The Flight Sim Doctor

What phraseology did you use that's SI friendly? I'm worried about messing up my flight because I've asked for something incorrectly. I struggle to get it to accept my destination airfield when I'm flying VFR.

Wow, the mod keeps on giving. I appreciate the guy who made Dark Streets though. It's been a real game changer.

What keeps me coming back to the sim is the fact that Brexit has decimated my IRL flying prospects (I have a UK passport but EASA ATPLs), and that Aeromedical in Birmingham have taken the entire summer to process my Class One medical. The only problem I have with virtual flying is AI traffic without landing gears.

I'm seeing some good early signs from people about this aircraft, particularly about performance. How does it compare to say the PMDG 777, which is my benchmark? (I know it's a different developer, different aircraft, but that's kind of the benchmark I'm happy with).

Have another go. There is a fidelity slider, and it really does make things sharper (to the extent that I'm angry it's not the base game). Use the default maps. I'm the first one to complain about texture resolution and my recent flights have been astonishing.

MSFS map enhancement mod on Flightsim.to. Make sure you start and stop the mod before and after using the sim. It's really good for getting the crisp terrain back. I don't see the need for using any map provider other than MSFS default. The detail slider costs frames, but you can get far better than default and still get sharp and smooth flying.

Guys the Terrain enhancement mod reduces the awful detail culling significantly, and you can use default MSFS maps now. Play a few notches above default and medium and I've got the sim looking perfect again. (It just highlights how blurry the base game is now, pathetic). I've got crisp, perfect looking terrain and good frames. (If you go too high it does impact)

I'm just lost in a swamp of DLL files, streamline files, what a mess. I already have reshade, but it either doesn't work or crashes when I try and activate this. You'd think with all the endless hype there would be some sort of one click installer by now, even if the technology is "unofficial" at the moment.

I'm really enjoying it for GA. However I'm struggling a bit where the controller asks me mid-flight what my destination is. On startup I just ask for "VFR clearance southbound" or whatever. Then after about half an hour it wants my destination airfield (which sometimes I don't know, I'm just flying around). I give the airfield in phonetics, I give the airfield's name, multiple times. And it always says "Cleared to [insert wrong airport name]" I also think my real world flying knowledge is lacking. In South Africa I leave the TMA, and as long as I stay below 1,500 feet I can fly wherever I like. I don't have to speak to anyone as long as I stay below 1,500 AGL and avoid controlled airspace. If I am above 1,500 feet I have to file a flight plan, so they should know my destination airport anyway, even though I am under VFR rules. When I have my destination airfield in sight, if I am speaking to centre I advise them I have the airfield in sight, they tell me to speak to whatever the arrival airfield has in terms of radio, squawk VFR. When I land I call up centre and cancel search and rescue. A bit confused, and also I guess there are many regional variations, in which case, cool.

I use their (much more expensive) competitor. Every time I go back to BATC I'm just disappointed.

I ended up going around in circles trying to get it to work, eventually did, had a massive peformance hit, and then lost all my frame gen. Ended up having to do the old file verification and all sorts. I'll look again when something more "official" gets released.

I do love the dramatic addon developer style video :D Where is the classical music with camera transitions guided by the tempestuous nature of the score?

I've found the main culprit to be VRAM heavy airports. I've had to turn texture size down for those, and turn photogrammetry off. But when random corners of the world that aren't fussed over by Msobo look this good consistently, it's a tradeoff I'm willing to make. I just wonder what's going to become of the app. It's a third party guy hacking around and making money off stopping MS/Asobo degrading their product? Feels like taking your supercar to some dodgy backstreet garage to get it mapped for extra power. It's the clarity of the foreground and the midground I like. (And the screenshot absolutely doesn't do justice to how good it looks in sim). Crete would be heavily degraded in the native sim, with muddy, slightly blurred texturing on these steep terrain sections. I could crank it up much further here, but I don't want to be messing around with settings when I'm coming into JFK, so this is definitely on the conservative side.

I use dynamic frame and a constant TLOD of 150 throughout, OLOD of 100. As everything is pretty sharp and sweet I don't feel like I need to be tweaking that value all the time.

Try with the MSFS 2024 default map, and go to between medium and high. You essentially get everything we've become used to and it's a bit sharper. Any other maps just introduce weird tiling, artefacts when they interfere with your base cacheing. It's completely transformed the sim for me, no degredation at all, and decent frames (once you find the right setting) I'm irritated that it shows just how poor the sim looks out of the box now though. We've got used to really poor terrain, and those of us with decent hardware should have better.