Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Conchir wrote: »

I'm having a hard time running this Can only run it on Low settings so far.

I found these minimum/recommended/ideal specs on reddit, and comparing them to mine. The Windows build was a quick fix, it's updating now. It seems my CPU might be where I'm getting screwed mostly, but that's obviouly a very expensive thing to change. Would a RAM upgrade have any impact?

Minimum Recommended Ideal Mine
OS Windows 10 v 1909 Windows 10 v 1909 Windows 10 v 1909 Windows 10 v 1803
CPU Intel i5-4460 Intel i5-8400 Intel i7-9800X Intel i5-4690
GPU Nvidia GTX 770 Nvidia GTX 970 Nvidia RTX 2080 Nvidia GTX 970
VRAM 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB
RAM 8GB 16GB 32GB 16GB
HDD 150GB 150GB 150GB 150GB
Bandwidth 5Mbps 20Mbps 50Mbps ~32Mbps

Edit: Oof I just saw this post on mobile and the table is not having a good time. My CPU is an Intel i5-4690, RAM is 16GB, GPU is GTX 970.

TBH both the CPU and GPU are getting on a bit

There might be some bargains to be had when the new GPUs come out in a months time. To switch the CPU (I'd recommend a Ryzen 5 3600 or Ryzen 7 3700X from AMD) would mean swapping the Motherboard and RAM also.

32MB RAM is the idea but I don't think you'd benefit as it's probably not your bottle neck.

The other option would be a 4770 or 4790 i7 which might garner some extra performance but they tend to be over priced.

Conchir

I'm having a hard time running this

Can only run it on Low settings so far.

I found these minimum/recommended/ideal specs on reddit, and comparing them to mine. The Windows build was a quick fix, it's updating now. It seems my CPU might be where I'm getting screwed mostly, but that's obviouly a very expensive thing to change. Would a RAM upgrade have any impact?

Minimum Recommended Ideal Mine
OS Windows 10 v 1909 Windows 10 v 1909 Windows 10 v 1909 Windows 10 v 1803
CPU Intel i5-4460 Intel i5-8400 Intel i7-9800X Intel i5-4690
GPU Nvidia GTX 770 Nvidia GTX 970 Nvidia RTX 2080 Nvidia GTX 970
VRAM 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB
RAM 8GB 16GB 32GB 16GB
HDD 150GB 150GB 150GB 150GB
Bandwidth 5Mbps 20Mbps 50Mbps ~32Mbps

Edit: Oof I just saw this post on mobile and the table is not having a good time. My CPU is an Intel i5-4690, RAM is 16GB, GPU is GTX 970.

Ciano35

Just got going with it, it's really nice in fairness :cool: Physics seem a lot different coming from X-plane but maybe I just need to get used to the bouncy camera.

s1ippy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRbPYCSUZwU

Francis Higgins doing this as Shlug now. It's a great stream.

Colonel Claptrap

Nice landing.

DaveyDave

Tried the command prompt setting, tried deleting the Flight Sim folder from the Users/AppData/Microsoft folder, tried deleting the few 2GB files in the Flight Sim directory folder. Still downloading at a pathetic speed.

Going to bring the PC into the living room to plug directly into the modem, but the office has a 75Mb powerline connection and it's barely using 20Mb.

I'm afraid to even try downloading city data when I eventually get into it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcZ_9vJO-q0

Ah jaysus this is great craic altogether.
Finished the tutorials so thought id fly from Baldonnel to Dublin airport for a short run in the noob plane Cessna 152 i think its called.
What should of been a short hop took well over an hour as i got totally distracted flying all around Dublin a few times then out to howth to approach Dublin Airport.
Im a total noob but its mighty enjoyable, just found my old logitech 3D Pro Joystick too, gonna sort it out later

Gonna fly from Dublin past my place in Monasterevin later during rush hour traffic above the M7

Heres my first landing in Dublin and first non tutorial flight, got distracted looking at the terminals and almost blew it lol.

Doge wrote: »

I was greeted with "Please Insert Microsfoft Flight Simulator Game disc" today even though I'm on the Xbox Game Pass version!

Grrr.

I'd say changing my region to Kirabati Monday has backfired on me!

Tried a few things suggested online but failed to get it to run, looks like I'll be doing a full uninstall and reinstall.

Looks like Microsoft has clamped down on this and the only solution is you need to sign up to Game Pass with a separate account and pay another euro.

It seems to lock to the sim to the region your first installed with.

Colonel Claptrap

When I land, ATC will give me directions to a gate but i haven't a clue how to get there. Is there any way of highlighting the gate as a waypoint?

