Excellent post, but I got a bit lost when you started saying that you don’t use ATC or Live Weather and whatnot, cause a lot of that is important to me.
But, really, I get the spirit of what you’re saying and agree. Please make sure to remember there are folk with little computers and just a joystick, and, maybe, spend a little time addressing what you’re doing to help us in a Dev Q&A sometime.
And I’m pretty sure they are always thinking about the “rest of us” as it were.
Don’t take it too much to heart that they’re not based on the Dev Q&A’s. As always, they only have an hour or so to talk. And there’s what, probably a couple of thousand people working on the sim when you add in the side arms of Gaya and the Bing folk, and the photogrammetry companies, and the people at MeteoBlue, and so on and so on. So they can’t cover all the different development going on. They have to pick a few to talk about.
So, yeah, please spend a little time discussing some of the points in his post some time Jorg, et. al., too.
Yes, I don’t want to take this thread down a rabbit hole as pointing out this technicality misses the point of and spirit of his post, but, yes, the sim is already all three, client (pc, steam, xbox/gamepass), internet (cloud access), and xbox (technically client based since it’s just a specialized PC with a “single” configuration (and sandboxing for safety)). And 2024 will be the same, they’ll just be streaming a higher proportion of the data types (it may not actually stream more data in totality, though it probably will).
Ooh, you should try this today, no reason to wait until you’re older. In 4K with the 55" to 85" TV at the same distance the cockpit panel would be, it’s amazing as you’re basically sitting in a true to life sized cockpit. I’ve been doing it since essentially the sim came out. The added advantage is, when you’re not simming, you can have a million windows all over the place.
I have a better computer today, but I was flying along just fine in 4K with an i7-4790K and a 2070Super and 18MB of memory for about a year and a half.
And, having said all that, circling back to the OP… as I noted, I have a better PC, but, yeah, even today, I’m perfectly happy being fixed at 30fps, and was happy when I was only at 15fps while taxiing.
I might be wrong, but I’m nearly positive that the lack of some of these features, like the window system, have more to do with the change in the graphics engine than they’re not being “FSX flyers”. While the new graphics engine looks better, it comes at a cost in other features. Look at the issues people are having with their GPS screens going black (a much simpler rendition of multiple windows) because they are running out of memory to drive it. Now multiply that by 10,000.
This sounds easy. I get the feeling, however, that the problem is much, much bigger than it appears.
Um, probably unfortunately, I bet it does. If it was high, there’d be more investment in supporting it across the industry. Sorry. All this time later, it seems like a losing proposition as an investment opportunity given the amount growth in the industry over the last 10 years. Just not enough interest compared to all the other investment opportunities. Sadly, I’ve heard HP is exiting the sector soon as one example.
(I’m a VR user myself)
Totally agree. Statistics stink. But I think we all have to remember they are NOT just using one source of data to make decisions to what they choose to do. And they keep saying this, but people seem to not listen to what they’re saying. They’ve got experts there, and it would cost them tons of money if they were stupid about how they interpret (stupid) statistics. You can make statistics say whatever you want, which will quickly ruin your business.
In the end, it can’t be stated enough that this, and any, forum is a small microcosm of their business. Teeny. I’m glad they put so much effort into talking to us.
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