Microsoft Flight Simulator - ISLE OF WIGHT ULTRA DETAIL! CACHED OFFLINE SCENERY!

[@craigdavies4682]

Took a 172 from Shoreham to some insignificant French airstrip at dusk last night. The sunset was breath taking. The light faded fast and I found myself in utter darkness over the channel. Half way across I started to see the faint red glow of airport lighting over in France. Holding my course I arrived at my final destination only to find I couldn't see a bloody thing. So I diverted to somewhere with lights and landed. The whole sim is utterly amazing and I'm completely blown away and overwhelmed by my renewed love of VFR flight simming 11/10 for the dev team its a stunning achievement. To all the haters bashing the sims faults, remember we have a VFR globe as our play ground.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Fantastic story Craig, this is exactly what this sim is all about. Glad you made it! Take care.

[@craigdavies4682]

@@VRFlightSimGuy Hehe thanks a bit more RAM might be wanted pretty soon. But the big elephant in the room is the amount of 'play' in my stick it cant be fixed but any semblance of accuracy is now gone unless I add an insane dead zone. I'll keep fighting it an pretend its cross winds and turbulence. At least until businesses start restocking with Sticks and yokes. Also want to grab me some kind of throttle quadrant if I plan on really getting into this. Track IR is a treat or its cheaper cousins. I feel they will be the way forward until we have GPU's that are capable of running this at 120 fps on two monitors. That may be years down the road but who knows AMD and Ngreedia may surprise us all Until next time happy landings😎

[@craigdavies4682]

​@Aitch Yea I know about them. Not really interested as I recently jumped up to a 5600xt from a GTX 1060. Difference was a quantum leap forward. As for FS 2020 I'm actually more than happy with its performance on my current system. Its a mix of high ultra setting at 1440p. Looks great and I've had no real issues.

[@TheMattlockyer]

I now live in Australia and your drone footage of the island is really making me feel homesick. Great video.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@drawingsbydave7794]

16:53 pure Island driving; take whatever side of the road takes your fancy!!😂😂

[@althepsyphros3314]

I just can imagine the fun in a year or so when we have jets, helicopters, gliders, paragliders and bombers. You could literally do a full fledged air show with friends.. that would be amazing. When I get this game probably in a couple years when I have money I will certainly mostly be pretending to do acrobatics over my house or at air show locations. Or fly through Mach loop with an f15

[@belgeode]

That came out pretty cool looking! Thanks for the shoutout.

[@MrJoeboy2305]

Brilliant video, I visit I.O.W quite a lot and it's great seeing it in Microsoft Flight Simulator! 👍

[@mikemoreno4469]

Fantastic. Could you do one around Winchester, Hampshire, please?

[@NGC008]

The sea looks incredibly realistic! Nice video again.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Thank you so much 😀

[@marklorenfahey4942]

Absolutely fookin bloody fantastic! Brilliant. You have a new subscriber from across the pond Mate.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Awesome, thank you!

[@andybeckett6508]

Really useful clip, looking forward to buying a suitable rig and building a ga panel to accommodate FS2020. I enjoy listening to your comments - refreshingly positive and enthusiastic. Thank you 👍🍺

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

That's really means a lot thankyou!

[@flybe146]

Hi Steve, you could actually fall in love with the IOW with the outside views from this simulator great video mate loved it!

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Hey David totally agree, just staggering detail especially for default scenery!

[@meh276]

Your touch and go was not at Bembridge. That was Sandown airfield.

[@stephenmason5682]

Thanks for posting this, and mentioning using a cach. All contributors who talk about caching don't say why they use it, just how to set it up? Can I ask please, did you select and tick the square box next to your created cache? Does the particular cache need to be selected to be available? I'm not seeing much of a difference? Cheers..

