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4 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Everytime someone asks about Track IR, there are always a dozen or more posts claiming that something else is much better. 

I never said Grass Monkey would be better, just cheaper. 🙂

I have used Track IR 5 with a simple wireless baseball visor clip for years. It is a good piece of gear. If you want to check out grassmonkey simulations they make a similar system called Puck IR for about half the price if cost is an issue.

Trees Schmeez ... Problem in EVERY sim. FSW which I use on the laptop has trees in sports stadium at Chicago if using DD Chicago X, Aerofly FS2 (and maybe 4) has trees on roads and this one has too many and too high. I do not remember if the Australia V2 add on fixed this in FSX or not, and I do not know about P3D and XP. Best thing is to take off and get up to 3-5000 feet and it does not look so bad. 

11 hours ago, jcomm said:

No need for that I guess, it is actually a good title altough I in particular didn't quite understand what you mean by double card ? One onboard and a 2nd One you installed or some sort of NVIDIA SLI / AMD Crossfire ?

My machine is one that has two Video cards. The first is the Radeon Vega that is the one that handles most of the day to day laptop activities like email etc. The second is an Nvidia 1060 3gb one that is for games. I have updated my Ram now to 16gb but the video cards are not upgradeable unless I buy a better machine. I am thinking that if I do that then I will not have the fun of fiddling with it to get it to improve performance.

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Installed RAM 8.00 GB (5.88 GB usable)

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Bit of a mental lapse on  my part, I did not mean to use that as a title. If anyone knows how I can edit that or better still delete this thread entirely please let me know.

For those who have a dual video card HP gaming laptop like me, what sort of frame rates are you getting on medium settings?

I think that most of us are inveterate "fiddlers". With our sims especially. Tweaking and twisting, trying to see if this works or that. Good luck.

Looking at the responses I think I should have phrased the OP a little bit differently. I was just musing over the total cost of all the add ons and whether or not anyone had actually bought them all. I did not mean to cast any aspersions on anyone regarding their financial status. I apologise for any offence. 😟

This question arose from me logging into MSFS this morning and seeing the announcement that there are 700 products on sale in the market place! I got my little  brain cell thinking .... 700 times ...... = ?

I know there are some out there who are very rich but has anyone ever worked out the total cost of buying all MSFS add ons? I bought all the Orbx scenery for Australia/NZ but that is nothing compared to everything available. Are we dumb or what?

A couple of times I have thought about getting an X Box. That way my grand kids would have something to play when they stay over too. I was wondering if I have the Steam MSFS whether it would play on the XBox or would I have to purchase another version specific to that platform? Also which model of the XBox would I need to buy from an MSFS point of view?

Pity the Steam Deck is not available for you. That might have solved your portability issues. 

I like flying from Aldinga.

I suspect these updates are going to keep improving the sim to the point where it will not run on my system.

I am sorry Jorge it was a silly attempt of humour on my part. No offence intended and as I said I agree with you that this sim is the best there is.

Thanks for posting that Bill, how are the rest of the Gates family by the way? 😀

Just kidding. I cannot understand how 25% of reviews would be negative myself. This is the best simulator. I am thinking though that with all these abundant world and service updates we might end up with bloatware and a hit on frame rates eventually. Maybe a switchboard might come in where you select an area to fly in and it only loads that area into the device you use might be useful.

I find simmarket to be a little cheaper than the market place. Never had any problems with their downloads either.

Thank you for posting this. I was wondering the same thing. A lot of Youtube reviewers get out of their planes to show the airports they are at and I have never been able to do that like they can. I think there was a slew command in FSX. The Y keyboard key seems to ring a bell. It does not seem the same but it works.

I can so relate to the puppy jumping on your lap when rotating. I get a cat pushing my legs on one side of me and my dog on the other demanding affection when I take off sometimes.  🙂

14 hours ago, Fielder said:

And you just cost me $55 for four more airports 😕   LOL

Oceana: Australia

Yeah well I spent $170 AUD myself but now have all the Orbx Oceania stuff. I figure I get my monies worth by spending so many hours exploring all these great places. By the way if you have the reefworld scenery then you might want to get the Reefworld added scenery by projectzero3923 at flightsim.to It adds some static items to enhance the original AUScene one and it is free.

A day late and a dollar short but I am assuming you had a version of MSFS before your upgrade? 

42 minutes ago, David Mills said:

Do like I do -- and a lot of other simmers -- buy a big screen 4K TV (mine is 75") and use that for your display. You won't have any trouble reading the text.

Given the length of a flight stick cord I would imagine you would stuff your eyes up by sitting too close to that monster. 😀

I bought the Oceania sceneries I did not have from Orbx this morning. They have a 40% sale if anyone wants anything.

The answer to your question IMHO depends on what sort of flying you want to do. If you want flying with full real settings and ultra graphics enabled then probably not. If like me you are happy with medium settings and not so much into the study level planes then yes I would say your setup should be fine. I have an i5 laptop with 8gb of ram and a dual video card set up of 2gb for regular work and a 3gb nvidia. With medium settings enabled I get mid 20's FPS. One thing, I see you are from New York and the bridges around the island are borked in photogrammetry. You will need to buy the all 29 bridges scenery supplement from Simmarket to get ones that look like they do not have curtains hanging down underneath. If I flew around there every day or even a few times per week I would buy that.

I have one and also recommend it.