This glitch has happened to me four times in the last two days, and I still haven’t been able to replicate it deliberately. It renders flying impossible and has been the most frustrating thing in the world when doing long-haul flights. But the technical problems haven’t just been limited to graphics, as I’ve run into a few bugs on my air voyages.įrequently, I’ll experience a glitch where the game prevents me from doing anything except look around. Other than that, I can run with every setting on Ultra. This setting alone completely broke the game and how it worked. I would also be met with frequent framerate stutters, the game occasionally just freezing as it loaded the airports I was about to land at, and more.Īfter meddling with the settings a bit, I noticed that a lot of the problems were down to TAA anti-aliasing. Sometimes, the game would take up to 15 minutes just to load the menu screen and then an additional half hour to get into the game.
#Microsoft flight simulator 2019 Pc
I’m running an RTX 2080Ti and Ryzen 7 2700, and yet on PC my first few times loading up the game were some of the most painful gaming experiences I’ve had in months.
While the graphics are a next-generational leap, the cloud technology is utterly jaw-dropping, and the physics system is revolutionary, the game itself has been riddled with technical issues. If they didn’t have spots which were broken, the team would literally be a group of wizards.īut there are a few problems I’ve come across with the simulator – because it’s not all perfect. This is the entire planet we’re talking about, it’s so hard to grasp just how big it is. Granted, a few dodgy areas are to be expected. For those interested, though, there is already a London landmarks pack on the marketplace that you can buy if you're hungry for a more realistic London skyline. In the base game, the London Eye is a flat photo on the water, and Edinburgh Castle is an auto-generated mess. While this works absolute wonders at times, there are of course spots all over the globe which don’t work. With Flight Simulator, the map consists of the entire planet scanned in with a mix and match of hand-crafted landmarks. I personally prefer flying airliners, but I’ve also had extreme joy in just taking a flight over London in a propeller plane. The planes feel so fantastic to fly, and each type of aircraft has its pros and cons. You can read my review of the joystick I used here. I loaded up the game and it was plug and play, with everything mapped and setup. I’ve been playing the game with a Thrustmaster TCA Flight Stick Airbus Edition (kindly sent to us for review) and Flight Simulator recognised it without me even doing anything. With Flight Simulator, just flying through the clouds and looking down through the window of my Airbus A320neo – it’s therapeutic.
My favourite thing about simulators is their potential to be stress-relieving.
I’ve been playing the game daily as much as I could and didn’t even feel like I was doing it just for this review.Įvery time I’ve booted up Flight Simulator, it has truly been a wonderful experience. So, I’ve been patiently awaiting the arrival of this new title, and the wait paid off. As someone who lives and breathes simulators, I spend a lot of time exploring the genre.įlight Simulation games were something I was always interested in playing, and I had played quite a bit of Microsoft Flight Simulator X – but it just became too outdated to play on modern hardware. Microsoft has created one of the best simulators I have ever played in my life, and its graphics are just the cherry on top.