46 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

 shows how little you know about flight sims.

I'm very impressed with your evaluation regarding my experience with flight sims. 

Let's be realistic, it is impossible after 2,000 hrs (your sim flight time is as much as a junior pilot for the airlines average per month) as you mentioned to have only one or two CTDs and not to notice any issues.

Many people would love to know and purchase such a good computer and software as you claim to have.  

I love your self-perception, it is important to acknowledge that there are always individuals with greater qualifications and experience than we think we are. 

Take it easy. 

29 minutes ago, martinboehme said:

I assume @LRBS wasn't around in the FSX days when every flight was spent watching the VAS usage like a hawk and praying that the sim wouldn't quit with an out of memory error.

That was the issue that prevented me from upgrading from FS9 until 2017.

Moved to P3Dv4 (64-bit) and even then I had more CTDs (g2d.dll, terrain.dll, ntddll.dll, etc.) in a week with P3D than I've had in nearly four years with MSFS.

4 hours ago, LRBS said:

This MSFS/ASOBO is the most unstable and unreliable platform to date, unfortunately, this eye-candy game/simulator is constantly shadowed by so many server issues. 

huh, are you sure it's not something on your side? This outage is for maintenance.

Edited June 13, 20241 yr by pilotter

4 hours ago, LRBS said:

This MSFS/ASOBO is the most unstable and unreliable platform to date, unfortunately, this eye-candy game/simulator is constantly shadowed by so many server issues. 

huh, are you sure it's not something on your side? This outage is for maintenance.

41 minutes ago, LRBS said:

Let's be realistic, it is impossible after 2,000 hrs (your sim flight time is as much as a junior pilot for the airlines average per month)

That's one impressive junior pilot, given that the most hours it's possible to fly in a given month (if not legally) is 24 x 31 = 744 (745 if it happens to be the month when daylight savings ends).

Edit: Make that 768 hours if you start the month just west of the international date line and end it just east of it. Still a tad shy of 2,000 hours though.

Edited June 13, 20241 yr by martinboehme

2 hours ago, LRBS said:

I don't understand your issue now with Avsim

It literally just effected you.

2 hours ago, LRBS said:

I'm very impressed with your evaluation regarding my experience with flight sims. 

Let's be realistic, it is impossible after 2,000 hrs (your sim flight time is as much as a junior pilot for the airlines average per month) as you mentioned to have only one or two CTDs and not to notice any issues.

Many people would love to know and purchase such a good computer and software as you claim to have.  

I love your self-perception, it is important to acknowledge that there are always individuals with greater qualifications and experience than we think we are. 

Take it easy. 

I bought a CLX PC just for MSFS, around the time it was released. I never said I fly 2,000 hours a month. You have trouble with reading comprehension, apparently. 😏

3 hours ago, martinboehme said:

I assume @LRBS wasn't around in the FSX days when every flight was spent watching the VAS usage like a hawk and praying that the sim wouldn't quit with an out of memory error.

 

That is for sure, same thing with earlier versions of P3D/ 

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

You have trouble with reading comprehension, apparently. 😏

Sorry, my mistake. Let me clarify. MSFS has been out for approximately 3.7 years, so 2,000 hours averages to about 51 hours per month. This is roughly the amount a junior pilot flies in a month, which is what I was referring to. To be honest, if you have this much time available for this, I think that's quite impressive.

4 hours ago, LRBS said:

Let's be realistic

Great idea.  I've used MSFS nearly daily since it launched and probably have 5000 hours by now.  This includes a few reinstalls, and a new Win 11 build recently.  I remain stunned how well Self Loading Cargo integrates with it in my 4 higher end airliners used in A Pilot's Life.  Compared to decades of FSX/P3D thru v4.5, this sim has been the most stable by far, especially relative to what it's delivering in toto:  worldwide ortho scenery for the price of admission with regular no cost enhancements, accommodating its SDK such that multiple complex aircraft are very well supported, multiple 3rd party sceneries and utilities and so forth.  Being server dependent was an aspect of this that adds a giant level of resource management to deal with compared to more offline sims like XP/P3D.  In this regard MSFS is in a whole different league--not necessarily one that appeals to everyone, but one that distinguishes it from all others to a high degree so if one uses one of the ancient sims like XP under the same dev for 25y as a comparator it's really not far from apples and pears. 

So yes, hugely stable sim overall, with its own set of issues related to its rapid pace of development and server dependency that occasionally impact users.  One can only imagine gearing up for the new release, shuffling server space around to accommodate a whole new blitz of demand on or about Nov 19, 2024....

Edited June 13, 20241 yr by Noel

14 hours ago, LRBS said:

Sorry, my mistake. Let me clarify. MSFS has been out for approximately 3.7 years, so 2,000 hours averages to about 51 hours per month. This is roughly the amount a junior pilot flies in a month, which is what I was referring to. To be honest, if you have this much time available for this, I think that's quite impressive.

Since you seem to like to nitpick, I fly about 11 flights a week, most average around 1 1/2 hours each. So that is around 16  hours per week. 52 weeks in a year, last time I looked, is then approximately 832 hours per year. Times 3.7 years, is around 3,000 hours since I got MSFS 2020.   Not all are in my logbook, because it has been wiped a few times.   

 

Happy Now? 😉

Back on topic:  indeed, what the hell happened with grasses and shrubs?  Just TO out of CYVR and geez looks like garbage, like someone sprayed Roundup all over the ground.  I thought perhaps it was the Bing Map Latest but nope decided to go back to default and it's the same, and ugly at that.  So this is no transient server issue.  

Edited June 17, 20241 yr by Noel

Check grass graphics settings. I hate the grass in MSFS - it looks more like a council allotment than a properly maintained airfield. So, I turn the grass detail down to zero. Grass and shrubs disappear - not pefect, but better IMO.

On 6/13/2024 at 12:11 PM, Piotr007 said:

I have p3d v5 with LS scaling. Nice getaway from this abyss.

I left P3D years ago, couldn't get over that "flying over wallpaper feeling". 

2 hours ago, Paul K said:

Check grass graphics settings. I hate the grass in MSFS - it looks more like a council allotment than a properly maintained airfield. So, I turn the grass detail down to zero. Grass and shrubs disappear - not pefect, but better IMO.

I did check them, they were at Ultra all along and still are, so went to Low and saved, then reset to Ultra and saved, no difference.  I'll take grass all day over the mottled brown texture where grass used to be.  Thanks for your reply