Leave the scenery for streaming, and put the airplanes back on the hard drive and I'll bet that would solve a ton of problems. It may even solve every problem. Loading times would slow down a bit, but you can't have everything.
Thank you for doing this video. I flew your route to get more acquainted with this insane bush plane and at last I was successful in getting my landings down better than where I was flying in my home state of Colorado. I was initially wigged out with the intense performance of this bird and needed to see someone else show us how it's done. Sounds like we have similar setups. I have a 5800X3D with 32 GB of RAM and a RTX 3070 Ti. I'm getting a solid 60 FPS with Frame Gen, DLSS Super Res and DLAA with DSR factors upscaling. I'm very happy with the smoothness so far, but I think it's time to snag a Cyber Monday deal on a 2K monitor to get some more sharpness in the cockpit. Always look forward to your videos. Please keep them coming...👍
Hear me out: when you create your Angel Air livery, create an opposing fictional company, something like "Infernal Air" for when your alter ego wants to be bad and scare the people on the ground!
This crazy bird is absolutely ridiculous! Literally a chopper with wings! I tried Pesim Maule the other day, seems like one of the few addons that work more or less properly so far, enjoyed it big time! Bush flying in 2024 has a lot of opportunities!
I completely agree with your comment about streaming aircraft being a mistake. In my current job, we started streaming many of our programs, and it's been a disaster. Nothing loads properly, and it slowed down production.
I don’t comment much at all, but thank you for your video! I have a major fear of flying in real life, but love flight sims (for some reason!). Your calming flight today helped me relax for my real flight today! Thanks!
What a shame. Flying is the most intriguing thing I have done in my life. I own an SPL licence and flying gliders over the swiss Alps is a joy. As a young guy I had fear for many things then it went away and at the age of 54 I earned my flying brevet.
Weirdly enough, I started playing around with flight simulation years and years and years ago as a way to try to cure myself of fear of flying before a big trip I was supposed to take for school on a plane. I never took the trip and I've never stepped foot inside of a plane because it's a rich person's hobby. I still play flight sims sometimes though just out of boredom. Not very often though because that's also a rich person's hobby
DracoX will be 1090hp, derated to 850hp. At sea level, that means the difference in HP between Draco and DracoX is 170hp, but as you go up in altitude, Draco HP would decrease due to Density Altitude. DracoX will maintain 850hp above FL180 (I believe that's what Mike stated) which would mean on high DA days where Draco may only be producing 450HP, DracoX will still be at 850hp. Very rough numbers but you get the idea.
The takeoff reminded me of how the Hype H160 performs for me. Feels like a long delay in the control loop suddenly happens…during the initial moments after takeoff. Leads to a wild, random-feeling takeoff akin to “Mr. Toad’s wild ride.”
Aliens reference, nice! Loving your vids. Agree that they should have let us have the option of downloading the aircraft. Bet it would solve most of the issues.
The first time I flew the Draco, I didn't realize the elevator trim was set as far nose down as it could be. Ran the throttle up, tail popped straight off the ground then it was grab the tiger by the tail after that. Crazy aircraft
Such a fascinating little birdie. I am glad they added it to the sim. Of course I have yet to sit in it and try it out in VR. So here I am looking for your thoughts on it. Thank you!
23:48. Cool! Try Ardmore Airport, Auckland, NZ. runway 21 Grass left and stop before the intersection. I used to have great fun in the Piper Tomahawk PA 38 with my instructor in real life! For my PPL way back when. Really enjoyed your video. Laurie. NZ. 😊😅🎉
Thnks for the video. I believe we should have an option to disable ground crew. It's so annoying and really breaks the immersion when doing bush flights or using small airstrips. Regards
I am also mourning my dog being put on the NO FLY LIST. I took the Reims Rocket by bagolu out for some fun and it behaved itself in 24. I also found that Duxford by Chicomick works well in 24. I took the Ironworks P-38 out for a circuit there and it looks great aside from runway lights which I don't think are there in real life. The P-38 performed well too. Thanks a bunch for this trip in Alaska and as always have a Happy Turkey Festival! -Mike
It's nice to see you up and flying in the sim. This video is a great help to learn how to fly the DracoX. My first attempts have not gone well. I have been encouraging you to get back into texture art. I think you would be creative and have an eye for detail. It's great to be able to make your own mods for the sim. The 206 performs well because it's quite low poly compared to a lot of addons. But the new flight modeling and ground action make it in my opinion feel a little better in MSFS 2024. I have already been experimenting with some of the new SDK features and I think people will really like where this sim is heading.
