It cracks me up to peruse the MSFlight site and read all the updates regarding the Alpha, or those in the community who stepped up, or what's planned in future, all the time knowing that there is a ton of folks like me who since day one have wanted to get in on the alpha but never did.

Hey Asobo, knock off the Alpha this & that and realize that there are still "regular" customers who read your site and don't have the slightest clue about the Alpha...

Edited July 8, 20205 yr by dfanucci

5 minutes ago, dfanucci said:

MSFlight

This isn't MSFlight, that's a complete different product.

5 hours ago, fppilot said:

That has been a consistent issue for many.  I struggled for months and then suddenly the issue went away for me.  Have absolutely no idea why.  It just happened.

Still having trouble with the login here too. It looks like one issue is using two factor authentication on your Microsoft account, which I do. Getting a little ridiculous at this point.

https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011641580--KNOWN-ISSUE-Error-message-autherror-xbla-invalid-The-Insider-Login-page-is-stuck-on-a-loop-or-redirecting-to-the-wrong-page-

30 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

This isn't MSFlight, that's a complete different product.

Well whatever the hell it's called. *Microsoft Flight Simulator* is what I'm talking about, and not Flight.

 

7 hours ago, fppilot said:

What I find confusing is this.  Still at FSX.  When in the virtual cockpit, I will use the Carenado Diamond DA62 as the example, The keys/buttons on the glass panel are difficult to read.  But when I spring the popups, even if scaled to the same size, they are crystal clear and easy to read. I have not yet moved to a 1440 or 2160 monitor.  If I did so would the VC come more alive? 

Wondering at 1080 how the panels look in the VC's in MSFS 2020.

I'm not familiar with this add-on, or any of the newer aircraft add-ons for that matter, but someone told me a while ago that several add-ons do not implement mipmapping, which can make higher resolution textures look pixelated at lower resolutions or wider zoom levels. Prepar3D does have an option to mitigate this on virtual cockpits. If you post a picture of what you're experiencing I can tell you for sure, but if this is the case then yes, a higher resolution should make those virtual cockpits look more clear. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, then I suggest trying out DSR or SSAA via the NVIDIA Inspector and see if that improves their appearance.

6 hours ago, dfanucci said:

Well whatever the hell it's called. *Microsoft Flight Simulator* is what I'm talking about, and not Flight.

 

lol

2 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

If you post a picture of what you're experiencing I can tell you for sure

OK. This is pretty vivid indication of the difference between VC and 2D popup.  Again, this if FSX, but the difference in readability is significant. There is some difference in size between the two, but that in no way accounts for difference in clarity. Do not experience this in all aircraft models. The difference?  Would a higher res monitor cure?  Or is this a settings issue. Have excellent 1920 x 1080 monitor and my GPU is more than capable.

Not intending to hijack this MSFS thread.  Perhaps we should go to Avsim messaging.

Edited July 9, 20205 yr by fppilot

Site works fine but no more chance of being a alpha or beta tester!

I have matched the size of the screen buttons between the 2D Interface and the 3D cockpit (see the red spot on both Interfaces). The buttons of the same sized 2D Interface aren`t readable any more. They are a little more clearer, but that is because the 2D Interface has Anti-Aliased text font. The plain cockpit font uses no Anti-Aliasing and there is a distortion happening because it is viewed in 3D space.

 

 4K would make it better.

 

 

Edited July 9, 20205 yr by BigDee

8 hours ago, fppilot said:

OK. This is pretty vivid indication of the difference between VC and 2D popup.  Again, this if FSX, but the difference in readability is significant. There is some difference in size between the two, but that in no way accounts for difference in clarity. Do not experience this in all aircraft models. The difference?  Would a higher res monitor cure?  Or is this a settings issue. Have excellent 1920 x 1080 monitor and my GPU is more than capable.

 

1 hour ago, BigDee said:

I have matched the size of the screen buttons between the 2D Interface and the 3D cockpit (see the red spot on both Interfaces). The buttons of the same sized 2D Interface aren`t readable any more. They are a little more clearer, but that is because the 2D Interface has Anti-Aliased text font. The plain cockpit font uses no Anti-Aliasing and there is a distortion happening because it is viewed in 3D space.

Yes, that's it. Clearly this virtual cockpit is not utilising mipmapping, and the pixels are not enough to render the full textures smoothly. Increasing the resolution is more of a brute-force approach in this case, but it should fix the problem. However I predict that the new simulator will have stricter rules on this, at least for approved add-ons via the marketplace, so if you're looking to move to that one it might not be necessary to upgrade your monitor yet. Flight Simulator X is very light on the GPU, so for now you can try applying some SSAA or DSR.

On 7/8/2020 at 11:32 AM, ChaoticBeauty said:

Interesting. The log-in issue is the first thing I tested and I'm still getting it, on Google Chrome though. At least the slowdown issues should be fixed now.

It worked a couple of times. Back to the initial issue, cannot log in today. I sincerely hope that it is not the same team which manages the authentification for the streaming... Or we go towards a major catastrophy at release.

Is it just me?  When I look at the top left corner of the site, where it's supposed to be the MSF logo, it literally says Microsoft Flight Simulator logo.

 

Someone made an oops.

On 7/8/2020 at 10:32 AM, ChaoticBeauty said:

Interesting. The log-in issue is the first thing I tested and I'm still getting it, on Google Chrome though. At least the slowdown issues should be fixed now.

@ChaoticBeauty and @Rimshot go to https://live.xbox.com sign out. Then back to https://www.flightsimulator.com/ and log back in, should be sorted. 🙂

Edited July 9, 20205 yr by dtrjones

5 minutes ago, dtrjones said:

@ChaoticBeauty go to https://live.xbox.com sign out. Then back to https://www.flightsimulator.com/ and log back in, short be sorted mate. 🙂

Thanks, I already knew about this workaround but this will be useful to anyone having trouble with the log-in. I should have included it in the main post.

Just built a bangin new PC with an i9900k and 64 GB RAM and now it doesn't look like there's any way on the site to update my Dxdiag profile, so that the Alpha/Beta invite team can see that I no longer have a potato?  guess I'll see y'all on launch day,  sigh.  😞