Only 30.78 here, but I'm not shutting it down overnight.
Oh guys I'm really sorry that you have to go through that, it must be incredibly frustrating.
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Oh guys I'm really sorry that you have to go through that, it must be incredibly frustrating.
I fired mine up before leaving the house and it appeared to freeze while I was away, when I got home and saw just alt-f4d and it has resumed. Windows store download is very very slow.
Meh. It's really not a big deal. If I was really bothered, I'd do a quick hop to the office with the desktop in the boot and download it all over the research fibre network. It's more the scenery streaming that will be a bother, but it's not like I'll need much bandwidth: as soon as helicopters get in, that'll be most of my time, and the landscape won't need to be updated that fast.
Really good video from Ant here - well worth watching. The manual cache feature looks amazing, will have to try that. Feel bad for those who are still downloading - but guess what folks - it never ends.
This thing will continually melt your internet connection - I feel especially bad for those in the US with data caps. Jeezo.
This thing will continually melt your internet connection - I feel especially bad for those in the US with data caps. Jeezo.
the vid ended before you reached my island though...I'm a bit east of your final position over on Sanday
Hmm... are there bombers in MFS?
I have an evil idea...
I may leave my system on overnight as well. I'll just have to keep an eye on the batteries.Only 30.78 here, but I'm not shutting it down overnight.
Robert Maynard
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Installed; first four training exercises complete; decided to fly out of ABZ. Scenery looks familiar - and very well presented.
I'm months away from being able to play the game for myself, but strangely enough I've been watching this thread and the stories of worried downloading with nervous nail biting anxiety for all of you
My down load picked up some steam, 30 gigs left. Curious to see how it will run on my middling pc hardware (1660ti, i7-6700k and 16 gigs of ddr4 2800). It did not appear available yet for Xbox so going the pc route. Looking forward to steam linking it to the tv.
I was pretty thrilled with seeing five big airports represented in my state (Massachussetts) photorealistic. Lowell, Brockton, Springfield, Worcester and Boston. I've only flown put of Boston but have been to Brockton. I'm about twenty miles out of Brockton. We have a tiny air strip in our town for small planes (Cessnas and the like). Curious if it will be on there (A friend of mine snuck his 300zx in there years ago and got caught racing it up and down the runway lol!).
Rhode Island has Providence and that's it. I was hoping to see TF Green in Warwick Rhode Island, having gone Florida bound from there a few times. Its the sweet airport if you want to dodge the craziness of the bigger more popular ones (In and out, always a pleasure). Pretty sure it doesn't do international flights which is why its considered "faster" to get in and out of. Its been so long though they might even fool me with a generic version, if um, trees arnt growing out of the runway.
I was pretty thrilled with seeing five big airports represented in my state (Massachussetts) photorealistic. Lowell, Brockton, Springfield, Worcester and Boston. I've only flown put of Boston but have been to Brockton. I'm about twenty miles out of Brockton. We have a tiny air strip in our town for small planes (Cessnas and the like). Curious if it will be on there (A friend of mine snuck his 300zx in there years ago and got caught racing it up and down the runway lol!).
Rhode Island has Providence and that's it. I was hoping to see TF Green in Warwick Rhode Island, having gone Florida bound from there a few times. Its the sweet airport if you want to dodge the craziness of the bigger more popular ones (In and out, always a pleasure). Pretty sure it doesn't do international flights which is why its considered "faster" to get in and out of. Its been so long though they might even fool me with a generic version, if um, trees arnt growing out of the runway.
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Are you reliably able to get 2400RPM in the tutorials? The Cessna works fine in free flying mode but I cant quite reliably push it in the tutorials. :/
For those with slow downloads/poor textures/missing ATC et cetera; apparantly changing locations can force you to use different servers which may work better. So sayeth the mighty Reddit.
Well, I actually managed to get a very basic set of control bindings set up and decided to do a free flight out of my local airport.
Managed to take off, fly out over the lake, turned round, tried to spot my house (didn't manage it although the town looks pretty damn accurate to be fair) and landed on the runway! Somewhat off center, but hey, I'm no pilot, so pretty happy with my first trip. Reckon getting the control bindings set right is going to take a long time, but so far, despite a few stops and starts, really quite happy.
Should probably try the tutorials at some point, but then I never did the tutorials in ED...
