DellyPilot

I can tell you it is possible and I finally have my Xbox controller setup as I did in P3D. A particularly useful feature is the modifier combo's Y + LEFT ARROW, Y + Start etc. I use Y as a modifier for trim, views and ATC then X modifier for many flight controls (flaps, gear, speed brakes, parking brakes). Microsoft should use my mappings for the Xbox release! 😁 I agree the camera system is a nightmare but I can also pretty much do everything I could in ChasePlane although I'd to hack the cameras.cfg to get wing views I move and look about in. The only real hurdle is its not yet plane specific although I believe that is coming. The default mappings on Xbox are atrocious and there is also a bug where if you power your controller on after starting the game it will resets your lovely custom profile to default lol. I have to duplicate it to make sure I have copies because you cant back up to a file. Asobo's logic is often really odd and counter intuitive with especially the cameras, External and Showcase etc, anyone who ever owned a French car will feel right at home in FS🙂

That's because you are moving your mouse up/down (AXIS X) very slightly as you press the button and try to move the wheel, perhaps try holding your mouse midair so it doesnt register a mouse move! 😂

A little awkward but I can confirm it works! Makes a huge difference. I also have right mouse button hold down to allow freelook.

There is another way to solve this. What I did is change COCKPIT ZOOM MOUSE RIGHT BUTTON + MOUSE WHEEL UP COCKPIT UNZOOM MOUSE RIGHT BUTTON + MOUSE WHEEL DOWN. This means you wont accidentally zoom when trying to change dials. Works well, if you have more mouse buttons (4 and 5) you can try those instead of MOUSE RIGHT BUTTON. Makes a big difference. Would have liked to be able to do CTRL + MOUSE WHEEL UP but for some reason Asobo do not allow this.

Actually you can edit these views and save them too. After you figure out how to move (translate) your view about (either in the menu or assign keys/hat switch) you can save the different Pilot views, I have CTRL SHIFT S - SAVE VFR PILOT VIEW CTRL SHIFT I - SAVE IFR PILOT VIEW CTRL SHIFT L - SAVE LANDING PILOT VIEW

No, the rumours are that it might come somewhere close to a 3080 but a bit cheaper.

😂 sorry I couldn't resist!

I think the answer is both yes and no. I have the same setup as you and I have see areas where I am CPU bound (dense cities, loading new areas) and other areas where I am GPU bound (lots of reflections and cloud lighting). So you will certainly have some areas where you get an increased framerate where its smooth but many of the big stutters may well remain sadly!

Something is always a bottleneck. As you lower resolution the GPU has less work to do (shading, anti-aliasing, super sampling, ray tracing, lighting) so the frames go up and up until the rest of the system cannot support the higher framerate. This is often the CPU but can also be RAM, motherboard bus or even disk IO performance. A nice feature the 30 series has is RTX IO https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-io-gpu-accelerated-storage-technology/ This promises to be able to load data from an NVMe drive directly into the video cards VRAM bypassing the CPU and RAM. It is possible this could be quite beneficial for flight simulators.

He is wearing an AMD T-shirt! 😂

Try turning down your settings.

https://www.msfsaddons.org/liveries/liveries-megapack-v4

Could you post the link to this, you mean something like a "startup scenario" hack?

Those negative reviews are "my download took ages" or "it keeps crashing". Frankly I am gobsmacked by a few in the community including yourself saying this "experiment has failed" and "they haven't done a very good job". That is not what I am seeing, as a developer myself I am seeing an incredibly brilliant piece of software that is only in its first release! This is the default sim, release 1! Give them a chance, remember P3D 3? After years of wrestling with P3D and suggesting improvements on their forums, I'm now seeing all of those things implemented on a remarkable scale and quality, is it perfect on day 1, no it is not, is it light years ahead in terms of scale, fidelity and sheer artistic brilliance, a hundred times yes! And no LM do not have access to this kind of satellite data nor do they have the cloud infrastructure or expertise to purchase or handle it, never mind integrate and distribute it in a creaking simulator like P3D. And to answer the OP, sorry, it is a nice dream but I suggest you forget it, there is no way LM can keep this platform and come anywhere near FS, it needs a complete rewrite from the ground up, UI, flight model, weather model, graphics engine. That will not happen and Petabyte hard disks, lol, am I reading this right!?! LM is not a software company with a huge free cloud architecture behind them. I just provisioned an Azure Virtual machine and it costs us about 20k per year, 1 machine! Microsoft have 1000s of them supporting this platform. P3D will not be uninstalled yet but bit by bit all the things it does really well as mentioned will be superseded as 3rd parties move over and the sim is improved. LM will shift focus to their military and training contacts and the user base will shrink along with 3rd party support.

