wain 879 Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 Just a few from DTG, FS.....not really tried it but here are a few pics, it auto put all settings to ultra, but there are of course no addons... only issue so far I cant get hat switch to pan... all around EGGD because I know the area, all buttons are very FSX like.... Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 Thanks for sharing. The plane and ground look good, but the sky looks even worse than default FSX... If the files structure is alike, it shouldn't be too difficult to import some clouds textures. Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 9 hours ago, wain said: only issue so far I cant get hat switch to pan... Hmm.. I wonder if it supports TrackIR yet.. Must start downloading it soon I guess, but that's going to take it's sweet time on my connection... As Loic said, it looks great if one avoids looking to closely on the coulds... Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 53 minutes ago, stu7708 said: Hmm.. I wonder if it supports TrackIR yet.. Aha.. found the manual, and TrackIR should be supported out of the box!! Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 I have to agree with Corsaire. The aircraft and ground look very good, but the sky is just pants. Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted May 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Yeah the Pan thing was my error all works fine..looks ok clouds seem to be a step backwards... ATC sounds very robotic... as bad as FSX ATC was at least it sounded ok...lessons are similar if not the same and seem to be a bit more forgiving...bare in mind this is with no addons so fps etc will be high however it was using nearly 2gig of vram but my ageing CPU was now not working quite so hard...only had a few hours on it so only initial views..I think this is aimed at new blood and I expect to see it on a weekend sale relatively quickly..my main concern for the new full is that they dumb things down for the new people they want...DTG will probably be looking to sale high numbers...its good that it is 64bit and DX11 and I imagine once the real sim comes out and addons are available we could have a good sim...saying that though if LM suddenly announced 64bit I know where most would go...downside for us will be having to stump up for addons again but you never know we could get upgrade prices... Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Thanks for the reports Wayne, I've found flight school is a nice diversion and great for beginners, but I soon got bored with it and had to get back to Air Hauler! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Interestingly, the clouds in the preview shots Joe posted earlier doesn't look as bad.. I wonder if it's the textures for a specific cloud type that are lacking in quality rather than them being generally bad. Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted May 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 13 minutes ago, stu7708 said: Interestingly, the clouds in the preview shots Joe posted earlier doesn't look as bad.. I wonder if it's the textures for a specific cloud type that are lacking in quality rather than them being generally bad. Yeah you are correct there..maybe there is a serting I can change... 59 minutes ago, mutley said: Thanks for the reports Wayne, I've found flight school is a nice diversion and great for beginners, but I soon got bored with it and had to get back to Air Hauler! Agree with you there Joe back to testing..I am glad I got it however I dont feel FSX/P3D have any immediate concerns... Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Looks good, though the toolbars top and bottom are a distraction. Is there no way to turn them off like you can with FSX/FS9 etc? Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 1 hour ago, dodgy-alan said: Looks good, though the toolbars top and bottom are a distraction. Is there no way to turn them off like you can with FSX/FS9 etc? I assume it's possible to run it in full screen mode if one wants to, and don't have something else running on a second monitor that one needs to/wants to see. And even if that's not possible the bottom one is possible to get rid of by "Auto Hiding" the start menu in windows... Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Yep, full screen mode can be activated in the same way as in FSX - CTRL+ENTER Did a quick test at work, and considering the specs of my computer here it looked OK, but the GFX card isn't really up to scratch... and neither are my skills at flying with only keyboard controls Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 cotton wool balls I have seen plenty of people streaming this on Twitch and it does look good for the beginner - so for people thinking, what's flight sim all about, they can have a jump in at such a small price and then move on to something a bit meaty like FSX or XPlane. I think for flight sim veterans they will (as joe rightly said) get bored very quickly. Speaking to a fellow flight simmer today, he said they have made some mistakes on some of the missions, where it is impossible to achieve as if you do it one way it tells you, you should have done it another, then when you do it that way, it reverts back to the way you did it in the first place If that at all made sense lol, please give it a whirl for your self hehe. Great shots though and thanks for sharing - at least some companies are still trying Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 I saw a Froogle video review the day before it released. He found that the flight model was dumbed down for beginners. Things like adding power didn't raise the nose. I hope stuff like that doesn't carry through to the biggy version...but suspect it is only to help The New transition into Flight Simming. Are there any "Realism" settings in DTG/FS that affect the flight model? Or is it stuck on Hard Arcade Mode? Link to post Share on other sites
Jess-b 420 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Here are two i snapped Earlier. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Jess-b 420 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 1 hour ago, Captain Coffee said: I saw a Froogle video review the day before it released. He found that the flight model was dumbed down for beginners. Things like adding power didn't raise the nose. I hope stuff like that doesn't carry through to the biggy version...but suspect it is only to help The New transition into Flight Simming. Are there any "Realism" settings in DTG/FS that affect the flight model? Or is it stuck on Hard Arcade Mode? I don't think Froogles right on the flight model. I just flew both Pipers and both reacted as expected when I applied power. The nose rose slowly before the aircraft returned to trim. More impressively I was able to get the Cherokee into a spin and applied the correct technique to get out it. Even the cub spun quite well. I tested both against fsx and the cub spun at least in the same manner as the one flight school. That said, I bloody hate that atmospheric shading. It needs a lot of work. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 3 hours ago, Jess-b said: Here are two i snapped Earlier. So jealous of your setup Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted May 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 Great shots there Jess...I found no issues with the flight all did as expected.. good start..and it is what it is ...a hook to get more people into our flightsim world...at least someone is trying.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 Looks good Jess.. Still downloading at home to give it a try on a proper computer.. will probably take most of tonight as well... Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 On the Flight School forum it seems someone has managed to use Rex 4 textures by pointing the P3D location to the Flight School path and selecting DX11 textures. ( from a post on my french forum ) Link to post Share on other sites
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