Managed to take off, fly out over the lake, turned round, tried to spot my house (didn't manage it although the town looks pretty damn accurate to be fair) and landed on the runway! Somewhat off center, but hey, I'm no pilot, so pretty happy with my first trip. Reckon getting the control bindings set right is going to take a long time, but so far, despite a few stops and starts, really quite happy.
Should probably try the tutorials at some point, but then I never did the tutorials in ED...
Got it going and played for a few hours. I'll leave a few take away impressions.
No experience before with any kind of flight simulator, Elite Dangerous being as close as I ever got other than games like Ace Combat. I am using windows game pass for the pc not the steam download. I assume with the Steam download my controller issues would have been much simpler.
My controller issues were a nightmare so I am not going to go into the details, but it was over an hour of frustration. Not really Flight Simulators fault more using game pass from windows store and trying to get it all to work with steam link.
The game recommend a graphics setting of high which I selected, the game overall ran decent, I could tell frames were dropping occasionally but for the most part I was proud of my modest rig (1080p). I could tell the eye candy was nowhere near what I seen in the videos leading up to this even with me on high (Figuring maybe it still nerfed some of the settings for me). I only had about 20 minutes of sunlight as it was going down when I took off, but the closer I was to the earth the worse things looked, as I gained altitude things got better.
This is no Ace Combat, constantly stalling and getting warnings on the poor little Cessna I decided to take out was pretty harrowing, I managed to stay airborne and fighting for every foot of altitude I gained, after 2600 the plane didn't seem very inclined to gaining much more (Probably me not the plane), every little action when I tried to be gentle seemed to jank the plane around violently (Controller), I wanted to be gentle, I don't know whether all movements in this tiny Cessna are like that or maybe it's something you really need the hotas to translate.
I was not able to complete the first tutorial with just the controller, It was at the point where it was asking for up, down, left, right arrows and nothing on the controller satisfied the camera requirement. I bailed on the tutorial. I tried briefly using keyboard and mouse to fly the plane but the yaw and pitch were defaulted to the number pad and that just wasn't working for me. I was also having problems checking the controls quick reference and it was always blank, very helpful!
That's when I took up into free fly and my area was mostly dark by the time this happened, spending much of my concentration trying not to crash I didn't really get to orient myself so had no idea where I was in real life to look for small particular roads and places I would recognize particular to my town, having started at the municipal airport a couple towns away, but coming in my direction (This I will try to accomplish in the future when playing while the sun's out). What I did recognize were the major highways in my area, wow, what a beautiful night time view, my day time disappointment at graphics was gone and the night looked better and went pretty smooth. I was just enjoying puttering along, I wasn't even paying attention anymore to direction or a specific place I was just enjoying the night ride. The airplanes cockpit looked amazing. I would alternate camera to an outside free cam to enjoy the scenery and when I would go back to the view within the plane the sharpness and light of the electronics was powerful (I wonder if there's a way to turn this down some). I'll never forget that hour I cruised around (Trying not to crash) and just took it all in.
The sprawl of the southeast coast of Massachusetts made me sad in a way, sometimes on woodsy parts I get a different impression from the ground and can fool myself I am in the country, but seeing my local area from the air, at night, made me realize I am just surrounded by endless waves of civilization and sprawl. The sound was amazing, the sound of that engine after about 20 minutes relaxed me to the point where I thought I would keep drifting off, something wonderful about it, almost like meditation (When you don't hear stall , 500, stall 500 over and over lol). Some slight turbulence buffeting me around definitely brought back memories of some of my first flights going up as a kid. It checks out. The skybox was very well done, being able to see varying sizes and colors of stars, and there were many of them, I was impressed with this.
I never got up past 3k altitude, and at times it reminded me of playing City Skylines on my biggest cities and looking at them zoomed out. Except this time was where I lived on earth in reality, it was wonderful. I have a feeling during the day my performance will be much worse and once clouds come into play will probably force me down to medium settings (No clouds clear night here). I can see the appeal though, and I was blown away despite fighting against the game right now. I was expecting to just point my plane on a course and it would keep, you have to constantly be on everything because it doesn't stay where you put it for long.
The best part was seeing this huge massive glow in the sky, thinking it must be Boston I was excited.... As I poodled (Plane wasn't a F14, it sometimes felt like I was doing an ariel impression of mowing the lawn) much closer and the regional airport appeared, I realized it was New Bedford (Wrong Direction!). Couldn't figure out how to land or even ask permission so head first next to something near the runway with red sirens seemed fitting. Looking forward to playing more despite the rocky start.
