The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

Post by tpmx » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

naavis wrote: post #44

52-6F-62 wrote: post #3

Oh that's too funny. On a side note: I signed up for the discounted $1 trial month of Xbox Game Pass just to try this game out. The download and installation process was ridiculously slow and causing my CPU to ramp up to 80-100° even while undervolting it. On a brand new i7 9750. Not sure what that was all about. I put the process on pause... I am looking forward to giving it a try, though. Anyone else have any diffi…

I also had a weird issue where minimizing the Flight Simulator window during the download/installation procedure bumped GPU usage to 55 % on a GTX 1070 until unminimizing the window again. GPU usage was hovering around 5-10% when the window was not minimized.

Post by naavis » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

tpmx wrote: post #91

naavis wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also had a weird issue where minimizing the Flight Simulator window during the download/installation procedure bumped GPU usage to 55 % on a GTX 1070 until unminimizing the window again. GPU usage was hovering around 5-10% when the window was not minimized.

I got that too. Generalized - this is a consistent theme across the game. All sorts of random buggy behavior. Stick a USB input device into the PC while the game is running - it may well crash. I recognize these kinds of bugs. They come from the developers not having a bottom-up understanding of the platforms they are working on. Instead they are working from the easiest possible code path and then try their best to…

Post by ansible » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

ogre_codes wrote: post #82

jwr wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> flight simulation software was the target of a moral panic in 2001 after the September 11 attacks were conducted by crashing real jets into buildings. Some people began to think of flight sims as "terrorist training tools" and call for them to be banned. I've been wondering if this is why there was so little flight simulation software out there in the last ~15 years or so. I remember visiting a retail store with so…

There have been 2 outstanding flight simulators on the market for the past ~20 years which more-or-less dominate the industry. X-Plane and MSFS are both excellent and both reasonably affordable. I suspect the lack of flight sims in retail has more to do with the fact that flight simulators are hard to create. When there is established competition with a great rep and decent pricing, it's nearly impossible to break in…

Post by billforsternz » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #17

rwmj wrote: post #15

Now I'm wondering if in engineering terms such a tall, thin building could be constructed.

No one's gone quite that big, but this one's similarly tall and skinny, and ~100 stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue

Post by nimbius » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 9:25 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #2

Is it morbid of me to wonder what happens if you fly a plane into such a building in Flight Simulator? It just… sticks out so much that crashing into it seems the obvious thing to try. (Judging by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrGEdO88kE where someone eventually succeeds in landing on this building, it looks like if you fail the screen just goes black at the point of impact, so no interesting physics simulation.)