"Rude with wings!" Ha! Love this video and love the Draco! Any tips on landing this crazy beast? I love flying her, but I just can't seem to get her tame enough to land. After slowing down a bit, I always start veering to the left. I try to compensate, but it never seems to work quite right, and I know it's operator error. Thank you and looking forward to what you have in store; I'll definitely be picking up some of those liveries!
Liked your video and just subscribed but that judder on take off, its the reason I love my series x and ps5 pro, they deliver the goods without the costs.
That stutter on takeoff: Maybe it has something to do with the more accurate way air disturbances are modeled in 2024? Maybe it'ssomething to do with the physics of the prop (number of blades, speed, proximity to the ground requiring certain calculations that aren't needed when in the air, etc)
Regarding the choppy take offs, I'm only having the choppy propblem after playing for a couple hours. It doesn't happen on take off, it starts as soon as I enter the game world. I've had it happen once during landing (it was a catasttrophy). Going back to main menu has rememdied the problem sometimes. Restarting the game usually does.
Loving the Draco. Takes off like a rocket. Fast to get to destinations quickly I'm also hooked on Dornier Seawing. Draco, Seawing and Piaggio P149 are the planes I've been flying the most. The only bad thing 2024 has brought is the overlap of one airport (LAX). I have two iterations of the airport from 2020 that now stream at the same time. One is the old LAX with dirt runways and that overwrites the most current LAX. Something I'm sure will be fixed shortly. Other than that, the scenery and lighting are so much better in 2024 for me.
Maybe the stutter on takeoff has to do with the transition between ground and flight mode. I assume they've been tinkering with it. Or the dust effects. I've been working on converting a bush field I made in 2020, and while the process is a little bit clunky/buggy (having to use both the 2020 and 2024 editor), the new terraforming and textures on steep terrain is fantastic. Finally I'm able to get some natural looking riverbanks beside the airfield. :)
Mike Patey have crashed this airplane in an sidewind takeoff a couple of years ago. He fly from Utah and of course never been in Alaska with this red bird. Recent news say they try to search found to put it in production.
@@antonioiozzi291 2019 for the Valdez STOL Competition. He is supposed to start releasing backlogged videos for that trip and others soon, which will lead into the DracoX build videos.
I haven't experienced that slowdown on takeoff but im running a more modern powerful computer. That was crazy and im impressed you didn't lawn dart into the hillside in front of you. LOL. That plane is extremely impressive.
@@AvAngelI get exactly same stutter effect just on take off (and landing) and I wonder if it’s that dynamic setting where at ground level it hasn’t quite figured out yet what to set to get decent FPS … just a thought ?
I love how, at the beginning, the other airplane is literally floating in the air. Once they fix all these things, I'll "think" about buying 2024. I am impressed with this plane though. Everything but the kitchen sink.
If I can't fly with My old mate Minty (aka Panther) by my side, well that's just another dealbreaker tbh. He may disagree, as I have crashed us on numerous occasions. Ps. Hudson btw "he's Hicks" :)
When you make a livery does it let you change the interior, or just skin the exterior? If the former, you could replace the cushion in the observation dome with one with Captain Whiskers on it.
The only thing I did was increase to 64M of RAM as it was mentioned if you are multi-tasking that was the recommendation. My 1600 Super seems to be chugging along just fine and I seem to be able to run my video recording fine.
You have an extremely similar system to me then, I just put in another 32 Gb of ram same day as the release, difference is I have a 6750XT 12 Gb, performance will be close enough... What I have noticed in this sim compared to 2020 is the GPU is always at 100% while in the old sim it would not get to 100% and ofc the CPU utiliation is much improved, now it uses between 8 to 12 cores all the time, depending on what you fly it seems, the smaller planes, simple ones it might onlyuse 10 cores for a while. I can run on Ultra settings and it runs great, not even bothered to check FPS, it feels like 60+ most of the time, I'd notice if it got very low since I have Track IR 5 on all the time and it gets uncomfortable below 45 - 50 fps. I changed it down to High settings again after a few days and then just pushed terrain and obsticle detail up to 200 - 300 instead. Gonna check my FPS today, just had some issues with my eyes so no gotten to it yet today. I have not tried the Draco yet, been too busy in the helicopters! and Career and AutoGyro! xD
I'm hoping that makes the difference because for 20 I could run flat out at Ultra, and by their metrics for 24, I far exceed recommended and should be half way if not mostly at Ideal... So far CPU and GPU don't have anywhere near the draw level I'd expect... so.
