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Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by icedchai »

tpmx wrote: post #10

Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…

I signed up for Xbox Game Pass and downloaded this yesterday. I ran into the problem with the app hanging during the initial download ("update.") I had to restart it once, then it downloaded all 91 gigs. I'm not sure what it was doing the first time... I figured it was just a glitch.

The game does load very slowly. This is on a system with 32 gigs of RAM and NVME SSDs.

It looks amazing though!

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by tiagobraw »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #20

With some hilarious results: https://i.imgur.com/hpNfPtZ.jpg Notice the little porches added by the AI. It's actually impressive how good the 3D models turned out.

also this one https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395084/microsoft-flight...

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by ourmandave »

I've been watching a few unboxing videos on youtube where MS has sent influencers a box with the Deluxe Premium Ed (comes with 10 DVDs for install) with full HOTAS controls.

(Even after the install there's a 19g download update.)

I wonder if everyone who gets one has a system with the specs to run it?

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by tpmx »

joezydeco wrote: post #39
tpmx wrote: post #10

Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…

Also: ignore the 8GB minimum RAM requirement. Whoever built that chart ignored the fact that Win10 needs a gig or two of its own to run. And FS20 needs about 7.5GB to boot. Get 32GB and give yourself some breathing room.

16 GB should be fine based on what I've seen in terms of actual memory usage so far. To be clear - that's not what caused the issues I mentioned though - I've got 64 GB.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by jon-wood »

WilTimSon wrote: post #28
madeofpalk wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Making lots of money” does not seem to suppress companies from trying to make more money. See, Apple and App Store.

I think their point was that GTA 5 was not free-to-play and still made billions. It could be sold at full price up until 6 releases and then 6 could be sold at full price for years and people will still be interested.

GTA 5 has an interesting revenue model, the game itself has to be bought, and you can play all the single player with just that. Once you get into multiplayer it’s much of a free to play model, with the usual choice of grinding through to acquire resources or just paying real money for in game money.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by jturpin »

This game has been a ton of fun for me. The load times are annoying, but it runs well for me most of the time on my two-years-ago-it-was-high-end PC (6th gen i7, 1080 not-TI, m.2 drive, 16Gb RAM). I managed to find my 10 year old flight stick from when I played FSX and thats been great as apparently this game has caused a flight stick shortage. I would recommend people try it out, I have not encountered any game-breaking bugs (except for maybe the rudder control being weird but that could be the aforementioned flight stick). My recommendation is lower the sensitivity way, way down. I have mine at -60% on all axes. Medium graphics look pretty good too.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by garaetjjte »

tpmx wrote: post #10

Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…

I must have different expectations for games, 'minute or two' loading times sounds completely fine to me. Bugs are probably fairly typical of modern 'release broken now, patch later' development.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by ornitorrincos »

btgeekboy wrote: post #37
ornitorrincos wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I have the same loading times on an hdd with a 2700 and 64gb of ram, so the slowdown seem something relatively indenpendent.

I’ve been running the task manager on a separate monitor to see where the bottlenecks are. Those long load times appear to be, for me, GPU bound. It’s probably pre-rendering something. I'm running a 3700X, 32GB RAM, M2 SSD, GTX 1070, gigabit internet.

I also been running the task manager, mostly to check when it seemed to hang it was using 100% of the transfer with the hdd, didn't look at gpu usage though, will have a look the next time.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by tpmx »

dawnerd wrote: post #35
tpmx wrote: post #10

Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…

Loads times don’t bother me, it’s the really buggy aircraft systems that do. Multiple times I’ve gotten the avionics bugged out where they flat out don’t respond anymore. Autopilot also flys like a drunk. First thing you should do though is disable live traffic and no online players. It greatly improved performance for me. Visuals are amazing now.

I disabled those two things. Framerate it still mostly random.
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