...who are satisfied w/ the incredible wonderment of MSFS in its default form.  This is a PSA for perhaps folks newer to MSFS and especially those coming over from the other sims, lest they fall into the trap of believing everything must be modded, changed, added, adjusted, etc in order to achieve any level of satisfactory experience.  I bought MSFS thru the store, accepted all defaults for install location, and have had a grand total of 2 CTD's now in over 300h.  I marvel at the threads like,  'OMG!  Look at all the new planes coming!....' Whoopee new mesh!...' Wow, another new airport from Orbx' (which will almost certainly kill ILS freq fields in the G3000 MFD, BTW) all the way to reports about how to restore function when MSFS crashes and how to restore it when you installed it on another drive, and this and that about the what to do with the community folder chuck full of mods, etc etc ad nauseum. Blessed are those who can enjoy the heck out of this most magnificent work in progress, already miles ahead of the best experiences I've ever had in the venerable cockpit simulator, P3D.  And that is with the default Citation Longitude.  I may yet remove P3D forever, but I will keep it for now in case MSFS stumbles bigtime for days which could still happen theoretically.   It's also good to just open and run it to see just how fake that world is now by comparison.  Quite frankly, I've been duly spoiled now such that I will only run P3D again from dusk thru dawn when night lighting rules, and settings can be drastically reduced so you can land the NGXu and retain totally smooth performance.  Even GSX II now looks rather hokey now, but great for its day.  FSDT's GSX for MSFS will be one I will be very happy to see if it's done well, and I am confident it will be.

Having finally discovered the pathway to eliminate the micro-stutter inducing spinning logging indicator while at the same time restored logging of flights in the logbook, and I continue to be super impressed w/ just how well the default Citation Longitude and its OEM avionics operate.  Even ATC is far better today, vastly better, than it was even a month or so ago.  I flew from Quito Equador over the Andes into Lima Peru today and once again, all descent calls made perfect sense in this uber mountainous region.   Not long ago it was yo-yo time, but rarely any more it appears.  I do wish there were other voice options for Azure speech as I don't like the way he talks--the inflections just sound 'affected' as it were, unrealistic, but I think it may perform more efficiently than offline text-to-speech option where you become a female pilot.  And I really like the more active online traffic!  About 44nm out we changed destination airports to SBJC from a nearby airport that did not have ILS, and activated the called for arrival procedure and as always, completely perfect approach and landing.  I'm very grateful for AI control, which I use for now until they implement a better & toggleable taxi ribbon for arrivals--very handy to have AI take you most of the way there, then you can disable AI and complete the taxi into the gate, and shutdown procedures yourself.  There are many aspects of MSFS that are never mentioned but add very practical value and that is one of them.

In a few random spots over the Andes performance stumbled as it can do in random areas, often seemingly disconnected to GPU/CPU headroom, and I never looked to see but I tend to guess this one had to do w/ server performance or internet bandwidth at that moment in time as there is no plausible other explanation for an area w/ not all that much beyond terrain is being processed, and as usual ample GPU/CPU headroom is displayed via RTSS.

Here's a shot over Mexico City, having done Cancun to MMMX yesterday evening.  Astoundingly liquid smooth performance here w/ just massive scenery complexity below.  Quite frankly, I don't know how this can be done!  I still had plenty of CPU/GPU headroom:

 

 

Amen and thanks.

bs

When its working - MSFS is thing to behold - I still find myself with WOW moments even after the 9 or months of having it....I thought for sure I would split some time between FSX but I haven't ever gone back once.   When there are issue I just slow it down a bit playing until Asobo fixes it.   I think the beta group they have setup is helping...but the annoying things that do happen (like the weird weather issue last week) so far do get fixed.   Now that I have a Gsync monitor the performance on my modest rig is still very very good 95% of the time.....

Enjoy the ride, euh.... flight ✈️

PSA ? (Prostate-specific antigen)?

 

Pilot Sat in Armchair...🤣

1 hour ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

PSA ? (Prostate-specific antigen)?

 

That's right Will if you consume a lot of cheese you should def be screened for prostate cancer.

I agree.  Even just 2 years ago, when flying FSX, P3D, and Xplane, I never expected a simulator to come along with such a leap in graphical performance.

If they could just tackle those random areas and situations of performance loss, it would be truly superb, as we know all of the other improvements are on their way. 

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5 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

If they could just tackle those random areas and situations of performance loss, it would be truly superb, as we know all of the other improvements are on their way. 

Truly, the random areas and situations of performance loss seem like something that absolutely will be fixed, else the rest of the sim would not perform as well as it does. IOW, they are the relative exception not the rule, thankfully!

 

My PC is in the shop for a GPU change, so I am forced to use P3D which I have flown for many years. I realize now, when flying P3D, looking out the windscreen after about 5 minutes, it is so boring, that I have totally lost interest in it. Instead while flying,  I surf the web, post comments on forums, etc. With MSFS I am always looking at the scenery going by, because it is always changing and realistic looking. once exposed to MSFS, there is no going back. 

Yea, now thats how you reboot a franchise. MSFS shattered the whole market/hobby, made it bigger than its ever been, made headlines around the world. That doesnt mean we cant complain about stuff, but come on, we have been blessed with this.

43 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

My PC is in the shop for a GPU change

That's about the worst thing you could possibly need right now, for your pc. What are you going to put in there now and how much is it going to cost you to buy it? The only thing I can see online was the 10 series for around $1200? 

 

A converted soul.

21 hours ago, Noel said:

this most magnificent work in progress, already miles ahead of the best experiences I've ever had in the venerable cockpit simulator, P3D.

Absolutely. This is an amazing simulator, and is surely just going to keep on getting better. Sure, there'll be more hiccups along the way and it is certainly true in my own experiences that some bad things have happened in the various updates, but just look out that window! I'm a confirmed add-on junkie, already got hundreds of folders of scenery in place, but even so I still find marvels in odd little out of the way places in the default sim. Go to the world map, pick a place with an interesting name, or just somewhere you've never been, load up any of the deault aircraft and you're in a scenario that you almost certainly couldn't have created in P3D no matter what extras you added in.

And no, this is not a "my sim good/your sim bad" point of view. I was equally obsessive with P3D right up to 5.1. At least 600 scenery layers and probably that many aircraft. But the only thing I'll ever use it for in future is if I get excessively nostalgic for some of those planes.

1 hour ago, hangar said:

That's about the worst thing you could possibly need right now, for your pc. What are you going to put in there now and how much is it going to cost you to buy it? The only thing I can see online was the 10 series for around $1200? 

 

They agreed to swap it for the original card I had. which has caused problems from the day one. BTW, I know someone that has a co worker that just  bought a 3090 and paid $3200 for it.  

Edited May 30, 20215 yr by Bobsk8