17 hours ago, Lucky38i said:

It's really easy to remember what was good and just forget about what was bad. The only difference now is gamers don't necessarily have to wait 2 years to see some updates but rather games are receiving continuous updates. Do I like the current situation? Not particularly, but I wouldn't say its worse than what we used to have.

I agree with this. Before the era of online updates, developers had to be cautious about what to release, because updates were impossible. You had to buy new disks to update the games. Now that updates can be pushed out without having to buy a new title, developers are more prone to throw all kinds of new features and technology into releases, knowing that optimizations can happen over time. I think it's a win for users, mostly, because when it works, we get the advantage of features that never would have been released had they needed to be bulletproof across all variations of hardware and drivers. The disadvantages of this approach are of course obvious, but I still think that for most users, today's methods are a better approach. 

2 hours ago, FBW737 said:

The FE fits in my case and its the least ridiculous price.

I just got an email from nVidia that I can order one now, but way too late now for me ... perhaps you'll see an email for FE soon?

11 hours ago, SayAgain said:

I just got an email from nVidia that I can order one now,

I already arranged the finance with BestBuy months ago to pay for it over a year. Buying a GPU these days is like buying a car.🤣

40 minutes ago, FBW737 said:

I already arranged the finance with BestBuy months ago to pay for it over a year. Buying a GPU these days is like buying a car.🤣

And that should realy change, the prices for these 90s cards are really outrageous IMO..

cheers 😉

2 hours ago, FBW737 said:

BestBuy months ago to pay for it over a year

Agree with you on the price of these cards … I guess Jensen H. needs more houses, cars, islands, wives?  The RTX 6000 with 96GB DDR7 is over $10,000 … 5090 and the 6000 use the same GB202 die … somehow the extra 48GB of DDR7 costs $8000 more … yet Samsung lots of DDR7 that equate to 48GB are about $160 more ($10 per 3GB Samsung DDR7).  So let’s toss in overhead and integrate adding $140 … so about $7700 pure net profit just from going to 96GB VRAM.

Word of caution on BestBuy, I have an ongoing legal battle with them regarding their inability to remove another customers who is using MY phone number … yes, I get text message when this other customer’s  orders are ready for pickup.  If I click on the link I see this guys’ address, name, and last 4 CC … I could go and pickup his orders.  

I provided all the screenshots to BestBuy (phone text, link, customer info) to their corporate office, they apologized and said they would fix it immediately … they didn’t … still got the text messages (they were real order pickups, not scams) … contacted BestBuy corp again … this time they just turn off Phone notifications for order pickup … go to my local BestBuy and they look me up by phone number and you guessed it … are you “Nathan Simpson” … nope!  So end result is I’ve passed this issue onto my lawyer.  BestBuy do ZERO validation when someone enters a phone number … given that PayPal just got hacked and exposed 16M users info, and Google got hacked for another 2.5B users info (just a few days ago).

On 8/19/2025 at 3:11 PM, martinboehme said:

I'm not waiting for it to get "there". The "here" is plenty good enough for me.

Is it perfect? Of course not. It never will be. Nor does it have to be.

That's my orientation as well.   Why 'good enough'?  Well, nearly daily I do a couple of flights in Fenix 320, I-Fly MAX 8, Aerosoft CRJ, Longitude and rarely now Asobo/WT 787.  I have maybe 20 3rd party airports, use Self Loading Cargo and BATC and FSLTL with all flights.  And it all works as close to perfectly, more perfectly, than any other time in my 30y of sim hx.   My only meaningful complaint now is not able to save controller profiles by airframe and it would seem to be a super easy fix, but not yet done.  I love that Asobo put the ability to edit those profiles in the toolbar drop down so no need to go out of the sim to normal settings. I also love the fact they now note the size of each gate/ramp/parking spot from the top-down view.  And while I have found max frame rate has dropped in 2024 for me in the most demanding settings for some reason I now have no judder when changing screens with FG enabled, and I'm back to using FG because of the performance reduction so that was a big plus here.

Speaking of controller files, are these standard XML or did the evolve into something more exotic and/or even SQLite?  Does anyone know where they files reside?

On 8/19/2025 at 4:38 PM, MrFuzzy said:

I read this sentence on the forums hundreds of times in the last 5 years. I wrote it myself at least once.

But I wonder "where" it's getting and "when" exactly it will happen.

Until a few years ago a videogame came out and we played it with peace of mind, we enjoyed it if it was good or dumped it if it was bad, but that was it, we knew what we got. And before the pervasive broadband era, the developers knew that they could not screw up too much with a release. 

That was the case of FS2004 and FSX for me... for many of you with the previous versions as well. And a ton of games of other genres as well: "triple A" productions were usually good from day one.

Now we are constantly in a state of expectation, always waiting for the next update that will get it "there", only to transition from anticipation to dissatisfaction. 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy flying virtually and in FS2020 and FS2024 only I have more than 2,000 hours. But the feeling above has become a relevant part of the experience, along with the time spent ranting on the forums 🙂 and I'd rather do without it.

I distinctly remember the emotion of returning virtually to North Cape in FS2004 (visited when I was 16 yo), with the snow and the aurora in the sky. Surely the sim was ugly compared with today's visuals and far from perfect, but it was zero stress, just fun and wonder.

What do you think? Were you happier before the MSFS revolution?

Maybe I'm just aging... I'd better go to bed🙂

Cheers

Since you ask, here is my reply, which is very subjective and personal. I am not only happier since the MSFS revolution; I am blown away by it! In short, I much prefer real-world scenery, however imperfect it may be in some places, to any artificial (i.e. imaginary) scenery. There is no substitute for flying in the real world. FSX and earlier sims were wonderful in their time, but for me that time is gone. I will never go back. 

P.S. In your nostalgia for FSX and FS9, you may have forgotten the angst and stress we went through with those sims too in their early days! 

 

Edited August 26, 2025Aug 26 by cobalt