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we need FFTF for MSFS2020 -
Superdelphinus replied to Michael Moe's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Life’s too short for this sort of thing I think! Just set the game up to run well in a demanding scenario and leave it at that. You’ll be spending a lot less time fiddling about with stuff, and more time (virtually) flying. -
This thread is peak avsim
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MSFS birthday present
Superdelphinus replied to MrBitstFlyer's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I don’t know whether to be impressed by that or horrified. It’s certainly committed! -
I’m not so sure this is such a ‘small hobby’ anymore. I guess the section of it containing people willing to pay as much as the base game for one new aircraft might be small, but I think msfs has heralded something of an explosion in the basic installed user base. Also, may just be my mind misremembering things, but I’m sure PMDG regularly have these sort of single point of failure issues - one person being sick shouldn’t delay an entire plan, especially if it’s a relatively straightforward update. Anyway, hope they’re selling more of their products than ever before!
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Help-Looking to make the jump to MSFS 2020
Superdelphinus replied to forshaw's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Terrible time to be building a computer imho. I’m half joking, but you may get more vfm by just trying to buy a series x now and wait a year until the tech supply problems calm down a bit and you don’t have to swap kidneys for GPUs. -
A game or a simulation?
Superdelphinus replied to Sabinede's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I’m not sure why the flight sim community gets so het up about whether something is a sim or a game, or why that matters as long as you’re enjoying yourself, but I think this is as much a ‘sim’ as most driving sims in terms of the breadth and depth of things it simulates. It may not be as advanced as some of the competitors, but the overall package is much better imho - especially in terms of immersion. I have both the Xbox and pc versions and use them for different things. I use the Xbox version to chill out, start airborne and just explore the scenery in a place I’ve never been and I’m never likely to go to - the visual simulation is incredibly good and is the only flight software I would use for this purpose. The PC version I would use if I wanted to fly a complex airliner or wanted to be more focussed on the technical aspects of flight. I have to say that I probably use the Xbox version more at the moment, but that’s partly because I don’t have the time to spend hours playing with the PC. -
The video I saw the guy (Koch?) using his own computer - i7 9700 and Rtx 2060, so no slouch but pretty solidly mid-spec I’d say. He was demonstrating a jump from ~40 to ~60 FPS over Manhattan at the same settings. I’d imagine a lot of things were set carefully here to demonstrate the benefit, so I’m conservatively expecting in just normal scenes it’ll be a sort of up to 10fps boost with bigger differences happening if there’s a lot going on.
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Over One Million Pilots!
Superdelphinus replied to MarkSC's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
0.1%? actually I’d imagine it’d be considerably less than that really, otherwise there would be some noise about the lack of both dog fights, and it not being on Xbox yet. -
Over One Million Pilots!
Superdelphinus replied to MarkSC's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
You said “probably” though. So what makes you think it’s probable that most of them are “casual” gamers (whatever that means), versus lapsed flight sim enthusiasts or other types of gamers? Don’t mean to single this post out particularly, but it’s dripping with sneary ‘serious flight simmer’ elitism. personally even if a proportion of those people don’t play longer than a few months (which is pretty normal for most games anyway), I’m really pleased that many more people have experienced something as exciting as this sim. And hopefully a good proportion of new players will stay and help freshen up the scene a bit. It’s also why I have been surprised for a while that more wasn’t built in to try and engage people within the game in a more structured way from the outset. -
MSFS So much new being released !!!
Superdelphinus replied to SirDan's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
This is what happens when games are popular, much more credible stuff very cheap or free and done for the love of it. -
No developer planes yet?
Superdelphinus replied to Daytona125's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I don’t know if this was in relation to my post, but I know - that’s what the thing I linked to says in it. In the forum he said they’re also testing their whole product line in fs2020 right now. Can’t say at the moment whether it will be a straight quick job, or a long and complex one. Don’t know where this nothin for 12 months thing is coming from. There’s a couple of stock aircraft in the base game that are tiding me over fine anyway, especially the tbm. -
No developer planes yet?
Superdelphinus replied to Daytona125's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I’m sure this has already been posted, but I lost the will to live after the first page of this thread. FWIW - https://a2asimulations.com/a2a-simulations-fs2020-p3d-and-the-aerostar/ -
Do 4K users need NVIDIA 3080 ???
Superdelphinus replied to Nemo's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
The 3070 will most likely be good for msfs I reckon, if it does turn out to be a bit faster than a 2080 ti, though the 3080 will obviously provide that bit of extra headroom (especially with the faster vram) which is never a bad thing. That also depends on what sort of cpu it’s being paired with obviously. There will be an interesting choice for some people now I reckon - I wouldn’t be surprised if the 3070 is in the same price ballpark as the Xbox series x when it comes out... will be fascinating to see how the performance of all of these things compares. -
Do 4K users need NVIDIA 3080 ???
Superdelphinus replied to Nemo's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
3090 is the only one of the new cards that does support sli, according to nvidia’s chart. -
Do 4K users need NVIDIA 3080 ???
Superdelphinus replied to Nemo's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Have a look at benchmarks between 1070s and 1080s (on as recent benchmarks as possible) and see if the differences would annoy you. Far from an exact science but gives you an idea of what the trend might be through the cycle - early benchmarks are quite often a bit mental and unreliable. It’s similar with the 3070 being faster than the 2080ti thing - I’ll wait and see some objective benchmarks on a range of settings before believing that - they said the same about the 1070 v 980 ti and it wasn’t more often than not. -
Do 4K users need NVIDIA 3080 ???
Superdelphinus replied to Nemo's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Yeah I think I probably will too, it’s about the price I was expecting it to be. I’m interested to see how the 3rd party manufacturers handle pricing with these - they should be slightly cheaper than the founders edition if you take most history into account, but I think that got bucked with the 20xx series? -
Do 4K users need NVIDIA 3080 ???
Superdelphinus replied to Nemo's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
3070 for the best bang for the buck 3080, for less value but more bang 3090 if you are fully lost down the gpu upgrade rabbit hole and have lost any sense of perspective. I don’t think I’ll really know which of the 70 or 80 I’ll get until I buy it. I’d like to think it will be the 70, but wouldn’t bet on myself. -
a single key for screenshots?
Superdelphinus replied to sightseer's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
If you’ve got fraps, just press f10. -
I’ve been using it for the last 3 or 4 months with 16gb ram and haven’t had a single memory crash. The only time I could make it crash was with a very particular location that always seemed to cause it problems (and I’ve no idea why, it was basically a very small airport in the middle of nowhere!). Fine in the gold master.
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Yes it’s exactly like being pilots in wartime.
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What happens to the Alpha and Beta testers now?
Superdelphinus replied to jlund's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
We had to change our identity and promise to live a life of complete isolation for ever more. Shame.