[@georginahallett8716]

Hi Steve, watching this from Crete! excellent video, I live just across The Solent at Lymington and often fly Xplane with Orbx TE around the IOW...the more I see of MS2020 I feel there will be a big hole appearing in my bank balance as I know my present computer/Internet connection won't cope!!!...thanks again.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Hello there from Crete (such a lovely place). Thankyou for watching, I think once Orbx updates some of these areas with their points of interest and overlays it's going to be incredible! Take care 😊

[@georginahallett8716]

@@VRFlightSimGuy 👍

[@bobtildesley2862]

Great video thanks! I have found the manual cache not working properly for me so I deleted my manual cache and am just using the rolling cache, which will retain the areas flown. So the next time over the area it doesn't need to stream as much data and the sim is smoother. The more flights in the area the smoother it gets, which is fine for me. I don't believe manual caching to be higher res than the rolling cache but I'm not sure.

[@eddbox7462]

Sweet vid man, you actually touch and goed at sandown airfield not bembridge, I'm from the island x

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Haha yes I realised after the video was made. Thanks for watching!

[@ytgibbo]

I did notice the cars at some point driving on the wrong side of the road. We drive on the left in the UK and IOW. A small detail though, at other points it seemed correct.

[@robmuzz]

Downloading is only really worth it when you have a photogrammetry area like Southhampton.

[@drawingsbydave7794]

So strange to see where I run most days rendered in digital 3D, love this video

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Thankyou so much for watching

[@ThomasGrillo]

The Supralight is my favorite plane in the sim. Only wish it had a decent artificial horizon. The one in the navi is rubbish, and lacks attitude indication. Still, I love it, for the window size, and simplicity. No faffing about with autopilot systems, and the like. LOL. Thanks for the video.

I visited here too, I used to spend a lot of time in Cowes so I was curious. The Needles in FS were a bit of a disappointment but I am certain some clever modder will fix it in due course. There will be folk all over the world wanting to update landmarks in their local areas.

[@lesharrison4955]

All the places I love seen from the air thank yoy

[@Mark-ml3nv]

The pandemic, so it's not safe to go on holiday, but now with MSFS 2020, we can go anywhere in the Wold virtually. So where do we go...the Isle of Wight

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Why not? It's beautiful.

[@jimharris1029]

how do you cache the scenery I would like to save the uk to hardisk but that probably at least 1tb of space

[@scooterman9583]

could you tell me yout pc specs pls or provide a link to video showing them. many thanks.

[@dawsonpearcejarrett3016]

I live on the Isle of Wight and it sort of looks like it but the scale in that game of the island is way to big it’s a much smaller island but all the places you named are real places which is cool

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Many thanks! The scale will be exactly the same as real life, since its from satellite imagery. Take care.

[@PhiLikeFlying]

Great video. Do you think by pre-downloading the scenery of a certain area will be better for VR regarding performance when its supported?

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Thanks Phil! Good question, I can't say for certain yet (still fiddling) 😁

[@PhiLikeFlying]

@@VRFlightSimGuy haha...ok

[@lakesideaudio]

Looks lovely, thanks for this video

[@welsh2266]

Could you give us a tour of Lemnos in the North med please?

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

I don't understand that even with stock scenery piers etc are not included ? Ryde pier is a national landmark.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

It's impossible to model the entire earth

[@lukechessell6098]

Sandown was ventnore haha

[@g-maniac8670]

Hi Steve, wondering if you've tried Belgeode's 'poor man's vr'? Makes me very optimistic about this Sim's vr capabilities.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Non yet, but I may give it a try at some point :)

[@daveslow84]

Them wave crests tho... omnomnom! Amazing how I can instantly see how windy it is! Is there smoke and other things that show wind effects that are also modelled?

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

It's really stunning! Good question, I'd suspect so but I haven't come across it yet.

[@deanregan7011]

Yes, sit on an airfield with the windsock in view and then turn up the wind setting and you'll see the sock straighten!

[@stayawesome3660]

14:03 that is Ventnor not Sandown.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@shanenation3426]

Do you have a link to show you how to download the offline data

[@DarkKnight-bi7cr]

Omg that freaking water!!!!!

