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https://www.livescience.com/technology/electric-vehicles/ev-battery-that-recharges-in-just-18-seconds-green-lit-for-mass-production Certification for mass production. Beats filling up an ICE and beats Porsche Cayenne EV charge record at 14 minutes to full charge. I’m sure my post will get removed since I mentioned the yet to be defined horrific abbreviation “EV” which surely is somehow political or “word not allowed”. I’ve asked for my AVSIM account to be removed, but sadly moderates are only willing to delete my posts under the pretense of whatever they deem “political” but not my account … gotta keep the membership count high for those advertisers. I guess anything could be deemed political … since we do live and operate in a society that is governed. Maybe this one will get Admins attention and they’ll implement my account delete request.

Interesting location, British by origin, but I was born in Karachi circa 1964. Nice video and thanks for sharing.

Speaking of bugs, got the dreaded spinning wheel of infinity when select my TM Boeing Yoke at the controller screen. Only remedy was to shutdown MSFS 2024 and restart.

You really need to make a list of what we can’t mentioned, this is getting silly

Looking to buy, but not in Marketplace, not in Orbx, not in Contrail?? Turns out it's a coming soon product.

Everyone should just move to Vimeo … the advertising revenue from YouTube is pathetic. Content creators get their income from companies that want to expose their products to the world and from selling physical products (merchandise) with their logos etc. This can be accomplished on any platform. Content providers losing YouTube monetization wouldn’t even register as an amount on their financials. Moving to Vimeo provides for complete freedom from YouTube algorithms and constant changing of policy leaving content providers wonder why their videos are not getting any coverage. All that garbage is removed with Vimeo and for larger content providers the cost of Vimeo is negligible at about $900/yr. Content providers can focus on what they want to do and not what the YouTube algorithm tells them to do. And most important, NO viewers have to pay to not see Ads because there are no Ads.

Sure, never said it would not work. My point was that to enjoy the visual benefits MSFS 2024 offers over MSFS 2020, a better GPU will make those benefits (no limitations) available. Otherwise, OP will be very disappointed to see VRAM exceeded messages. Not trying to be elitist, just trying to avoid expectations that might trigger a bad impression of MSFS 2024.

Suggest you browse the Steam discussion groups and MS MSFS official forums to see just how widespread the issue is ... not just a few, many!

I had A LOT of issues with the MS Store version of MSFS 2024. Got a refund, uninstalled, purchased MSFS 2024 thru Steam and it's working well. Data not being saved could be a user/app permissions issue. Where does that data get saved to? Cloud/local?

Cheapest edition you can buy. Go with Steam, more likely to succeed with install. Upgrade your GPU otherwise 2024 might be a pointless test as you'll not be able to achieve better image quality than 2020 with that GPU.

Well ... if this is still Christopher's hardware: Then I can understand why MSFS 2024 might not be so attractive for him ... I've ran MSFS 2024 on low settings and it's definitely worse than MSFS 2020 in that regard. BUT, with sufficient hardware MSFS 2024 can and does look better than MSFS 2020. However, the hardware cost (especially in this era of chest beating insanity from TACO) are definitely a deterrent to the platform. If you look at the sad reality of Steam hardware survey (people are buying nvidia 5060's ... OMG what a pointless expense) a PC to run modern era games/sims at high image quality is pretty staggering ... looking at $5000 min on upwards (just the PC no monitor).

It could be continuation of data stream and doing cache management/processing. P3D/FSX had a similar process of doing a lot of background loading while sitting at the menu/scenario screen. Even on app exit, it could still be doing a lot of cleanup and indexing. Could also be the metric (CPU temp, GPU temp, CPU load, GPU load, chipset temp, etc.) used to drive the fan curves. My corsair iCUE setup drives a lot of fans and every fan can use a different metric to drive their individual curves. What I've noticed with MSFS2024, it's the GPU fans that ramp up so it could be doing a lot of decompression of scenery data (global) while I doddle around contemplating life, the universe, and everything.

Yeah that is possible, but what metric have you used to actually determine that? Load balancing on cluster servers is hard to determine a metric unless you are on MS IT team that monitors.

Ok, so how many fans do you have and which one(s) are “spinning fast until shutdown”? Are you using multiple fan controlling software and/or EFI?