Very good summary and good tip on the RTSS support for UWP but I listed a few additional differences that are pretty important

I have bought it on Steam but also have Xbox games pass so its already downloaded and installed it for me on the C Drive. You probably have it too. Its only 991mb according to Programs & Features so perhaps it will add more when I run it at midnight? I also notice more options in Programs & Features than I have seen before, an addons area and a button labelled Move which lets me move it from the C Drive. Once the Steam version is available at 4am I will uninstall. Maybe this is part of the windows update and perhaps MS have finally made the Store less awful.

As above, please please go with Steam, I cannot recommend it enough, it is light years ahead of the Microsoft Store for managing games, data and updates and doesn't really use the registry. I lost all my Forza Horizon progress when I had to change my windows login after a reinstalled windows. Steam I just "relinked" the old games folder and instantly all my games were running again, oh and as its not integrated with your Windows account you can run it from any login should you need to change or even move computers. I also found I could not remove the WindowsApp folder even rebooting into support mode, I am a system architect and I really struggled! I couldn't extract my settings when I tried to back it up so I had to redownload and reinstall every single Store game, even though 200GB of games were there on my other drives! Perhaps from reading through all the comments Asobo have an alternative approach for MSFS and its handled better but I can tell you I have been so burnt by the Store I wouldnt touch it given a choice.

I can say from bitter experience with the Microsoft Store that its a 'dam' nightmare with multiple disks and different logins. Once you move an application to another drive it creates WindowsApps and all sorts of permissions which make it impossible to remove without formatting the drive! I have gone down the Steam route which I trust and have games across 4 different drives, you can also install to any folder you like and it doesn't mangle permissions. If you haven't bought yet I would strongly recommend Steam.

Completely agree with the OP and echo the thanks to the small LM team who bridged the gap but yes P3D will go the way of MS Flight (which I notice still has a few dedicated fliers!). I put many 1000s of hours and pounds into P3D and don't regret that, but V5 was a minor release at best, rushed out to squeeze one last pay day. If we see a V6 it will likely be focused on their military contracts. The base MSFS platform, fidelity and partnerships Asobo has built is so far beyond what the community had even imagined of course we can't help be excited to see where it goes over the next 10 years, bring it on!

I agree a little shimmering is fine and 16x has a pretty big impact on FPS depending on the scene complexity (clouds, London etc) so I use 4 or 8. SSAA helps a lot with shimmering and cockpit text but is expensive on FPS. I mostly use 4 or sometimes 2xSSAA. What I can say skipping over all the Core 0 multi threading chat (covered in another post) is that on my machine and after many hours of work I've got a good balance with HT OFF (big impact) No AM setting (use all cores) FPS Unlimited or 60FPS / VSync Off FFTF 0.17 Nvidia Settings Refresh = Adaptive (half refresh rate) Texture Filtering = Performance I simply do not see improvements with AM=254 and in fact I start to get blurries on long flights regardless of FFTF. The instability just is not worth it although I confess I have not tried the Task Manager approach someone mentioned above. https://i.imgur.com/3jg7ysD.jpg 4K During flight around London it moves from 15FPS to 30FPS with a 2 second stutter every 1/2 minutes. Average FPS is around 25FPS and is flyable, the new version of TE GB is a massive improvement on V1 and flying into Heathrow in an airliner is now fine,

I already commented Noel No HT gave me good FPS improvement No Jobscheduler removed all blurries with FFTF 0.17

I have 8 core and turning off HT made a big difference. P3D is heavily Core 0 dependent so HT = faster Core 0 = better FPS. Turning off JobScheduler completely fixed all my blurries and made almost no difference to Frame rate, just dont run lots of other applications in the background.

What I have found is that in 4.5 any setting of JobScheduler will cause blurries (on my CPU anyway). I am running FFTF 0.17 and I get no blurries after removing the JobScheduler entry.

Try bumping up to 5.1 with HT off and increase your DDR4 memory speed too, gave me a pretty big nice FPS increase.