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Post by simnettpratt on May 21, 2020 13:45:42 GMT -5
"That's a huge difference. You'd need some heavy machinery for that to run smoothly." FSX is coded so poorly it has never run well on any computer. You don't aim for the 60fps you would in a regular game, but 20fps, because it's a 'simulator', not a 'game'. No, it's because of microsoft's terrible coding. When it first came out, even the TV ads microsoft made were choppy. The top GPU won't help you, because it's highly CPU dependant, and would require a 10GHz machine to run well. Those are still far in the future. My crappy old dual-core runs at 3.4, but I've clocked it to 3.6. With a LOT of tweaking, I can get 30s and higher with most planes, in most areas. This does look smooth, which is what you aim for. The new Flight Simulator coming out this year has the industry all in a quiver - it looks FANTASTIC, because the terrain is actual Bing Maps real world terrain that streams as you fly. You need a 50GB connection to make it look good though. Here's an 11:30 minute youtube of it's gorgeousness; you can see what we're getting in the first few seconds. microsoft is still going to screw it up somehow though, but DAMN it's pretty, and every tree and house is real. |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 22, 2020 11:31:20 GMT -5
The best part about going to Pizza Hut in the eighties: I used to work for the coolest business owner ever. One of the cool things she did was buy a Ms. Pac-Man for the office. It was the stand up kind, but had been sped up, which actually made it better. After we moved, the Pac-Man no longer worked, and the other consultants just figured the movers had broken it. I stopped by the office, found out the Pac-Man was broken, and told them I was going to fix it. They scoffed at me, but I went and opened the back anyway. I found a card that had partially come loose, and figured it was the aftermarket bus that sped the machine up. I seated it back firmly and the game came back to life. A dollar for re-seating the card, 99 dollars for opening the back to try 
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Post by Legend Lover on May 24, 2020 3:00:16 GMT -5
"That's a huge difference. You'd need some heavy machinery for that to run smoothly." FSX is coded so poorly it has never run well on any computer. You don't aim for the 60fps you would in a regular game, but 20fps, because it's a 'simulator', not a 'game'. No, it's because of microsoft's terrible coding. When it first came out, even the TV ads microsoft made were choppy. The top GPU won't help you, because it's highly CPU dependant, and would require a 10GHz machine to run well. Those are still far in the future. My crappy old dual-core runs at 3.4, but I've clocked it to 3.6. With a LOT of tweaking, I can get 30s and higher with most planes, in most areas. This does look smooth, which is what you aim for. The new Flight Simulator coming out this year has the industry all in a quiver - it looks FANTASTIC, because the terrain is actual Bing Maps real world terrain that streams as you fly. You need a 50GB connection to make it look good though. Here's an 11:30 minute youtube of it's gorgeousness; you can see what we're getting in the first few seconds. microsoft is still going to screw it up somehow though, but DAMN it's pretty, and every tree and house is real. That looks phenomenal. Do you play with multiple screens set at angles? |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 24, 2020 3:24:40 GMT -5
I'm poor and my computer equipment is obsolete, so no multiple monitors, but a single Samsung DVI 24" at 1080p. If you had the money, you'd want this $900 ASUS ROG Strix 49" Ultra-Wide though - perfect for flying and not too tall, so you can see the TV over your monitor. It's still only 1080 high, just 3840 wide, and is 144Hz. That's 32:9, good for racing too. It's like triple monitors without the bezels getting in the way. Mmmmm.  |
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Post by Legend Lover on May 24, 2020 3:26:13 GMT -5
I'm poor and my computer equipment is obsolete, so no multiple monitors, but a single Samsung DVI 24" at 1080p. If you had the money, you'd want this $900 ASUS ROG Strix 49" Ultra-Wide though - perfect for flying and not too tall, so you can see the TV over your monitor. It's still only 1080 high, just 3840 wide, and is 144Hz. That's 32:9, good for racing too. It's like triple monitors without the bezels getting in the way. Mmmmm. That looks like the thing to have. |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 24, 2020 3:32:12 GMT -5
Better than the massive monitor my bosss used to have. He'd play Crysis at work and you'd literally have to turn your head, not just your eyes, to see something over there. That's too big.