Edit: Further into tutorials now and found out about trim. Game changer, must have set it before without realizing it and was fighting against it! I can enjoy the scenery much more now, even hit 13k alt.
Game by default set me to TAA aa I reduced to Mxaa much smoother. I was wrong about the day time still running pretty good for me on high.
No experience before with any kind of flight simulator, Elite Dangerous being as close as I ever got other than games like Ace Combat. I am using windows game pass for the pc not the steam download. I assume with the Steam download my controller issues would have been much simpler.
My controller issues were a nightmare so I am not going to go into the details, but it was over an hour of frustration. Not really Flight Simulators fault more using game pass from windows store and trying to get it all to work with steam link.
The game recommend a graphics setting of high which I selected, the game overall ran decent, I could tell frames were dropping occasionally but for the most part I was proud of my modest rig (1080p). I could tell the eye candy was nowhere near what I seen in the videos leading up to this even with me on high (Figuring maybe it still nerfed some of the settings for me). I only had about 20 minutes of sunlight as it was going down when I took off, but the closer I was to the earth the worse things looked, as I gained altitude things got better.
This is no Ace Combat, constantly stalling and getting warnings on the poor little Cessna I decided to take out was pretty harrowing, I managed to stay airborne and fighting for every foot of altitude I gained, after 2600 the plane didn't seem very inclined to gaining much more (Probably me not the plane), every little action when I tried to be gentle seemed to jank the plane around violently (Controller), I wanted to be gentle, I don't know whether all movements in this tiny Cessna are like that or maybe it's something you really need the hotas to translate.
I was not able to complete the first tutorial with just the controller, It was at the point where it was asking for up, down, left, right arrows and nothing on the controller satisfied the camera requirement. I bailed on the tutorial. I tried briefly using keyboard and mouse to fly the plane but the yaw and pitch were defaulted to the number pad and that just wasn't working for me. I was also having problems checking the controls quick reference and it was always blank, very helpful!
That's when I took up into free fly and my area was mostly dark by the time this happened, spending much of my concentration trying not to crash I didn't really get to orient myself so had no idea where I was in real life to look for small particular roads and places I would recognize particular to my town, having started at the municipal airport a couple towns away, but coming in my direction (This I will try to accomplish in the future when playing while the sun's out). What I did recognize were the major highways in my area, wow, what a beautiful night time view, my day time disappointment at graphics was gone and the night looked better and went pretty smooth. I was just enjoying puttering along, I wasn't even paying attention anymore to direction or a specific place I was just enjoying the night ride. The airplanes cockpit looked amazing. I would alternate camera to an outside free cam to enjoy the scenery and when I would go back to the view within the plane the sharpness and light of the electronics was powerful (I wonder if there's a way to turn this down some). I'll never forget that hour I cruised around (Trying not to crash) and just took it all in.
The sprawl of the southeast coast of Massachusetts made me sad in a way, sometimes on woodsy parts I get a different impression from the ground and can fool myself I am in the country, but seeing my local area from the air, at night, made me realize I am just surrounded by endless waves of civilization and sprawl. The sound was amazing, the sound of that engine after about 20 minutes relaxed me to the point where I thought I would keep drifting off, something wonderful about it, almost like meditation (When you don't hear stall , 500, stall 500 over and over lol). Some slight turbulence buffeting me around definitely brought back memories of some of my first flights going up as a kid. It checks out. The skybox was very well done, being able to see varying sizes and colors of stars, and there were many of them, I was impressed with this.
I never got up past 3k altitude, and at times it reminded me of playing City Skylines on my biggest cities and looking at them zoomed out. Except this time was where I lived on earth in reality, it was wonderful. I have a feeling during the day my performance will be much worse and once clouds come into play will probably force me down to medium settings (No clouds clear night here). I can see the appeal though, and I was blown away despite fighting against the game right now. I was expecting to just point my plane on a course and it would keep, you have to constantly be on everything because it doesn't stay where you put it for long.
The best part was seeing this huge massive glow in the sky, thinking it must be Boston I was excited.... As I poodled (Plane wasn't a F14, it sometimes felt like I was doing an ariel impression of mowing the lawn) much closer and the regional airport appeared, I realized it was New Bedford (Wrong Direction!). Couldn't figure out how to land or even ask permission so head first next to something near the runway with red sirens seemed fitting. Looking forward to playing more despite the rocky start.
Edit: Further into tutorials now and found out about trim. Game changer, must have set it before without realizing it and was fighting against it! I can enjoy the scenery much more now, even hit 13k alt.
