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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 | We Don't Need Roads
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VFXVeteran
Banned
Officially yea. I'm starting to doubt if the 3090 GPU will be able to play this at 4k/60FPS @ Ultra.
wordslaughter
Banned
The new Crysis is here!
But there's still lots of testing to be done. SO many settings and I still don't have a feel for the settings that have the biggest impact on performance yet.
A performance guide would be handy.
It's possible that more optimization will come in time but honestly, it's obvious to see why this game is so demanding, so I'm not expecting miracles.
Are we expecting a DX 12 patch? DX 11 could be contributing to CPU bottlenecks for some people.
But there's still lots of testing to be done. SO many settings and I still don't have a feel for the settings that have the biggest impact on performance yet.
A performance guide would be handy.
It's possible that more optimization will come in time but honestly, it's obvious to see why this game is so demanding, so I'm not expecting miracles.
Are we expecting a DX 12 patch? DX 11 could be contributing to CPU bottlenecks for some people.
LaughingStock
Member
It's beautiful. The tech is impressive. But it's kind of boring. Or i just don't know how to have fun with it.
BusierDonkey
Member
The clouds are bonkers in this game. I grabbed this all flying through a massive storm over Lake Superior.
ManaByte
Member
It’s a flight simulator. You fly where you want to.
Shifty1897
Member
I decided to start downloading this today. Got about 30% of the way through, the game crashes, and will no longer restart.
I updated drivers, uninstalled the game, restarted my computer, and changed the install directory, and it's redownloading now. Hopefully I'll be able to try it out tomorrow morning before work.
I updated drivers, uninstalled the game, restarted my computer, and changed the install directory, and it's redownloading now. Hopefully I'll be able to try it out tomorrow morning before work.
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GaviotaGrande
Banned
Love Chile! Every time I open World Map I'm just amazed that I go ANYWHERE. So I decided to go to Chile. Few screens from my morning trip:
TrainedRage
Banned
Can someone tell me how voice chat works? Give me the rundown. If I have an open mic is it just everyone close? Are there people in the air towers? Help?
Dr.Morris79
Member
What laptop have you got? I might stick it on mine.
Compsiox
Banned
Is this on by default?
GaviotaGrande
Banned
Flying from Faro to Lisbon. I wish they added DLSS 2.0 and ray-tracing for the plane itself.
nemiroff
Gold Member
You are lucky.. My area looks awful, my hometown looks bizarre because of a complete misjudgement by the Blackshark.ai algorithm. The mesh geometry is also for some reason full of ugly flaws. One of the airports in the area is completely misfigured. I'm crossing my fingers for future improvements (I actually have complete faith that there will be many) because my session yesterday was truly disapponting.
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Twinguistics
Member
I'd also like to know. Must be a beast! Mine has a 1660ti and runs it ok at high settings (ok being 30fps but I've dropped to lower than ten at times!).
captainraincoat
Banned
arghh holy shit the installer is the worst thing about this game
GaviotaGrande
Banned
For all Polish Gaffers
kuncol02
Banned
Cracow is not great. Not only ground textures are ultra low quality, but whole districts are wrong type of buildings. I hope they will fix that. At least you can navigate with shopping malls.For all Polish Gaffers
GaviotaGrande
Banned
Ah yes, shopping malls. The sweet taste of capitalism.
I'm pretty sure this is one of those games that will get better with every day. AI and satellite imaging technology are constantly improving, so scenery will get more and more real-life like.
Plus there will be hand-crafted add-ons in game's store.
MrFunSocks
Banned
Looks like I got a gaming PC at the right time!
Clicked download on the Xbox app and downloaded and installed just fine first go. Can’t wait to try it this weekend.
Clicked download on the Xbox app and downloaded and installed just fine first go. Can’t wait to try it this weekend.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Also, I found this:For all Polish Gaffers
Drzewiecki Design Free Small Airfields
Drzewiecki Design is offering three small airfields, all natively built, for MSFS. Details and installation instructions in the following Facebook post:
www.avsim.com
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
i think this game has killed my PC lol. well, it's not dead but i'm running into a lot of issues since i started playing this and not just in Flight Sim. the game is unplayable now for me.
guess i'll just need to wait for the Xbox version.
guess i'll just need to wait for the Xbox version.
