1 minute ago, Sethos said:

I believe it's the same build they've been demoing and brought to events.

The clouds have better scale and the lighting is great, but low res terrain, no grass and no rocks.  It is running smoothly for me, but currently it looks poor.

Is anyone stuck on the loading screen at first start?  95% there for 15 minutes now.  Frustrating!

Just now, Langeveldt said:

Is anyone stuck on the loading screen at first start?  95% there for 15 minutes now.  Frustrating!

Nope

6 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

The clouds have better scale and the lighting is great, but low res terrain, no grass and no rocks.  It is running smoothly for me, but currently it looks poor.

Also here very smoothly on ultra settings if I remember correctly. Need to verify again as I can hardly believe that unless MSFT really improved the coding

trying to get working my FF2 microsoft, it's detected but no flight surfaces or throttle axis working.

9 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

The clouds have better scale and the lighting is great, but low res terrain, no grass and no rocks.  It is running smoothly for me, but currently it looks poor.

Same, and trash PG as well despite 20-50 MBps used in PG areas (I have a 1 GBit fiber connection)

2 minutes ago, Claudius_ said:

trying to get working my FF2 microsoft, it's detected but no flight surfaces or throttle axis working.

Same here with thrustmaster stuff, started to manually assign at least the basic flight surfaces. Old GUI was actually better. And no idea why there are no default profiles assigned. Well, maybe because it’s a tech alpha

7 minutes ago, DAD said:

Same here with thrustmaster stuff, started to manually assign at least the basic flight surfaces. Old GUI was actually better. And no idea why there are no default profiles assigned. Well, maybe because it’s a tech alpha

manually assignment doesn't work, flying with the keyboard now 😶‍🌫️

There's a lot of folk out there (not just here at AVSim but elsewhere) who don't really understand the premise of this Alpha test, lots of complaining about stuttering which could well be server related - the very reason this Alpha is taking place, lack of features, controls not working, no VR, grass details the same as 2020 etc etc.

Hopefully though for the time they're in the game Asobo/MS are getting the data they're after which is fundamentally the most important thing, anything that can help them improve server structure and data transfer ready for release is good for all of us.

Glad I didn't bother signing up though, rather save my first impressions for release day.

All the tech people in here and no one has commented on the CPU core and memory usage improvements or lack there of vs FS2020?!

3 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

All the tech people in here and no one has commented on the CPU core and memory usage improvements or lack there of vs FS2020?!

Because treating a tech alpha like a full blown release is a wasted effort. Right now making comparisons wouldn’t make sense because as demonstrated this tech alpha doesn’t contain its full suite of features not to mention majority of people here fly with a plethora of addons. Doing tests in a sterile environment won’t properly represent your normal simming.

Loading times are impressive. Control assigment a little bit messy, but made it to work.

Only one small problem, stability! With 3 monitors, it crashed almost instantly. With 1 or 2 monitors I've been able to have flights no longer than 10 minutes, sometimes even 2 mins after takeoff, same thing. Crash to desktop, or simply frozen. I know it's a beta/alpha test, but would have been mice to fly it more...

 

24 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

All the tech people in here and no one has commented on the CPU core and memory usage improvements or lack there of vs FS2020?!

Multithreading is vastly improved, all 16 threads of my CPU are equally used. The improvements however don't translate into a better framerate than MSFS, the GPU is heavily hammered all the time despite the low resolution terrain and PG, and missing features (real world aircraft and liveries, ray tracing... At Ultra settings with the C172 I have 45-50 fps with TAA and 70-80 with DLSS Quality. 

Dynamic settings don't work and windshield effects always reset to medium.

DLSS is still trash for glass displays and water. 

Short draw distance and buildings pop-in near airports are still present at TLOD 200 and even 400. TLOD 400 still causes stuttering despite 50+% CPU headroom.

Also, I noticed many elevation problems and a lot of ground traffic nonsense at airports.

Other regression: ATC window key doesn't work as toggle anymore, only to open it. Very annoying.

On a positive note, ground and air handling of the C172 feels more realistic, more affected by wind and gusts.

Clock says Sunday 12 October (???)

Funny thing, apparently Asobo is confused whether to call it alpha or beta.

Edited October 12, 20241 yr by MrFuzzy

Apologies if this has been covered but can anyone walk through the control settings for the bravo throttle  and TCA side stick please struggling to set them up?

23 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

Because treating a tech alpha like a full blown release is a wasted effort. Right now making comparisons wouldn’t make sense because as demonstrated this tech alpha doesn’t contain its full suite of features not to mention majority of people here fly with a plethora of addons. Doing tests in a sterile environment won’t properly represent your normal simming.

EVERYTHING else in this release it being loosely and unfairly judged, I see no reason why the core engine basics shouldn't be also.