Any Microsoft Flight Simulator Fans Here?

[ODogg]

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Well.. kept crashing and could never load into a flight on high settings even though I have an i7-9700K and GTX 1080.. The issue turned out to be my 16GB of RAM. Upgraded to 32GB of RAM and it has ran absolutely perfect on high, turns out at 1440p with high settings, it was requiring a ton of memory that my 16GB just could not handle. Worth every penny.

Some shots after finally getting it to work with high settings preset.

My Dell Laptop runs it on High with only 8Gb of RAM without problem, guess I've been lucky maybe

[bad_philanthropy]

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I'm so bad with landings. I have all the assists on and I don't even get prompted for help. I tried a flight from Cleveland to Buffalo and it had me cruising at 10,000, which is pretty low. I was in the AB A320. I figured 25K maybe. Then I had a hard time with overspeed. So it was a constant struggle to keep it at 10K and 250Knts.

I still don't know how auto pilot works. It doesn't tell me anything about it. It did all the checklist for me. I figured if I toggles autopilot on it would fly at the right heading. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Also I always come in to fast and high for landings. I was actually able to do a touch and go and come around and land in one flight, but I've crashed it like five straight landings.

It depends on the plane for autopilot, but in the simpler GA aircraft you'd either want to select HDG and make sure you set an altitude to hold as well, and then activate AP. Or select NAV if you have a GPS course set. For more complex aircraft you'd use the autopilot with LNAV and VNAV activated--but VNAV is also currently broken for SIDS and STARS procedures--so if you were to plan a low or high altitude airways flight, you don't want to activate VNAV early on as you mostly would in real life.

Sounds like for that Airbus flight you might have selected low altitude airways? It's always high altitude for the airliners. Either that or you didn't bug up to your cruising altitude on the autopilot panel once it reached 10k. You have to manually authorize the autopilot to climb higher or ascend by turning the knob to the altitude you're supposed to be at.

Anyway, the way it's supposed to work with the airbus (if you selected an IFR flight), is:

-put the throttle to TO/GA to take off until you get an indication on the screen in front of you that shows your pitch to move the throttle to climb. Throttle stays in climb until you are just about to land, and a voice commands you to "******" the throttle.

-approaching 10,000 feet roll the knob to whatever ATC says, or just roll it all the way up to the cruising altitude shown in that computer screen down by the throttle.

-above 10,000 feet the throttle will automatically speed up past that speed restriction of 250knots below 10,000 feet, and you shouldn't get any overspeed warnings.

-Similarly, when descending, roll that altitude knob down to whatever ATC says.

EDIT: the forum censored the word R-E-T-A-R-D, but that's what the actual callout says that prompts you retract the throttle to idle.

[canes21]

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FS2020 is everything I ever wanted. It brings me to tears. I first played the series with my grandfather in ‘98. If he were still with us today, the beauty of this game would have given him another heart attack. Morbid humor sure, but true.

Yes, there’s a lot of bugs and kinks that need to be ironed out. But it’s already a far smoother launch than FSX back in 2006, which could barely run on any system at the time.

I've seen some articles saying this game is too much for any current CPU's to handle. Anyone with a 10700k or comparable CPU wanting to provide their experiences? I know some of the specs some guys who have already posted have, but I don't remember everyone's.

I also cannot stop reading about this game. I am trying to limit the media I watch. The pictures are amazing in here. It's tough. The 3000 series cards need to hurry on out because I am anxious to experience this piece of art.

[bad_philanthropy]

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I've seen some articles saying this game is too much for any current CPU's to handle. Anyone with a 10700k or comparable CPU wanting to provide their experiences? I know some of the specs some guys who have already posted have, but I don't remember everyone's.

I also cannot stop reading about this game. I am trying to limit the media I watch. The pictures are amazing in here. It's tough. The 3000 series cards need to hurry on out because I am anxious to experience this piece of art.

I have a Ryzen 7 3800, 32GB of ram, and am waiting for a 3000, and so rocking a 1060 6GB. I'm on all "high" settings. Performance is around 40-60+fps in GA, and 24-30fps in airliners in cities and on approach/landing. It's honestly pretty comparable to the fps I get on P3D 4.5 or XP11 using complex addon aircraft.Could be that these are the frames I'm used to in flight sims, and so I'm not bothered by the fact that everything isn't 60+fps. I've been really impressed by how well it seems optimized relative to other flight sims.

[Artman22]

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I'm so bad with landings. I have all the assists on and I don't even get prompted for help. I tried a flight from Cleveland to Buffalo and it had me cruising at 10,000, which is pretty low. I was in the AB A320. I figured 25K maybe. Then I had a hard time with overspeed. So it was a constant struggle to keep it at 10K and 250Knts.