So I don't know if this means anything, but I have pretty much the same problem in '20, with the random stutters at takeoff! I've got a fairly low-end system, running the sim on settings as high as I can to still hit 60fps most of the time, which also seems to be what you're going for, settings-wise? Maybe it's an engine bug, since I assume they used a lot of code from '20 in '24, right?
The assignment of all the key bindings for me was going to be a nightmare let alone the new way its being done! with bits that are not working...not lol but how did you assign or move the condition lever, I have the Bravo and its not having any of it and I cant seem to move it with the mouse and just goes back to cutoff...annoying
We had it in 20, it sucks but it's that simmer life! :D You can change them back btw :D There's 2020 keyboard maps you can just add things like walking on foot to :D I did that. The condition is mapped to stock bravo profile for me. use your mixture.
Are you using the head tracker for your setup? VR performance for me is so horrible right now that I am considering getting a head tracker until I can upgrade my pc.
The RAM usage I've seen so far has been mostly hovering around 20 - 40 Gb, and only see the higher numbers around the massive cities, its similar to how 2020 was on that front tbh and it make sense, much or the world is the same and planes too, its the underlying engine that has had the major overhaul and while it will change how the engine uses things I dont think RAM usage has changed a ton, major change is CPU usage and physics in general, lighting... and ofc everything being streamed, something I struggle to even comprehend! xD
Your stutters on takeoff could be related to the dust cloud rendering. I know i have issues at low speeds where the game decides there needs to be a bunch of dust but it won't "blow away" because you aren't moving.
I'm on a ryzen 7 3700X with 32 GB of ram and a RTX 3050 and all is smooth as butter.By the way,lossless scaling app works.My problems are more with control settings and the Tobii not working bug........................................................
Dont add 2 sticks of 16GB of Ram, despite i would recommend to change it for 2x32GB. Its because running it in Quad-Channel mode (4 Sticks) has quite a performance penalty. Thanks for your videos. Seems Terrein lod and PreCaching are influencing the Ram needed quite a bit. 💙
@@AvAngel One negative that I encountered after adding 2 sticks of RAM (identical sticks but from a different batch) was full on crashing. The 4 sticks worked fine on my MSI B450 mainboard but when I upgraded to an ASUS X570 it suffered frequent crashes. I'd read that it's best to always buy 4 identical sticks together (same batch) to avoid any possible timing variations between different batches. I ended up yanking the four 8GB sticks and bought two 16GB sticks and the crashing problem immediately vanished. BTW would you recommend MSFS 2024 now, or do you think better to wait a bit until it gets out of 'beta'? Cheers from Thailand! 😁
@@AvAngel with ddr5 its luck if you can keep up the xmp speeds and stability seems to be worse. Depends on controller, yet the daisy chaining becomes a problem. Hope youre the lucky one. But dont blame the sim for crashing if not... 💚
Did they ever add any reason to do preflight checks? I expected some randomly broken stuff or random emergencies to happen so you could mitigate or catch issues but in 2020 it was just a waste of time
My Draco seems to be broken… I have a black screen on the avionics instead of synth view. And “both” actually burn only left tank of fuel. Don’t know if I can try something or just wait if it “updates” itself 😢
All black avionics might be a sim bug. If you get one random screen black here or there, that is a known sim limitation. DracoX has one more map screen than what 2024 allows. I believe Asobo is supposed to be addressing this. The fuel burn is a known and reported bug. Next time you fly it, you might try flipping the tank selector to the left tanks and then back to both. This should make it burn from both tanks.
@ it’s the synthetic view that doesn’t work only on the left panel. And the tanks seems to do what they want when I use “both”, they go wrong. Only left or only right are ok. I’ll wait for next updates. Who knows.
Nice review AvAngel but pineapple on pizza? Not sure about draw distance but if it's got anything to do with terrain LOD and objects LOD I have managed to get mine up to 300 and 140 respectively on a 2080 Super. I am happy with the results. Gets a bit choppy over big cities though.
