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At least on my rig, it will work whether I start Pimax Play before the sim or I forget and don't start it until after the sim is already loaded in. This is 2024, though, and I wasn't using a Pimax when I was still on 2020 so your mileage may vary. You won't break anything experimenting with this, so go ahead and see what works.

It's not uncommon if you live in a decently populated place that there will be a VR arcade somewhere near you. You pay an hourly fee to play VR games. That would be a great way to get a quick test to see if VR could work for you without committing to buying expensive hardware.

That represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how AI works. Real humans understand that a question is being asked and that the goal of the asker is to get a correct answer. AI doesn't understand any of that. It doesn't even know that it's having a conversation because its name is a lie; it's not intelligent. Even if you ask a liar a question and get a fake answer, at least you haven't caused the human to suck down enough power to run a microwave to generate the answer. ;)

No, that's what a search engine does. AIs try to interpret what they find online, and they aren't capable of properly vetting the answers they get. They're also designed to come up with answers even if they can't find any. A great example of that is that a whole bunch of lawyers have gotten in trouble over the past couple of years by using AI to write briefs that they then submitted to the court. The problem is that AI likes to cite cases that don't exist, which judges catch and then the lawyer gets nailed. Here's one recent example of that. So when you ask an AI a question, you know that it's going to give you an answer no matter what. "I don't know" is not within its repertoire, so when it doesn't find an answer, it's going to tell you a lie. Even if it finds an answer, it's not terribly good at figuring out if the answer that it found is accurate. All that boils down to, when you run an AI search, you can't rely on the answer and you have to go and verify everything yourself, which kind of eliminates the advantages of having the computer do your work for you.

Hardware demands of the Crystals is going to depend on which flavor you get, but all of them are pretty hungry. I have a Crystal Light, and my 3070Ti could not run 2024 without the graphics settings turned down so low that it blurred out the gauges to unreadability. I had to upgrade graphics cards and now I have more GPU than I technically need for the Crystal Light but that's because I'm hoping it's still good enough for the next VR set I get, which may well be a Crystal Super if they don't come out with something better. I don't necessarily need the higher resolution of the Super but I'd sure like that horizontal field of view increase. At any rate, despite claims on Pimax's website, I probably wouldn't consider one unless I had a 4080 at minimum.

Yep. Back in the day I had a friend who maintained the computers for the flight sims at a major US airline. This was before 9/11, so she was able to invite me over many times to go flying in sims that weren't scheduled for real pilots. Flew the 747-400, DC-9, 737 and 757 many times. We absolutely treated it as a game. She thought nothing was more fun than to wait till I was about 500 feet above the ground on takeoff before killing 3 of the engines. Or I'd be coming in for a landing and suddenly find myself in a supercell when it had been CAVU the whole flight. Fun as hell. And that was back in the early 2000s - I bet they're much better now. Level D sims are the greatest video games ever made, bar none.

Go into the Windows joystick settings and see if the calibration window shows joystick movement when you move it around. If no, then you have a problem with Windows not seeing your controller. If yes, then go into MSFS's axis settings and check for movement indication when you wiggle the stick. If that moves, then you're either setting the wrong axis (which can happen - the MSFS in-sim controller setup scheme is so bad that I bought an external one) or your plane has gust locks that you haven't taken off, so the controls aren't moving because they can't.

That's what I've been saying. Back in the FSX days, I really wanted to fly bizjets but there were very few that were even decent, much less good. Now there are so many I don't think I even have them all. Great time to be a simmer.

I mean, in fairness, AI is set up to tell you what you want to hear, so when you complain to it about a product, it's going to cheer you on. I don't really get who you were trying to convince of what with that post.

The forum has a list of words that are censored and replaced with that phrase.

Your negativity would be more impactful if it weren't a constant. 😉

Sorry, I was unclear. In my case, the unnecessary drivers were Nvidia. In other people's cases, it's Realtek. Best I can tell, it's not a problem with the specific driver itself, but that there is an audio driver on the system that isn't being used when the sim is running. I have no idea why this would be an issue, but when I disabled the unnecessary drivers the stuttering went away entirely. BTW, I didn't stutter every time either. It's a difficult bug to pin down, but people have had success with the audio driver approach.

Agree with Farlis - start a thread in the hangar and link me to it and I'll be happy to talk further about it.

I mentioned having the same problem in SU3 in another thread I'm too lazy to find right now. I was thinking it was something to do with calculating the physics of the tires on the ground that was causing stutters, but others chimed in and pointed me toward sound. It's the sound of the wheels on the pavement that is, for some reason, causing problems if you have unnecessary sound drivers active. In addition to the Realtek drivers that were running the VR set I was using at the time, I also had Nvidia audio drivers because my LG monitor that does not have speakers thinks it does and Windows kept installing the drivers for it. I disabled those, and the stuttering-on-rolling stopped. Might be worth a look for you as well, disabling any sound drivers you aren't actively using.

Believe it or not, I don't. Even in South Africa, the 90% had money. You get 90% of the population starving, homeless and knowing it's all the 10%'s fault? Yeah, there's a reason those guys are building bunkers right now, but it's not going to help. They have to come up for air and food at some point and if they don't then great, they've voluntarily put themselves in prison and the rest of us can get on with reshaping society. In short, it may not be fun in the short term, but it will be self correcting and then after that, assuming AI ever actually lives up to what its proponents say it can do (it certainly can't right now), we'll end up with a society wherein we're much more free to do what we want because the computers are doing all the work we don't want to do.