I still don't know how auto pilot works. It doesn't tell me anything about it. It did all the checklist for me. I figured if I toggles autopilot on it would fly at the right heading. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Also I always come in to fast and high for landings. I was actually able to do a touch and go and come around and land in one flight, but I've crashed it like five straight landings.

To slow down for landing press F8 for your flaps all the way down and it’ll slow you down a lot. Just be careful not to fully stall the engines because you will lose a lot of speed.


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[bad_philanthropy]

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To slow down for landing press F8 for your flaps all the way down and it’ll slow you down a lot. Just be careful not to fully stall the engines because you will lose a lot of speed.


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The flaps have maximum deployment speeds. If you just deploy full flaps when you're going to fast you could damage them and make landing even harder though. Some aircraft have spoilers/speed brakes you can use, or there are techniques like "slipping" you can look up. Or yeah, you can just go around and fly a traffic pattern and set up better.

It's not a perfect science, but you could look up the typical full flaps landing speed, and the max speed for each flap setting for the aircraft you're using. In most GA aircraft you'd probably want to be between 70-80kn and be ready to reduce to landing speed at about 7-8nm from the runway.

For airliners and jets it's generally 180/190-200kn at 10nm from the runway, and you're in good shape to reduce to your full flaps landing speed by 6-7nm from touchdown. Full flaps landing speed for the jets is about 135-160kn depending on he aircraft and payload weight.

[PVarck31]

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Ugh, my HOTAS order was cancelled even though it said it was in stock when I bought it.

You can't find them anywhere. I should have been more prepared. If anyone sees any in stock, I'd really appreciate a heads up.

I was looking at the official MS Air Bus one, it's out of stock but seems like it's getting good reviews. Maybe since it's MS they will have more in stock soon, but then I would want to get a throttle.

Has anyone used that stick?

[Skyboxer]

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Having a blast so far.
Downloaded and loaded some user liveries for A320...

Started doing the landing challenges
(Completed the first 1 in Chile but am going to try and get a better score)

When stuff settles down a bit I'll be ordering some more stuff to go along with my Logitech Yoke system.

Current setup is the Yoke and throttle system, My G13 Game board with Engine and lights system on 1 page, Navigation on the second page and some other misc stuff on last page.

I still have my G29 wheel, pedals and shifter hooked up and assigned gear 3 as gear up and 4 as gear down.. it worked lol
It actually let me assign (like using KB keys) my pedals as rudders. Not as smooth as real rudder pedals but works well enough.
I have runway rudders set to auto anyways. Auto doesn't work when taxing but does on takeoffs.

[Skyboxer]

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Couple screens..
Just downloaded a new Liveries pack that included more A320's as well as a Cessna 208b

Here's one of the A320's

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[PVarck31]

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I'm actually surprised at how well this game runs on my system. I have 16 GB RAM, a Ryzen 5 2600x and a RX 5600 XT, and I can run the game on high settings with no issues. A couple frame rate drops here and there, but I am getting around 20 to 30fps consistently, which wouldn't be great in most games, but I think it matters less in a game like this. I also turned some of the details up to ultra and had no real issues.

Quick question, should I leave V Sync on or turn it off?


Now if I could just find a reasonably priced HOTAS.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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If you have a Gsync or Freesync monitor or 144hz, 165hz monitor turn Vsync off.

[Skyboxer]

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After doing the OC and adjusting graphic settings (High on more important and medium less important I'm getting 45 to 120 FPS depending on where I'm at and what views.

8GB GTX1080 and 32 GB Ram. I7 6700K CPU

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What I am currently doing with V-SYNC because seen it online Lol

"V-Sync
V-sync is a setting that syncs every frame the GPU generates and eliminates screen tearing. However, turn this setting off in-game and force it through the GPU driver. Enabling in-game v.sync introduces stutter in-game for some reason.

However, disabling in-game v-sync also takes away the ability to lock FPS. Worry not, you can do that through Nvidia Control Panel.

To force it through the GPU driver, open Nvidia Control Panel > Program Settings > select Microsoft Flight Simulator and set Vertical Syn to “On”.

Recommended: Turn it off in-game and force it through GPU driver"

[TheBleedingRed21]

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My Dell Laptop runs it on High with only 8Gb of RAM without problem, guess I've been lucky maybe

Your 8GB laptop has a 1440p screen?

If it’s only 1080p, that’s why. RAM usage is significantly higher on higher resolution.

[KSUowls]

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Has anyone flown into Hurricane Laura? It's absolutely awesome that the game has real world weather patterns. I'm really wishing that I had not procrastinated on finding a flight control setup.

[zanner]

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I remember back in the day on Hewlett Packard cpu with flight simulator there was like a thick manual on how to actually understand all of the instruments.

Is there a site or resource available out there to where you can actually read to understand the cockpit instruments , proper checking and setting of instruments and for the communication protocols to use with the airfields?

I've enjoyed getting up in the air and landing but I am really interested in understanding and playing like a simulator rather than a video game I can relax in.

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