I used to be a devoted Flight Sim pilot. Then the whole thing imploded and it was gone.
Now it seems that a new version is trying to learn to walk. I have a second computer with two Monitors. It is an i3, and reading all the specks, it will never work. Technology has moved at light speed.
I do not like the very aggressive and bloody video games. They are a huge turn off for me.
I'm not ready to walk into a store right now because of Covid. The only Pseudo Computer store we have here is Best Buy. Fries just shut down. I am not a Geek. I can do some hardware stuff, and a very limited amount of software stuff, but I'd rather lick a toilet out with my tongue than work on a computer.
Is there any direction on where to buy a computer that can run the new FS?
Gwen
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Is there a microcenter near
Is there a microcenter near you? Flight Sims generally require beefy setups. The main issue now would be trying to get a good video card but you might have luck with a pre-built system. Be warned the cards themselves can go for near 1k.
Near 1K?
Actually, the Zotac ZT-A30900D-10P graphics card with the Nvidia GEFORCE RTX 3090 lists for $1,929.99 on Nvidia's Web site. That's a lot more than I spent on my entire system!
Extremes
The 3090 is on the extreme end though. I got a 2070 Super last fall for $400 or so and it does just fine even in VR for Squadrons and Beat Saber (wheeee!). But then again maybe I'm old and think it's absolutely amazing as compared to say 320x240 8bit color. :) Whereas the spoiled young'un uber gamers want 4k at 120fps...
That 2070 super is going for
That 2070 super is going for $1500 right now. Fn scalpers
Whoa
Guess I bought it at the right time? o.O Good grief, that's ridiculous.
Squadrons
Are you talking about Star Wars squadrons because I also have that.
hugs :)
Michelle SidheElf Amaianna
Yep!
Purple Squadron standing by! :D I haven't played Squadrons in awhile but had fun with it for the fall and Christmas break. Lately though been too tired after work to play, and on weekends I've stuck with Beat Saber for exercise and tried to focus on getting the next book written. Halfway through drafting Part V at the moment and the brain is spinning on how best to coordinate the finale in Part VI. Maybe once it's finished and in the editing phase I'll play Squadrons again without that crazy voice in the head going, "Goofing off? You should be writing..." Gah!
and to think...
That we used to drive a full-blown Flight Simulator (as in Pilot Training with all the Hardware) on a single 200mHz CPU with 128kb of Ram and 2.4Mb of disk.
We added graphics with a couple of 500mHz CPU's in a dedicated device that received a data stream from the simulator system.
Now we need lots of Ghz, Gbytes of Ram and HDD.
Progress...? what progress?
Samantha
{feeling decidedly old atm. It was my Mother's 99th birthday on Monday.}
and I think fondly back to my PlayStation ver.2
And I think back to my PlayStation ver.2, which I hotwired with an IC chip so that I could play games from other countries which weren't sold here in the U.S. (the ship bypassed the Regional Lockout Code tied to 'Country of Origin' by adding all the region codes which Sony had added disable in the version 2 machine).
Those were the days.
The PlayStation finally died in 2013 after thirteen years of constant use when our 80 pound Irish Setter (Clifford the Big Red Dog) discovered it was fun to run in between the TV set and me and rip out all the wires to get my attention.
charlie
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/missing-without-a-trace-cha...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/832524
Perhaps I'll just pass on FS.
Doesn't seem worth the effort does it?
Gwen
With your computer experience, and lack of interest in hardware
it wouldn't be worth it, no ma'am.
I had a solid 2k words of advice ready to go here in case you wanted to pursue it anyway, but I think it would have just been more confusing, so I'll boil it down to this: computers are expensive right now, and to get a really solid experience out of the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, you'd probably be looking at spending a minimum of 1800 USD on a pre-built or laptop after taxes (though the resulting system would probably be all the computer you'd need for anything you'd do on it for the next 5 years to a decade.)
If this is something you REALLY want to pursue, send me a PM and what budget you're looking at wanting to spend, and I can play around with putting together a build for you. I've been researching parts and pre-builts myself since I need a new rig for stability reasons, so if you trusted me to help I could put you on the right track for picking a pre-built system that wouldn't be TOO over-priced. :)
Melanie E.
Buying a PC
It is a very expensive preposition right now to buy any PC hardware as you've probably figured out by now.
Perhaps you might want to go old school and do Nintendo stuff like the 35th anniversary Super Mario Brothers and stuff.
WoW (World of Warships) maybe?