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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 | We Don't Need Roads
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Filth
Member
yeah you can turn that off. I nose dived my plane into my friends house and was able to take off again afterwards lol. I forgot the option but its in the assists.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
I need to check this spot out. No doubt this game will help improve Microsoft Bing Maps.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
Madrid
The installer, if you have a slow internet, just sucks. I can’t even get past the first ten minutes without the thing freezing up.
Two questions.
One: does the installer save my download progress along the way.... because it seems not.
Two: how the hell do you switch off the music! It will take me a good 48 hours to download this game. I need my pc for other things. I can’t just switch off my speakers.
Two questions.
One: does the installer save my download progress along the way.... because it seems not.
Two: how the hell do you switch off the music! It will take me a good 48 hours to download this game. I need my pc for other things. I can’t just switch off my speakers.
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nemiroff
Gold Member
Right-click the volume tray icon and choose volume mixer, you'll find the volume for MSFS there.
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An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator
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That's good to know! I just registered to be able to edit, perhaps there's a way I can contribute.
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mpgeist
Member
Right click the speaker on the bottom right of the taskbar of windows. Then Open volume mixer.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
One: I think it does because it frozen once on me and I don't recall having to re-download anything.
Two: You can't do it until game is fully installed. I recommend going to audio mixer in Windows and muting it there.
I think the reason most people don't realize that you can individually change volume on apps/games is because Microsoft made the genius move of hiding the full mixer behind a right-click on the speaker icon in the taskbar. In older versions, you could just double-click on it to see the whole mixer. With that said, don't put music in your installers without an option to turn it off right on the installer! Sheer madness!
DeaDPo0L84
Member
So I downloaded the game and finally started it and there's another 91.36gb download for languages, is that necessary? Haven't played a flight sim in years so not sure.
nemiroff
Gold Member
Well, I believe that's the size for the standard version of msfs which is a mandatory download.. The voice language pack is normally already installed in Windows if you have the English language going. So I'm not sure what's happening there with your game.. Screenshot it
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DeaDPo0L84
Member
Hmm, it says "to complete the installation microsoft flight simulator will now download and install recommended content". I'm at 15gb/91gb so i'll just let it do its thing.
Twinguistics
Member
Why is live weather dark in the UK right now? It's still daylight for half an hour at least I think?
Weird. Lots of things in this game don't work properly.
Weird. Lots of things in this game don't work properly.
nemiroff
Gold Member
I understand now. You are in the process of downloading the main package so you need to keep that going yes. But there's also an additional note on the install page about the optional English voice package, but that is something you have to download separately outside the msfs installer (because it's a part of the Windows OS) if you don't already have it installed.
Tevious
Member
If you're like me and are annoyed with the long startup logo videos every time you boot up the game, I put together a mod to reduce each video to just 1 second to speed things up a bit to the main menu:
drive.google.com
This mod doesn't affect the wwise screen since that isn't a video. And it shouldn't work with the Windows Store version because of UWP restrictions.
MS Flight Simulator 2020 Short Logos Mod.zip
drive.google.com
This mod doesn't affect the wwise screen since that isn't a video. And it shouldn't work with the Windows Store version because of UWP restrictions.
Twinguistics
Member
So I've stopped and the objective is end the flight stop main engine but it is stopped!
What's going wrong? This is so annoying, I haven't even managed one flight successfully since Tuesday! Please help.
Aggggggghhhhhj what a buggy pos this is. A forty minute flight and I'm left staring at 'stop main engine' and a prompt on screen telling me the engine is NOT on.
I might uninstall. Legit ruined my evening.
What's going wrong? This is so annoying, I haven't even managed one flight successfully since Tuesday! Please help.
Aggggggghhhhhj what a buggy pos this is. A forty minute flight and I'm left staring at 'stop main engine' and a prompt on screen telling me the engine is NOT on.
I might uninstall. Legit ruined my evening.
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Laconian Sword
Member
This game looks incredible. I have my sights set on a PS5 at launch, but I could see myself buying a Series X just for flying. My i5 + 1060 would die on the loading screen probably and there's no way I could upgrade it enough for less money.
