basher5

I started using VR a year ago and have never gone back to 2D. The immersion alone is worth the price of admission and if you a are real world pilot this is as close as it gets without the G-forces. I wish I had VR when I was doing my instrument rating years ago as it is that good for practicing IFR and shooting approaches.

I use the Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog and a pair of Thrustmaster MFD Cougar pack which gives me more than 40 assignable buttons for all my needs. With all those buttons and my mouse which is right in front of my desk I don't need to take off the Quest 2 to interact with the cockpit. Everything is within arms length and after a couple of flights I am able to reach them without having to look for them. I have all the internal and external views I need programmed and can call up my Navigraph in game panel without issues.

I have been away from flight sims and forums for a while but recently got a new PC with an Nvidia RTX 3080TI and decided to load up MSFS2020. I saw a post where someone suggested to try VR before upgrading monitors. Well, I took the plunge and bought the Quest 2 and Wow! what a difference. The immersion alone is worth the price of admission. I have only been using it for a month and can’t go back to flat screens.

Thanks guys. I was looking to load REX and some detailed airports like EGLL etc and go from there. I was very impressed with the performance i got doing touch and goes in the Cessna 172 last night that I want to go full steam ahead and see what will bring my system to its knees and adjust from there. Frame rates set to unlimited were in the 350 FPS level flying at KFRG. I don't remember it being that high on my previous installation, granted I did not crank up autogen or move sliders that much to the right yet.

Hi folks, I’m a long time simmer who has been out of the scene for at least five years and looking to get back in. I have owned many versions of Flight sim going all the way back to FS98 up to FSX. I am just now reading up on Prepar3d and of course FSX-SE. I own quite a bit of FSX add-ons so switching Flight Sims would make those obsolete, so I will hold off on Prepar3D for now. I just built a new rig with the following specs in order to restart where I left off. Windows 10 64 Bit Intel Core I7 6700K 4.0GHz (Overclocked to 4.6GHz) Gigabyte G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB 3400 DDR4 SDRAM GeForce GTX 980 Samsung 500GB SSD Corsair H110iGTX liquid cooling. The questions I have are: Is there a noticeable difference in going with FSX-SE over my FSX deluxe edition? Will most of my add-ons work in the Steam edition or do I have to hunt down and re-download updates? What are the must have add-ons for scenery, airplanes and environment I should look into? My preferred airplanes are airliners and I mostly sim in the Flight levels so pretty scenery except for the detailed airports I fly into are not too high on my must have list to start. I would appreciate any and all input. Thanks in advance. bash