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Wolfy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MxhQ1aRqi8&t=15039s This is probably an issue with a hand-crafted airport bought third-party. Apparently it does a piss-poor job of making sure the ground mesh matches up between the custom and auto-genned terrain and if you don't load in the hand-crafted data quickly enough you can have a sudden ledge on the runway you just crash right into.
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Shipon posted:This is probably an issue with a hand-crafted airport bought third-party. Apparently it does a piss-poor job of making sure the ground mesh matches up between the custom and auto-genned terrain and if you don't load in the hand-crafted data quickly enough you can have a sudden ledge on the runway you just crash right into.
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Shipon posted:This is probably an issue with a hand-crafted airport bought third-party. Apparently it does a piss-poor job of making sure the ground mesh matches up between the custom and auto-genned terrain and if you don't load in the hand-crafted data quickly enough you can have a sudden ledge on the runway you just crash right into. Just last week I landed in Stockholm Arlanda and there was a concrete block in the middle of the runway. That ended badly. And I only have the default world updates.
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lobsterminator posted:Just last week I landed in Stockholm Arlanda and there was a concrete block in the middle of the runway. That ended badly. They put a building in the grass between two taxiways at Amsterdam Schiphol airport (EHAM), one of their custom handmade airports mind you, and that makes it impossible to taxi anything larger than an A320. Even with the Airbus you don't have a lot of margin if you're not a bit on the outside of the taxiway. Discovered that after taking ages to set up a flight and then getting a big "You crashed" popup the moment I turned right off the apron, I was very confused how that happened. Fortunately found a mod that specifically gets rid of that building
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I've never seen that building but you can turn off damage and the game doesn't break as often. I think the 320 mod folks even recommended that because the sim damage stuff is so bad.
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Your own fault for driving into buildings on the runway, thats why you read the NOTAM
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Zero One posted:I've never seen that building but you can turn off damage and the game doesn't break as often. I think the 320 mod folks even recommended that because the sim damage stuff is so bad. The building is between A19 and A20, in the grass that seperates A and B. And yeah I turned off damage but the collision detection will still bounce you off it. But I downloaded a mod that removes it now so it's all good. Lord Stimperor posted:Your own fault for driving into buildings on the runway, thats why you read the NOTAM
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lobsterminator posted:Sim Update IX is out! Just firing up MSFS for the first time in a while to snag this. In case anyone is interested: quote:RELEASE NOTES 1.25.7.0
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New (to me) ways of hating MSFS downloads now that I am a multiple gaming PC haver: Steam license requires an active Steam log in to connect to online services. Online services include content downloads. That means if I want to play some other games while it downloads 100gb I need to do it on the PC where the CPU is dedicated to unpacking downloads instead of on the PC that is actually free.
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I bought the Leonardo Maddog X for FS2020 and wanted to give impressions, I have mainly flown the A32NX. It was indeed 75.00 euros on Sim Market - $82.74 in USD this morning. Yeah it's a lot - but the MD-80 is one of my favorite airplanes, this is absolutely worth it to me. But set your expectations - this is a study-level aircraft from the P3D/FSX world. The default mappings on my TCA/Airbus throttle made things a lot harder because of how the engine fuel switches are being translated to MD-80. After unmapping, this works fine. It is for sure using some older/lower res textures from P3D in the cockpit, but they are still very good. The cockpit has a lot of wear, which is interesting and I think good, fits the gritty personality of the aircraft. The exterior is beautiful. The lighting is absolutely stellar - inside and out. The cockpit night lighting I think is unmatched by any other aircraft I've seen so far. The aircraft is slower to take off than expected, but once it gets going, it's fast! The autopilot has a million modes, and they seem to work well. And it DOES have an auto throttle! The startup procedure is predictably realistic as it is on the real plane. Interestingly it doesn't use an IRS, so you don't have to wait for alignment to get going - the GPS position is ready to go in the POS INIT screen. It did take the whole day to learn the quirks to get flying. If you've flown the CRJ or even the CJ4, you'll probably be plenty comfortable in the MD-80. The installer dumps a bunch of shortcuts on your desktop, and it puts stuff in your user/documents folder, FYI. There is a launcher called Load Manager that you start before MSFS. This is also how you can load liveries into it. It also accepts Simbrief flight plans in this, and you can do some configuration. There is an in-cockpit tablet that is actually very good. You can load flight plans through this as well, do the performance/cg calculations, as well as control doors, stairs, ground services, and all that. You can also do the doors through the MCDU menus too. You can also click a hotspot on a screw below the tablet to remove it entirely. All of the doors open, including the aft air stairs, and you can even open the engine cowls. The cabin is fully modeled, seats and all. Flightsim.to already has two community liveries as of tonight, but they have more on the forums to download - including the classic American Airlines, and the old and new Delta liveries (WIDGET!) For some reason the in-game ATC is a bit broken with this aircraft - it stutters/repeats over and over. I suspect this might have to do with the repeating joystick events from the TCA throttle, but I'm not sure yet. There are lots of other reports of this on the forums, so hopefully they figure it out quick.
