Highmike

Yeah, I've had problems with it too. The screen would turn off randomly and the play boundary constantly needed resetting. Eventually I uninstalled it and went back to 1.36.

I expect PG cities are affordable because there are not too many of them. PG airports would be unaffordable because there are much larger numbers of them. PG cities make sense to MS because they show the scale and beauty of their digital twin. Not so much with airports.

If you're an Xbox player then your MSFS friends will be the same as your Xbox ones. The two platforms share the same technology.

Ah, yes. Thanks for that. That would explain why they're always a couple of thousand feet above the ground.

I was flying the V35B Bonanza a few days ago and discovered that it had a special ability, it could follow the blue course boxes enroute and all the way around the teardrop to the turn onto final. It did this without me sifting through any of the EFB flight planning possibilities which was a surprise to me, so I then attempted to replicate this result on another GNS 530 equipped plane, the basic C172, but without success. I had a good look through the EFB route planning facility but I couldn't find a path to match the boxes. No doubt those blue boxes define a formal flight path, but I can't see how to setup the GNS to follow them. Has anyone figured this out yet? Is it a limitation that the C172 has but the V35B hasn't?

I'll tell you of a little bug that annoys me and that is getting the VR Toggle Toolbar key assignment to work reliably for me. Has that been improved in SU2 Beta?

1) Look for all your planes in My Library in the Marketplace dialog. In spite of what it says you can click on it and select to activate it in the bottom right corner. I'm not at my computer so I may have the wording wrong. The only ones you can't activate are the ones marked Unavailable, but there aren't many of these left. You can then select the plane in the top left corner of the Free Flight dialog and fly it.

Have you tried uninstalling the toolkit and reinstalling it. I had to do this recently and it worked fine. The registry got messed up and the reinstall fixed it.

System settings reports 23H2 although the install date was the middle of October '24. I didn't have to work out a hack for 11. I fixed up the TPM and UEFI requirements for 11 so that installing it was automatic. The Update and Security settings page had a button and the upgrade went ahead from there.

I had something similar happen to me in Win 10 with a G2. I wasn't getting unworkable fps, but I was getting continuous crashes. It was so bad I gave up and bought a PCL and a whole new computer. It turned out quite a lot later to be a Windows update that had altered a crucial service that WMR relied on. I suspect that Microsoft will be happy to see the last of WMR and don't care how much its exit hurts their customers. Eventually, I got Win 10 upgraded to 11 where WMR and my G2 work together quite happily.

I'll tell you something which has just blown my mind in the last hour or so. I wear reading glasses of various strengths for the different bits of reading I do, 3.00 for my phone and 1.50 for reading a computer screen for example, but it never occured to me that I might be better off wearing them in VR. I was comparing my Pimax CL and my Reverb G2 in FS'20 and I was beginning to think that the G2 actually looked a bit sharper, when a little voice inside me said "Ha. Put your glasses on!" I had a pair of 1.50s handy for seeing the computer screen, so I put them on and wow! Suddenly everything was in focus. This particular pair were a bit bulky, but I found a pair of tiny 2.00s which fit nicely inside the headset and were even sharper. If you need glasses to read a book or TV then give them a go in VR, you might surprise yourself.

Oh, really! I might have to check my IPD.

Yeah, I remember back before I got my first VR kit I heard talk saying that once you've tasted VR, there's no going back. Sometimes when looking at the 2D screen after a flight I wonder why so many still fly that way. As for annoying mouse behaviour, what about that one where there are two pointers on the screen but only one of them is clickable. It was like this in FS20 as well, so no doubt the devs know about it. I haven't seen this behaviour in other games I play.

I see OrbX listed as one of the business partners on the MSFS 2024 loading screen. It looks like these guys are serious players and highly valued by both Microsoft and Asobo. I'm just getting back into FSX:SE after a long spell. I have many fond memories of this sim, and it is highly playable some 18 years later. There are not many titles that can say that. I got OrbX for both FSX and P3D, I hadn't lost my credentials, and with modern bandwidth I had them downloaded in a jiffy.

Yeah, that's how it happened to me. I didn't disable updates and eventually I got one that compromised the functionality of the G2, it would crash so much that I just gave up using it. That's when I built a Win 11 rig and got a Pimax CL, but I also got my old rig to comply with the TPM and Win 11. It wasn't that hard, it was just a little fiddling in the BIOS/UEFI setup and the upgrade was free.