I wonder who made this aircraft. Hmmmmmmmmmm does this give you a sense of dejavu lol I have only tried the draco once must give it another whirl. 👍 again AV thanks. Also I tried the map enhancement addon and adjusted the quality of the underlying map images and it was a huge improvement in imagery suggesting the underlying imagery in MSFS2024 is overexposed as it flares badly in direct sunlight, it is only the AI trees etc that cover this flaring some tweeking by Asobo may help.
You talk about the difference between streamed aircraft VS installed. Could you maybe explain HOW to install them? I don't see that option in the game and couldn't find any videos on YT on how to install content. I'd love to have as much installed as possible.
@@AvAngel I'm confused. Wasn't the point of flying the 206 to show us an aircraft that was installed rather than streamed? I assume the marketplace also wasn't available to you when you installed it.
Yes, the 206 was installed locally into my community folder to show the difference. Many 3rd party aircraft one simply drops into your community folder and that IS the install. (PC)
@@AvAngel I looked for the community folder in both my 2024 install, (Gamepass) and my 2020 install, (Steam) thinking I could try just moving my M20 and V35 from 2020 to 2024. I couldn't find a folder with that name in either of them. Is that something you have to add yourself? Also, when I installed the M20 and V35 into 2020 I did that through the marketplace. Does that mean they ended up somewhere other than a community folder and that I need to download both planes directly from the Carenado web site to try installing them in 2024? Sorry if I'm being a bit dense about this but I'm sort of a casual flight simmer and have never even tried installing mods in 2020 so advice is appreciated.
I am running an RTX 3070 and also had a lot of stuttering on the ground with High-End preset. It looks like the 3070s 8GB GPU memory could be an issue. I dropped down to Medium preset and have had no stuttering on the ground.
I believe stuttering during takeoffs may be attributed to backblast calculations and associated particles calculations and rendering. So may be this is why stuttering occurs during takeoffs at high graphic settings.
There seems to be a lot of different experiences for people right now. Mine runs really smoothly most of the time at 1440p. I use high-ultra settings and I get higher fps than 2020. My PC = Ryzen 7 5700X, rtx 4070, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz, 1tb nvme m.2 ssd with 300mb fibre broadband. Hope this helps.
I'm confused why they're calling this Draco X? It's Draco, Draco X was supposed to be the new Draco he was gonna build at some point after this one was crashed, with a bunch of improvements no?
I think it might be the 'future' draco build... I'm not positive myself. I know I think I gave the existing (former) Draco's stats like a goon >> (the X exceeds them all)
@@AvAngel Hmmm, interesting, as I don't think (I may be wrong) that Mike's ever given any details of what the future Draco X will be, other than better in a whole bunch of ways than the original. Either way, it's cool to have something like it in sim.
@@Streaky100001 Got Friends worked with Mike to get the most accurate representation of DracoX based on his vision at the time of development. Of course, knowing Mike, there will probably be some changes to that vision during the build process.
I mean it's week one still.. well start of week 2. Reliability it ain't... and I'm not super bothered by that YET. If it's still this in a month I'll join ya.
Thanks for the review, and looking forward to a bright future with 2024 - I've got it in the hanger and will get it fired up as soon as the Marketplace is up, and some of the minor bugs get polished out. I upped my RAM to 64 and I'm guessing its got to help. So since you were flying around my stomping grounds I thought I fire up the Lama and give you a sightseeing trip around some of my wee additions to the Dogfish Bay area. Love flying Alaska. Thanks for keeping us posted on the latest and greatest. Have a great Thanksgiving! th-cam.com/users/liveRtSAXpZnncY
There's a lot of negative hype about how bad this sim is but you don't seem to be having many issues. Recommend downloading now? Is it really that bad?
Most of that negative hype was literally day one and two. It's... way too quick. We all expected issues, sure they were pretty huge but they were all fixable issues. A week or so down and it's not doing badly... but its got a way to go yet.
Draco and DracoX are built off of the Wilga 2000 airframe. Some slight differences to the airframe and gear. Just a more modern production of the 104. :)
Leave the scenery for streaming, and put the airplanes back on the hard drive and I'll bet that would solve a ton of problems. It may even solve every problem. Loading times would slow down a bit, but you can't have everything.
Draco X is actually nicer than I expected. I took it on a few trips this morning and it was fantastic.
Thank you for doing this video. I flew your route to get more acquainted with this insane bush plane and at last I was successful in getting my landings down better than where I was flying in my home state of Colorado. I was initially wigged out with the intense performance of this bird and needed to see someone else show us how it's done.