Game by default set me to TAA aa I reduced to Mxaa much smoother. I was wrong about the day time still running pretty good for me on high.
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Robert Maynard
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I had issues with the climb in the third tutorial - until I fully retracted the flaps. Throttle only seemed to go to 2,300rpm on the ground but would go to 2,400rpm once over a certain speed in the air.
Yesterday I didn't get a great deal done - either work or play in MFS.
Most of the time was spent frustratingly quitting Steam and relaunching everything, hoping to pick up the Premium content. Finally managed to get that elusive 4GB download after about 4 hours of trying every workaround suggested. Once I get a bee in my bonnet...
The rest was configuring options, setting up rolling and manual cache, reminding myself how to use a HOTAS, caching some cities I want to visit, and doing tutorials... done the first four anyway. Probably need to do them two or three more times before moving on - my landings are... well, any landing you walk away from is a good landing, right?
Running everything on 4K High, with a few tweaks up to Ultra on some settings. My card is an 11GB 1080Ti, so a good card, but not exactly cutting edge. Performance was better than I was expecting though. Nvidia's "optimised" settings dialed back on most things, and I may try this later today and then tweak upwards again.
This is my first flight sim also, but I'm all in. £110 means I need to get at least 110 hours out of it to feel like I got my money's worth, so no choice really. There's a lot of jargon to get past - especially when configuring controllers. Still can't figure out how to elevate the drone camera using keyboard.
Still, at least sky writing works...
Most of the time was spent frustratingly quitting Steam and relaunching everything, hoping to pick up the Premium content. Finally managed to get that elusive 4GB download after about 4 hours of trying every workaround suggested. Once I get a bee in my bonnet...
The rest was configuring options, setting up rolling and manual cache, reminding myself how to use a HOTAS, caching some cities I want to visit, and doing tutorials... done the first four anyway. Probably need to do them two or three more times before moving on - my landings are... well, any landing you walk away from is a good landing, right?
Running everything on 4K High, with a few tweaks up to Ultra on some settings. My card is an 11GB 1080Ti, so a good card, but not exactly cutting edge. Performance was better than I was expecting though. Nvidia's "optimised" settings dialed back on most things, and I may try this later today and then tweak upwards again.
This is my first flight sim also, but I'm all in. £110 means I need to get at least 110 hours out of it to feel like I got my money's worth, so no choice really.
There's a lot of jargon to get past - especially when configuring controllers. Still can't figure out how to elevate the drone camera using keyboard.Still, at least sky writing works...
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I played a fair bit yesterday, I did notice some rather significant frame drops now and then - as if the game was loading stuff in, this happened even mid flight (initially it was limited to the first 20-30 seconds after the loading screen i.e. when the plane was taxiing). I'm used to poor performance having suffered FSX over the years but FS2020 already runs much better in comparison, and I'm playing largely at 60fps (1080p) at high default settings. Will try to preload some areas like shown in OA's recent video, and see if that reduces the performance drops somewhat.
Got to say though, I really enjoy playing this with my Xbox pad - the default options work fine for me (apart from sensitivity, which can be adjusted for the sticks but seemingly not for the rudder which is assigned to the L/R triggers), might tweak a few things given that I don't need camera related assignments as I'm using TrackIR already, which means it frees up some buttons on the pad for other things. Even though it's nice to be able to just use the mouse and interact with the cockpit directly - while you could do that in FSX also, I found it a lot more fiddly in the past so tried to avoid it.
As for the game itself, I feel confident with handling the functionality of say the Cessna or the A5 (which feels more like a car more than a plane in the cockpit!), the only thing I always neglected was procedures, comms and traffic patterns. Am eager to learn this properly this time.
Got to say though, I really enjoy playing this with my Xbox pad - the default options work fine for me (apart from sensitivity, which can be adjusted for the sticks but seemingly not for the rudder which is assigned to the L/R triggers), might tweak a few things given that I don't need camera related assignments as I'm using TrackIR already, which means it frees up some buttons on the pad for other things. Even though it's nice to be able to just use the mouse and interact with the cockpit directly - while you could do that in FSX also, I found it a lot more fiddly in the past so tried to avoid it.
As for the game itself, I feel confident with handling the functionality of say the Cessna or the A5 (which feels more like a car more than a plane in the cockpit!), the only thing I always neglected was procedures, comms and traffic patterns. Am eager to learn this properly this time.
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I think it's R and F.