But I’m still paying to not see Ads? $8/mo If you folks haven’t seen recent Black Mirror episode “Common People” … it has a rather dark twist on “Ads” and keeping humans alive: Yes Chris O from the IT crowd.

To quote myself per your reference. No I didn’t … provided a “here” link. Sorry don’t see how this could be interpreted as “bait and switch” … not even sure how an Add-On could even be considered for bait and switch … the platform is the same MSFS 2024. Maybe if I took a screenshot from MSFS 2024 and said it was from XP12 that could be considered bait and switch, but that is clearly NOT the case … I think your interpretation of bait and switch is out of context. Anyway, the person reporting the blurry terrain indicated sometimes was clear and then suddenly became blurry … I listed the possible causes and hopefully he can make the time to check to resolve his issue.

Bait and switch? That’s a weird thing to suggest when I clearly identify the add-on in the video title? And like I said, go to the end of the video if you want to see the same clarity outside of the “add-on” coverage. EDIT: Video is on Vimeo … no ads, no monetization, not trying to sell anything or make money from it if that is your concern.

Whatever the max value is … I only run 3440 x 1440 resolution so no issues with FPS. That screenshot is from recorded video I made below (not even native screenshot capture) … at the end of my video, I land at Hayward airport which is outside of the Orbx Cities Vol 2. The road/building/ground details are the same clarity outside the area of the add-on. I have experienced that also (in MSFS default areas) but in my case it was an ISP internet issue at the time. There are a few things that can cause this problem: 1. Inconsistent ISP performance and or local network performance (wireless connectivity can cause this). 2. Pushing your hardware beyond it’s limits. 3. Other downloads (Windows updates or Steam updates) are happening during your flight session. 4. GPU driver issues, old chipset drivers, even EFI outdated. 5. Too aggressive an OC of CPU or GPU or RAM. EDIT: I do have some external recording equipment coming that will allow me to record my flight session at much higher quality and have zero impact on FPS. This was recorded with AV1 medium quality setting via nVidia app.

I'm not seeing any issues with terrain clarity? I can see basketball court lines, street pedestrian crossings, street turn lane arrows, dirt grooming circle in baseball park. I made a video in my other thread here ... pretty clear IMHO and I'm nit picky 😉

Very quick video I put together:

I’m surprised they would spend any development time on MSFS 2020, especially this long after MS 2024 release. There might be some cross-over bug fixing … example bug in MSFS 2020 that also exists in MSFS 2024 so a “bug fix” would be applied to both platforms (kill two birds with one stone). MSFS 2024 is an evolution of MSFS 2020, NOT an entirely new product from scratch. There are several obvious visual issues that still exist in both platforms: 1. AI traffic mostly brain dead (flying across a main runway at 500 ft AGL, disappearing, spinning, taxi into water, etc.) 2. Water tiles rendering late with lines/bars 3. Shadow and/or Ambient Occlusion renders like a paint brush in close proximity (much more noticeable on turns) 4. Obvious delineation of LOD radius when rendering buildings/trees To be honest, I don’t think they are going to address any of the 4 issues above regardless of 2020 or 2024 … maybe #2 above, but #1 they’ll leave to 3rd party, #3 fix would be a performance reduction (aka lower FPS), #4 same as #3

You didn’t answer my question … what are you using to control fan speed? And what temperature source is driving the metric the fan(s) use? And finally how many fans and which fan? I had a PSU that ran the fan at 100% until I discovered there was a eco mode switch … since the PSU fan is not control by anything other than the PSU it took me a while to discover the problem.

Unfortunately it’s not … and requires frequent IP maintenance and many sites will still just show nothing if the Ads aren’t rendered. Also, can get in the way of legit processing so you don’t see critical things you need to see that aren’t Ads. And finally as new technology is used for web and ad development, trying to defeat them takes more time than letting them play their course.

Ok, SamScene3D Cities Vol 2. fitted into the Orbx umbrella.

I’ve made many NON-Monetized videos on YouTube and when I view them from another source and not logged in, my videos are full of Ads. It’s so bad, that I’ve moved to Vimeo (ZERO Ads), but Vimeo does cost me $900/yr. The benefits from Vimeo are: 1. Image quality is much better. They don’t compress my content and reduce it’s image quality like YouTube. 2. No Ads, ever, everyone likes that 3. Much better tags and marker tools The con’s to Vimeo: 1. It cost me $$$ 2. Not a popular platform from the casual surfer