Having a lot of fun, close to 50 hours logged

Been running the sim on a 3 year old laptop with a 2080ti in an external Thunderbolt eGPU to an ultrawide (3440x1440) monitor. Mainly 35-45fps on high/ultra. But the poor laptop kept overheating and throttling and complex urban areas had FPS slow downs, stutters etc. You know the drill.

Even so, continued to enjoy flying in the more remote and mountainous regions in props and turbos. I have had a play with the jets but not really my thing nor is autopilot/IFR stuff. My idea of IFR is “I follow roads”.

Built myself a new desktop this week and dropped the 2080ti into it. Good improvement. Approx. 10 FPS bump in the same situations which I put down to faster disk, faster WiFi and just faster pretty much everything. Downtown Tokyo, in low cloud, at speed, in the TBM at rooftop level and now getting around 40fps which is more than enough.

Sure, the bugs are a thing. I complained about lack of lightning in live weather, now we have too much. It’ll get fixed. Yep, hit V to get VFR map up mid flight and a CTD, again, it’ll get fixed. Live weather not showing in 2nd flight? Fixed for me now, but obviously not fixed for everybody. All issues for sure and they’ll get fixed.

We are just over a month in and the software will be improved. Going to be supported for 10 years after all. Yes, some things don’t work. But the things that do work do work well.

Go flying, go exploring. Log bugs you can reproduce. Please keep it constructive. Got an issue? Search for it before posting a new thread. The forums right now are somewhat depressing. This is supposed to be fun after all.

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I’ve only CTD’d once and after the last patch (Yeah, VFR map), other than that it has been stable. Buggy but stable. I do ge what others are talking about. Currently the A320 is grounded until a few patches. Can’t even start it up, but it has given me the time to learn the Cessna Caravan and the DV20 (which takes 10 seconds to do a cold start up in). Had 60 hours recently but when i checked stats it says 58 now? Ahwell… it will be better in time.

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I’ve been one of the lucky ones, no ctd. The vfr map hasn’t even affected me, i was testing it yesterday, turning it off and on during the flight and everything was fine. Performance ranges from 30-50fps, 30 when I’m around busy areas or large cities, otherwise it hovers around 50.
I feel fortunate after reading through the forums, 100 hours and I’ve had very few issues. Ap bugged out a couple times otherwise I’ve just been enjoying myself.

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