I use my Mac for work as it's much nicer to work on, however for gaming it's terrible because of the poor choice of available titles. Running Windows on the Mac is no longer really an option since they don't use the same chip architecture anymore (I can run the ARM64 version of Windows in a virtual machine, but there isn't much native that will run on it).

For this reason, I have a Windows PC that I use only for gaming and it works great for that purpose.

3 hours ago, turbomax said:

true, chances it will release on MacOS in 2024 seem pretty slim 🤣

FSExpo is this coming weekend, the time to have more informed conversations around everything flight sim will be after that.

Announcing VR on xbox then seems more likely than it hitting a November deadline, there is good reasons experienced flight sim devs use "soon(tm)" instead of actual dates.

Its going to take a lot more than cut scenes and promises to compete with what LR has to show off next weekend.

11 hours ago, mSparks said:

Otherwise PS5/PSVR2 wins out in every category - not just better (not least because no cheaters) but better value.

I'm too old and set in my ways for all that straightjacketing boring console stuff.  I like to fiddle and tweak. Anyway, I'd miss the joy of spending £1000 on a graphics card upgrade only to find, that after fitting it, the word not allowed thing won't boot!😀

29 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

I'm too old and set in my ways for all that straightjacketing boring console stuff.

consoles, like facebook, are for old people now, especially those whose parents wouldnt buy them one when they were younger.

The kids these days just tiktok

5 hours ago, mSparks said:

Its going to take a lot more than cut scenes and promises to compete with what LR has to show off next weekend.

I feel like i'm out of the loop - have their been any hints of what might be breaking there...?

45 minutes ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I feel like i'm out of the loop - have their been any hints of what might be breaking there...?

Starts on Friday

https://flightsimexpo.com/schedule

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I feel like i'm out of the loop - have their been any hints of what might be breaking there...?

No hints.

If I had to guess, some v12.1.0 recap, hints or possibly some previews of 12.2.0 (supposed to be flight model/camera/atc stuff) & 12.3.0 (supposed to be a graphics update with lighting overhaul).

Scenery wise the new WED version released lately has some features that demonstrate what LR plans next, mainly speaking about "terrain objects", the ability to "patch" (not rendering engine/scenery formats wise, yet) a really high quallity mesh. I imagine LR might talk about the plans for their next-gen scenery formats as well, so the new WED features makes sense, the idea is LR might provide some modern tools to convert mesh & gis data into x-plane packed in raster/3D tiles.

 

Edited June 18, 20241 yr by Inu

9 minutes ago, Inu said:

some previews of 12.2.0 (supposed to be flight model/camera/atc stuff)

As far as i know they will also release the 3d weather-radar, one of the new features I am looking the most forward to.

Weather radar already works.

I am looking foward to the precipitation shafts, and hopefully they nuke the XP10 rain graphics. The color banding at twilight needs some work too, it's pretty horrendous.

10 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Weather radar already works.

Not really, it‘s just a 2D image. That’s why I wrote „3D“. What we have now is pretty much useless, since it doesn‘t give altitude informations. You can read here how weather-radars work: https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/optimum-use-of-weather-radar/

19 hours ago, strider1 said:

I am looking foward to the precipitation shafts, and hopefully they nuke the XP10 rain graphics. The color banding at twilight needs some work too, it's pretty horrendous.

That Star Trek rain is pretty much one of my biggest wishes for visual improvement for XP. 

4 hours ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

That Star Trek rain is pretty much one of my biggest wishes for visual improvement for XP. 

You would thing think at bare minimum that they would have deleted the XP10 warp drive rain effect after they implemented rain streaks on the windshield in XP12.0. Does anybody at Laminar fly their own sim? Now they have a static texture that's suppose to simulate going through the clouds. It looks like frost/ice on the windshield. They should have used the particle system. The Zibo reverse thrust when the runway is soaked with water is a perfect example of what it could look like.

1 hour ago, strider1 said:

Does anybody at Laminar fly their own sim?

No they spend all there time in msfs. Really... they just done a big change in the windshield so they could address the rain issues. What's wrong with people today.

The rain doesn't look too bad IMO... my only issue with the rain is that it rains too sporadicially and doesn't seem to match the reported conditions or cloud coverage