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The current Macs just don’t have USB-A ports to connect to the peripherals you need.

#Microsoft flight simulator mac Pc

Honestly, if you are serious about current air combat sims, a gaming PC is the way to go. Gives life to your fellow pilots every mission. Fairly light on simulation side, but it has some of the best radio chatter lines I’ve seen in the genre.

With AetherSX2 emulator, you can play Energy Airforce Aim Strike. Not sure if IL-2 Cliffs of Dover Blitz works because I haven’t heard anyone who has tried it on M1/M2.

#Microsoft flight simulator mac pro

It runs at medium settings on M1 Pro (10+16) just fine on Parallels. If you’re looking for WW2-era air combat, IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles works on CrossOver and Parallels too.

#Microsoft flight simulator mac install

Complete Google sign-in (if you skipped step 2) to install Spaceflight Simulator. Click to install Spaceflight Simulator from the search results. Look for Spaceflight Simulator in the search bar at the top right corner. Complete Google sign-in to access the Play Store, or do it later. Doesn’t have as many high-fidelity aircraft as DCS, but the way dynamic and ATC work are light years ahead of anything else. Download and install BlueStacks on your PC. It’s the closest air combat simulator to reality too. Anyhow, enough of my ramblings.Falcon BMS on Intel Macs using Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop on M1 and M2. It just goes to show how far computer technology has come. In the old days, to get something with that level of detail, you'd be looking at professional simulator setups. You can even do the reverse-air-shutoff check when taxiing, and it works like the real thing.īeing able to follow the real world checklists and procedures to the letter is amazing for something on the computer and costing less than $100. You can control the pressurisation properly. And when you open the cross-flow valves between the air-groups (meaning they share their air), you do get more air flowing through them.

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I was even more thrilled to find that if one of the air-groups needed to be shut down, that when I retry it in the air, the temperature sensing goes full hot, until enough air goes through the group and then the temperature goes down to what it should be. Just wonderful.ĭebow starts are possible. And later, when I tried it again, being more careful - no surge.Īnd when I started the engines at first, it went through the rotating stall after I switched on the HP valve for that engine - 'whoop whoop, pull up, whoop whoop, pull up'. I had a real grin on my face when for the first time I started the descent from 57,200ft over the Atlantic, I throttled back the engines slightly too fast and sure enough 'bang'! There was a slight engine surge. I can't think of any flight-simulator addon/plane so complex and realistic as the FSLabs Concorde. MS doesn't have the time to do the full-on simulations, they take an enormous amount of time to develop, let alone test them. The full-on simulations are left for the addon developers to do, think FSLabs Concorde, FSLabs Airbus A320, PMDG planes, etc. They also gave us SimConnect and the Max plugins, along with great insider support - those are the best things that ever happened for developers, and probably part of the reason the developers have remained so loyal to the FS series.ĭmr727: They always tend to show the basic planes - but if I may be so bold, that's probably because they only really do basic planes - and not real simulations. That said, FSX was developed at the time when there wasn't much idea if computers would go to ever higher clock speeds or more cores with lower clock-speeds - it was at the turning point. I expect that as usual, the developers will get the inside look at Flight well in advance and should have their addons ready to go by release date, assuming no big architecture changes for the models happen. I do hope that Microsoft Flight uses are computers more efficiently than FSX does. Given the cheap price of HDDs these days and the superb ease-of-upgrading the Mac Pro, it's worth it.

An SSD or something like one of those Western Digital Velociraptors (10,000rpm) will do wonders. The other places you'll score big wins in performance are things like a very fast HDD. I'll get back to you with some of the settings I'm using. I think it needs to be 14 (AffinityMask=14).

#Microsoft flight simulator mac how to

I'm on Mac at the moment - so not sure how to get to the CFG file right away, but it's the AffinityMask setting. I also had to tweak some of the texture loading settings a bit to get it nicely smooth. That can eliminate the stutters you sometimes experience and keep the frame rates more steady (instead of the wild fluctuations people sometimes see). Basically, you are shifting FSX off the first core, which is often used by the OS to do things, and maybe other addons like Active Sky Enhanced which does use a bit of processing power to simulate real world weather for you (it does it very well too). Yeah, I did have to do one of those tweaks.