12 hours ago12 hr 2 hours ago, Kristofski said:I'm reminded of the jump from Half-Life to Half-Life 2 on the source engine back in the day, and how monumental that technological leap was - physics based engines, HDR lighting for the first time really blew everything before that out of the water. Source engine became the new standard.......I am so disappointed with Valve with respect to Half Life. I remember thinking that the seven years between the original Half Life and Half Life 2 was a huge span of time, but here we are twenty-two years after the release of Half Life 2, and no sign that there will ever be a Half Life 3. They even gave up on Half Life 2 : Episode 3 (which created rumours that Half Life 3 was just around the corner). They then released Half Life : Alyx for VR users only! Granted it was the "next step" in gaming evolution, but a bit of a kick in the teeth for most Half Life fans.That Gravity Gun was the best weapon that I have ever used in a first person game, and I would love to be able to use it again in a next generation Half Life 3. We do not need VR or any other fancy controllers. We just want a decent progression of the Half Life story, lots of cleverly designed and interesting EARTH BASED levels (the alien parts of the original Half Life were garbage, as were the annoying ant lion nests in one of the Half Life 2 epsiodes), realistic physics, and the G-Man!!Sadly, I do not think that we will ever get it. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
12 hours ago12 hr DOUBLE POST due to Avsim (once again) being the most annoying website on the internet. Why are there always problems with it? I was hoping that the upgrade would have resolved these issues, but sadly that is not the case. Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by Christopher Low Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
12 hours ago12 hr On 7/4/2026 at 10:20 AM, 787flyer said:I hope its the last option in your vote list in order to get the best value out of what I have put into the sim so far, but to be honest it all depends when Microsoft pull the plug on their MSFS2024 servers. When that happens, streaming will not be possible and I guess the sim will be non-functional.Again that date/year is influenced by whatever future sim platform may be launched and when and by whom!Microsoft has not pulled the plug even on MS2020, and there is no indication that it will happen any time soon. What makes you think it is imminent for MS2024? Personally I think the servers are safe for a long time to come, as this became the new normal for flightsimming six years ago and there is really no going back. Just my opinion.
12 hours ago12 hr It’s worth remembering that MSFS 2020 was sold to us as a long-term platform, with a ten-year support vision that would supposedly carry it to 2030. I have my doubts. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | Gigabyte RTX 5090 | 96GB DDR5 | ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM
11 hours ago11 hr 21 minutes ago, LVPack said:It’s worth remembering that MSFS 2020 was sold to us as a long-term platform, with a ten-year support vision that would supposedly carry it to 2030. I have my doubts.No it wasn't. MSFS was, not MSFS 2020. 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
10 hours ago10 hr 1 hour ago, LVPack said:It’s worth remembering that MSFS 2020 was sold to us as a long-term platform, with a ten-year support vision that would supposedly carry it to 2030. I have my doubts.We were promised that we'd have a PLATFORM for at least 10 years. The were specifically responding to fears that they'd one day disappear on us again like what happened with the Aces Team and FSX. 5800X3D. 32 GB RAM. 1TB SATA SSD. 3TB HDD. RX 9070XT.
9 hours ago9 hr 2 hours ago, LVPack said:It’s worth remembering that MSFS 2020 was sold to us as a long-term platform, with a ten-year support vision that would supposedly carry it to 2030. I have my doubts.I read somewhere from an official thread that MSFS2020 will be supported until 2028 even with some MSFS2024 features ported over. When I read that I prayed for the ray traced cockpit shadows, that too bright eye adaptation effect inside the cockpit to be softened like MSFS2024 and perhaps the clouds that look much better in MSFS2024. Alexander Colka
9 hours ago9 hr I love MSFS2024; I could never see myself going back to starting up MSFS2020. I think it's so much better; performance-wise, it's 100x better for me than in 2020. I think they have done a pretty good job on it. Do they have areas to improve and fix? Yes. JetLine Systems Gravity GT2-Windows 10 Home Edition (64-Bit), NZXT H500 Mid-Tower, Black, Gigabyte Aorus Z390 PRO WIFI, LGA 1151, Intel 9th Gen Core i9 9900K (5.0GHz Turbo) 8 Core / 16 Thread, Corsair Hydro H60 120mm Liquid Cooling, 32GB Corsair DDR4 SDRAM 3000MHz RGB, 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, GDDR6, 750 Watt Corsair RM Series Power Supply, 5.1 Channel Realtek Integrated HD Audio, Primary SSD Drive:1TB Samsung 970 EVO, M.2 NVMe PCIe (SSD), Secondary SSD Drive:2TB Samsung 970 EVO, M.2 NVMe PCIe (SSD) 4TB WD Black 7200 RPM Mechanical , SimOn Solutions 737 Professional Compact Trainer (MIP, OH). CFY 737 Max Motorized TQ Gold V3, MSFS2024, ProSim 737. 2 45" Samsung 4K TV.
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