davidc2

Welcome to the world of VR :) As for settings, each system will have a different setup. However, I do recommend going to YouTube and watching the videos there, and then gleaning what will work best for you and your system. Here are some that I have used

I could not find Meigs field in the list of airports to select, however, it is shown on the map. Strange, but was nice taking off from it :) Course, my C172 (steam version) has the panel lights lit up very bright and I can't turn them off, sigh :)

Probably the best. The servers are overloaded today with a LOT of people attempting to download the updates. I was getting the no internet connection, but of course, I did have a connection, but the servers were overloaded.

A couple of things you can try- Reboot your PC (this has worked for me a lot) Sign out of your MS Store account, reboot PC, then sign back in and attempt to restart the download. Also, as another poster wrote, waiting until the mad rush is over might also do the trick

Started off with about a 1 gig initial download, was going fast, then dropped to single digit speed, dipping into k/s. Now I am doing a 21.71 download at pretty decent speed Edit-just finished, total time was 30 minutes :) Edit again-did not do the 43 gigs in the content manger, lol

20 minutes to go!!!! lol

Thanks for the link. I had thought it would be 1pm my time (usually is), but it's 11am for New York (same time zone), nice, two hours early!!!

Typing from memory, but is there not a setting, while ingame in which you can adjust the brightness of the displays? I seem to remember there being one because at night the displays can be a tad bit bright. Course, I don't remember what the keystrokes were to adjust :)

I agree 100% :) :) :)

I would humbly suggest you NOT buy the standard but opt in now and get one of the other versions. I bought the standard then a year later, wanted a couple of the other planes that only came with the deluxe version. I had (foolishly) thought that MS would give me a break on the cost because all I was doing was upgrading. WRONG!!! lol, they charged me full price. Just some free advice :)

Judging by what I've seen in Jacksonville, FL, not very often. One place in downtown Jacksonville was demolished in July of 2019 and it is still standing in MSFS :)

I think it's in the realism settings. Mine is set to easy (not realistic) and I have yet to start my engines, etc. It is always at the end of the runway waiting for me :)

My kind of price, thx!

Is that possible with the free version, or paid??

EGLC to EGLL (London City Airport) to (Heathrow)

I am working on that portion as I type, lol Going to use Macrium, Tim posted that he uses it. Going to give it a shot. My one question with it is (I am getting the free version), can I use it to create a rescue thumb drive that will allow me to restore from my image?

Yep, it was indeed a software problem. At the end, I had made some changes that affected (somehow??) my internet speed to about 6/MPS, at that point I knew I had to reformat. So I backed up my important files and started over. After I was up again and reloading everything, I found that my Internet speed was indeed what Xfinity said they had increased it too (from 600/sec to 800/sec). I was never hitting those speeds, averaging around 400 or so, still fast). Did a speed test was hit 895/sec. Guess I needed to reformat a while ago :) Big thanks to EVERYONE who helped me on this project!!! I do appreciate all of the suggestions that were made. Just did a flight from London City airport to Heathrow, was smooth, and looking good!!

Well, after reloading a new version of Windows AND MSFS, I am stutter free. Now to monitor and see what program started the device manager to go crazy.....

All you need to do is to unzip one plane (or mod) into the Community Folder. Do not place anything else into the folder that got created. You cannot take files from one folder and put them into another. I suggest you get the program MSFS Add on Manager. It is very useful and will make things a LOT easier for you :)

and I have done exactly that. During the process it took out MSFS ( on a different drive), oh well. Least my Device Manager is not scanning, lol

Not sure of the how, but I feel that is the problem. It does not refresh itself in Safe Mode. I have unplugged USB devices, still has not helped!! Not sure what else to do except, (1) ignore it or (2) reinstall

Thanks Tim, that does indeed sound like me, however, did not work :(

Hyperthreading had already been disabled and I have removed Norton and am running only Windows Defender. While doing some more reading I discovered what possible could be the culprit, however, fixing it has not been easy (suggestions are welcome!!) I noticed that my Device Manager is cycling about every 3 seconds looking for new devices (sound familiar). I have tried to disable it using the services.msc (found in a web article) but that did not do any good. I am looking for a way to disable it searching for new devices, so if anyone knows how to do that it would be greatly appreciated!

And here is the video- Also, I had uninstalled Norton, rebooted, running with MS Defender, which right away detected MSFS as bad, lol.. Had to allow it.

Hi Tim, if I go that route (which for me would be the a last resort, would I not need to wipe the C drive first? That is actually the hard part. I can do a backup, but I am leery at time of them :)