[@MacXpert74]

Yeah the simulation of the water and waves is really realistic looking, probably the best I’ve ever seen in a ‘game’.

[@mohamaddamascus171]

this vedio offline?

[@davidfishlock1968]

Nice video, I hope orbx just do packs that those landmarks that are not right, I flew over Portland bill but there were no cliff edges or famous lighthouse, but what a visual treat this sim is on the whole

Yes I hope exactly this. I'd pay for landmark update packs. Maybe you get 100 in a set for a reasonable fee. My suspicion is you'll pay 3.99 each though.

[@sparkydee9916]

Great video . Just let you know that it was ventnor not sandown at 14 mins

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Many thanks :)

[@rojomostrat]

@@VRFlightSimGuy I agree it was Ventnor and I believe the grass airstrip you did the touch and go was IOW airfield near Lake and not Bembridge which has a metalled runway and where they built the Norman Islander aicraft.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

@@rojomostrat Thanks John for the clarification, looks like I'll be making another visit soon :D

[@rojomostrat]

@@VRFlightSimGuy That would be great maybe taking in Yarmouth , Cowes and Ryde. :-)

[@Gassit]

@@VRFlightSimGuy Just after your touch and go you could see some white cliffs ahead, Bembridge is just inland of those.

[@Thunderbird1337]

Why do you have these strong waves? I only have relatively flat water, even on Ultra settings. Does it depend on the wind speed or on the location?

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

It's just because of the live weather that day. Windy days will make a huge difference to the water behaviour

[@theprogamergt9584]

I use geofs my laptop won't take ms 2020 wondering if it would take X plane 11

[@JOTIXOXO]

Is cached territory better tan streamed in visuals?

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

I haven't noticed any difference, but this may depend on your Internet connection

[@pablo9364]

I downloaded IOW to manual cache. Didn’t work.

[@briank3754]

pablo9364 I am not sure if the areas I saved are doing anything. I don’t notice a difference.

[@pablo9364]

Brian K I think the rolling cache works to a degree but I’m certain the manual cache is mostly of no use at the moment. Hopefully a future update will improve

[@CPTGoofy]

I live on the isle of wight and its beautiful!

[@flintersbiggestfanever3965]

I live in carisbrooke

[@CPTGoofy]

@@flintersbiggestfanever3965 nice! Newport here 😂

[@schlonzschuppe4516]

is it stock scenery? you didnt mention i think.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Totally stock

[@martincole188]

Where you are very familiar with an area as I am about the Isle of Wight it's a disappointment to see the autogen buildings nowhere near a true life appearance, but I suppose these things will be improved in future by third party addons.

[@chrisburn7178]

Do you know why they decided to 3D scan Southampton? I haven't tried but you're saying if I fire it up now and fly over there it will look like that? Amazing. I haven't had much experience with Orbx but I hope they don't screw up like they have with the London scenery pack. I paid good money for that and while it adds landmarks they have horrible low polygon counts and textures, and replace the beautifully crafted stock buildings like the Shard and Tower Bridge with gross 2000s FSX cut-and-paste jobs. Buyer beware.

[@briank3754]

Chris Burn not sure what Orbx was thinking with the London Scenery, but they usually do some pretty exceptional scenery and airports. I have the entire UK, Washington State, and Florida from ORBX on X-Plane and all three are superb! I also have a few of their free airports in Europe and even those are high quality in X-Plane. They are going to have a harder time with MS Flight Sim compared to X-Planes as Xplanes default scenery Is terrible. Improving MSFS 2020 will take a high level of detail.

[@pa4tim]

now add cars, bikes and boats and you can ship your bike to the isle of man and then fly the driver and crew to the circuit, drive the bike in a truck to the circuit and then do an online race against your friends. After that go back to your house and the game exits if you close the door.

[@suraqis]

Actually this aircraft called CTLS by Flight Design and Microsoft misspelled that name.

