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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by driverdan »

swendoog wrote: post #113
vturner wrote: post #94

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What other areas do people with technical backgrounds move into that don't require so much sitting? With degrees in physics and applied math, I'm not sure where I can go and not be at a desk (or take a huge hit in $$). Just 3 years out from school, and I can definitely notice the difference in my physical health and mental agility. I have taken up gardening to get me outside and eat decently well. I can still feel th…

If you can work from home (big if) then you might consider looking into a standing desk + treadmill. There are some decent options available. The "Autonomous" desk is great, I purchased JUST the legs and use an IKEA top to save money. Now, I'm looking at the "Treadly" treadmill. Technically, this isn't an "under desk" treadmill, but it's the thinnest treadmill on the market and can be operated without the bars uprigh…

You don't need to work from home to get a standing desk.

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Post by dalore »

gnrlst wrote: post #17

Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit. We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the…

Kidzania in the UK has a donated giant plane for kids to pretend to be pilots and stewards. The parents sit inside as passengers and get served plastic food. It's so cute.

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Post by atxhx »

I wonder how this will run on Xbox. I've been out of PC gaming for a while now and no way this will run on my current PC. It would be sweet if you could hook up a flight stick to an Xbox and play this.

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Post by chopin »

hiram112 wrote: post #151
intended wrote: post #121

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The video seems to be a weird mashup. If you look closely, some scenes are photo real. Other scenes, like the giraffes and a few frames before that, seem to be in the uncanny valley. I suspect that this game may be this generations Crysis. It requires ungodly horsepower to render at full settings, and perhaps a more-than-robust internet connection to transfer all the imagery data.

That's okay. Hardware and bandwidth can catch up. FSX was released 13 or 14 years ago and it's still being sold on Steam. I didn't get into until about 7 years ago, and it still got my fans spinning on my dev laptop which had a 4th gen i7 and lots of ram.

But it must be programmed for the next gen hardware. I have a dual card setup with i7 8-core processor and can't run FSX at full settings (around 10 fps for three monitors). Monitoring shows that graphics cards and processor are far from saturated.

The same for X-Plane 11. You can get some decent performance if you let run separate process for each monitor though.

Both indicate to me that the problem lies in software. They also have in common that performance gets abysmal when you add more moving objects.

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Post by [deleted] »

pault wrote: post #134
pkaye wrote: post #122

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If you look at some statistics (can't find it now) I seem to recall sales and marketing have lower prevalence of obesity. Meanwhile construction workers have higher. I think what matters more is less stress in a job, eating healthy and doing physical activity regularly.

Alternative explanation: overweight people don't get hired for sales and marketing jobs.

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Post by mensetmanusman »

musha68k wrote: post #87
satysin wrote: post #15

My reply is a little off-topic but I wanted to share as it is Flight Simulator related. Last year an old boss and friend passed suddenly. He had only just turned fifty but the years of poor eating and sitting caught up with him in his late forties. He was a Flight Simulator addict. He held a private pilots license as well and would fly small aircraft. Took us up a few times which was amazing. Very different to a regu…

Long periods of sitting are actually very hard on your system and one of the reasons why so many quit doing what they love. Also tight deadlines and other maybe less obvious constant stressors might exacerbate pernicious effects. For that reason even junior and intermediate developers should think twice about fair/sustainable remuneration. Ageisim diclaimer: That doesn't mean that there aren't lots of people with exc…

That’s why I have a standing only desk, didn’t want to give myself the allure of putting it in sitting mode and never putting it back up.

If I sit, it will be somewhere public, so if I focus I have to stand. (Took like 1.5 years to get used to in terms of strength issues etc.)

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Post by miohtama »

jon-wood wrote: post #65
miohtama wrote: post #36

MS Flight Sim might be a good pilot case (pun intended) for WebGL and WebAssembly. The nature of simulator is not that CPU/GPU taxing. I would assume the players play it more for the actual simulation and less for the specular graphics.

> The nature of simulator is not that CPU/GPU taxing. I think you're underestimating just how much simulation is being done in a proper flight simulator. The really good ones are literally simulating air flow around the aircraft, in realtime, to determine how it should respond.

Well I was playing MS Flight Sim 3.0 on 80286 :) Though I assume the simulation had to be look up table based and nowadays you can physics modelling?
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