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I am a very happy Varjo Aero user, and only use VR. I cannot go back to a flat monitor for flying. From flying a small GA aircraft to large airliners, the feeling of sitting in the cockpit, looking around and everything looks to scale, is incredible. The sense of height is much greater, as depth perception is much greater in VR. Makes landing easier, at least it does for me. No monitor can give you that feeling. No youtube video can really show you what VR is like, because you are seeing it from a 2D perspective. Some advice that I posted in another thread a while back: Motion sickness can be a real thing in VR. Your eyes tell you you are moving, but your body is not. I suffered a little bit in the beginning, but now it does not bother me at all. The thing is, you will likely feel some level of discomfort in the beginning. The trick is to start off easy, and for short durations. Don't start off using roller coaster type VR sims or space type sims, where there is a lot of fast movements, and ups and downs. This may put you off VR for good. Start off with something slow, like walking around for 10 min at a time. Then maybe a short slow level flight in a Cessna before graduating to a dog fight in a F/A-18 Hornet (DCS). Some people will get over the motion sickness quickly, like I did, others may take a bit longer, depending on how vulnerable you are to it. But in the end, its just a matter of taking it slow, and in short durations, so your brain gets used to it.

Are you running MSFS with admin rights? if so, try without. I cannot purchase anything in the marketplace if I run MSFS with Administrator rights.

This is also one of my favorites. Turn off live weather or set to a few clouds, so you can enjoy those beautiful Rocky Mountains below.

Defective GPU? Try taking it back out and reseating it. Did you by chance, accidentally plug in your monitor HDMI into the motherboard HDMI instead of the GPU card's HDMI? Even if your windows drivers are messed up, you should still see your PC post screen and be able to go into BIOS.

If you have a fairly high end system, The Dash 8 works very well in VR. I used the Reverb V1, then V2 for quite a while before upgrading to the Varjo Aero. I find my landings have improved considerably when using VR, as it gives you much better depth perception. The Dash 8 is quite low to the ground, and you really notice this in VR.

I guess that depends on how much RAM you have. I for one, have been really enjoying flying the Concorde, once I got my P3D software set back up. Have not used it in 2+ years since MSFS came out. I would not have even noticed the high RAM usage until I read about it here. Using about 26GB. No OOM's yet for me, but then again, I have 64GB in my system. I guess if you only have 16GB, that might be an issue.

In Southwestern Ontario Canada, where I live, most homes have AC. It is not uncommon in the summer to have 30c-33c with a humidex making it feel like 35c-40c (95F-104F).

I use a 1000W 80+ Gold power supply with a similar setup. I also run 1 HDD plus 4 SDD, 1 DVD-Blu-ray optical read/write drive. My Spec's are in the footer. I have no issues and don't even come close to using a 1000 watts of power while running MSFS. Usually using less then 80% of max load of 1000 watts. However, I do have my motherboard settings for the CPU not to exceed intel's spec voltages. If I let my motherboard (ASUS) set the recommended CPU settings, It uses quite a bit more CPU power and heat for very little gain in speed. But even with the ASUS settings, My wattage use does not come close to 1000W. I agree with the above, a 1000w high quality power supply will be better then a cheap 1500w one.

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I fly almost exclusively in VR. I have not noticed any scratches/ fingerprints floating or moving.

In addition to what ark mentioned above, some external programs like Pilot 2 ATC or my VACARS program for my Virtual Airline I belong to, require it in order to communicate with the sim.

Motion sickness can be a real thing in VR. Your eyes tell you you are moving, but your body is not. I suffered a little bit in the beginning, but now it does not bother me at all. The thing is, you will likely feel some level of discomfort in the beginning. The trick is to start off easy, and for short durations. Don't start off using roller coaster type VR sims or space type sims, where there is a lot of fast movements, and ups and downs. This may put you off VR for good. Start off with something slow, like walking around for 10 min at a time. Then maybe a short slow level flight in a Cessna before graduating to a dog fight in a F/A-18 Hornet (DCS). Some people will get over the motion sickness quickly, like I did, others may take a bit longer, depending on how vulnerable you are to it. But in the end, its just a matter of taking it slow, and in short durations, so your brain gets used to it. I don't have the pico 4, so cannot comment, but the reverb G2 tends to be the gold standard for fight sim at a reasonable cost and I was very happy with it.

My head tracker is my VR headset. Don't fly 2D anymore, but when I did, I used the Track IR 5.

DDR5 at XMP speeds can be problematic. Even when listed on the verified list for the motherboard. My New Ram at 7200 was not stable at that speed. Had to downgrade it to 6600. Then I decided to add two more sticks for 64Gb of ram. and the fasted I can get may ram to run stable is 6200. Not the 7200 I paid for. There have been a few new BIOS firmware updates that was supposed to improve the Ram, but so far, 6200 is the fastest I can run stable with 4 sticks. Just FYI

Would be nice to have for historical weather, but for the most part, I really don't miss Active Sky.