Posts by Majick

  • IS XTAL the king of VR headsets for Flight and Racing Simulators?

    This looks fantastic, but at 5000 Euros plus the cost no doubt of a new GFX card it's not likely to happen for me unless I have a funny buying moment :) (I'll give it a week haha)

    I'm still running FS2 with an Oculus Rift. Is there anything out there under 1000 Euros thats going to give an appreciable improvement to the screen door effect?

    What I've seen of the Pimax products so far suggests not yet, with the 5k's having similar screen door to the Rift, and the 8k substituting blurring for screen door. The 8k + if and when it appears might be worthwhile, but is there anything around here and now?

  • Pimax 5k plus - is this the next step for VR flightsim?

    Quote from ZoSoChile

    Go with the Samsung Odyssey or Odyssey+ if you're looking for a cheaper but same visual upgrade as Vive Pro. Also I found my Odyssey to be a significant improvement from the original Vive so I feel the Pimax 5k+ will be as well. I love the idea of the 8k X as well but its production and computer specs needed to push those pixels out are way to far away for me to wait. Even with my Odyssey+ and pc specs I find that some areas of AF2 lower my FPS a bit. I agree hopefully by then we should see more competitive headset options real soon.

    Does the Odyssey work with all the same games as the Vive and Rift so far as you know?

  • Pimax 5k plus - is this the next step for VR flightsim?

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    Hmmm now you have me wondering if the Vive Pro is worth a look while waiting for the next step..... Thats quite pricey too (799 GBP on Amazon!)..... hmmmm

  • Pimax 5k plus - is this the next step for VR flightsim?

    I'm not convinced Pimax will give a significant improvement on my Occulus Rift until they release the 8k X.

    From what I've read the 5k still has a signfiicant 'screen door' effect because the extra pixels are now spread over a larger area. The 8k has the same bandwidth as the 5k, and reduces the screen door effect by blurring the image. With those limitations neither of these products seem to justify the hefty price tag for the limited improvement they will give.

    The 8k X will supposedly have full 8k bandwidth, so I think that is the one that will be worth upgrading to for me, although I fear it may mean a completely new PC as well :)

    I suspect in the time it will take for the 8k X to appear one of the other manufacturers will have sorted themselves out with a high resolution headset at a better price than Pimax.... fingers crossed :D

  • Swiss cultivation free from ORBX

    This is great stuff, Switzerland is my favourite place in the world in RL and in Aerofly, and it keeps getting better.

    I don't want to be greedy, but wouldn't it be great if the Shilthorn clash is fixed and if someone produces some more bespoke buildings such as city centres, the Sphinx and the Gornergrat observatories etc.

  • Traffic and other moving objects

    Quote from drhotwing1

    I'm only going to say this once more since I've said it many times before already. Enjoy Aerofly for what it is now. Because if you do then once we release updates your experience it will only get better from here. You just need to be patient while we work, and make no mistake we are all working hard every day.

    We all feel here that many just don't know what goes into programming, even a very small feature that most users take for granted takes a long time. The add into this the optimization aspects of that feature, testing, and integration. Also since what we are doing also is built from the ground up it takes even longer.

    This is why we don't like comparing us with other flight simulators out there that had many years head start and have triple the development team.

    And yes, i'm working on road traffic separately but it will be some time before you see this feature. There are many obstacles involved with this feature.

    Thanks for this response Jeff, and thanks to everyone else who has contirbuted to the discussion.

    I hope it's pretty clear from the way my questions and comparisons are worded that I was asking about the processing load of running the program. I am not questioning or criticising the development efforts on any of the real world simulators, including AFS2.

    As I mentioned several times, AFS2 is still my go to sim of choice and I'm fairly sure it will remain so regardless of future developments, if performance remains at a high level ;)

  • Traffic and other moving objects

    Quote from Kloot

    Flight simulator is about flight, and flying aircraft in AFS2 cannot be compared with other sims. AFS2 is leaps and bounds ahead of its competitors.

    Now, as for the eye candy, that takes time to build. We all need a little patience and let the developers do their thing.

    I suggest flying AFS2 in VR, it's an amazing experience.

    Why can't we compare it to other simulators?

    Although I like AFS2 very much I would question that it is leaps and bounds ahead of others when it lacks so many features that they have.

    I think AFS2 already has it's eye candy. The features we would like added will give it depth.

    I don't think it is impatient to ask what the roadmap is, especially if the last communication was in April.

    Like the rest of the community I expect, I've bought every scenery add-on so far for AFS2. I'm keen to get some indication of whether my investment will give long term benefit or just be a short blast sightseeing the scenery and wondering if indeed there has been a zombie apocalypse :)

  • Traffic and other moving objects

    Hi Nickhod,

    Yes I hope you are right about the performance with better GPU utilisation and multi threafing. However, do we know if IPACS is even planning traffic, RW weather etc?

    Quote from edpatino

    but to be a real sim, it's well behind the other two.

    Just my opinion and not trying to bring and endless discussion and to offend anyone.

    Cheers, Ed

    Hi Ed,

    I agree entirely. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to be contentious, and if IPACS were to say it will remain a scenery sim with nione of the bells and whistles of the old established sims I would probably still prefer flying it.

    I was really just trying to understand what IPACS plan is for this sim and get a handle on how other enhancements would impact it.

  • Traffic and other moving objects

    Hi Rivajes,

    I've been using FS2 with the Oculus Rift for several months. The sim does indeed perform very well and looks good but that doesn't make it the best by any means.

    If you took traffic, weather, 3d water and ATC out of FSX and P3D I'm sure they would look very good and run very smoothly. Yes FS2 runs very well, but it's not doing very much, is it? Thats really why I'm asking the question.

    I'm keen to know if IPACS intends to make this product a complete simulator, or keep it as a 'light' simulation product. One particular area which works against all the plus points of FS2 right now is the empty airports with no other aviation activity except static aircraft, hence my original question about traffic.

  • Traffic and other moving objects

    Thanks very much for your response Jeff.

    Do you have any idea if and when we are going to see other traffic and moving objects in FS2?

    I'm asking this question particularly because over the last few weeks, I haven't seen much discussed other than enhancements to aircraft. I know that many users will welcome this and that it's impossible to please all the people all the time with real world flight sims.

    Traffic, ATC and real world weather would seem to be key areas for a VFR flying experience, which FS2 does not deliver on at all, and I haven't seen these discussed by the development team in quite a while. (if I have missed some discussion please let me know)

  • Traffic and other moving objects

    Hi All,

    Question for the devs really... Do you have any idea if and when we are going to see other traffic and moving objects in FS2?

    Following on from that, one of the things that I like about FS2, as a VFR simmer is the quality of scenery and the performance. I spent many years tweaking FSX and P3D trying to get that one extra frame over cities - I remember FSX peaking at 3.1 FPS over London at one time....

    Assuming IPACS does intend to develop the same functionality as those currently more 'serious' sims, can we expect framerates to drop correspondingly? Or does the FS2 engine have some design features which will maintain frame rates even with the extra processing required by traffic, ATC, real world weather etc etc?

  • Cessna 172 crew options

    Hi IPACS,

    Is there any chance we could have some extra options for which seats are occupied in the Cessna? I tend to swap from one side to another a lot for the view, and it's unsettling to see an empty right seat when I was only just sitting there...

    Maybe not the highest priority of course :)

    Cheers