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Tom Wright

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  1. Slow initial loading will be for the reason you state - you have many add on planes/DLC installed. Typically with MSFS the more content you have installed in your Community folder, the longer the initial load takes. I can't answer for whether you only seeing 333mb on a 1gb connection is normal for your ISP, but what I will say is that ISPs cover themselves with the "up to" 1gb so that isn't a guarantee all of the time. 333mb is still absolutely ample for most people's usage though, including using MSFS.
  2. The speed of your internet connection doesn't make the sim run any faster, contrary to a lot of people's beliefs. I used to run it on a 1gb connection. I have since moved house and now hampered with a 70mb connection at best and notice absolutely no difference at all. There are many other factors which far greatly affect how fast the sim runs than your download speed alone.
  3. Sorry if this is a noob question... What's FSR and why is it so good? 🤔
  4. Their 757 and 727 back in the day weren't actually all that bad. Wouldn't go as far as study level but they had decent systems depth and great visuals both inside and out. Have no interest in paying for an external model only though.
  5. I picked it up on Marketplace so I can enjoy it on both PC and Xbox. Best GA for the SIM available right now, brilliant aircraft!
  6. Definitely now! In short, MSFS is all I could ever dream of back in the FSX days. Got in to flight simming with FS2004 towards the end of its run in around 2006. Quite quickly moved to FSX and stuck with it for probably almost a decade. While I got many, many hours of enjoyment out of it, it was always more of a 'project' spending more time tweaking, implementing workarounds and trying to eek a tiny bit of extra performance or an extra frame out of what was even at launch a dated and poorly optimised engine, than actually flying. Even when I, albeit briefly, made a switch to P3D at V4 things didn't improve that much. 90% of my flights consisted it just a takeoff, just to test whether yet another extravagant CFG tweak had given me an extra 1fps or broken something else. Then MSFS came along and all that changed. I no longer even look at a FPS counter. I just enjoy the view and experience and have so much more fun. It's not perfect but it's a far more satisfying and enjoyable experience than any other sim of the past, and felt like both a breath of fresh air and a revolutionary leap forward.
  7. Yes I have both the Fenix A320 and the 737(-700) but I must say I fly the PMDG a lot more. It is superb and the performance on my machine is night and day better with the 737. I can't wait for PMDG to bring out the 777.
  8. I really like TSW 2. As DTG are Kent based a lot of the routes are surrounding London and the South East so it has special interest to me, and I really like the immersiveness you get from being able to step off the trains and walk around, change ends in real time etc. That said, not sure I fancy paying again for TSW 3. I might take advantage of Game Pass and try it on the Xbox this time.
  9. PMDG 737 is head and shoulders above the rest for me at the moment. With how good it is I cannot wait for the 777! Then the Fenix A320, and the JF Warrior for when I fancy some GA/rl practice!
  10. I'm very much looking forward to this! While I appreciate there are other ways of getting real world traffic and their liveries in MSFS, I can't be bothered with the faff of installing hundreds of separate liveries which it seems necessary to do with the alternatives, so this looks great!
  11. I'm not sure of an actual taxi speed limit but it's generally considered anything from a brisk walking pace up to about 20kts (ish). GA aircraft in real life can be quite difficult to keep speed under control during taxi. Normally a combination of factors including the requirement to keep the engine above idle speed to stop the plugs fouling, and also the brakes typically aren't that great! Especially if you're going on a slight downhill gradient it's quite easy to find it running away from you.
  12. Aircraft that use WASM/C++ like the PMDG 737 and Aerosoft CRJ do take ages the first time you load them in, and after any update, as MSFS has to recompile all the code. Give it at least 10 minutes before giving up and force quitting just in case. Fenix loads quick as it doesn't use WASM, a lot of it is external to the sim and loads in the background.
  13. So these aren't single long haul flights, but turn-arounds without reloading the sim in between? If the latter, I can see how this could possibly lead to decreased performance. There's a chance the previous flight plan or something to do with the previous leg isn't unloading fully and then the system is getting bogged down as another flight plan is loaded perhaps. Always a good idea to reload the sim between flights IMO. Not realistic I know but you can just re-spawn on the same stand with the same panel state in a few extra minutes. I managed a 6 hour flight (single flight, not a turnaround) in the 737 today and had no degradation that I could tell.
  14. MSFS' file system is completely changed from FSX so there are no conflicts and they can coexist happily side by side.
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