Flight Simulator Thread V1 - It's not a game, it's a simulator, dammit!
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Some relevant links:
[url]http://x-plane.org/[/url]
[url]http://forums.x-pilot.com/[/url]
[url]https://v-aviation.net/[/url]
Wanted to make a thread for discussing flight simulators. I'll add more to the OP once I figure out what to add.
So which flight sims are you guys using? Personally, I have a few hundred hours in X-Plane 10. Been flying the CRJ-200 lately.
If we're going to talk Flight Simulators I think it goes without saying that Falcon 4.0 be mentioned here. In my experience it is the most in depth flight simulator out there even to this day.
Put it this way, Falcon 4.0 was the most realistic flight sim in its day (~1998) and even now it has a following that has updated it with a mod called Falcon 4.0 BMS (Benchmarking Sims) to help it keep up with todays graphics.
As for it's in depth-ness. This is the game manual that came with it:
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This manual teaches you how real life maneuvers are performed!
Falcon 4.0 is even on Steam!
I still have my Falcon 4.0 book/game. I prefer the physics and realism of X-Plane though. FSX is okay too, just less realistic in my opinion.
Rise of Flight is my preferred sim. Single Engine Bi-Planes are pretty much my bread and butter.
Speaking of which, I'm looking to upgrade my gear. Right now all I've got is my Logitech 3D Xtreme Pro stick. Any good ones to upgrade to? What about pedals, any good ones I should look at?
Is this sim realistic at all?
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;50233105]Is this sim realistic at all?[/QUOTE]
Rise of Flight, oh yeah it is.
[QUOTE=bdd458;50233547]Rise of Flight, oh yeah it is.[/QUOTE]
In comparison to X-Plane??
within its sphere (WW1) it probably is. You're not going to by flying any jets though (or much of anything not made of wood and fabric)
I still love playing modded IL-2 -1946
[QUOTE=DiCiSpitfire;50234889]I still love playing modded IL-2 -1946[/QUOTE]
I really want to get back into modded 1946, but I just can't get it to run properly on my comp and I'm not sure if it's an issue with my GPU or Windows 10.
But at least I still have DCS World.
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;50232890]If we're going to talk Flight Simulators I think it goes without saying that Falcon 4.0 be mentioned here. In my experience it is the most in depth flight simulator out there even to this day.
Put it this way, Falcon 4.0 was the most realistic flight sim in its day (~1998) and even now it has a following that has updated it with a mod called Falcon 4.0 BMS (Benchmarking Sims) to help it keep up with todays graphics.
As for it's in depth-ness. This is the game manual that came with it:
[t]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81GZFESCCAL.jpg[/t]
This manual teaches you how real life maneuvers are performed!
Falcon 4.0 is even on Steam![/QUOTE]
I still fly BMS. The Dynamic campaign is great and pretty much no other game does one as well as it does. It even boils down to North Korea (Or South) using straight stretches of roads as temporary air bases when they lose their actual airbases. At night you can see tank battles below you, and lost units are lost units. Everything that happens happened. It isn't just scripted mission and then a mission generated based off the outcome. It's just an ongoing conflict that you participate in.
And then there's custom campaigns like Israel and shit.
I was a flight sim junkie in the day. If you were ever in the FS98/FS2002/FS2004 MSN Gaming Zone lobbies, then you knew me. I probably have more virtual hours in a 767-300 than a lot of real 767 pilots in the actual aircraft
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;50238590]Has anyone gotten much into X-Plane here?[/QUOTE]
Yeah I chose it over FSX a [I]long[/I] time ago.
Haven't gone in lately, but last I checked I was about a quarter of a way into a multi-leg flight from Auckland to Taipei.
Is X-Plane a pure sandbox or does it have missions and assignments like FSX?
I just got into FSX a while ago, figured it'd be a good starting point to get into the basics and the terminology. I really like the assignments with increasing difficulty, it keeps you interested and into it, whereas in a pure sandbox game I usually lose interest fairly quickly.
No missions. Just make a flight plan and fly it. Tons of mods too. Lots of payware.
Those missions FSX has you do doesn't prepare you to do a flight with an actual piece of payware like PMDG or Level D or Captain Sim. Those are 1:1 true to life replicas while the stock aircraft in FSX are more along the lines of 'You can fully experience this game with an Xbox controller'
[QUOTE=Why485;50238630]Falcon 4.0 represent
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The disc looks different from mine, is that a different edition of the game?
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;50240116]The disc looks different from mine, is that a different edition of the game?[/QUOTE]
Not as far as I know. It looks like the one in your picture to me.
I got my rudder pedals in yesterday and today I get my flight yolk! Just need to build out a full cockpit and get all the rest of the shit and I'll be in business! Anyone else have a home cockpit?
Man, got my start in MSFS2002 back in the day. I still have my sidewinder, and it still works on Win10. Not bad for a 98-era joystick.
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Also Disc 2 of FS2002 reports missing files, apparently they have to do with XP. Any chance of running it in 10?
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;50308794]Man, got my start in MSFS2002 back in the day. I still have my sidewinder, and it still works on Win10. Not bad for a 98-era joystick.
