.

To me MSFS2020 is revolutionary in scenery, 3d modeling of aircraft, weather, etc. Prepar3d is established but lacking in realistic world scenery and is still using old FS2004 methods with work arounds. I'm still using Prepar3d v4.5 but don't see any real improvements to justify a full priced purchase of v5.0. 

 

Actually ESP, not FS2004 methods. Different generation. ESP is the 'not for entertainment' version of FSX - the P3D of it's day.

13 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

I would test against what they have installed in terms of add-ons since disabling them prior to testing wouldn't achieve the user's objective

Since every system will have different scenery installed I believe it would be beneficial to have the option to perform a vanilla install test also to get a baseline reading.

Either way, a benchmark would be cool to have.

18 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

We also have nVidia's GeForce Experience which has an option to "Scan for Games" and "Optimize all Games" (many nVidia owners don't even know this feature exists).  

 

 

it is interesting to see GeForce Exp. (through all these years) not recognizing any of my sims as a game (P3D, XP and MSFS) and they are not listed as supported games in nVidia website, unless I'm missing something, it is rendered useless for me as I only Sim and that is what we are discussing here.

Best Regards.