Sounds like we have similar setups. I have a 5800X3D with 32 GB of RAM and a RTX 3070 Ti. I'm getting a solid 60 FPS with Frame Gen, DLSS Super Res and DLAA with DSR factors upscaling. I'm very happy with the smoothness so far, but I think it's time to snag a Cyber Monday deal on a 2K monitor to get some more sharpness in the cockpit.
Always look forward to your videos. Please keep them coming...👍
Hear me out: when you create your Angel Air livery, create an opposing fictional company, something like "Infernal Air" for when your alter ego wants to be bad and scare the people on the ground!
ooh, I like it...
Infernal Airways.... ooh yes :D
This crazy bird is absolutely ridiculous! Literally a chopper with wings!
I tried Pesim Maule the other day, seems like one of the few addons that work more or less properly so far, enjoyed it big time! Bush flying in 2024 has a lot of opportunities!
Draco's more archangel than angelic ha. One'd imagine saving key assets locally on an M2 has gotta be faster even with full fibre. Loving the new sim!
The wilgest Wilga on earth.. I loved "pick up truck of doom" 😂😂
I completely agree with your comment about streaming aircraft being a mistake. In my current job, we started streaming many of our programs, and it's been a disaster. Nothing loads properly, and it slowed down production.
This is my go-to Favorite Bush Plane it's an absolute Beast!!!
"Fixed Wing Helicopter" made me laugh out loud 😂🤣😅
I don’t comment much at all, but thank you for your video! I have a major fear of flying in real life, but love flight sims (for some reason!). Your calming flight today helped me relax for my real flight today! Thanks!
I'm glad, and good luck!
What a shame. Flying is the most intriguing thing I have done in my life. I own an SPL licence and flying gliders over the swiss Alps is a joy. As a young guy I had fear for many things then it went away and at the age of 54 I earned my flying brevet.
Weirdly enough, I started playing around with flight simulation years and years and years ago as a way to try to cure myself of fear of flying before a big trip I was supposed to take for school on a plane. I never took the trip and I've never stepped foot inside of a plane because it's a rich person's hobby. I still play flight sims sometimes though just out of boredom. Not very often though because that's also a rich person's hobby
DracoX will be 1090hp, derated to 850hp. At sea level, that means the difference in HP between Draco and DracoX is 170hp, but as you go up in altitude, Draco HP would decrease due to Density Altitude. DracoX will maintain 850hp above FL180 (I believe that's what Mike stated) which would mean on high DA days where Draco may only be producing 450HP, DracoX will still be at 850hp. Very rough numbers but you get the idea.
Didn't know that. Insane numbers for a bush plane!
The takeoff reminded me of how the Hype H160 performs for me.
Feels like a long delay in the control loop suddenly happens…during the initial moments after takeoff. Leads to a wild, random-feeling takeoff akin to “Mr. Toad’s wild ride.”
Like an elevator.. hahaha.. awesome.
It was Hudson, btw. 😊
TH-cam recap just told me you're my top TH-camr! Top 2% of your viewers. We love you AvAngel!
Aaay!
Aliens reference, nice! Loving your vids. Agree that they should have let us have the option of downloading the aircraft. Bet it would solve most of the issues.
We will do once the Marketplace is enabled :)
The first time I flew the Draco, I didn't realize the elevator trim was set as far nose down as it could be. Ran the throttle up, tail popped straight off the ground then it was grab the tiger by the tail after that. Crazy aircraft
Such a fascinating little birdie. I am glad they added it to the sim. Of course I have yet to sit in it and try it out in VR. So here I am looking for your thoughts on it. Thank you!
Take off in 3-point position with a stick fullback....put down a couple notches of flaps and full throttle and you'll be off the ground in a blink
23:48. Cool! Try Ardmore Airport, Auckland, NZ. runway 21 Grass left and stop before the intersection. I used to have great fun in the Piper Tomahawk PA 38 with my instructor in real life! For my PPL way back when. Really enjoyed your video. Laurie. NZ. 😊😅🎉
Thnks for the video.
I believe we should have an option to disable ground crew. It's so annoying and really breaks the immersion when doing bush flights or using small airstrips.
Regards
Yeah true.
I've been waiting for you to showcase this plane. Thank you.
