Because it’s fun. It’s fun to fly at low levels looking at the landscape around you. It’s fun to fly at higher levels looking at the weather around you, the sunrises, the sunsets. Brings a bit of calm escaping into it.
I am sorry to read of all your troubles, but I do sympathize. I am very, very new to flight simming. I started out playing on my PC and eventually added a yoke, throttle, and pedals. Then I looked at getting a sim chair. THEN I found the DOF Reality site. An assembled and functioning H6 sim machine now sits in my living room. Everything went together very easily with the sim rig. The only issue I had was getting the seat installed, and that was a matter of re-drilling and adding some attachment points. Then I got the Meta 3 VR into the mix. Got that running with OpenXR, got SimRacingStudio tuned, and everything was GREAT.
For one day.
I did not know of this ‘re-installing over and over again’ issue when I purchased MSFS 2020 last fall. I did not know that when it happens, and if you are a novice at IT such as myself, the only solution you will find is to uninstall Windows completely, reinstall, and do same with all flight related software and peripherals. So I did that. It took two days. I had already spent the previous two days watching MSFS try to install updates over and over again, so I figured this was my last shot. I did not mention that all this occurred on a beautifully assembled Cyberpower desktop PC I purchased for the sole purpose of flight simming.
During the overhaul, I did realize that perhaps in my ignorance, using Xbox on the PC was a bad idea. I downloaded the game again straight from the Microsoft store, I run everything as an administrator, and I am very, VERY careful now. I did not consider giving up, but I did question the sanity of deciding to jump into this hobby without knowing the main software had a ton of problems. But it’s so worth it when it all clicks. And it’s clicking now, so I will keep going. Hope you find a path that helps you.
I think you should just drop out. I love MSFS 2020 AND MSFS 2024. I love P3dv5 for long flights, and I absolutely love FLIGHT SIMULATION COMPLETELY. Of course, I have a system that works beautifully for all my sims (from Jetline Systems), and I have ZERO gripes. My planes fly very fluidly and I don’t have any issues with literally everything on ULTRA. If you don’t invest in the proper system to run these intensive sims, then you will have problems that obviously not everyone has.
Don’t condemn the sims…not everyone is in your condition. So, my advice is to get out and find something that can handle your system the way you want it to operate.
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For what it’s worth, I’m currently having a lot of fun with career mode. Yes there are still some bugs, but they usually don’t impact the experience too badly.
The sim runs smoothly on my PC most of the time. Sometimes it turns into a slideshow, but this is fairly rare and resolves itself after a little while.
My specs:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
RTX 3080 10GB
32GB DDR5
I play in 4K with medium graphics and FSR. As mentioned before, there are ocassional performance issues, but most of the time I can maintain 60fps.
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I don’t think you meant me …
You responded to me - I wrote the positive retort, not the original extended grievance …
I think simsniper assumed the copy and paste was your entry. I am sure it is directed at the Topic author.
You are right. I am so sorry. I meant for the response to be for the O.P. My mistake in how I navigated on this forum. I apologize.
Many reasons …