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Dolomite
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MastAndo
Member
You can map any function to the controller. You'd have to use a whole bunch of multi-press combinations
on console which could get ugly, but it's doable.
Keyboard + mouse support would be a good idea though.
LaughingStock
Member
I can't for the life of me make auto pilot work. I have a flight plan. Click on nav, engage auto pilot. Nothing.
_Justinian_
Member
Even on the lowest graphical settings at 1080P, the game goes down to around 22 FPS. My PC specs are an i5-6600k, GTX1080ti, and 16GB of ram. My specs are either too low, the game is just poorly optimized, the servers are overloaded, the game is too buggy, or a combination of one of these. I'm just gonna wait until I upgrade my PC and will try again. Was fun when I could play it though.
JLMC469
Banned
Madrid
Such a beautiful city. Miss walking in the streets and exploring the city.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
Iceland
Mexico
Cloudy Sardinia
Mexico
Cloudy Sardinia
Schmick
Member
My guess is that you havent set the autopilot to GPS.
Schmick
Member
I'm not sure if this is a thing but when the game loads up and I'm on the runway or where ever the game is very stuttery. I thing that seems to help is going into external view and just looking and moving the camera around the plane. After that the stuttering stops and I'm off. It might be coincidental however.
Iceland
Mexico
Cloudy Sardinia
HOLY
Team Andromeda
Member
This is the best looking game I have ever seen, the tech behind this is just incredible. Love being able to fly over my house in the crappy little village up the Welsh mountains LOL.
Can't wait for the Series X version
Can't wait for the Series X version
nemiroff
Gold Member
Ok ok, have to admit I've been a little bit bummed about some of the flaws in my home country area, but holy crap is this sim beautiful and immersive. Yesterday I got "that perfect gameloop feeling" as well, you know; the "just one more time"-thing, well beyond bedtime. Kinda took me by surprise, didn't expect it from a "dry" simulator. Flying around "the perfect area" in weather, observing live traffic and meeting other live players buzzing around.. Even though a long time jaded sim fan, this sim is something special. The feel of flying and exploring is like no other. Sounds like a hyperbole...but it's not, just genuinely excited.
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fran.fernandez
Member
It’s run just awful...
I used recommended setting and I get maybe less than 20fps.
I change to medium low and 1440p. Still the same.
i5 3ghz
32 gb of ram
Ssd
1060 6gb
I used recommended setting and I get maybe less than 20fps.
I change to medium low and 1440p. Still the same.
i5 3ghz
32 gb of ram
Ssd
1060 6gb
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
It’s run just awful...
I used recommended setting and I get maybe less than 20fps.
I change to medium low and 1440p. Still the same.
i5 3ghz
32 gb of ram
Ssd
1060 6gb
Try dropping to 1080p.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
Côte d'Azur between Nice and Monte Carlo
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
This is pretty funny no doubt.Pretty funny Russian plane museum in Monino:
Some very interestingly shaped houses!
PanzerAzel
Member
Glad to be waiting.Pretty funny Russian plane museum in Monino:
Twinguistics
Member
Anyone know if there's a bug where your profile doesn't show anything? It's got my six hours flown but all the stats are na or 0. Surely I should have that populated?
All these issues irritate me grately.
All these issues irritate me grately.
Tevious
Member
You can land and take off there. There's been a video showing it since early August with someone who had the preview build.
INC
Member
Nice, cant wait for the helicopter mods too
Krisprolls
Banned
You can wait all you want, nothing will improve on that.
The graphics are incredibly realistic considering it basically calculates the whole world from sat views with an AI. Some people just have unrealistic expectations on what AIs can do.
AIs can't guess every object on ground right ...
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PanzerAzel
Member
How are you so sure it won’t improve? AI, satellite imagery, not to mention third party efforts will all afford improvements in time. To claim that no amount of waiting won’t bring improvements is ridiculous.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Krisprolls
Banned
Yes, it will improve over time as both sat pics and AI get better, I just mean it's not a traditional "bug" they can fix quickly...
It's already extremely impressive what they did here.
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