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Thank you, stonelance!

Thanks again for all your work keeping Flight alive!

Thanks for the the update!

Glad to hear this positive news about a potential future for Flight. Looking forward to hearing more details.

Thanks, good to know.

Is everyone using REX cloud textures with ASN? Has anyone tried ASN with HDEv2, Oscar Clouds v4 or other texture sets with good results? I thought I read that ASN no longer includes its own textures.

Thank you for the reply. That's great news either way. I'm very glad to hear you have a backup plan for us to keep flying if MS doesn't come through. I sure would miss Alaska and my Cub. Hawaii too. I was talking about the third type of Offline Profile that I've started using with a few other games. It allows you to play offline and save game progress, but there are no achivements or other features. I did create the new offline profile on a machine with my existing old online profile, so the machine has a fully working version of GFWL which previously connected online. I asked about converting saves becuase I could try converting them now to see if I could reload my save games with the offline profile, but I'm not sure there is a way to do that. I'm glad you've been planning ahead and it's always better to research while the official servers are still live so you can observe the traffic. I've seen various solutions which range from completely bypassing GWFL to offering a replacement GWFL .dll. I really hope MS will release something official that will give the right authorization signals to at least allow local offline play of all purchased content.

Thanks for that. I do miss the scenic distant mountains.

Thanks for the comparison shots. Looking below the golf course area, there seem to be less structures and trees closer in on P3Dv2, but many more trees further out. As for the far background, why are the distant mountains not visible in P3Dv2 (especially on the left side horizon)? Is that a lower draw distance or a thicker/more reflective/washed out fog/haze effect?

I've been looking into the GFWL shutdown a bit more lately and have started using a GFWL Offline Profile for a few other games, which theoretically may allow me to save and continue playing offline after the final complete shutdown (when the GFWL login server no longer responds). However, my many hours of Flight saved game progress (challenges, unlocked paints, aerocaches) is tied to my main GFWL Online profile. For other games, I have read the the saved progress is tied to the online profile, so if you simply copy the saved game/progress files into a new profile folder it won't work. Has anyone tried converting their Flight Online Profile to an offline profile and been able to reload the saved game progress for offline play?

I said the same thing myself a couple weeks ago. That card can still handle almost anything out there if you don't mind turning down the settings and lower framerates. ...But then last week I gave in and ordered a new card. Including P3D, there are now 3 titles I'll own that either don't run at all on my old card or aren't supported on older hardware. I was hoping to hold off on an upgrade until next year, but I didn't quite make it. I think developers are finally starting to leave those of us with classic hardware behind, so it's probably worth it to pick up a modern card if you can swing it.

I haven't played Flight as much lately, but have been seeing stories about the shutdown of GFWL. I own one Steam version of Hawaii+Alaska and a few planes. I also own a second copy of Hawaii on a purely GFWL version on another pc. I suppose I will backup all the files from both machines and hope our community developers come up with a solution to transfer and restore all purchased content to a new pc the future. I've never played without logging into GFWL. Will I be able to continue my progress on the same profile offline without logging in? I suppose the shutdown of GFWL means no more online multiplayer servers. Is there any possibilty of private servers or LAN play without GFWL? I have two copies so two of us can fly together on the LAN. Logging into GFWL always seemed like an unnecessary extra step for LAN play.

Yes, I've been playing and enjoying this one too. Definitely recommended if you like WWII planes and combat sims. War Thunder is by the same developer that released Birds of Steel for consoles and it shares a lot of the planes with that game. You might enjoy that one too if you have a console and can find it for a good price.

Seems like a good deal. I was thinking about picking up a spare copy. Flight Simulator X Gold Edition PC Game $9.99 (Microsoft Store)

Nothing here either. Maybe we've reached the end of what they had done before the shutdown.