Skyr
Member
The water looks just incredible. I hope they improve waves and shore
As a fan of well made skies in games.. This is an orgasmic sight. Just beautiful.The clouds are bonkers in this game. I grabbed this all flying through a massive storm over Lake Superior.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
I just mean it's the new benchmark for having a real gaming PC. Like can it run Flight Simulator.
I definitely remember playing old versions back in the day, but running at 10fps or less was considered perfectly reasonable back then.
Remember Microsoft Space Simulator? I wouldn't mind an update of that.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
A lot of users have issues with installing this. I checked reviews on Steam and it's not looking too hot. Also this:
"It's BS that you have to download the game "in game" so it counts as playtime.
So you can't refund it if you don't like it."
Ridiculous.
"It's BS that you have to download the game "in game" so it counts as playtime.
So you can't refund it if you don't like it."
Ridiculous.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Oh that's an interesting wrinkle I hadn't considered. Of course if you're on the fence, I don't know why you wouldn't just try Game Pass for $1.
LaughingStock
Member
My city has cars driving up buildings. It looks nothing like the real thing.
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
I think it just hates you. Don't lump your computer into this.
TheMan
Member
the fun is what you make of it. Some people really enjoy the technical aspects of the game- cold starts, checklists, communication with the tower. Some people like to chill with a podcast while exploring the sights. There are some objective based modes which makes things more gamey so maybe check those out. I’m sure in the coming months we’ll have more mods like airport business sims and other missions so you can feel like you’re actually accomplishing something.
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GaviotaGrande
Banned
Flying over Netherlands
NoMoChokeSJ
Banned
I have a pcie4 Nvme ssd and a 200mb/s internet and I didnt think it was too bad. 1.5 minute on average for flight. Game probably takes a minute or so to load from start screen.Holy shit, i have pcie4 ssd and gbit internet, this thing takes too long to load.
Anyway to disable the intro screen?
MastAndo
Member
I would like to know as well (or anything that might speed up load times). It takes a while to start and I'm on an SSD, and still sitting on like 4 or 5 minutes to load into places like NYC. I guess I've been spoiled by other games, but it's hurting the experience for me.Holy shit, i have pcie4 ssd and gbit internet, this thing takes too long to load.
Anyway to disable the intro screen?
Gp1
Member
I live in a very green city in southeast Brazil, but still is a well developed city centre nonetheless (almost 1mi pop, tall buildings etc.).
In the areas that you don't have a lot of vegetation density the AI works very well. However in the area that you have a vegetation intertwined with buildings, the AI interprets almost as a swamp.
And every single region that flew (not the photogrammetric ones), trees are way taller than normal.
But still I'm still impressed.
BusierDonkey
Member
I'm guessing it's taking time to gather cloud data on things like real-time traffic, weather, and satellite image data for the area you'll be starting from which is not stored on your local device.
SSD speeds don't have as much affect with MSFS2020 as a good connection does. I just have the game on a SATA SSD, but have a really good connection (over 600Mbps) and my load times are considerably lower than what you're describing. While load times on my connection typically are under 30 seconds in an area like my hometown where map data is lower quality and there is no photogrametry data available, New York takes over 2 minutes on the same connection for me to load with all the live features active.
The 150GB you installed covers planes, texture data for trees, the hand-crafted items like airports, world objects the game uses to fill in blanks, etc, but does not include the satellite image data or photogrametry data which would require petabytes of storage to keep locally. Large centers like Tokyo, and especially areas with better satellite data and photogrametry like New York will take longer to load in dependent on your connection speed. New York is a very complex area in terms of geometry and has some of the best map data available.
They took the bigger developed countries first to use a more accurate representation, the rest uses hand made assets that could be closer to the countries archictecture style.
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