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I'm pretty sure the answer to these questions is going to be "no, because Microsoft" but can you manage the FS2020 installation to reduce the amount of drive space needed? For example, when it comes to scenery, I don't really feel like I need The Entire World. I'd be perfectly happy to not install scenery for regions or continents that I'm never going to fly to/from/over. Alternatively, can you manage it so that scenery areas you use the most are installed to your SSD, but scenery of a lower priority is stored on a hard drive, where drive space is less precious?
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Number_6 posted:I'm pretty sure the answer to these questions is going to be "no, because Microsoft" but can you manage the FS2020 installation to reduce the amount of drive space needed? For example, when it comes to scenery, I don't really feel like I need The Entire World. I'd be perfectly happy to not install scenery for regions or continents that I'm never going to fly to/from/over. Alternatively, can you manage it so that scenery areas you use the most are installed to your SSD, but scenery of a lower priority is stored on a hard drive, where drive space is less precious? You can’t manage the install at all. There’s a content manager and a dynamic cache that you can size if you use the live downloaded scenery. It’s probably not at all solace for you but people were building terrabytes of textures in Xplane so, somehow, FS2020’s approach actually solves a weird problem with most grognard simmers.
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If NTFS would suck less at compression, there'd be some gains to be had. I'm hosting the downloaded content on my NAS, and thanks to its ZStd compression, the content only uses 76% of its actual disk space. In turn however that means, Microsoft could make sure their poo poo is packed up properly, via their SDK or whatever.
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Combat Pretzel posted:If NTFS would suck less at compression, there'd be some gains to be had. I'm hosting the downloaded content on my NAS, and thanks to its ZStd compression, the content only uses 76% of its actual disk space. I appreciate your expertise and knowledge in this area, but unfortunately once you say “NAS” there’s an obligation that you receive a swirly. :/
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Combat Pretzel posted:If NTFS would suck less at compression, there'd be some gains to be had. I'm hosting the downloaded content on my NAS, and thanks to its ZStd compression, the content only uses 76% of its actual disk space. But if MSFS was smaller people like me wouldn't have bought 1TB SSDs because of the game and the economy would collapse.
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Number_6 posted:I'm pretty sure the answer to these questions is going to be "no, because Microsoft" but can you manage the FS2020 installation to reduce the amount of drive space needed? For example, when it comes to scenery, I don't really feel like I need The Entire World. I'd be perfectly happy to not install scenery for regions or continents that I'm never going to fly to/from/over. Alternatively, can you manage it so that scenery areas you use the most are installed to your SSD, but scenery of a lower priority is stored on a hard drive, where drive space is less precious? You can wallow around the asset folder and chop it up across drives with symlinks manually etc. But regional textures I am pretty sure is not a thing because it has a pretty lean base set of textures it then uses in conjunction with the streamed geometry and textures which you can already direct to different drive. I guess if you don't want to completely uninstall them you can banish uninteresting airports to a lesser hdd or ssd and save probably a surprising amount of space.
