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Not yet, there's a handcrafted version by Asobo, but it's not the best, FlyTampa, an Orbx partner did OMDB for FSX/P3D, hopefully they'll bring it to MSFS, but they haven't mentioned anything yet, so I can't see it for a while

Hi Lionhart, I'm very surprised you are having constant issues with MSFS 2020, I've found it to be the most stable sim I've ever used since FS2002, and the only CTDs I've had are faulty mods and not updated scenery to which I've not had a CTD now since December, now this doesn't help you... From you mentioning scenery, I guess it's important to you? The issue is, no other sim comes close to MSFS out of the box, and personally I don't think you can get P3D or XPL to anywhere close to MSFS, no matter how much you spend/tweak etc, but personally I'd go with XPL 11/12 if you want a new sim, I was going to invest in XPL until the sole dev I was going over for announced development for MSFS and going forward I think you'll see more add-on content for XPL over P3D, Regards Joe

Happy late birthday carlos

Thanks Pete, I'll have a play around with it in slower time, it's annoying as I had my viewpoints perfect before but since changing my resolution and going to windowed mode it's thrown it all out of proportion

As far as I'm aware Orbx's involvement in WU7 was the 4 handcrafted airports and the POIs, any missing airports that need adding is Asobo's domain, so I'd raise the missing airport through the zendesk

Hi Pete, Thank you for your comment, my issue was as you questioned, resolution, I was running 3840x2160, which now I write that, I realise for a young guy who's grown up with tech from a very young age, I am not very tech smart,. I have dropped to 1280x1024 within MSFS and have my render scaling at 3440x1377, after a few flights, I am a lot happier, I run at a smooth 30fps in 99% of cases, for example I flew into Chicago as a test with exactly the same setup as in my OP but with the 1280x1024 res and it was miles better, but not 100% smooth. I am going to upgrade to 32gb if not 64gb of RAM and hopefully that helps with the last little bit, also thank you for the heads up about DLSS and the explanation around it. Apart from the RAM upgrade, the only issue now is the fish eye issue you talk about in the thread linked, following it to the letter I can't seem to fix the issue, have you got any further ideas of what I can try? Thanks Joe

Yeah, the 3 anna mentioned are the 3 I haven't bought, but I will as soon as there's airports for those areas

If you're willing to answer Anna, do you think these performed worse as they're in the lessor flown areas, or because there's not currently the addon airports in these areas?

Aussie, you did miss it

Thanks John for the suggestion, my only concern is how much will I be lacking with the Xbox, I use so many addons, trackers like Volanta, AIG, both the thrustmaster TCA and Honeycomb Alpha/Bravo and for one the Fenix A320 will never be on xbox due to not going on the marketplace, sadly at the moment the xbox doesn't seem a viable option for me

Thanks you for the update Anna, 2022 seems to be shaping up to be a great year, with some great products, looking forward to YMML the most as I'm obsessed with Melbourne, but will pick up the rest as well...thank you for VTSP, I understand why most development is focused on NA, Europe and Oceania, but it's nice to see other area's get love. Stay safe Eugene, I can't begin to imagine the situation in Ukraine currently, Stay safe from COVID everyone, hopefully we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but still have to be careful

Thanks Landon, I feel like a numpty asking all these questions and then realising I've made a mistake by not understanding resolutions, but yes everything you've said to me will help me when I come to upgrade which will still probably be mid to late next year Thanks, I may take the plunge and upgrade to 32gb of RAM, but I will defiantly do my research. Thanks again! Now I need to try fix the squashed cockpit I am seeing in windowed mode

@Sniper31 et al, after further investigation/talking to chillblast I have found out I have been running MSFS at a too high resolution than by 2060 can handle. I have reduced my resolution and swapped to windowed mode oppose to full screen and the performance is a lot better and smoother - although I need to perform further tests/flights to check and to get rid of the goldfish bowl effect I now have. So I don't think now i've found that out, I can justify the £thousand(s) to upgrade to a 3080(90) etc just yet, (especially as I'm about to buy a house with my girlfriend, I don't think she'll be best pleased ) However I am wondering about RAM, I have 16gb, Asobo recommends 32gb, would I notice anything by installing another 16gb? Thanks

A lot is being made of Orbx is becoming a distributing platform, for me personally I love it, I can buy and support developers I never would have heard of if they weren't on Central, and with Anna's recent comment, the 2022 roadmap is coming soon and will show Orbx still produces their own products and well as being a distributor for others, I fully understand what John Dow's assessment is but I still think my above suggestion of the support forums reopened as user to user would still be beneficial to all

In all fairness, I highly doubt it was Orbx that chose the airports and rather MS/Asobo, Orbx just made them, also YMML is a big airport for a WU, ESSA was included in WU5 and that was a poor rendition and still needs a payware version, would have been the same with YMML no doubt, It's become apparent in world updates that the handcrafted airports should be smaller as then more detail can be applied

Thank you

Thanks Landon, with this info I think I'll go and build a new pc from scratch instead of trying to upgrade my current one, but you've reminded me cooling and cases, so much to think about

Thanks Landon, I've been in contact with the builders today, and yes they know there computers but I've been suggested before laying out the money on processors, and graphics cards, I've been suggested to change my hard drive from the HDD I have now to a SSD, would changing the drive actually help that much? I've defiantly learnt not to rush it building/buying a new pc again without looking into it

Thanks for the update Anna

Thank you Landon, that really helps

Thank you both for the responses Sorry secondary question, would a RTX 3080 12GB be any good? There's a significant price difference between the 3080 12GB and 3090 24GB, is the 3090 worth it over 3080? Thanks

All, I am looking/hoping for some advice, as when it comes to PCs, I am not the smartest. back in 2020, MSFS brought me back into this community but the issue was I had a 7/8 year old PC which couldn't cope, anyway I rushed into purchasing a new PC from a UK builder called chillblast, the specs are below i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz 16GB RAM RTX 2060 8GB Super 8GB At the start it was fine but now for example, tonight I tried to fly into DD's KMDW with the landmark packs installed, the emphasis is tried, it all went well till 5000ft 20nm out when it turned to a slideshow and ultimately a crash because the sim was uncontrollable, now this has got me concerned with the round the corner releases of higher fidelity aircraft/airports, I want to future proof... I am potentially going to invest into a new pc which I hope will be able to serve me for the next 3-5 years, the issue is I don't know if these specs are what I need, they are i7-10700K @ 3.8-5.1 GHZ 64GB DDR4 2666MHz Memory RTX 3090 24GB My ideal is to run MSFS at Ultra across the board (yes I am someone who's after top graphics as well as the aircraft depth ), whilst using addon airports/cityscapes and for example the NG3/Fenix A320. Will these specs be enough? Thanks Joe

Happy Birthday Iain

Thank you for sharing John, although it looks fun, I can envisage the bombardment of support requests. I really hope you don't receive any trouble for this

Hi @737fpeter, I think I can make sense of your post post, just to clear up because the translation may not be 100% for you, the person who gets it for free, does not get it today, they'll have to wait for it to release like all of us. If you think they don't deserve a free copy then that's fine but it's Orbx's choice. Also I'm sure the P3D version will be around soon, when essendon was released last year, there was a 2 month gap between the MSFS and P3D version, (although there was also a X-Plane version inbetween)