MikeF

I saw a few people posting just the "boxes" while clearly stating "No Graphics Card Included". Yet there were multiple bids on the auctions. One 6800XT Box was going for over $900.00.

Used card prices have gone crazy along with the new stuff. My 3 year old Vega64, which I paid $389.00 for 3 years ago, brought $740.00 on Ebay last week. Good luck to OP.

You have to get it from the MS Store only, not in-game.

Nice setup. I am still just using my Oak Rolltop. I have 2 other 28" 4k monitors on my back porch but no room to set them up That would give a wide view. I use my iPad for flight map and charts. Thinking about using my Surface for charts and Simbrief, instead of printing the plan and chart, just to save some trees :).

I decided to update the CPU in my PC so found a good deal on a 5800x that was in stock. Since present system is fairly well balanced between CPU and GPU, with the upgrade I figured the GPU would be lacking, so started looking for an upgrade there also. Finally decided to go "almost" all out and picked up a new 6800XT Black. Then after reading realized that to really use the new GPU that my existing motherboard only has PCie 2.0 slots and would bottleneck the 6800XT. So nw have to get a new 570X Asus board to make it all play nice. Add the cost of all this to the Alpha and Bravo and this "Hobby" is starting to get expensive. Just don't tell me Wife ;)

I am not seeing another Update. Items in Community still have no way to update from the game.

hhmmm, it says they fixed the Honeycomb HDG issue. We will see I guess.

Help level is set to Medium. I don't fly the 152 except when I did the Training Lessons so I probably have the speeds wrong and confused with other planes. I had a friend over who had never done a flight sim before so was starting him in the 152 so as to not scare him off. He was quite impressed with MSFS and flying over his own house.

I think you misread my problem. I do not have the "fix" installed. While taking off in the 152 liftoff speed is 52.8 knots and you get a speed too high warning on landing with anything above that. If I am not mistaken these were the same symptoms of the flap bug that has supposedly been fixed.

I hadn't played with MSFS since about Christmas. I had a whole house full until New Years and then the wife and I both had Covid and lost most of January. Then the update issues started happening and I just waited until they were hopefully resolved, and also waitnnd patiently for me Bravo TQ. It was my understanding that the "Flap Issue" introduced a few updates back was taken care of, but after a flight yesterday I wonder. I took off in the standard 152, just to get a feel for things again, and when I reached 45 knots the game started telling me to lift off. The plane was "floaty" on landing also. I then tried the weekly landing challenge and that plane was hard to put on the ground also. I thought that this issue was patched already.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Why would anyone pay these outrageous prices to scalpers is beyond me. And the same goes for the people paying double for the Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo. I can wait until Feb15 for mine to ship for 250.00. My system is getting me on average 40fps so no way and I spending twice what the system cost just to go from High settings to Ultra. That is just insane.

After I posted my question I did some looking in what the ATI app does that is installed with the video driver. It will show the CPU and GPU load so I will take a look there next time I load up MSFS. Thanks for the answers anyway.

This is going to be a dumb question but HOW are you guys determining if you are either CPU or GPU deficient in MSFS? I get decent performance with my PC now and I think it is probably pretty balanced but it wouldn't hurt to check, I guess.

Bottom knob of the control panel directly below the screen you are talking about. There is a knob the 3 buttons and then the knob you are wanting, top to bottom.

I was trying that but it was haphazard in the way it was working. I changed the cockpit zoom to Right-click+wheel to help but now that coupled with what the update did to cockpit camera control and I just don't like it. I guess it is time to see if I can make the X-Touch midi work for AP controls. I just haven't wanted to spend the time to figure it out and also find a place to put it where it's handy around the yoke and throttle quad. I am just getting tired of Asobo breaking things that worked before.