What do we know about tomorrow's update other than beautiful Japan?

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Oh jeez, really? I’d expect that line from an 8 year old. You just have this ‘I know better than you’ attitude about you and as such you’ll get appropriate responses. People are just trying to help and advise. But I don’t think you want that so I won’t waste any more time.
I will leave you with this…

"Is running a game in real-time priority safe?

No. Never do this. Under any circumstances.

As far as I am aware, input devices use priority level 15 (non-realtime critical) together with device drivers and the like.

Normal threads run at priorities 1–15, while the special value of priority 0 is used for an idle thread.

Realtime priorities are 16–31, where system administrator permissions are required to set this. The reason for this is that you can completely bork your system over with a realtime priority thread.

Realtime priority means that any input the process sends will be processed in real time as far as possible, sacrificing everything else to do so. Since 16>15, it will prioritise running that game’s internal processes over anything including your inputs.

Since people only think about doing this with very CPU-intensive games to start with, if that game locks your CPU utilisation at 100%, none of your commands will reach the computer. Want to kill the game with Task Manager? Too bad - your keyboard is lower priority, and no matter how hard you smash ctrl-alt-delete, your commands will be overridden by your game and nothing will happen.

The only way to save a computer like this is to turn off the computer from the main power switch, and if a realtime priority application was set to Startup, the only way to save that system would be to change the setting in Safe Mode.

Lesser versions of the problem at, say, 90-odd% utilisation or intermittent 100%s are recoverable, but would take inordinate amounts of time to do so.

Do NOT use realtime priority for a game. This priority setting is for things more important to keep running than even your keyboard and mouse, and which take very low amounts of CPU-time, applications which are in general completely beyond the scope of a normal end-user’s user experience.
If you must improve CPU allocation for a game, set the game as High and ensure no other process runs at High. Don’t touch the realtime setting."

I have other sources, but meh…

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I never had an issue using it? it never froze up and was never at 100 percent use… So whats the big deal…? Why are you so adamant that its such a bad idea… yah i read what you wrote and what is on windows website and they both agree… but I tried it to no ill effect …Sooo relax…Can we just be freinds ? :kissing_heart:

I think the caveat ( big word for an 8 year old) to all of this is it depends what program you are setting to real time and what CPU resources you have… I really dont think its a policy written in stone… Otherwise they wouldnt allow you to do it , or would they.

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I’m not adamant it’s a bad idea, I just know it to be. I’m just telling you that you might not be 100% correct on this after you alluding that " you really dont now how real time priority works do you. I suggest you google it."

Also it’s not a big deal to me because, as I have already said, you can do whatever you want. You don’t have to listen to anyone. Isn’t that great? No it’s not written in stone so ignore those that advise not to do it (even a similar post on the Microsoft blog site). Put yours at what YOU want as long as you’re happy.

BTW, “I never had an issue using it?” isn’t a question, so why have you included a question mark?

Bye bye now :slight_smile:

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I dunno why I used a question mark… I was wondering the same… So we are friends ?

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No. We don’t need to be. But if it makes you feel any better, we’re not enemies either.

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:kissing_heart:

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As someone who currently lives in Japan, I can say the scenery as it is now is quite lacking and Tokyo is nothing like what it is in real life and missing a lot of landmarks. So even if there’re no bug fixes and is just a scenery update I’m going to be excited to finally fly around in a much more realistic looking Tokyo.

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Hey there sorry for jumping in on the conversation. I currently run my CPU priority on normal, though, I’ve heard some people say to set it on high. Would this make any difference? If so, what differences towards the sim and my computer. Thank you.

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Nah, go to Vegas. Take the TBM.

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Yeah. I’m really curious how Tokyo looks as well. With such a dense population building wise, it should look very good compared to Brand P, and Brand X.

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I am reasonably sure the scenery will be mostly server-side. Apart maybe from an odd airport or two which will end up in the “Official” folder and thus can be deleted.

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wow how you get this i run only with medium :frowning: can u send me your settings? Thx

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did u have stutters?

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Give it a try, you might like the area?

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I don’t fly there, but I’m looking forward to trying it out. Japan is such an amazing country. Friendly people, amazing culture, delicious food, beautiful scenery. Had one of my best vacations ever there.

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looks like tomorrow doesn’t become?:frowning: