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5chn3ll wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:43 am Cloning the boot volume didn't go the way I'd hoped. There was a recovery partition on the 512GB drive that also got cloned onto the 1TB drive, so I couldn't resize the partition on the 1TB drive.

I blew all the partitions on both drives out and started over with the Windows install ISO on a flash drive - the install only takes a few minutes during hot flash-on-flash action.

Windows is on the 1TB primary volume; most of the rest of that volume will be video files and 3D shit. I'm installing all of the games onto the 512GB SSD to avoid any potential I/O bottleneck caused by the OS during disk-intensive game loads.

Isn't this in the wrong thread?

32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:46 pm

5chn3ll wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:43 am Cloning the boot volume didn't go the way I'd hoped. There was a recovery partition on the 512GB drive that also got cloned onto the 1TB drive, so I couldn't resize the partition on the 1TB drive.

I blew all the partitions on both drives out and started over with the Windows install ISO on a flash drive - the install only takes a few minutes during hot flash-on-flash action.

Windows is on the 1TB primary volume; most of the rest of that volume will be video files and 3D shit. I'm installing all of the games onto the 512GB SSD to avoid any potential I/O bottleneck caused by the OS during disk-intensive game loads.

Isn't this in the wrong thread?

Nah. Unlike politics, confusing the old guy among us is always allowed.

Billy’s gonna be pissed once someone explains that burn to him.

gnat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:37 pm

32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:46 pm
Isn't this in the wrong thread?

Nah. Unlike politics, confusing the old guy among us is always allowed.

I meant this thread

Sentences 32wildbilly won't like

Heh. I’ve stayed away from that one...it’s just too easy with the election 2 days away.

So...while it's still not photo-real, I had my first experience ever of getting disoriented while climbing through heavy cloud cover in a flight sim. I know it' s just a game - but overcoming the instinct to pick the direction you THINK is up and relying instead on the instruments was harder than I expected.

Different flight, different plane, but I thought it looked pretty cool for "just" a screenshot...

5chn3ll wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:38 am So...while it's still not photo-real, I had my first experience ever of getting disoriented while climbing through heavy cloud cover in a flight sim. I know it' s just a game - but overcoming the instinct to pick the direction you THINK is up and relying instead on the instruments was harder than I expected.

Having spent a couple hundred hours flying my Archer when visibility was about three feet I can understand. And, you're expected to fly headings and altitudes, tune the radios, adjust the gps, and operate en-route charts and approach plates!

That's a nice screen capture!

I jacked the display settings as high as they would go for grins - here's a screenshot of that. Totally unplayable at about 2 frames per second, but...it's nice to look at.

The slow planes are much more fun to fly in FS2020...in previous versions, going fast was pretty much the enjoyable part. The physics and gameplay in this version actually make me want to suck less. This COULD be the game that makes me upgrade my personal minimum acceptable sim landing from its current value of "some people within 500 yards of the crash site might survive."

I'm probably repeating myself, but my take-away from the one lesson in my logbook is that flying a Cessna is about 15 minutes of anxiety sprinkled with moments of sheer terror, an hour or two of doing pretty much nothing except trying not to get run over by anything faster than you (which effectively includes anything larger than a sparrow), and another 15 minutes of bottom-clenching anxiety as you transition back from "airborne VW Bus with wings" to "rolling VW Bus with wings." On the plus side, the plane we were flying was in GREAT shape for a club-maintained trainer - one of the two headsets worked nearly half the time we were airborne, which I understand is some kind of record.

theprf wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:44 am Having spent a couple hundred hours flying my Archer when visibility was about three feet I can understand. And, you're expected to fly headings and altitudes, tune the radios, adjust the gps, and operate en-route charts and approach plates!

That's a nice screen capture!

5chn3ll wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:47 am Totally unplayable at about 2 frames per second, but...it's nice to look at.

Sky. Ground. Sky. Ground. Sky. Ground. Ground. Ground. Ground.

Huh, I crashed. Oh, hey the animals are rendering in!