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I think that some of you are missing the big picture with his review. I do not think he is whining or being overly negative. In my opinion all of hits nits are accurate and factual. The fact that he worked on the original Microsoft versions of Flight Simulation is not germane, other than allowing him to have an inside perspective of flight simulation software and its development. Yes, FSX was no different out of the box than MSFS2020 is. It was a pretty full of eye candy game and not much else. It was the third party developers, both freeware and payware that made it and its brother P3D the “sims” they are today. That being said, I think it is fair to expect more from this new “sim” than just more eye candy. After all, it has been twenty years. Surly software development and especially game software development have progressed to the point where we can get more advanced software for our money. I just purchased a new Sony 4k TV to watch the fall football games (go figure 😊). I expected it to be more than a prettier image. I expected its “Smart” features to be smarter than my 15 year old Sony. I believe I got more than just a nicer picture. The new TV is easier to use. It automatically detected my WiFi and quickly found all the things it was supposed to find and do. MSFS does have “smarter” features. The new weather is fantastic. The marshalling and ground services are way beyond FSX/P3D. Unfortunately, that and the pretty scenery is all that is different. The UI is not setup for serious flight simmers. The avionics, according to what I have read by others, leave much to be desired. I have never flown glass cockpits in real life, so I don’t know if the issues I am having are because of poorly programmed avionics or self-inflected by this old steam gauge pilot. I do find the autopilots, trim, and controller setup frustrating, however. Lastly, I would like to state my opinion of flight models and realism. I have over 3000 flight hours in both military and GA aircraft. It is my opinion that the only tests that can be done on flight models and realism are; one, does it fly the numbers. The second thing you can do is subjective. Does it seem to maneuver like the real airplane. Is the roll rate and pitch rate like what the behavior of the real aircraft? That is it. Non real world pilots cannot understand just how important seat of the pants flying is to a real world pilot. In the USAF we did 2G overhead breaks to the downwind. I never had to look at the G-meter to see if I was pulling 2 Gs. I could tell by feel. The same for 6-7 G BCM. You knew by the pressure on you, the vibration of the airframe, and reactions of the airplane to control movements. This same intuitive knowledge is part of GA or Airliner flying. None of these are possible in simulation flying. I don’t care if you have a $30 joystick or $1000 professional control setup. So, if the default aircraft seem to fly like you would think a real world airplane of the same make and model fly, and it more or less hits the climb, speed, etc. numbers, be happy it is a good model. I apologize if this came off as didactic or pedantic in tone. I usually keep my thoughts to myself. However, I just thought some of you were being a bit unfair to BruceAir. MSFS will be a great addition to the sim flying world, once shortcomings and defects are corrected, either my MS or others. I for one am looking forward to seeing this new “game” mature into a “sim.”

Have you seen this post? https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/581210-how-to-make-pitch-and-yaw-control-less-twitchy/

May I ask, what is 'ortho'?

I run a 1080P projector with a GTX 970TI with 4Gbs VRAM. According to the MSI frame and usage counters I never have gone over 2700 mb of VRAM. Yet, I still get the 'Device hug' message.

Well, then I guess a new GPU might be what the doctor ordered. Two GB is just too low, unless you run only FSX/PD3 native out of the box scenery.

I have an i7-8700K running at 5GHz. I also run two GTX 970 cards pushing a 1080p projector a 1920 x 1080 touch screen monitor with the instruments run in VC only mode. I have a USN Elo 10" touch screen that runs Garmin 750 & 650 and a VGA FMC screen that only shows the Win 10 Logo. Using GPU-Z, I have never seen the two cards go over 60% or use more than 3GB of memory each. Note: I fly with fair skies and puffy clouds. I have never tested them in IMC. I fly everything from GA to Bus jets and military jets. No airliners. For scenery, I either use MegaScenery V3 or Orbx. Now what this means to you, I haven't the foggiest. 🙂 I guess I think for most people the super GPU cards are overkill, unless they are running 4K.

I had to reinstall TrackIR after uninstalling Chaseplane. Uninstalling Chaseplane kills TIR for me. So when I reinstalled Chaseplane in order to test it and TIR for you, it was on a clean installation of TrackIR.

Here are the report file and a screenshot of what the screen looked like after pressing F-12 to center. I was able to get it to work by going to an outside view pressing F-12 then back into VC view. Hummm, I don't see anyway to upload the image and log file. Insert Other Media only gives me two options, URL or Existing attachment. When I click on existing attachment it tells me I have none, without giving me a means to upload. If you give me an email in a PM. I will email you the report and image.

Yes!

It only happens with TIR. Keven. When I turned of TIR the image reverted to normal POV. Of course, I no longer had movement other than switching views.

I can't say, because I always run IRTrack. This weekend, I will reinstall Chaseplane and check that out. Are there any other things you want me to check?

Keven, the camera controls looked fine. I could almost roll the aircraft 180 wings level right side up. However at about 170 degrees the aircraft would just flip over again. I have uninstalled and deleted the Chaseplane folders. It may be less convenient than Chaseplane, but I can fly again. Maybe Lennie can provide you with the screen shots you need?

