Fantastic job with Beta Vulkan update

Rob Ainscough · July 4, 2018 at 2:34 AM

I'll post some video later, but I was VERY impressed with the Vulkan update even in it's Beta state ... a few oddities here and there but overall very very very smooth at 4K res ... it's the ONLY simulator I have where I can really say "I Maxed out all the settings" and FPS locks to 60Hz without a single long frame.

Very impressive, by far the best "visual" simulator currently on the market and very price friendly.

If you can bring in a weather engine (heck leave ATC, AI, and ground traffic for another day or make it available thru SDK and have payware vendors do the work), more global scenery coverage (payware or otherwise), and some minor adjustments I feel you'll capture a much bigger flight simulator audience.

Cheers, Rob.

Oldar · July 4, 2018 at 3:09 AM

Praise from Caesar!

And I agree with your priorities 100%.

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · July 4, 2018 at 3:23 AM Official Post

Rob welcome to our forum.

Yes, this update was very welcomed by the community. Thank you for the kind words nonetheless on behalf of the entire team. There are still a couple of issues yet for us to work out but not too many.

Look out for more good stuff coming soon.

Rob Ainscough · July 4, 2018 at 3:45 AM

I feel lost, I can't really do any performance tuning videos for AF2 ... guess I'll just have to fly!

Cheers, Rob.

Asheroo · July 4, 2018 at 4:15 AM

Hear hear! I just want to add that I am seriously impressed with the new anti-aliasing. I find in other flight sims it can be either too minimal or too smooth, but you guys have absolutely nailed it to my eyes. And of course there's everything else with the new update. Also I agree 100% with what Rob said, though of course I always look forward to what IPACS bring to the simulator and I'm sure the ATC will be excellent. (Fantasy scenario - imagine if TrueSky came to AFS2? It was stunning in FSW, and I don't think there's any way it'll ever come to P3D or XP due to the third party engines)

ollie · July 4, 2018 at 8:19 AM

Love the Vulkan update too. Steady 120FPS with all on max. Gladly sacrifice 60 FPS for more scenery (UK, SE Asia) AI traffic, Real Weather etc.

Thanks IPACS

Mike

J van E · July 4, 2018 at 9:51 AM

Quote from Rob Ainscough

If you can bring in a weather engine (heck leave ATC, AI, and ground traffic for another day or make it available thru SDK and have payware vendors do the work)

Agreed. I’ve been asking for weather since day one so it’s great to have you on the AFS2 NEEDS WEATHER team!

mickatmian · July 4, 2018 at 11:43 AM

Quote from Rob Ainscough

I feel lost, I can't really do any performance tuning videos for AF2 ... guess I'll just have to fly!

Cheers, Rob.

I know, 30 years of tuning flight sims and now I have to learn to fly!

Well done Ipacs.

Mick

ollie · July 4, 2018 at 4:09 PM

Regarding graphics, unlike X-plane and P3D, AFS2 does not allow for bezel compensation. I have two 16:10 monitors side by side and need to set a resolution of 3950x1200, but Aerofly only offers me the standard double of 3840x1200. Is there a way to set a custom resolution?

ollie · July 5, 2018 at 10:11 AM

Surprise, and joy of joys, after today's restart of the PC, my custom resolution is recognised in the graphics settings and the bezel compensation is perfect. No need to stretch in windowed mode. Excellent.

Mike

Vince7212 · July 5, 2018 at 10:40 AM

Quote from ollie

Regarding graphics, unlike X-plane and P3D, AFS2 does not allow for bezel compensation. I have two 16:10 monitors side by side and need to set a resolution of 3950x1200, but Aerofly only offers me the standard double of 3840x1200. Is there a way to set a custom resolution?

Hello,

Yes you have to edit the main.mcf file in the AFS2 installation directory and at the very beginning of the file you can set a default resolution.

There is also a specific post on the steam community to configure a triple monitor installation:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…s/?id=738066887

You could probably do the same exercise for 2 monitors... simply adjust the values according to the fact you have 2 monitors and not 3

TomB · July 5, 2018 at 11:19 AM

The file main.mcf is in the users documents aerofly directory.

Stringer · July 6, 2018 at 10:02 AM

I never had it to do this though. My custom 5860x1080 resolution was recognized. I only had to select it in settings.

StefVR · July 9, 2018 at 4:06 PM

You guys are on top of the game. If you can now bring the other goodies from XpLane and keep performance Aerofly will be the king of flight sims in a couple of years from now.

Redtail · July 15, 2018 at 7:42 AM

Another happy customer who is highly impressed with the Vulkan beta!

Flying over NYC in VR in the GA airplanes, is very smooth and fluid (without cumulus clouds). Remarkably close to the real thing! Nothing else has come this close to the real deal for me, except the real deal.

ATC, AI traffic and weather will indeed turn this into the most realistic experience available in a PC flight simulator.

There's only one other GA sim on my PC at the moment, that's XP11. I no longer waste time with FSX/P3D. Looking forward to the day that I'll have only one

blacksmoke55 · July 16, 2018 at 12:33 AM

Hey...where do we (lowly) DVD users get the update?

Thanks in advance!

Aaron

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · July 16, 2018 at 2:38 AM Official Post

Quote from blacksmoke55

Hey...where do we (lowly) DVD users get the update?

Thanks in advance!

Aaron

Please give us some time. The DVD version will be updated soon.

blacksmoke55 · July 16, 2018 at 3:18 AM

Thank you Jeff, looking forward to it!

Aaron