I am also mourning my dog being put on the NO FLY LIST. I took the Reims Rocket by bagolu out for some fun and it behaved itself in 24. I also found that Duxford by Chicomick works well in 24. I took the Ironworks P-38 out for a circuit there and it looks great aside from runway lights which I don't think are there in real life. The P-38 performed well too. Thanks a bunch for this trip in Alaska and as always have a Happy Turkey Festival! -Mike
Good old polish PZL-104 Wilga on steroids😁
It's nice to see you up and flying in the sim. This video is a great help to learn how to fly the DracoX. My first attempts have not gone well.
I have been encouraging you to get back into texture art. I think you would be creative and have an eye for detail. It's great to be able to make your own mods for the sim.
The 206 performs well because it's quite low poly compared to a lot of addons. But the new flight modeling and ground action make it in my opinion feel a little better in MSFS 2024. I have already been experimenting with some of the new SDK features and I think people will really like where this sim is heading.
Oh the ground she feels downright lovely in 24... really spongy on dirt and rock with the tundras.
Nastiest plane in 2024, flown by the sweetest voice in flight simulation 🥰
@tubeloons, MOST people, cannot stand the accent, of this wanker.
Power to weight ratio: YES.
Power to weight ratio: YEET.
Great video of an amazing plane, Mike Patey is a genius.
Genius, Engineer and Builder.
Crashed so many times with this, it definitely a beast that is not easy to tame :D
"Rude with wings!" Ha! Love this video and love the Draco!
Any tips on landing this crazy beast? I love flying her, but I just can't seem to get her tame enough to land. After slowing down a bit, I always start veering to the left. I try to compensate, but it never seems to work quite right, and I know it's operator error.
Thank you and looking forward to what you have in store; I'll definitely be picking up some of those liveries!
Sign me up for the Angel livery! Another beautiful flight in an awesome plane.
Looks like I have to do it now :D
meanwhile bridges are still "rock solid" and most city centers apparently have never seen a gardener. No news since 2020
I had that same stuttering on take-off and landings - turning off all of the ground traffic, especially airport traffic, fixed it for me
I have the same issue on take-off, don't know why it stutters on take-off roll.
Nice little trip and a great little bird.
Liked your video and just subscribed but that judder on take off, its the reason I love my series x and ps5 pro, they deliver the goods without the costs.
That stutter on takeoff: Maybe it has something to do with the more accurate way air disturbances are modeled in 2024? Maybe it'ssomething to do with the physics of the prop (number of blades, speed, proximity to the ground requiring certain calculations that aren't needed when in the air, etc)
"Express elevator to HELL -- GOIN' DOWN ! " - was Hudson (Bill Paxton RIP)... if you remember , Hicks was sleeping ! hehe .
Good point!
Regarding the choppy take offs, I'm only having the choppy propblem after playing for a couple hours. It doesn't happen on take off, it starts as soon as I enter the game world. I've had it happen once during landing (it was a catasttrophy). Going back to main menu has rememdied the problem sometimes. Restarting the game usually does.
No Captain Whiskers? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also get the takeoff stutters, but things seem to be much smoother in external view
Nice video! keep it up!
Drag and drop to community folder.
Loving the Draco. Takes off like a rocket. Fast to get to destinations quickly I'm also hooked on Dornier Seawing. Draco, Seawing and Piaggio P149 are the planes I've been flying the most.
The only bad thing 2024 has brought is the overlap of one airport (LAX). I have two iterations of the airport from 2020 that now stream at the same time. One is the old LAX with dirt runways and that overwrites the most current LAX. Something I'm sure will be fixed shortly. Other than that, the scenery and lighting are so much better in 2024 for me.
I'd fly the Dornier more if it didn't lag a fair bit for me :(
Maybe the stutter on takeoff has to do with the transition between ground and flight mode. I assume they've been tinkering with it. Or the dust effects.
I've been working on converting a bush field I made in 2020, and while the process is a little bit clunky/buggy (having to use both the 2020 and 2024 editor), the new terraforming and textures on steep terrain is fantastic. Finally I'm able to get some natural looking riverbanks beside the airfield. :)
Mike Patey have crashed this airplane in an sidewind takeoff a couple of years ago. He fly from Utah and of course never been in Alaska with this red bird. Recent news say they try to search found to put it in production.
For the record, Mike definitely took Draco to Alaska.
@@larssorensen5251 did not knew. When?
