Microsoft Flight Simulator

[nonny]

I saw someone flying into that real world hurricane in the US and it looked scary as fook... Great stuff

[QualityChimp]

[CMcK]

Great! I wonder if the Gundam statues in Japan and China are in there too?

[briareos_kerensky]

Great! I wonder if the Gundam statues in Japan and China are in there too?

That Godzilla's a mod, and right now Tokyo is not photogrammet...uhm...photogrammified...ehr...has photogrammetry data, so no. The same guy will probably do a King Kong on the Empire State Building mod, if no one else does it first.

[Mr Ono]

Japan update yesterday. Tokyo looks more like a city and not an oil painting now.

I even managed to fly over the Shibuya crossing and it's all there.

[briareos_kerensky]

Japan update yesterday. Tokyo looks more like a city and not an oil painting now.

I even managed to fly over the Shibuya crossing and it's all there.

Yeah, was pretty disappointed when I flew from Chitose to Haneda and the Diet building was the only real landmark there.

[hudson]

Japan update yesterday. Tokyo looks more like a city and not an oil painting now.

I even managed to fly over the Shibuya crossing and it's all there.

That looked stunning. Thanks.

[MartyG]

The VR patch came out for this yesterday (22nd Dec) and I've given it a go.

It's the only way to play this game with one massive caveat, you need a RTX 3080 or 6800XT, with my GTX 1080 on low settings it chugs at about 25 fps (at a guess, it's around here). On a top end GFX card this game is going to be untouchable in VR - the sense of being in the plane even with my setup is well ahead of X-Plane 11.

I did a flight VFR in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk from Manchester to Wittering in real time, reaching Wittering for a nice touchdown just after the sun had set. The towns were lighting up and I made the runway before it got too dark. Just a superb experience.

I keep checking the availability via stock checker, but continue to be disappointed that the eBay scalpers have all the cards - I need a 3080 for this game. I want to land at Lukla at a decent framerate.

[Brad]

Reports from i9 3070 user that on minimum settings it’s quite poor performance and on a 2080ti it’s unplayable. Not tried it myself yet. I know VR is a struggle in DCS so it wouldn’t surprise me.

[MartyG]

I've managed to get it running at a usable framerate, but it's not ideal. You can super-sample in the Steam settings to 220% and down sample within the sim. I've gotten it running over 30 fps and it doesn't look completely awful, just a bit jaggy. Better having the smooth framerate I think. There are a couple of threads on the MS Flight Sim forums for what's needed to be done.

I don't have any issues running DCS with the 1080 in VR or X-Plane 11, but MS FS 2020 is a struggle with a lot of hardware even before VR, so it's not surprising adding extra rendering workload hurts a lot of machines.

[Mr Ono]

It is absolutely unplayable in VR with my:

Ryzen 3900x, RTX 2080S and 32GB ram - Valve Index.

I swear the in-eye framerate is below 20fps although the representation of the goggles on my monitor seems smoother.

[MartyG]

Try turning down the TAA to under 60 in the settings and super sample in SteamVR - TAA really hits performance - you should be able to get over 30 FPS on the 2080 super.

[Hirst]

I used to feel a bit funny in the stomach if I tilted a plane down towards the earth in Flight Sim 95 and looked closely enough at my 15" CRT. Bet it's bloody terrifying in VR.

[charlesr]

50% of the reviews on the Xbox app give this 1/5 (559 reviews).

[MartyG]

Then they are clowns. The only downside to MS Flight Sim is that it needs a fairly high-end PC to run smoothly and it takes up a chunk of HDD space.

In VR the experience is incredible - maybe the were expecting to be Maverick - that's not what Flight Simulator is. It's a simulator.