[editline]12th May 2016[/editline]
Also Disc 2 of FS2002 reports missing files, apparently they have to do with XP. Any chance of running it in 10?[/QUOTE]
Which files are missing?
[editline]12th May 2016[/editline]
And, orgasmic:
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[video=youtube;pNeHJY1XODQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeHJY1XODQ[/video]
Not much of a home cockpit but [url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32814946/_MG_3638.JPG]here's my current setup[/url]
Haven't played in weeks though, because I need to relocate all these things and I have no other place to do it.
I stick to FSX because FsPassengersX and loads of payware to compensate for the lackluster physics. Its still quite incomplete though, but it is after all a 10 year old game. Crashes all the time which puts me off from flying long haul. Can't wait to see what Dovetail Flight Simulator would look like since IIRC it will be based on Microsoft's engine.
I usually either try to fly around the world in a prop plane or if I feel like doing some commercial operations I fly regional airline routes on regional jets like the CRJ, ERJ or A320 family.
Flew all this on the baron 58
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And slightly off topic,
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Had a B738 sim session last year. It was a mechtronix FFTX, every single part is a replica except the FMC which is original Boeing.
Wow dude that's awesome. I have a pretty similar setup but I need a third monitor, and I guess a better GPU since when I extend to two monitors I get shitty FPS. I have a GTX 950 now.
Also want to craft some kind of overhead panel for switches and things.
Anyone ever had any luck with tweaking FSX:SE, i've got a pretty decent system but I only get 30FPS~ out of a PMDG product at a standard airport, if I goto a UK2000 airport I get 15FPS~.
[QUOTE=samwilki;51512478]Anyone ever had any luck with tweaking FSX:SE, i've got a pretty decent system but I only get 30FPS~ out of a PMDG product at a standard airport, if I goto a UK2000 airport I get 15FPS~.[/QUOTE]
iirc 30fps with addons is pretty standard in FSX. But from my own testing, volumetric clouds and water effects are the worst fps eaters of the game. I still get 30/40 fps on average with PMDGs 777. The addon has to manage FMS, hydraulics, etc... in real time. Add to that the simulation itself.
Carenado planes are the worst at this honestly.
If you are looking for very well optimized planes, take a loot at A2Asim. Excellent paywares, the only drawback is that they only have small / WW2 aircraft and no airliners. Or get the A320 from Aerosoft, it's much better optimized for FSX and you almost have the same level of complexity as the 777.
Your final solution would be to switch to Xplane / P3D, most of the time FSX addons are compatible with P3D.
[QUOTE=samwilki;51512478]Anyone ever had any luck with tweaking FSX:SE, i've got a pretty decent system but I only get 30FPS~ out of a PMDG product at a standard airport, if I goto a UK2000 airport I get 15FPS~.[/QUOTE]
From my time in Flight Sims dating back to 98... This new feature was introduced in 2002 (Or 2004) called Autogen scenery. Autogen adds all that amazing detail like trees and buildings and shit that isn't hand placed like major landmarks and they're chunks of scenery created by hand and then dispersed to populate the world randomly. The thing about it though is they use ridiculously high resolution textures, even though they're tiny scenery objects and you're never so close to them you need them to be highly detailed. I forgot what their original resolution is but it's either 1024x1024 or 512x512. Do you really need a thousand+ 512x512 images for trees and houses that are 2 miles away? Hell fucking no. You can grab any autogen addon that will replace all the autogen textures with stuff that's like 64x64 (Or lower/higher depending on personal choice) and hello framerate (Or goodbye if you decide fuck it i have two 1080Ti's let's see what these babies can do oh catch fire)
Anyway. I always grabbed an autogen texture addon and overwrote the defaults with 64x64 versions to get a noticeable framerate increase
Which flight sim to choose for flying (modern) airliners when your priorities are
1. Realistic detail in the cockpit (real-to-life pre-flight procedures and all that, fiddly stuff like weight distribution and passenger amounts)
2. Detailed scenery and nice graphics
3. Accurate flight dynamics
Currently have FSX installed but wondering whether to go to P3D (which is kind of the same?) or try my hand at X-Plane sometime. I know payware add-ons probably make all of the difference but don't yet want to fully commit myself to one of the above 'host' sims by shelling out that much cash for it.
[QUOTE=Raygen;51516949]Which flight sim to choose for flying (modern) airliners when your priorities are
1. Realistic detail in the cockpit (real-to-life pre-flight procedures and all that, fiddly stuff like weight distribution and passenger amounts)
2. Detailed scenery and nice graphics
3. Accurate flight dynamics
Currently have FSX installed but wondering whether to go to P3D (which is kind of the same?) or try my hand at X-Plane sometime. I know payware add-ons probably make all of the difference but don't yet want to fully commit myself to one of the above 'host' sims by shelling out that much cash for it.[/QUOTE]
X Plane doesn't have the best scenery graphics, but for the other two points, I can't recommend it enough, especially considering some of the payware out there.
Word of warning though, X Plane 11 is meant to come out soon, so I'd say you should wait for that.
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