Currently i'm handing controls over to the co-pilot once i peel off the runway and he/she brings me the rest of the way.

Any advice?

I was greeted with "Please Insert Microsfoft Flight Simulator Game disc" today even though I'm on the Xbox Game Pass version!

Grrr.

I'd say changing my region to Kirabati Monday has backfired on me!

Tried a few things suggested online but failed to get it to run, looks like I'll be doing a full uninstall and reinstall.

Rossi IRL wrote: »

I'm on 1440p ultra I'm hitting 80% ish usage and only 25 - 50fps on my 2070super. Pretty much was using the slowest plane and flying low.

Will probably lower it down to high.

When I went to take off from Donegal I got a major frame drop.

Thats because you went back to the 1980s :pac:

Rossi IRL

I'm on 1440p ultra I'm hitting 80% ish usage and only 25 - 50fps on my 2070super. Pretty much was using the slowest plane and flying low.

Will probably lower it down to high.

When I went to take off from Donegal I got a major frame drop.

CJhaughey

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Hold on for the new GPUs out next month. My poor 5700XT is pegged at 100% utilisation.

This is great info, I am holding out until I can get a handle on what exactly this needs to run properly.

Hold on for the new GPUs out next month. My poor 5700XT is pegged at 100% utilisation.

Fuzzy Logic wrote: »

Flying over Waterford to show my parents yesterday and they couldn't believe how well it was represented apart from the 2 bridges in the city. I showed them their estate and where their house is. Now my dad is pushing me to build the pc for him a lot faster than originally planned

Love this

The chimneys in Dublin... there was only one of them!

Fuzzy Logic

Flying over Waterford to show my parents yesterday and they couldn't believe how well it was represented apart from the 2 bridges in the city. I showed them their estate and where their house is. Now my dad is pushing me to build the pc for him a lot faster than originally planned

Board Walker

I cant fly !! Any time the move the stick and re center, the aircraft stick stays where it is. i have to counteract it to bring it back. Its aful!! I changed the dynamics from Modern to legacy and it helped some bit but i still barrel rolled the A320 after turning off the autopilot to land. I cant understand how its so different to FSX and PMDG.
The graphics are out of this world tho.

cherrytaz

AirBiscuit wrote: »

Starts at 8:11 I think... Hard to find with no waypoints (video is still processing so give it time for 1080p)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPOmuJ8KPU

Thank you very much, I can see our farm on this! Fantastic. I think they have definitely overdone it on the trees in general!

CJhaughey wrote: »

Has anyone tried the Active Pause feature? It just pauses the plane and you can go out and get a drone view from outside the aircraft anywhere you want.
It might be better for looking at certain things instead of multitasking.

I did last night but if the plane was tilting down under the horizon it could actually "crash" even though I had the game paused.

The plane would be frozen in air visually but it was like the physics engine was unpaused!

Strange bug.

CJhaughey

Has anyone tried the Active Pause feature? It just pauses the plane and you can go out and get a drone view from outside the aircraft anywhere you want.
It might be better for looking at certain things instead of multitasking.

AirBiscuit

Dcully wrote: »

Yeah meant pedals as rudder

What kind of wheel? Logitech wheels tend to have a split axis on the clutch and accelerator which made it trickier for me to do exactly this back in day on FSX.
On the plus side, if you can get it to work and can turn the centering force feedback off on the steering wheel then you've got yourself a very nice pitch trim wheel like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/Xplane/comments/eq6nbz/whilst_setting_up_my_racing_pedals_for_use_as/

Doge wrote: »

You could use your clutch and accelerator as rudder pedals but using the steering wheel would be useless! Not sure if you meant the question that way!

Yeah meant pedals as rudder

Dcully wrote: »

Installed this tonight first flight sim.
Only done early tutorials so far but it's very enjoyable, I'm actually flying
I'm using a controller and it's not bad , any point hooking up my steering wheel and pedals , is it usable?
If I continue to enjoy I'll buy some proper controller hardware.
Runs great on my rig @ 2560 X 1440 very high settings
8600K @ 4.6 GHz & 1080ti .
Might have to drop graphics a bit once I get to large cities.

You could use your clutch and accelerator as rudder pedals but using the steering wheel would be useless! Not sure if you meant the question that way!

AirBiscuit

I take back what I said about Knock, Shannon is in a dire state compared to Knock: There is no taxiway A, and no apron whatsoever. I wouldn't normally care that much but for the fact I was flying at night and couldn't find the green taxiway lights after landing on 24.