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0toShifty posted:I bought the Leonardo Maddog X for FS2020 and wanted to give impressions, I have mainly flown the A32NX. Thanks for this, I loved the other maddog Does the fs2020 version have shared cockpit like previous versions?
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Is anyone flying the BAe 146? I’ve been looking forward to this release for a while — plan on picking it up in a week or so. https://www.justflight.com/product/146-professional-microsoft-flight-simulator
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sellouts posted:Thanks for this, I loved the other maddog I didn't see anything about it in the docs. That sounds like a great feature though.
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CmdrSmirnoff scooped this up, way to go! FREE to a welcoming  Canadian home....maybe you could send me something small and silly in return. Looks ugly but works fine.It's obviously very used, has some screw holes in the top from another project, and comes with fancy Lego levers for gear, parking brake, flaps. Also included is the desk clamp, the extra lever tops, and some lovely 3d printed levers for a dual engine jet. I think I might have the mounting screws somewhere but no guarantees. However, you do get half a screw FREE :  Comes already cross-threaded and snapped....what a deal! Rot fucked around with this message at 16:20 on May 9, 2022 |
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Wow, this thread is super dead if nobody even replied to that generous offer! I've still got a bravo sitting next to me in a box but a few years ago would have taken you up on that otherwise!
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I would take it but I am not Canadian 
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I'll be driving through eastern Ontario in July if you're anywhere near there
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I took a break from MSFS2020 and had been doing XP11 exclusively for the past few months. Decided to come back, picked up the Milviz 310, and now my MSFS CTD's on launch right after checking for patches. Awesome.
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JayKay posted:I took a break from MSFS2020 and had been doing XP11 exclusively for the past few months. If you don't have it already, MSFS Addon Linker is great for figuring out what specific addon may be causing issues.
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I'll give it a try, however I think my install is super borked. I saw Steam installed a quick patch when I launched. Even with my Community folder empty, I keep getting a CTD right after checking for updates. Edit: Completely removed Community again, installed the helper. Was able to load. Added some of my addons back, no issues. This friggin game. JayKay fucked around with this message at 18:25 on May 8, 2022 |
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slidebite posted:Wow, this thread is super dead if nobody even replied to that generous offer! Yeah I'm kinda surprised too. Oh well, eventually someone will take it. Fayez Butts posted:I'll be driving through eastern Ontario in July if you're anywhere near there I'm on the other end of the country but it'll be pretty cheap for me to send this to any major area in Ontario. Hit me up if you remember and maybe we can work something out.
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I was away from the game for a while. But you know what’s fun. Flying that F-18 around! The game still manages to impress anytime you break through a cloud layer or something and I'm like "goddamn this looks good."
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There’s another F-18 game    
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I haven't been able to play DCS since the stuff in Ukraine started. It just bums me out now 
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There’s another game but I can’t buzz my family home in it.
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soggybagel posted:There’s another game but I can’t buzz my family home in it. Move your family to Syria
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Pdmg 737-700 is out today….
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I'm just now trying out MSFS on the XBox, with a regular ol' controller until I decide I want to commit to something more serious. Does trimming... ever get easier? It feels so dang imprecise, I suppose because there's never any feel of stick pressure being released as you adjust.
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Trimming should allow you to essentially make the plane not pitch/roll by itself and fly where you want to without having to correct with steering. It shouldn’t be hard (as in, in normal flight, it should be tap tap tap,there, trimmed), so maybe something’s off, unless you’re attempting crabbing in 60kt gale.
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Tayter Swift posted:I'm just now trying out MSFS on the XBox, with a regular ol' controller until I decide I want to commit to something more serious. You get a hang of it eventually. It's always a bit hard because you can't feel it but you just learn to trim a bit and release the stick and see if it stays level. The more you fly a particular plane the more you learn how the trim affects it. I play with a stick on PC, but I usually just tap the trim in very light taps and let my stick closer to the middle until there is no drift. With the xbox controller the bigger issue is how inprecise the sticks are. You can't really do tiny, precise movements, so you easily end up overcorrecting while you trim. Flying is a lot easier with proper controllers.
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