[@RobertGeez]

Local cache does the job too.

[@timmy3822]

Lol the camber on those roads. A funny side effect of the AI not quite getting it right. Lovely scenery though. I’m sure you’ve said before, but what drone do you have? That’s something I’ve wanted to get into for a while now but there’s such a vast array of them it’s hard to know what to look for.

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

I use the Mavic Mini it's a superb little drone 👌

[@timmy3822]

@@VRFlightSimGuy Thanks, that looks like an insanely fun piece of kit. Perfect size to stick in my tank bag and grab some footage when I'm out and out. Wish I had something like this when I was in the Austrian Alps a couple years back! Might be sticking it on the "want but don't necessarily need" list that is already very long xD.

[@MrWilfAdventures]

Regarding comedy camber on the roads I (think I) remember years ago in FSX there was a utility to correct road camber so it just modded the mesh so roads would be flat side to side. It wasn't perfect but I can't believe it's beyond the whit of todays AI to handle something similar, I've never drive on any roads at a 60 degree bank :D

[@Mightymoose02]

I find the ocean and waves just amazing!!!

[@lukechessell6098]

It was sandown not bembridge bud

[@samcreed]

I live on the isle of wight

[@drawingsbydave7794]

13:49 Ventnor

[@jensmandreasen2230]

The ocean waves on rivers and streams may look realistic of sorts, but it's not a thing that could actually ever happen

[@captainchaos3667]

I wish there were _any_ locations in my country in this quality... 😔

[@dtrjones]

Textures look great, the mesh for the most part is fine but I kind of wish it would be higher resolution around mountainous and coastal areas.

[@BuntyDave]

I went to Jersey in this... Oddly flat. It seems to have no height information.

[@ViewBothSides]

Yes, odd really - just a priority given to the work by Asobo... the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) for the world has got better and better over the past 30 years, because radar satellites are basically very good at it, but FS2020 currently uses something that looks maybe 20 years old. I *think* the reason is simple - Asobo have used a new internal format for their world elevation model so any use of external DEM data requires a conversion, and they've put this off...

[@ViewBothSides]

E.g. England is available from LIDAR at a *50cm grid with +/- 15cm* resolution: data.gov.uk/dataset/5f6f7d5b-3f4c-4476-bfb8-cda490c9cf0e/lidar-composite-dtm-2017-50cm

[@BuntyDave]

@@ViewBothSides I hope they're still working on improving it.

[@lukechessell6098]

Im from the island

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Thanks Luke!

[@lukechessell6098]

@@VRFlightSimGuy great to watch its very spot on

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Thanks Luke I really appreciate that!

[@topaviator]

I'll never buy orbx cz the sim it self is enough

[@nukenabber7228]

Big ocean waves in water pools, grey ash covered buildings everywhere, muhahahaaaa, what a sim.....and I bought it :-( 90% of Amsterdam is not even on it !!

[@richard-yz6cz]

ocean, lake, or river, all have the same texture, this has to be fixed.

[@rudlzavedno7279]

Thanks for great video... I just wanna say that if anyone is interested in FS 2020 benchmark analysis should watch Hardware Unboxed YT video kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2e1eqmsgrV1isk Steve pointed out that this sim is heavily CPU bottlenecked (heavily taxing only 2-4 cores) as no GPU is able to get past 66fps at 1080p medium (1080 and 2080TI performing the same) so you really don't "profit" from 8 or more cores CPU. Going with some fast 6C/12T CPU like i5 10600K or R5 3600 (more on the budget side) and 1080TI/2070S should give best bank of a buck at 1080p... The only GPU standing out at 1440p and 4K is 2080TI (but still don't expect miracles as the difference between 1080TI/2070S and 2080TI was max 8 fps)... For some reason AMD GPUs are not doing well with FS (probably bad driver optimization). I was hoping for better multicore utilization. It's sad to see such a gem not utilizing new CPUs to larger extend.