@@antonioiozzi291 2019 for the Valdez STOL Competition. He is supposed to start releasing backlogged videos for that trip and others soon, which will lead into the DracoX build videos.
Do you have a bravo throttle? If so how did you map your conditon lever? I can’t get mine to map to the conditon levers in any airplane.
I do! it is set by default for the bravo control profile.
I haven't experienced that slowdown on takeoff but im running a more modern powerful computer. That was crazy and im impressed you didn't lawn dart into the hillside in front of you. LOL. That plane is extremely impressive.
I mean... slander! I'm on a modern powerful computer! I even described the specs in the video (Ryzen 9 5900x) I'm far from NOT modern.
@@AvAngel i dont have the issue on xobx sx even..and i dare say it looks sharp for me al the way.
@@AvAngelI get exactly same stutter effect just on take off (and landing) and I wonder if it’s that dynamic setting where at ground level it hasn’t quite figured out yet what to set to get decent FPS … just a thought ?
I love how, at the beginning, the other airplane is literally floating in the air. Once they fix all these things, I'll "think" about buying 2024. I am impressed with this plane though. Everything but the kitchen sink.
If I can't fly with My old mate Minty (aka Panther) by my side, well that's just another dealbreaker tbh.
He may disagree, as I have crashed us on numerous occasions.
Ps. Hudson btw "he's Hicks" :)
Draco. AvAngel. I’m in !
it's such a beast he crashed it, walked away and in two weeks both were back in the air!
Both? You mean Mike and Draco? cause Draco definitely have not flown again, it was sadly totalled.
To avoid the issue on take off turn off dinamic settings toggle
It already is :D
@AvAngel ill keep knvestigating it. I fixed it in mine. Ill keep you posted about it
Fixed rotor helicopter. I've seen someone take off and land in their own wheel marks in a good breeze with this badboy.
When you make a livery does it let you change the interior, or just skin the exterior? If the former, you could replace the cushion in the observation dome with one with Captain Whiskers on it.
Yeah textures are textures but i couldn't add a physical cat, that's modeling I'm afraid.
Bush strips look much better now even the runway lightning in an Alaskan bushstrip is rather funny.....
quite lol
The only thing I did was increase to 64M of RAM as it was mentioned if you are multi-tasking that was the recommendation. My 1600 Super seems to be chugging along just fine and I seem to be able to run my video recording fine.
I think that's the biggie... I'm really filling up the 32 as a bottleneck. Should be sorted Sunday :D
You have an extremely similar system to me then, I just put in another 32 Gb of ram same day as the release, difference is I have a 6750XT 12 Gb, performance will be close enough...
What I have noticed in this sim compared to 2020 is the GPU is always at 100% while in the old sim it would not get to 100% and ofc the CPU utiliation is much improved, now it uses between 8 to 12 cores all the time, depending on what you fly it seems, the smaller planes, simple ones it might onlyuse 10 cores for a while.
I can run on Ultra settings and it runs great, not even bothered to check FPS, it feels like 60+ most of the time, I'd notice if it got very low since I have Track IR 5 on all the time and it gets uncomfortable below 45 - 50 fps. I changed it down to High settings again after a few days and then just pushed terrain and obsticle detail up to 200 - 300 instead.
Gonna check my FPS today, just had some issues with my eyes so no gotten to it yet today. I have not tried the Draco yet, been too busy in the helicopters! and Career and AutoGyro! xD
I'm hoping that makes the difference because for 20 I could run flat out at Ultra, and by their metrics for 24, I far exceed recommended and should be half way if not mostly at Ideal... So far CPU and GPU don't have anywhere near the draw level I'd expect... so.
So I don't know if this means anything, but I have pretty much the same problem in '20, with the random stutters at takeoff! I've got a fairly low-end system, running the sim on settings as high as I can to still hit 60fps most of the time, which also seems to be what you're going for, settings-wise? Maybe it's an engine bug, since I assume they used a lot of code from '20 in '24, right?
Great stuff. I am curious, how are you getting into beta so seamlessly? I must be missing the right setting and am having to use the mouse.
The smaug on flight Sim to actually outperforms Draco x in some ways but overall this will be a more polished airplane
The assignment of all the key bindings for me was going to be a nightmare let alone the new way its being done! with bits that are not working...not lol but how did you assign or move the condition lever, I have the Bravo and its not having any of it and I cant seem to move it with the mouse and just goes back to cutoff...annoying
We had it in 20, it sucks but it's that simmer life! :D You can change them back btw :D There's 2020 keyboard maps you can just add things like walking on foot to :D I did that.