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Post by Legend Lover on May 24, 2020 7:36:55 GMT -5
Better than the massive monitor my bosss used to have. He'd play Crysis at work and you'd literally have to turn your head, not just your eyes, to see something over there. That's too big. That's getting closer to vr. |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 24, 2020 13:48:15 GMT -5
VR beats any monitor for flying, whether in combat or not, but you have to have the coin for the computer to run it. And it has to not annoy you to wear that damn thing on your face.  |
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Post by Ronv69 on May 26, 2020 23:18:05 GMT -5
My son came in tonight and was complaining about having to edit the .ini file. My G-d, I couldn't believe that they still had those after all these years! Then he explained that it's a slight update of an old game. I asked him about who taught him to edit system files. I guess [edit] still works.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 26, 2020 23:34:29 GMT -5
That flight simulater looks like something I would like to try, see if I can still learn to fly.
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Post by simnettpratt on May 27, 2020 7:11:31 GMT -5
There's a considerable investment in time and money if you actually want to use Flight Simulator to help you learn to fly. Ye old FSX (Flight Simulator 10) is pretty cheap to buy, but it's very CPU dependent, so you need a fast processor. There's a ton of tweaking you have to do to improve your framerate, and every part of it that microsoft provides is crap. The Steam version is better than the old ms disk version, or you could go with Lockheed Martin's Prepar3D (pronounced 'prepared', and usually spelled P3D), which is Lockheed Martin's upgraded FSX, and is still being improved. They just came out with version 5, which costs $60 bucks for the Academic License. They make a big deal out of saying this is not for home users to game on! It's a professional flight sim for commercial, academic, professional, or military instruction! but everyone games on it anyway. You'll need a joystick, throttle, maybe pedals, maybe a yoke instead, and those can get pricey. Also of course, if you do FSX you have to upgrade EVERYTHING. The stock planes are utter crap. There is NO pre-flight, NO maintenance, nothing ever breaks unless you tell it to, you can abuse the engine with no consequences, half the buttons, toggles and knobs don't work, and microsoft doesn't even include a diagram of the instrument panel - you have to figure out what everything is and does on your own. There is of course a ton of free stuff you can get; if you ever get a copy of FSX or P3D, you should contact me right away, I have years and years and thousands of hours of experience |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 27, 2020 17:12:34 GMT -5
Ron: "My son came in tonight and was complaining about having to edit the .ini file. My G-d, I couldn't believe that they still had those after all these years! Then he explained that it's a slight update of an old game. I asked him about who taught him to edit system files. I guess [edit] still works."
Just try and tell me windows is still not a bunch of patches over DOS. I have to use DOS commands a lot. It's the Command Line dammit!! No, it's frigging DOS. Tell me what this command looks like. Grr.
dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:c:\temp\src\sources\boot.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:c:\temp\mount
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Post by Ronv69 on May 27, 2020 17:24:30 GMT -5
Ron: "My son came in tonight and was complaining about having to edit the .ini file. My G-d, I couldn't believe that they still had those after all these years! Then he explained that it's a slight update of an old game. I asked him about who taught him to edit system files. I guess [edit] still works." Just try and tell me windows is still not a bunch of patches over DOS. I have to use DOS commands a lot. It's the Command Line dammit!! No, it's frigging DOS. Tell me what this command looks like. Grr. dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:c:\temp\src\sources\boot.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:c:\temp\mount I managed a 60 servers and 33 workstations and the only time I needed the command line was when I was recovering a drive, or clearing a drive. Nothing beats delete *.* /s. 😁🤠 The workstations were all W10. The servers were mostly managed through VMware. Of course we didn't have any games running on anything. I had a batch file that uninstalled all of the included crapware on the new machines. Whoops, there's that command line again! 🤪🤔 |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 27, 2020 21:02:22 GMT -5
I once had a lawyer in a law firm ask if I knew what some form of del *.* /s did, and he didn't like my response |
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Post by Ronv69 on May 29, 2020 21:44:46 GMT -5
I once had a lawyer in a law firm ask if I knew what some form of del *.* /s did, and he didn't like my response Just before I started my last job the CFO did that on the Netware server. My first week was recovering 7 years worth of payroll data for 2400 clients. |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 30, 2020 4:19:33 GMT -5
On purpose? Or just being an idiot?
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Post by Ronv69 on May 30, 2020 7:59:28 GMT -5
On purpose? Or just being an idiot? He wasn't an idiot. I never understood what he was trying to do. He was undergoing chemotherapy at the time and I think he lost track of what directory he was in. |
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