I am so frustrated with Chaseplane I want to either curse or cry. My problem is that every time I load an aircraft the pilot's view is inverted. I run PD3 V4.3 and IRTrack. Without Chaseplane everything works fine. Install Chaseplane and it works fine the first time. The next time you run the simulator and load the scenario or aircraft, the pilot's view is inverted. The other views are fine. However, Track IR will not work with them. Totally Frustrated!

Thank you Bert and Ron! I have her flying and looking good, thanks in a large part to you. Ron, I hope you can forgive me. One of your repaints for the RV7 is purple and gold, which happen to be the colors of my college, Louisiana State University. I slightly darkened the gold, changed the green assents to white, and added LSU to the wings and tail. Now, she is a real Tiger.

Thank you Bert. I re-downloaded the aircraft from Flight1 and it now works as advertised. I can see the wings and tail, and the manifold pressure gauge works. However, I still don't know where the simv4 xml file goes?

Is the Baytower site still up? Never mind, 🙂 I can look. If so, I will re-download.

Has anyone figured out where the simv4 xml goes? I installed it into PD3 V4.3 tonight. It works mostly. The manifold gauge doesn't work. I never tried the autopilot. The landing light didn't light up the runway when I landed. However, the panel lights worked. The wings didn't show, but she flew. 🙂 I want to install the mods Bert and Ron made, but I wanted to make sure the airplane worked before going through all that trouble, perhaps for nothing. She is a sweet little airplane.

Hi Guys, Thank you for all the input. RichieFly, I am running at 1.35Vdc. I have not noticed the fan noise. I am in a cockpit and the computer is about four feet away between the cockpit nose and the screen on the wall. So, maybe it is far enough away,,,then there is my hearing..or lack of, as my wife will say. 😉 I think, following ZLA Steve's advice, I will do some stress testing, just for confidence. If it passes, I will leave well enough alone. I break enough things trying to tweak them. Happy Flying,

I just built a new flight sim rig around an i7 8700K CPU and an ASUS Maximus X Hero motherboard. For cooling I am using a Corsair H105 liquid cooler. Memory is 16GB of DDR4 3200. I am running this on Win 10 Home. I watched some YouTube videos on overclocking and use one by a young German named der8auer. Using his advice and instructions I was able to OC to 5.0 GHz. I am happy with this. I did not try any stress testing. I don't care if it lasts 8 or 24 hours under 100% load. All I care about is its performance in PD3 V4. I did my version of stress testing by loading up Iris's PC-21 and flying out of John Wayne Airport in Orange County CA. I run ORBX Global, Vector and So California scenery. I have found that this test is a good stress test for my type of flying. During the 15 minute flight the FPS with the stock cfg were bouncing anywhere from the high eighties to the forties. I watched the cpu temps and they generally hung in the sixties with a max of seventy four degrees C. Now my questions. I am not a OCer. I am 70 years old any just happy that I can still build the computer and follow directions, In following directions I, as the the gentleman did, set the Sync CPU Ratio to Sync all cores. As I understand it, this will cause all six cores to run at 5.0 GHz. Is this necessary for PD3? It obviously generates more heat to max out all six cores. Would it be better if I were to only OC one or two cores and allow the system to handle the rest? My second question has to do with the memory. Is it possible to OC the memory? Will it provide any reasonable benefit to do so. If so, what is a good target setting for 3200 DRAM? Thank you,

I am currently running the Pro version. It only allows you to delay for 30 days. So far, knock on wood, MS Windows hasn't FUBARed my PD3 setup. I can delay the updates by pulling the Internet cable out of the computer. Thank you to everyone who commented on my question. I appreciate your views.

Thanks Doug, I noticed in your setup that you are using the ASUS Maximus X Hero MB. How do you like it. That is the board I have decided to purchase.

I am ordering components for a new i8700 based PD3 computer. In the past I have always gone with the Pro version of Windows, although I can not for the life of me remember why. So, my question is do I need to order the Pro version or will the Home version work for a PD3 build? I do, on occasion, fly online. However, other than a Home network, I will not be doing anything else with it, other than flight simulation. Thanks,

As a former real world pilot for many years, I do not use ATC. Like emergencies and practicing EPs, I had enough of real ATC and emergencies to last the rest of my life. Now, I just fly and look at the scenery. :) As for what I want in V4.2. I hope that LM doesn't break all of my add-ons again.

I don't think you can do what you want in FSUIPC without writing a Lua script to code the keys. However, I would just ask Peter, provided he isn't on a holiday. ;) He is very good at responding.

I own the entire USA in Megascenery2. I have tried a couple of their Megascenery3 products. I did not see that much difference between the version 2 and 3. I keep waiting for them to come out with V3 of Louisiana, the state where I live and have flown over extensively in real life. I believe i could then give it a more accurate assessment. I find that besides the Megascenery purchases, you need to buy night light packages, if you fly at night, Living in the south, I don't worry about winter snow. However, if you live up north, the lack of snow might be a factor. I also own ORBX's Global, NA LC, and Vector products. I find them to be very good and realistic, provided you don't expect the place where you live to look just like real life. The thing I miss most with photorealistic packages are the buildings on approaches. ORBX with updated third party airports seems to fit the bill for me.