Step back, way back and look at MSFS2024. Not bad, I would recommend it. Sure, bugs and stuff but it works.
With an expired PPL, I fly for new things such as rotary wing. Quite different, nice to learn the feel. Sadly some helis are too low frame rate, such as Sikorski S64.
I only fly with VR, once you go VR you never go back. It is far far more realistic, able to naturally look around.
My top recommendation, you ask? Let my hands in VR interact with the virtual controls. I occasionally reach for something, brain fark forgetting that it is not there. Would be nice to tune radios etc by hand (not keyboard or mouse) like in real life. Never had a mouse in a plane, that I knew of. FYI, hand gestures in VR is still in the early basic stage.
I’m glad you’re now enjoying 2024, but - for me at least - it will be a little while before I ‘upgrade’ from 2020, as I am quite happy tootling around Britain (occasionally venturing to Schiphol) in my DA-62. I recently bought the A318 (‘Baby Bus’) the Phenom 100 and the Mustang 510 in the sale, so I’ll be OK for a while. Thank you for letting us know that things appear to have improved, and that may well bring forward my 2024 purchase date. For now though, I’m going to hang tights and wait for the digital dust to settle. Best regards to all, from Nottingham.
Why so much? I also plan to get a proper PC for FS2024.
I would end up at 3500 Dollar or 3000 €.
What is your planend configuration? Maybe I missed something.
Ryzen 9950X3D and 7900XTX my plan. Mainboard a normal Asus 650.
My assumtion is very high-end Intel and Nvidia. One of my PCs cost me $4,757 and the other $3,772. You’re going with AMD which tends to be cheaper.
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You’re referring to ‘haptic feedback.’ AFAIK, the current way to get this functionality is with specialized gloves that connect to the computer and use sensors that determine hand/finger position in the 3D virtual space. Consumer-level products are still pretty much in their infancy, and by what I’ve read it works OK - sort of.
What’s needed is realtime 3D laser scanning of the hands, similar to how Tobii scans your eyes and head. Scan the hands in 3D space, and convert that into virtual hands in the sim. That’s a long way off, I fear…
Best to wait until next year. DDR5 system ram will be replaced with DDR6 system ram, and new CPUs with up to 54 cores are coming.
And with any luck AMD will come out with 32gb vram successor to the 9070xtx.
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Not to tell you how to spend your money, but if you are building a new PC primarily for MSFS2024, you are better off going with an AMD CPU based setup than Intel. I was an Intel guy myself for many years, but it was a no brainer when I built my latest gaming PC a few months ago (AMD 9800X3D, NVidia 5080, 64GB). I would go AMD CPU even if the build was more expensive than Intel - which it is not.
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Oh boy. You too? How many times have you put your hand up to block the sun? Lol