4 hours ago, OzWhitey said:

I posted a few weeks back in the P3D forum about running P3D v5 (not 4.5) with PMDG, TrueEarth and every single possible slider and option pushed to the far right. It flies OK, though the frames were nothing special. You can do it if you want, though!

Try enabling Hyperthreading in your BIOS.

4 hours ago, OzWhitey said:

Cost to fly MSFS:

• $120 for premium deluxe
• $40 for ActiveSkyMSFS when it comes out.
• $40 For PTA MSFS, because all the cool kids will have it.
• $2000 for two NVidia 3080Ti cards to run the sim at a similar frame rate to P3D.

=$2,200 - wow, that's expensive!

etc. 🙂

News flash, P3D might be gone in another year.  Lockheed might switch and use MSFS for all their needs.  There was a reason Lockheed purchased the FSX code in the first place which is now bloated legacy. Better get on board or get left.

On 8/23/2020 at 9:07 PM, snglecoil said:

Despite the MANY rough edges, I’ve gotta say that this is the most fun I’ve had with a flight sim since probably Flight Unlimited 2.

Amazing - someone that remembers Flight Unlimited 2. The only sim where you could actually do a Lomcevac! 

5 minutes ago, Dillon said:

There was a reason Lockheed purchased the FSX code in the first place which is now bloated legacy.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but MSFS is also full of "bloated legacy FSX code". Wait until you encounter the popping autogen bug. It's still there from FSX. I do agree that MSFS is the future, but it still has way too many bugs at present to be useful for anything more than sightseeing. It does excel at that, though and neither XP11 or P3d5 is even close.

16 minutes ago, mazex said:

Amazing - someone that remembers Flight Unlimited 2

Oh I remember the original Flight Unlimited. I had no idea who the creator, Seamus Blackley, was at the time but, looking back on it now, his fluid dynamics engine was pretty incredible! It's a shame he didn't continue with the rest of the series, but then again, without him and his little Xbox project, who knows? ...We might not have the MSFS we have today.

I still love it but it does have some crazy as hell bugs right now. I was just flying merrily along in the Cessna 152, smooth as silk and decided to barely ease back on the throttle and go down and take and look at something and all of a sudden the plane sounds like it's falling apart and starts falling out of the sky and I have no control. Had to pop on the AI auto pilot to get it back in shape, turned it off again and then she's flying smooth as silk again, all trimmed out like I had her before. That's happened more than once too.  AI autopilot also likes to try to turn you around and take you back in the direction you came sometimes too. Really quirky but it seems like most games are released that way now. They push them out the door hard and then it takes several patches to find a "sweet spot".

Edited August 25, 20205 yr by Sky_Dancer

19 hours ago, ShawnG said:

Glass half empty pleased to meet you, I’m glass half full.

It's more like, "my current sim is significantly better than the new sim." At $120 the new sim would be a bargain if I did not have to buy a modern computer, have a super fast internet connection, and if the new sim was complete. TNCM airport was LOL bad! It's nowhere close to being a complete. I expected better for a so called "new generation sim." It has little to do with my attitude!

I created this thread for AVSIM members like you who just don't get it:

 

Edited August 25, 20205 yr by DJJose

On 8/25/2020 at 3:19 AM, Dillon said:

Try enabling Hyperthreading in your BIOS.

Wut? How is that relevant to anything I posted??

I don’t have a problem that i’m trying to fix, so why the tech advice?

23 minutes ago, OzWhitey said:

Wut? How is that relevant to anything I posted??

I don’t have a problem that i’m trying to fix, so why the tech advice?

Sorry meant this for someone else.  Now I'm too lazy/busy to go back and look through everything.