Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

FFS now I want a third set of plastic paraphernalia.

X52 for Elite Dangerous and DCS
Yoke and throttle etc for the piston props and now this for pretending I work for RyanAir.

I have been looking at the Honeycomb yoke and quadrant, its pretty configurable so should be OK for more than just Airliners or GA planes.
https://flyhoneycomb.com/products/alpha-flight-controls

Reinstalling Flight Sim seemed to help last night, managed to get started today. Ridiculous launch, two days to get going!

I'm seeing very mixed results with performance. I've an i7 2700k, 16GB DDR3 and a 6GB GTX 1060. I've seen people with my GPU struggling while others are even getting to High. I've get to dig around or test performance. Happy to see my new house is on Bing, it was only built 6 months ago

Needless to say, I'm very excited to give this a shot!

Skyknight wrote: »

It is more than likely that the modeling system in FS 11(glTF) models scenery format is alot closer to that of FSX(blg) that that of XP. I sure its possible, but the porting process might not be straight forward... From what I understand, progress is being made to allow the conversion of scenery developed for FSX to FS11.

Also for the looks of things Virtual Meath CC need to get cutting the grass at New Grange

There are a good few barriers to entry in place as well. At the minute the tools Asobo have made for 3D modelling only work with 3DS Max, which will work out expensive.
I'm paraphrasing, but they've said in the documentation FAQs that blender isn't currently supported and they aren't really planning to add support for it themselves, but the Blender does natively support glTF so it wouldn't be hard for someone with the know how to make the tools work with it.


This is what I think this means for someone porting their scenery from X-Plane 11 to MSFS:

• Any buildings you've custom 3D modelled in other programs should be able to be ported if you run them through the proper conversion (to use Ciano35's EIKN scenery as an example - the passenger terminal, the GLS warehouses near the B apron, the Europcar building etc. were all custom made).
• That's it though. All taxiways, runways, ground markings, fences, lampposts, car parks, and custom made buildings will still need to be manually placed/drawn from scratch again. There's a way to open a default airport to tweak it, but I had horrbile luck trying to make it work last night

I hope I'm wrong and that there's an easier way to do this, but if not then airports will need a lot of work.

awec wrote: »

Is there tutorials anywhere for the A320 in this? The autopilot is different to the AP in the a320 in the previous version of this game.

Starting up



Autopilot (seems a long winded video)

Some very interesting Hardware info:

Christ this game is a piece of work. Kept crashing during flights last night and eventually went back a step and wanted to download the 91GB again...

Left the PC overnight, again, and it's still crashing. Initially there was reports of it being MSI Afterburner so I stopped using that which didn't help.

Seems like crashing is white widespread. Very annoying.

Been downloading for the past 2 days, still not done Trying it out first to see how it does with my 8GB RX570 and R5 2600 before purchasing a joystick.

Right so. I'm flying my cessna at night for the fist time and I can't see sh!t on my instruments cos its so dark. I've never flown an actual plane so don't know if this is normal but in my car the dash is lit up! Can I get some light or am I an idiot? I've tried pressing "i" and "alt i" which the game seems to suggest activate cockpit lights and a torch but neither did anything.

.G. wrote: »

Right so. I'm flying my cessna at night for the fist time and I can't see sh!t on my instruments cos its so dark. I've never flown an actual plane so don't know if this is normal but in my car the dash is lit up! Can I get some light or am I an idiot? I've tried pressing "i" and "alt i" which the game seems to suggest activate cockpit lights and a torch but neither did anything.

Assuming it's the 152 you're talking about: The button is hidden behind the yoke. Click it to hide it. To bring it back, click the circle underneath the clock

Had to stay up all night to reset my sleep schedule, put the time to good use once I found out someone made a paintkit.
It's quite low resolution and there are mistakes and inaccuracies I couldn't be bothered to fix after 8 hours at it, but here's an Aer Lingus A320 livery. The first one ever if I'm not mistaken. I might post a download for it tomorrow.

Suckit wrote: »

If I buy this (standard edition) from Germany, will it be only German Language? Or can I switch that.

I have looked around, haven't found any info regarding that, I am putting together a build to run it, but not even sure which is the best version to go for. The deluxe/pro/extreme whatever it's called version seems to bug out but I don't know the price difference either, also haven't seen it for sale yet..
I am only reading about it.
Standard version is all I have seen.

Sign up for xbox game pass for pc. It's one euro for the first month and 3.99 a month thereafter. The standard edition of the game is included. Bargain.

I give up. Flying around Dublin yesterday, worked fine. Set Dublin to Charles de Gaulle and it crashed.

Toronto Islands to Toronto Pearson, worked fine flying around the city. Toronto Islands to Hamilton, crashed.

I might set two local airports and see how I get on flying somewhere else, like Toronto to Buffalo, NY.

Also in Toronto, settings graphics to High crashed the game. CPU and RAM usage aren't maxed though.

I closed Xbox, Corsair, Nvidia control panel and Malwarebytes. V-sync off. Nothing overclocked. Page file increased (I didn't realise it should be 1.5x of physical RAM. It was set to 6GB, I have 8GB. I'll set it to 16GB later)

RAM might be my weakpoint as I only have 8GB DDR3. People with similar specs to me (i7 2700k and 6GB GTX 1060 do seem to be running 16GB RAM) but it's hard to know, loads of people are getting crashes from all kinds of specs.

.G. wrote: »

Sign up for xbox game pass for pc. It's one euro for the first month and 3.99 a month thereafter. The standard edition of the game is included. Bargain.

Thanks, Does that require and Xbox and a decent PC, or just PC?