**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

[Bes]

Whenever anyone can, I would love to see how EGGD (Bristol) looks out of the box.

Mrs. Bes definitely won’t allow me to purchase a rig for this until after our house move (which is still many many months away) but as a massive FSX fan I cannot wait to try this out as it just looks incredible...

 

[Tombstone]

I dont appear to have a preload on my gamepass? Is the preload a steam only thing?? All I have on my gamepass is a 1gb "preload".

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Not long now, shame no preload on Game Pass, won't be playing tomorrow then on my internet connection.

 

[Zeeflyboy]

tombstone - change your windows location to somewhere that it has launched (eg NZ)

@Bes - if no one else has done it by the time this thing downloads then I'll try and get you some screenshots.

 

[Tombstone]

tombstone - change your windows location to somewhere that it has launched (eg NZ)

@Bes - if no one else has done it by the time this thing downloads then I'll try and get you some screenshots.

Ahhh...okley dokley

 

[Tombstone]

Tried changing my windows location to Auckland, got Auckland as my default now, but it still says Too Early when I try and launch Flight Sim. Guess I'll just have to wait

 

[Zeeflyboy]

Try kiribati, unless they’ve done something to block it

 

[maddness]

working here, changed region to NZ and downloading...

 

[Tombstone]

Ah its working now, guess it just took a little while for the change to take effect or something

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

working here, changed region to NZ and downloading...

Yeah working for me too.

 

[Stu999]

PC Gamer early look: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/microsoft-flight-simulator-review/

Struggles in cities like NY with a 2080Ti (doesn't say what resolution).

 

[Marky]

@Marky - 4 core/4 thread is really not going to cope well in this game... that is what will hold you back. Should be workable with low enough settings though, you'll just have to give up a lot of draw distance I think to reduce objects.

Edit - oh and new nvidia drivers for FS2020 just out now apparently https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-452-06-whql-driver-download.html

Yeah it would appear that my CPU is bottlenecking with this Flight Sim

Thanks for the driver link - I’ll try updating them also

 

[TNA]

Wow, this thread is moving so fast it is about to take off!

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

Wow, this thread is moving so fast it is about to take off!

This thread's moving faster than the download

 

[Ur round next]

Am i right in thinking the Steam version unlocks for download at 12am tonight UK time ?

 

[peahead]

Am i right in thinking the Steam version unlocks for download at 12am tonight UK time ?

I heard from a streamer it's 5am on steam

 

[Moley]

New nVidia driver with Flight Sim updates available now: https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/452.06/452.06-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

 

[Trifid]

I heard from a streamer it's 5am on steam

Source here: https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-release-times/

Looking forward to giving this a go. Got to pop into work for a couple of hours at 9am, then onto a night shift so should be able to have a good go during the day tomorrow.

 

[eggcup]

New nVidia driver with Flight Sim updates available now: https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/452.06/452.06-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

Nice, lets see how these fair. was getting about 40fps 3440x1440 8700k and RTX 2080 previously lol

 

[Vern1961]

Feeling a slight sense of dismay reading the reports of poor performance, thinking my I7 4770 and GTX 1650 will need to be running at settings more akin to the FS4 style display on the cockpit CDU's. Steam version here, so guess I'll find out tomorrow.