37 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

This is the main issue for me too. MFS works quite well at high settings on my older rig with the aircraft I have. Will the DC6 do the same is an open question as it is obviously more complex than anything on the market right now. 

Isn’t the CRJ the most complex paid aircraft on the market right now?  Not sure why you would think the DC-6 is more complex than the CRJ.

And the FPS for the CRJ is quite acceptable (that’s not to say PMDG will match Aerosoft’s efficiency but my guess is PMDG probably will).

Edited June 16, 20214 yr by abrams_tank

I think he quoted an fps of around forty if i remember correctly. But as has been stated, we don't know the specs of his PC. But i would think the CRj would likely have been higher down to the glass cockpit, i guess time will tell.

17 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

 I’ve watched the PMDG tutorials and may disagree with this specific point. The Double Wasp simulation seems quite refined compared to the one in the Milviz Corsair for instance which uses the same engine.

Usually, coding used for those specific systems are not too fps intensive. It's usually the glass cockpits that display many information that lessens fps.

The P3D version has close, if not the same, level of engine simulation as the MSFS version, and that gets amazing performance, close to the Majestic Dash-8 for me.

20 minutes ago, Car147 said:

I think he quoted an fps of around forty if i remember correctly. But as has been stated, we don't know the specs of his PC. But i would think the CRj would likely have been higher down to the glass cockpit, i guess time will tell.

His PC specs are right below the video stream on Twitch:

CPU: Intel I9 11900KF

GPU: 3070

RAM: 32GB@3200

SSD

 

Edited June 16, 20214 yr by Ohmsquare

1 minute ago, Ohmsquare said:

His PC specs are right below the video stream on Twitch:

CPU: Intel I9 11900KF

GPU: 3070

RAM: 32GB@3200

SSD

 

40 fps only with this rig ? Uh oh ...

4 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

One for Props

Four for Throttles

One left over for...

Make sure you delete your Mixture axis for the Six.

C

Actually, Carl, wasn't it like:

Well, it's One for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready now go, cat, go
But don't you step into my DC-6
Well you can do anything but
Lay off of my DC-6 

Soon we're all about to Shake, Rattle & Roll ! Yiiiiiiiihaaaaa!!!  

Edited June 16, 20214 yr by Javiz

3 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

Chock,

It is not actually a "yawn"

This guy appears to have a ton of energy but I left it about three minutes into his heys, whats, oohs, acknowledgements and hellos.  Frankly, I think these people should  actually address the title of their video, or have a "jam" session with their mates and followers .... You do not do both at the same time in my opinion.  This is a rapidly expanding form of video and it is seriously annoying to me.  I have got to the stage where, as soon as these shenanigans start, I am off to make a cuppa or just turn it off.

I really enjoy what you do because you actually talk about the aircraft you are reviewing etc and have the occasional banter along the way which makes it entertaining as well as informative.

I get the fact that a majority of these guys are actually making a living but it sure ain't my preferred form of suffering.

Tony

 

 

Fully agree. I didn't make it that far in. 

I can't be doing with the 'What are we doing?, Ooh, are we live?.....Why are we looking at empty runways.?

Just get on with it and be concise.

3 hours ago, espent said:

How the hell are you suppose to review a PMDG product the same day as you received it? The whole community is dying to see this product and he agreed to show it of for a short flight.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that anyone does try that. But someone more familiar with the product could do that, which in fact PMDG pretty much already have done in their own series of videos on their channel. So this person could wait until they were more familiar with it before doing their take on it and adding something of their own based on their knowledge. But winging it with a live stream is just generally not a great way to make engaging or informed content from what I typically see of that kind of thing.

I know streaming popular with 'da kidz', but it's usually pretty dire as a format and is invariably more about channel hits and revenue than it is about using the best format to convey decent information in a genuinely entertaining way which isn't full of padding. It's like the internet's version of the QVC shopping channel, where some tragic TV presenter, with their shattered dreams of fame written all over their face, has to talk for literally hours about some bedsheets which are on special offer discount, if you CALL NOW!

Thank god for the previews. Looks great. Wont spend time commenting the format. Nobody really wants to read several pages about the format anyway.

I do have a question: Did he give out any important information about the plane, feature or release date that we didn't already know? 

EDIT: Noticed in the stream that the gps unit that is present in p3d, fsx and xp is not showing in msfs. Instead, it is replaced with a radio unit. Is there no gps unit anymore? That would be surprising because official forum posts at pmdg indicate that they used the default gps unit from msfs. 

Edited June 16, 20214 yr by Andreas Stangenes

Im pretty sure Fabio can do whatever the hell he wants. And so do you. Let him do his thing, and keep away from his stream if you find it so unsufferable 😄 

Nearly as many posts about Fabio than posts about the plane everyone is waiting for. 

11 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

I do have a question: Did he give out any important information about the plane, feature or release date that we didn't already know? 

He said it will be released this week!

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EDIT: Noticed in the stream that the gps unit that is present in p3d, fsx and xp is not showing in msfs. Instead, it is replaced with a radio unit. Is there no gps unit anymore? That would be surprising because official forum posts at pmdg indicate that they used the default gps unit from msfs. 

You can select the bandix radio or the GNS430 from the tablet

Edited June 16, 20214 yr by P_R_S

What about the price? 

1 minute ago, Claudius_ said:

What about the price? 

Not confirmed yet but will probably be $70 like the DC-6 for other platforms. 

27 minutes ago, P_R_S said:

He said it will be released this week!

You can select the bandix radio or the GNS430 from the tablet

Do you have the timestamp for when he said it will be released this week?

Does anybody know the backstory of why PMDG gave up on X-Plane?  In the MSFS forums, somebody posted this:

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Judging from their public posts, they determined over time that X-Plane didn’t give them a return on investment enough to justify the development costs (and the continual updating that X-Plane requires). They made a business decision to step away from it.

As I’ve posted before - while I’m an admirer of PMDG, I don’t think their X-Plane adventure was their finest hour. The DC-6 arrived late in the X-Plane 10 development cycle and an X-Plane 11 update was a reasonable expectation - major add-ons typically cover two X-Plane versions before retirement. They really should have put the work in even if their longer-term plan was to back away.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/the-pmdg-dc-6-for-msfs-is-in-flight-test-heres-a-peek/409199/133

Another person posted this:

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I think the XP market was too small to be profitable for them.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/the-pmdg-dc-6-for-msfs-is-in-flight-test-heres-a-peek/409199/132

Now I am super curious as to why PMDG dropped X-Plane.  I don't want to start an MSFS vs X-Plane debate.  I just want the facts on why PMDG gave up on X-Plane. I can only assume it's related to their sales on X-Plane.

Edit: Okay, I saw this article which appears to be dated 2018, where Randazzo of PMDG says there may be future development on X-Plane. But on the PMDG website, people are reporting that they just removed the X-Plane section. What?  That's a complete 180 degree turnaround from what Randazzo said in 2018.  Ok, now I am even more curious.  This is kind of confusing.

Edited June 16, 20214 yr by abrams_tank