Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

[LHB]

Recent update has added WASM support to Xbox, which means we can get most things you PC guys have! I’ve just bought the Top Mach Studios F22, anyone else used it much at all?

Edit:
Had a few flights now and it’s incredible! The thrust vectoring is so fun to play with

Edited by LHB on Friday 24th March 22:34

[marksx]

fiesta1066 said:

New user on xbox series X. Anyone else have issues of no thrust working, couldnt take off last night at all, looking online seems others have had this issue. I restarted the Xbox and had same issue, restarted again and all was ok. Odd.

That's a new one I haven't seen yet. Are you using the controller or a stick?

[gotoPzero]

Finally got my 2 monitors up and running.

Anyone got any tips?

I am not getting good frame rates, down from 35-40 to low 20s and in busy areas less than 20 which makes it not flyable.

My monitors are 2560*1440.

I tried turning them down to 1080 and the combining them again but whilst thats helped FPS now back up to 35 ish its now quite blurry and I cant read a lot of the details without zooming in?

Other than that 2 screens is great, much better flying experience.

[ArsE82]

gotoPzero said:

Finally got my 2 monitors up and running.

Anyone got any tips?

I am not getting good frame rates, down from 35-40 to low 20s and in busy areas less than 20 which makes it not flyable.

My monitors are 2560*1440.

I tried turning them down to 1080 and the combining them again but whilst thats helped FPS now back up to 35 ish its now quite blurry and I cant read a lot of the details without zooming in?

Other than that 2 screens is great, much better flying experience.

What's your hardware spec?

[gotoPzero]

Win10
32gb RAM
i7 6700k (clocked to 4430)
GTX 1070Ti

Game running on 256gb samsung SSD

I appreciate its an old machine!

[gotoPzero]

The CPU isnt maxing out btw, so its the gfx card thats bottle necking it.

[sanguinary]

https://github.com/guischmitd/msfs2020_graphics_se...

I found this useful when sorting my settings out as to what does and doesn't have a huge impact of the hardware. I ended up changing most of the settings from Ultra to Medium which lifted the framerate substantially. Then I increased the settings on the bits I wanted - such as depth of field, water and trees. The rest of it looks about the same from 3000 ft+up.

[ArsE82]

gotoPzero said:

Win10
32gb RAM
i7 6700k (clocked to 4430)
GTX 1070Ti

Game running on 256gb samsung SSD

I appreciate its an old machine!

At a guess I'd say your GPU is struggling to run 2 x 2560*1440 screens at 60fps.

I'm running on a 2080 at 3,440*1,440 and have to lower the quality to get decent FPS.

[gotoPzero]

sanguinary said:

https://github.com/guischmitd/msfs2020_graphics_se...

I found this useful when sorting my settings out as to what does and doesn't have a huge impact of the hardware. I ended up changing most of the settings from Ultra to Medium which lifted the framerate substantially. Then I increased the settings on the bits I wanted - such as depth of field, water and trees. The rest of it looks about the same from 3000 ft+up.

Cheers I tried those settings and now getting more like 40fps which is much better.
Might keep my eye out for a 2080ti...

[gotoPzero]

ArsE82 said:

At a guess I'd say your GPU is struggling to run 2 x 2560*1440 screens at 60fps.

I'm running on a 2080 at 3,440*1,440 and have to lower the quality to get decent FPS.

Yeah, ebay time¬!!!

[fiesta1066]

marksx said:

That's a new one I haven't seen yet. Are you using the controller or a stick?

Controller. Im going to order the thrustmaster TCA yoke pack Boeing.
Is this anygood and also as I fly different planes what do people suggest, this, or the airbus version? Any preference ?
Edit: the airbus is £249 while the boeing is £429! owch

Edited by fiesta1066 on Wednesday 29th March 00:38

[surveyor]

fiesta1066 said:

Controller. Im going to order the thrustmaster TCA yoke pack Boeing.
Is this anygood and also as I fly different planes what do people suggest, this, or the airbus version? Any preference ?
Edit: the airbus is £249 while the boeing is £429! owch

Edited by fiesta1066 on Wednesday 29th March 00:38

I did until last night when the side stick went mental. Just check the reviews carefully.

I’ve Got a few things to try to get sanity back…

[BrettMRC]

gotoPzero said:

Win10
32gb RAM
i7 6700k (clocked to 4430)
GTX 1070Ti

Game running on 256gb samsung SSD

I appreciate its an old machine!

You can try turning streaming data off too, that can help.

I had a similar setup last year, albeit with a 1080ti, and found the only way was to start at the lowest graphics settings and gradually scale upwards to something that was OK visually whilst still being playable.

[FourWheelDrift]

Well well, that's something I'd never have expected in FS.

https://secure.simmarket.com/virtavia-short-stirli...




Whatever next, a Handley Page Heyford?

[BrettMRC]

That's pretty cool!

Would love a Sunderland too.

[gotoPzero]

Well my month for a quid is coming to an end. Flown about 20 hours or so.
Pretty impressed with it and did get my frame rate issue sorted.

I am not going to renew, for now.

I am away for a couple of months and I also need to invest in a new graphics card I think.

Will prob buy the full game rather than use a GP.

[kowalski655]

BrettMRC said:

That's pretty cool!

Would love a Sunderland too.

There IS one, but it looks crap, developer does some unusual planes, just not very well

https://www.justflight.com/product/romantic-wings-...

[FourWheelDrift]

It's a straight port of their FSX Sunderland, which was bad for FSX.

[Zed Ed]

I’m currently not playing the PC version following Nvidia’s latest driver update. Hopefully some revised code will be along shortly

[Cl4rkyPH]

I find all the GA aircraft far too sensitive. What sensitivity settings are everyone using for GA?