OK, how is it that flight simmers seem to have 30-series GPUs at such a much higher rate than the general public? Is there some special flight simmer’s GPU store that someone forgot to give me the special handshake for?
Kev
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You are a little bit confused my friend. I didnt say that (that I have much higher rate than the general public). In fact I tell you more, I consider that a card of more than 2000 euros should perform much better in this game, but due to poor optimization it is not like that.
No, some of us were lucky pre-ordering. Others waited, and through hardware failure ended up getting a close shave.
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I agree with Hobanagerik, until recently a reputed UK store had more than 200 Asus rtx 3090 Stric at market price (neither more expensive nor cheaper), which is where I bought the computer in April. Right now I don’t know if they have stocks.
One store I check has taken to selling the cards bundled with a gamer chair! 
@ChukyNorrys sorry, friend, but you misunderstood me. In fact, I just picked your post at random because it said you had a 30-series card.
All I was saying (and it was mostly intended as an attempt at humor) is that it’s been my observation that in general, flight simmers have more 30-series cards as a percentage of the user community than non-flight simmers do. I haven’t run the actual math, but it seems like they’re way more prevalent in simmers than everybody combined, which is about 2.5%. That’s all.
Apologies for any confusion!
Kev
@hobanagerik I thought about doing the “old” “buy a complete system from an SI, keep the GPU and sell the rest” trick, but the problem I ran into is that the SI (CLX gaming, I made a whole long post about it here, oddly people seemed more interested in defending them than being horrified by their actions) was themselves scalping the cards! It would have turned out no better than just straight up buying one from an Ebay scalper. It seems that being a scalper has now shifted from something bad into something admirable. I’m not quite sure when that happened, not only did I miss the memo about the special GPU store for simmers, I also missed the memo on that.
But I guess I’ll stop trying to be funny when it comes to things GPU related, people’s sense of humor on that topic seems to have worn out.
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Scan were selling a 3rd party 3090 plus gaming chair for £2400. So either that is a super expensive chair, or Scan are overcharging on the card, and just obscuring that with the chucked in chair.
@hobanagerik That’s exactly what CLX was doing, but they didn’t obscure it with a chair, just with the system. If I recall the math correctly, an upgrade to a 3080ti would have ended up costing some $700 above the MSRP for that card, when factored into the fact that they gave no credit for the 2060 that came with the base system. But even that, again using MSRP, would only have amounted to $300-something. Those seem to be averaging around $600 on eBay right now, with a pretty high std deviation. (Meaning there was a large difference in between the least expensive and most expensive cards that have recently sold.)
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On the other hand, some chairs that have been labeled (by whom?) as “gaming” (someone please explain the difference to me between a “gaming” chair and a regular one with the same or very similar specs) carry massively increased selling, if not MSRP prices. Another thing I don’t get, in a long list of things I don’t get. A chair is a chair is a chair, assuming you’re talking apples to apples when it comes to specs.
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Just tried this and the clarity is unreal. Still having general performance issues with 100% OpenXR/Render with a RG2 but hopefully the upcoming performance improvements will address that.
No improvement.
HP Omen 15 Laptop
10th Gen I7
16 Gigs ram
RTX2060
Original Oculus
Sorry but your post reads like you just increased the OXR render scale to 100% and got improved clarity - which is expected, at the cost of performance.
Can you be clearer what changes you made please.
This = PC Render Scale 200 (the topic)
There are two different graphics settings. One is called PC. The other VR. The name PC is dumb and misleading. They’re all on a PC. It should be labeled monitor and VR. You set the render scale for the monitor to 200. Makes no sense but it’s buggy code and this helps with clarity in VR.
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No difference here, unfortunately.
200% PC render scale, jumped in and out of VR to invoke it but nothing changed.
Reverb G2
1080ti
Monitor is 3840x1600, but ran MSFS windowed 1920x1080
@KevyKevTPA , nice to see it seems you have similar results. Not earth shattering yet you can see a clarity improvement. That’s exactly what I have. By the way sitting in that DC-6 in VR is…wow.
Once you get enough flight sim hours and a sufficient amount of perfect landings using at least 40 different aircraft you will be visited by a couple of agents who introduce you to the secret society of flight simulator pilots. They have secret contracts with all web shops in the world so when you order something from them you will get priority over others. You will also start to experience free upgrades to business class and things alike 
But to answer your question more seriously: Flight simulator fans have always been used to getting the latest and greatest hardware ASAP since flight simulators have always been among the most processor hungry software titles available. New hardware allowed us to increase the details of our favorite sim even further and make it even more realistic. So we are probably a little bit more serious about getting the latest hardware than other people do who might easily skip one or two generations. Speaking for myself I was ready to order my 3080 at the minute it came available in the web shop and I was successful in obtaining one within the first launch week (by accident actually).
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Unbelievable it works! amazing!
Hi please could you comment how the performance of the dc6 is in VR, say compared to the other airliners?
(Sorry to be off topic but I did try asking this in the other thread and nobody replied, and keen to have an answer before spending $50 on it!)