Skipper
2727
Come. Come to the dark side. Search with your feelings, you know it to be true. It’s gorgeous.
One step closer to VR here, I got notified the NZXT BLD system I ordered is shipping already. That’s like 2 weeks early. They must have gotten new NVIDIA cards there. I was thinking I’d miss the late December patch timeframe.
I am not only on the dark side, I’ve been a card carrying member since “A Century of Flight”.
I’m looking forward to Dec. 22nd, although I think my mid-range rig is going to be battered into senselessness when I fire up VR.
Skipper
2729
I tired firing up on my gaming laptop only to realize none of the ports are directly connected to the GPU. Bad call on my part, but I’d been planning on an updated gaming desktop anyway. Flight simming is never cheap.
schurem
2730
Msfs is so good, im almost afraid to go back to dcs. Im afraid i won’t be able to stomach their maps and clouds anymore. For now I made a proper game out of msfs by flying it to Cape town in a rpg-like fashion. I found that the wing-leveler AP works in all aircraft, bit of a cheat, but sure makes it a lot more comfortable flying cross-country while browsing the net, etc.
MSFS would be damn near perfect for me if it had American Truck Simulator’s “game” bolted on top of it.
To wit:
- Simplified financials including bank loands
- Owning own garage (airfield)
- Pay-for-hire (grab a rando job at your airfield and go)
- Owning own trucks (aircraft)
- Different perks for performance
- Hiring additional drivers (pilots)
etc.
schurem
2732
Air Hauler sounds like a one-for-one fix for you then! Read they’re pluggin hard on getting it to work with MSFS.
Skipper
2733
Combined with ALT hold and/or NAV to hold a GPS or VOR line and you can get a touch more hands-off.
schurem
2734
ALT hold goes crazy on my Macchi MB339. It freaks out on the trim and refuses to hold altitude. Heading hold does not hold the heading. But wing leveller does work, and that’s sufficient with me, keeps my head in the game somewhat.
Skipper
2735
That would be a FANTASTIC add-on I’d pay for in a heartbeat. Career mode in a sense.
Skipper
2736
Don’t feel too bad. Their code has been really weak on the AP side of things until a couple of patches ago, across specific aircraft over others. It’s certainly more stable now. Since you’re in the Macchi, I’m not sure if their is any 3rd party AP plug-in that would help. Does the Macchi even have a Garmin or is it old style AP?
The problem, of course, is that ATS and ETS2 can scale the map at 1:20, which MSFS can’t do. Speeding up the simulation is an awkward workaround, and it still doesn’t work reliably any faster than 4x, at least on the planes I’ve used.
My biggest complaint with the “economic” add-ons I’ve used, primarily FSE and Onair, is that they don’t really encourage or allow you to try the different planes, or explore different geographies. One of the things I like about ATS/ETS2, at least in the early game (I use an economy mod to extend the early game) is that you get to try a bunch of different trucks, mission types, and locations.
I would like a game where you start out as an employee pilot of an air charter service, flying missions around the world, and as you “level up” you progress through different aircraft. Maybe you get different XP for night flights, ILS landings, IFR flying, I dunno. Whatever.
Skipper
2738
Is this after the last patch? If not you might want to recheck. Mine got SO MUCH more stable after last patch. I’m able to hit 16x on sim-rate without issue in multiple aircraft.
I agree with you on FSE and OnAir though. They kind of drive staying in hub/spoke areas. Something more along the lines of missions that push you outside areas and familiar geography would be fun.
jpinard
2739
OMG YES!
What’s this? Is that like way better than FS Economy and the other two?
jpinard
2740
Just had a thought. Would it be possible to set up your i-pad or other tablet as a multi-function display, or radio control? Like one of Saitek’s (Logitech’s) dedicated devices?
Skipper
2741
In some cases, yes. I’ve not done radio but linked in thread are a couple of android/ipad connector apps. Some will allow functions to be input as well like AP, com changes, etc.
This one in particular is the one I use:
There are also plug-in USB MFD’s from various vendors if you’re building a “sim pit” or similar that display like in-game equivalents. If you can drive another monitor you can also pull things over to that too.
jpinard
2742
Super cool. But since you have to use a private network does that mean you can’t do MP when you use it?
Skipper
2743
Not at all, it just means you need your tablet and PC on the same wireless network (or wired/wireless, whatever.) You run the connector on the PC, then browse to the app page on the tablet.
The mobile companion app is excellent. You can use any device that is on the same network - tablet, phone, even a web browser on a second screen on the same pc as the simulator. It doesn’t interfere with multi-player. It is a must-have in my opinion. To no small degree because you can use it to manage time acceleration.
I have tried time acceleration with the DA40 and had trouble with it at rates greater than 4x. But that plane is a piece of dogshit. And unfortunately the one I’m currently renting in Onair.
Ugh… I haven’t played MSFS in a couple months so I launched it and let it download all the updates. I didn’t figure it out for quite a few hours (I left it running in the background) but apparently it’s been downloading around 1GB of data, failing, then starting the download all over again with the same file. I fear this has blown through my monthly data cap and I’ll have to pay overages to my ISP. Crap.
Has anyone heard of this issue before? How do I fix it?
Skipper
2746
Just general advice that was posted on similar failures that were happening at launch. Maybe one will help?
https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016844080-Download-stuck-on-packages-Install-loop
