natman1965

DLed update pop ins gone with new slider at ultra; same fps. Glass now 3/4 full:)

I know tomorrow is a WU and not a SU but I think ASOBO needs a homer here. I just changed my usercfg back to defaults in prep for tomorrows DL and holy carp are the pop ins bad at LOD 2. If they don't come thru with the promised sliders to help in this regard I think they are in for another firestorm of unhappy customers. I have my views set up to snap left right etc with buttons on my yoke. The redraw every time is reminiscent of past sims maybe worse. How a developer can do something like this and call it an "optimization" is beyond me. In fact its probably the most bush league thing I have ever seen a developer do. Hopefully it was just a mistake on there part but I am at the point now when it comes to ASOBO and what they say I will believe it when I see it. AT any rate good luck to all on tomorrows DL, that in its self is always an adventure.

I was thinking the same thing. I have a African Grey Parrot. They say parrots are perpetual toddlers on the level of a two year old. If this sim starts calling me a dumbass every morning like my parrot does I am definitely uninstalling it.

Looks like we are stuck with the pop in scenery introduced with SU5. The development update simply list it as under investigation 2021/22 as to providing a slider to adjust this. This combined with the new washed out look is destroying this sims main strength which is the visuals. IMO the new washed out look is there to help hide the downgrades. Xplane does the same thing with the haze effect it always uses. AA seems to be an issue for me also. Trees in the distance now appear quite grainy. Always had a love hate relationship with this sim but I think I am the closets I have ever been to just setting it aside for awhile until ASOBO/MS figure out what they really want this software to be. On the bright side if I do this I can move my yoke and TQ out of the way and use my desk for something normal adults use it for

Left turn only. Works fine if your flying around the world to the left.

"and just cause I was a gazilionare and all, I mowed that grass for free". Forrest Gump

As a VFR type and CTD free I am able to use the sim fine. Posting on the main forum would be equally useless as it will get lost in the avalanche of other threads from people unhappy at the moment. Was also not aware that this was a fans of FS2020 only forum. Was only suggesting that the Marketing depart stop creating unrealistic expectations thus aggravating further those that are having problems with the sim and relieving the unnecessary pressure that ASOBO is probably under at this point

ASOBO has been under a lot of heat lately but it occurred to me that almost all of this could have been avoided if some one had reigned in the marketing department and insisted on a little honesty. The easiest thing to do would have been to wait a year and release on both platforms at the same time. This way PC users would not have a frame of reference to claim/see degraded visuals that came with SU5/xbox. Don't post preview vids made from a in house build that is obviously superior to what the end user will/would get. Openly state that the sim is a ten year project and at the moment is best suited for VFR GA flight but will be developed into a fully functioning sim for IFR and complex aircraft. I can only speak for myself but knowing this would not have prevented me from buying the sim. I think most would feel the same and be happily looking to the future. Instead we have....well you know what we have.

Got the update no problem. Not much has changed for me still have to use Nvidia freestyle to get the look I want. Still not in the CTD club so I guess I should be grateful. Looking forward to the slider to reduce the pop ins; really distracting and a pet peeve of mine. I hope they get it right the first time but if we go by ASOBOs history so far they wont.

Good article. I learned using VOR and given all the bug reports I have not spent any time "relearning" my navigation skills for this new sim so far. Of course I fly all VFR on the west coast of FL. Not too hard to keep the coast line in site to get to points North or South and altimeter is pretty much set and forget and at my age "forget" is one of my main skills.

I went through Origin and have basically the same system as yours except for a 10900k on the cpu. They took forever but I am glad I went with them. Having built my on rigs in the past I went through it with a fine tooth comb and could not find a single build flaw. They even did a burn in and set the bios up correctly. Even if I had been a noob there would have been no problem. Literally plug and play

It think the goal should have been for the boot's to be on both feet

Ah Carp!! I think I know the point of the new washed out appearance. After using freestyle to get the same look as before SU 5 the pop ins are really noticeable. I am not talking about when quickly switching views either. I flew a straight line from KVNC looking straight out the front and as I approached Sarasota the buildings trees everything were popping in terrible. Go back to the default washed out colors and much less noticeable. I sincerely hope this was a server anomaly and I have to come back here and eat my words

I fired up the sim after I posted and tweaked the Nvidia freestyle a bit more and I think I am pretty happy now. I kind of feel bad for the Xbox guys now. No amount of changing settings on just my tv made much difference to the washed out look. Hopefully it does for them on there brand of TV. Got to give credit to Nvidia on this one, freestyle kind of saved the game for me. Maybe they should send some people over to ASOBO to give them a hand. Kinda seems like they could use some guidance right now

I have been using a 55 inch Samsung Q90T OLED TV sim last August for the sim and have been fairly happy. Of course like others though the first thing I noticed after DLing SU 5 was the washed out new appearance of the sim. I have since been able to mitigate it using Nvidia freestyle but its still not quite the same. Kind of makes me wonder what ASOBO would recommend. You would think with the emphasis shifting to Xbox good appearance on a TV would have been there goal. At any rate switching to a monitor is probably not going to happen for me. Smallest I would go is 48 inches and 4k hdr is a must. At least we don't need high refresh rates for a flight sim. In a perfect world all of the possible choices would be lined up on a table running MSF so I could just point at the one I like and take it home but that's not likely to happen. Same go's for VR. If I could just find a place where I could go hands on with the various models so I could pick the one that looked best to me I would be far more likely to make the jump to VR. I guess that's one of the disadvantages of the demise of the brick and morter store.