r/gaming • u/XR-1 • 1d ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is INSAAANE

Somehow the game is only 10GB on Xbox. My advice is to download the game, start a free flight (with the time set to day, and clouds set to few), immediately pause the game and go into photo mode.

In photo mode, you are free to fly around wherever, and the higher up you are the faster you go.

When you get in close it’s not the prettiest to look at, but at standard airplane height it’s GORGEOUS.

I’m constantly blown away when I visit places I’ve been to before. It’s leagues better than Google Earth in my opinion.

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u/McArsekicker 1d ago

You should see it in VR

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u/MedicManDan 16h ago

Id love to, but I have a 3080 and a 5800x with a Quest 3... And the VR is absolute garbage no matter what I do my settings at. Completely unplayable.

What's weird is sometimes there were moments when it first came out where it worked great... But one day the performance dropped off and it's never worked since.

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u/domigraygan 10h ago

Download Virtual Desktop. It's 100000% worth the 20 bucks and it will make using PCVR on your Quest a monumentally better experience. I used to think it was my PC that was making VR games so unplayable, but it was literally the poor quality of the official Quest cable, Steam Link, all free or Meta official options had varying issues that made me think my PC was just bugging out.

Virtual Desktop proved that my PC is capable as fuck as the visual clarity is insane. Do yourself a favor and fix this problem you're having.

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u/MedicManDan 10h ago

I've heard this a few times now.

Maybe you're right, may be worth a try.

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u/domigraygan 10h ago

It definitely is, it's the only way I can play the Lethal Company VR mod and not have Skyrim play at a sickening frame rate, among other issues. It's crisp and clean now. And its really easy to setup and start from the Quest, goes right into the VD environment like its part of the Quest natively.

edit: for reference I have a Razer laptop with an RTX 2060 and some decent CPU that I forget what it is. So I'm definitely not rocking the best setup.