February 10, 20215 yr I was looking back at some old screen grabs and was surprised to remember how good AFS2 looks. I'm pretty much spending all my time in MSFS these days but I think I might go back and take a few flights in AFS2 again over the next week or so. All these pics pre-date MSFS, some by a good couple of years. Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
February 10, 20215 yr Don't forget to check out the new (free) Hawaii Islands scenery. Edited February 10, 20215 yr by HiFlyer We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 10, 20215 yr Author 7 minutes ago, HiFlyer said: Don't forget to check out the new (free) Hawaii Islands scenery. Thanks - I didn't know about this so I'll go check it out. Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
February 10, 20215 yr 5 minutes ago, andy1252 said: Thanks - I didn't know about this so I'll go check it out. https://youtu.be/OqvJjlPDYcM We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 10, 20215 yr Everyone tastes are so different...!. Cheers, Ed Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
February 10, 20215 yr The fact that VR works so well with it Is money!! Rick D http://g5flyer.tumblr.com/
February 13, 20215 yr Good to see, this collection of AFS2 aircraft/images, here, after a long break,...🙂...! Great-looking shots...!!
February 13, 20215 yr I don't have AFS2, but these look very convincing, Andy. Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
February 14, 20215 yr Author On 2/10/2021 at 11:08 PM, edpatino said: Everyone tastes are so different...!. Cheers, Ed Part of what makes it fun, Ed! On 2/10/2021 at 11:23 PM, G550flyer said: The fact that VR works so well with it Is money!! So I've heard. Not tried that myself, for some reason it doesn't appeal to me - not sure why, I used to always be up for a new tech On 2/13/2021 at 1:13 AM, P_7878 said: Good to see, this collection of AFS2 aircraft/images, here, after a long break,...🙂...! Great-looking shots...!! Cheers P_7878! On 2/13/2021 at 10:13 AM, bernd1151 said: I don't have AFS2, but these look very convincing, Andy. Pre MSFS I would have said it was the best looking sim out there, maybe. If MS ever pulls the servers on MSFS at least I've got that and XP/True Earth to fall back on! Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
February 16, 20215 yr On 2/14/2021 at 9:22 AM, andy1252 said: So I've heard. Not tried that myself, for some reason it doesn't appeal to me - not sure why, I used to always be up for a new tech VR can be pricey and takes a good computer to run it, but you can't beat the immersion. When I first started, I would laugh a lot because it felt like I was in the jet. The visual cues were all there. I would find myself subconsciously doing things that I do when flying. Now, there are a couple of drawbacks. One, most sims are not effectively tuned to VR yet, but are getting there. AFS2 is as smooth as butter in VR. Two, in sims where there is a lot of action, such as DCS, you may feel some sickness on your first couple of flights. For example, when flying the F14 in DCS, I like to go into the vertical on the head to head pass sometimes depending on the aircraft I am fighting. It allows me to take advantage of the power to weight ratio and coil up like a snake before striking. As I pass, I look over my shoulder and keep my eyes on them as I pull up. As I go inverted, I am keeping the back of my aircraft to the target while gravity assists the tight turn. This will make you disoriented and feel sickly the first couple of times. The other is when you are doing scissors to force someone to blow past you. You are constantly doing hard pulls left and right while constantly swapping left and right over your shoulders to keep them in sight. Heck, doing that in the real aircraft will make you feel that way, especially when you are not the one doing the flying. After a few flights, you are good. Normal airliner flying never makes you feel sick unless you have low frame rates. Other than that, the visual cues and graphics are much better than what you see at recurrents in level D sims. You can't beat it when landing and can actually crane your head around when in the pattern. Rick Rick D http://g5flyer.tumblr.com/
February 16, 20215 yr kinda shocked how good these look, well done. If you would have told me some of these were MSFS I'd believe it. Ryzen 5 5600X - Noctua U12A, 32Gb Vengence, Sapphire Pulse 5700xt, WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD
February 16, 20215 yr 32 minutes ago, FPStewy said: kinda shocked how good these look, well done. If you would have told me some of these were MSFS I'd believe it. The sim always had massive potential. Its just never had massive support. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 16, 20215 yr those graphics look fantastic. The shot with the bridge is my favorite. 10700kf, 3080 nividia, 32gbs 3400mhz, 1,000 watts power, M.2 DVMe !tb, boot, 1tb 7200rpm, storage, windows 10 home
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