Kpeters

On 9/9/2020 at 2:05 PM, andyjohnston.net said:

Oh poo.  I used to fly into Tocumen all the time when travelling between the Americas.

MROC is close and it's a nice valley airport big enough for any widebodies.

For some reason now it hasn't used more than 5GB of RAM on my system? something is wrong....

17 minutes ago, SAS443 said:

in every alpha/beta release I tested with my 9900k I never, not even once managed to peg any CPU core to 99% load.

GPU? yes but that was with ultra settings and 4K, I would achieve the same result with any modern game. 

Compared to P3D which is a Core0 dramaqueen, MSFS is more easy on the CPU from my opinion.

Many things need to be corrected with MSFS, but claiming it to be CPU hog à la P3D is not accurate.

Did you try the release version? For me it's different.

19 hours ago, yanfeng12342000 said:

That does not sound good.😅

Google Earth VR is mind blowing.

2 hours ago, OAL809 said:

I have also seen it...maybe not bad textures but a damage model??

Are you implying I'm bad at flying? 🙂

I honestly didn't notice, will have to check it out. thanks for the heads up.

49 minutes ago, fogboundturtle said:

Looks. He said the images are faked marketing BS. We just came her to say, He's wrong. That's all.

Yeap gotta chill down a bit. It's just a matter of trying to stop fake rumors with what little one can divulge.

On 6/2/2020 at 4:01 AM, Dominique_K said:

I read here and there in this thread the advocacy of the best bang for your buck approach to justify going to the Intel or Nvidia 70 or 60 series as opposed to the 90 (Intel) or 80 (Nvidia). 

I think it is fairly justified if you build your computer to last,  say,  three or four years. You get the best ratio for today or tomorrow games.

I prefer to build for a longer period for about 7/8 years and go to the upper specs to be sure that the they will still be relevant then.

I don't say it is the way to go, it is the way I go. 

 

I made my PC in 2011 I think, it's an i5 2500k. Initially had 8GB ram and a Radeon 4850 vid card.

With time I overclocked to 4.4Ghz, added Hyper 212 Evo to keep it cool, a Radeon RX480 8Gb and upped ram to 16GB and it has kept very current. It's no lightning fast but surprisingly fast.

20 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

Perhaps he’s referring to a camera effect when taking the screenshot, you probably can’t answer this but I wonder about what camera settings can be altered when taking a pic.

I don't think I can answer that question without breaching the NDA, but I can only say regarding my pictures "what you see is what you get". And ofc it depends on each PC's hardware display settings etc. Some may have more or less graphic options on.

1 hour ago, Darcanlos said:

Are you getting hints from the photographers? Cause how you manage to find these places is an unsolvable mystery for me...

In any case keep them coming!

I wonder the same! 

5 hours ago, albx said:

ok, now one question... how do I access to the insider's forum? I login to forums.flightsimulator.com but I can see only the public forum, that is also closed

 

Log in and log out, worked for me.

42 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

However, it seems to me that some, if not all, of the screenshots have been touched up, or photo-shopped, for effect.  I do not like this practice, and it makes me suspicious that the scenery may not be quite as awesome as the MSFS marketing folks are making it seem.

I don't think so.

I can tell you my screenshots look exactly the same in this site as in my hard drive, and I don't see anything in the other screenshots to think that they were tampered with.

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

In the selection of screenshots in this update my favorites are the shot taken to the right of the 152 flying  the downwind leg with the cracked asphalt runway and the airfield buildings down below so we see how a small airfield looks like and the one with the aircraft just about to land on the dirt strip with the puddles and the pebbles and the garbage bin.

PS thanks to Snowy for the wonderful shot à la Trent Palmer, I wish I was there ! To Kpetersscrn too for the mountain and the Costa Rica shots.

You're welcome! Im glad they chose them 🙂

4 hours ago, adesai73 said:

have the new invites started to drop?

Just got mine! Finally! No email though, so check the hub.

12 hours ago, radar18alien said:

From the May 14 development update screen shot a distinctive Volcanic top down aerial view of Mt Taranaki, Egmont National Park, North Island, New Zealand.

Bing Satellite imagery

That's ...round. Must be some sort of mask applied by bing.

I'm not in either but it's probably because I have an i5 2500k. It's O.C. but they wouldn't be able to tell. 😞

So when is the support group forming? lol

Amazing screenshots! 

Sadly no invite for me I don't think I'll get it at all because of my old o.c. cpu. 😞 Still can't stop checking anh hoping though.

1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

You choose your username when you sign up, you could have used Kpeters if it wasn't taken.

That's weird I got that name I didn't choose it, it was automatically given when I typed my Microsoft live id.

Wow these alpha invites are taking out the worst of people.

Posting here won't make a difference, I'm Kpeters here but Microsoft named me MidSizeCarton67 or 69.... something like that... which I've no idea what the heck it means. They don't have a way of cross referencing us nor do I think they scan the forums to choose people.

I know it's discouraging and I also get my heart tacing when I see a new email but it will probably not happen for a lot of us, specially us in lower-mid end systems.

4 hours ago, Farlis said:

I just checked it out in Google Earth VR. Surreal. Especially if you put yourself at fixed human scale on one of the hiking trails and start to wonder why you didn't take the cable car. 😉

Google Earth VR is breath taking.

i want to build a new one but I'm also curious what will happen to my i5 2500k o.c. to 4.4 when running this. 

I think I already posted this video before somewhere else but, look at the trees here they are huge and right by the seashore.

This is Sirena which has already been shown in MSFS screenshots.

On 4/30/2020 at 5:58 PM, NZ255 said:

This is risky posting negative comments... I like to think it's constructive 🙂

Some of those trees are enormous compared to the houses. Imagine the size of a human. I guess it could be plausible?

Rainforest trees are BIG I should know I live in Costa Rica! I 

12 hours ago, WarpD said:

Here's Prepar3D v5...

Not sure how you can be disappointed by the MSFS version over everything else that's available.  Honestly.

Omg that looks terrible I don't recall my FSX looking that bad.

On 5/1/2020 at 4:42 AM, GodAtum said:

the last photo by FlyingFoxFox the ground looks awful and fuzzy!

That's Bing's fault. I've pointed that out several times.

1 hour ago, MatthewS said:

Very good...  7GB VRAM? What card would that be 1080? 2080?

I have an RX480 that's 8GB