The condition is mapped to stock bravo profile for me. use your mixture.
@ I don’t have engine sounds, is that a glitch too?
Are you using the head tracker for your setup?
VR performance for me is so horrible right now that I am considering getting a head tracker until I can upgrade my pc.
Headtracking yes.
I keep trying to remove the co-pilot but, they keep coming back lol
you did it in the create a pilot screen?..they stay away for me..over all aircraft i flown.
@wout123100 yep. Under customize identity, co-pilot. Maybe a glitch on my end 🤷
It's a take-off faster that the FPS of the videocard
XD Quite possibly
Reverse thrust works but as far as I can tell only when the landing gear is touching the ground
It does work, just needs some finesse
Were you able to get any kind of reverse or beta mode up off the ground?
The RAM usage I've seen so far has been mostly hovering around 20 - 40 Gb, and only see the higher numbers around the massive cities, its similar to how 2020 was on that front tbh and it make sense, much or the world is the same and planes too, its the underlying engine that has had the major overhaul and while it will change how the engine uses things I dont think RAM usage has changed a ton, major change is CPU usage and physics in general, lighting... and ofc everything being streamed, something I struggle to even comprehend! xD
It’s changed enough…. I went from ultra in 20 to uncertain in this
Full install should be an option. Why would streaming this much data without stutters and issues even be a surprise
You can't fully install the petabites of data in the world. Aircraft and airports? yeah probably.
Your stutters on takeoff could be related to the dust cloud rendering. I know i have issues at low speeds where the game decides there needs to be a bunch of dust but it won't "blow away" because you aren't moving.
I'm on a ryzen 7 3700X with 32 GB of ram and a RTX 3050 and all is smooth as butter.By the way,lossless scaling app works.My problems are more with control settings and the Tobii not working bug........................................................
Dont add 2 sticks of 16GB of Ram, despite i would recommend to change it for 2x32GB. Its because running it in Quad-Channel mode (4 Sticks) has quite a performance penalty. Thanks for your videos. Seems Terrein lod and PreCaching are influencing the Ram needed quite a bit. 💙
Quad channel mode has no negative or benefit outside of threadripper. There's no positve or negative for 4 over 2 in Ryzen.=, just more.
@@AvAngel One negative that I encountered after adding 2 sticks of RAM (identical sticks but from a different batch) was full on crashing. The 4 sticks worked fine on my MSI B450 mainboard but when I upgraded to an ASUS X570 it suffered frequent crashes. I'd read that it's best to always buy 4 identical sticks together (same batch) to avoid any possible timing variations between different batches. I ended up yanking the four 8GB sticks and bought two 16GB sticks and the crashing problem immediately vanished. BTW would you recommend MSFS 2024 now, or do you think better to wait a bit until it gets out of 'beta'? Cheers from Thailand! 😁
@@AvAngel with ddr5 its luck if you can keep up the xmp speeds and stability seems to be worse. Depends on controller, yet the daisy chaining becomes a problem. Hope youre the lucky one. But dont blame the sim for crashing if not... 💚
Did they ever add any reason to do preflight checks? I expected some randomly broken stuff or random emergencies to happen so you could mitigate or catch issues but in 2020 it was just a waste of time
Not really but it is fun.
The Draco X suppose to have 1000hp the first Draco Mike crashed had 600hp.
Now if they will just do "Scrappy" 😊
Scrappy will be disgusting.
My Draco seems to be broken… I have a black screen on the avionics instead of synth view. And “both” actually burn only left tank of fuel. Don’t know if I can try something or just wait if it “updates” itself 😢
All black avionics might be a sim bug. If you get one random screen black here or there, that is a known sim limitation. DracoX has one more map screen than what 2024 allows. I believe Asobo is supposed to be addressing this. The fuel burn is a known and reported bug. Next time you fly it, you might try flipping the tank selector to the left tanks and then back to both. This should make it burn from both tanks.
@ it’s the synthetic view that doesn’t work only on the left panel. And the tanks seems to do what they want when I use “both”, they go wrong. Only left or only right are ok. I’ll wait for next updates. Who knows.
Nice review AvAngel but pineapple on pizza? Not sure about draw distance but if it's got anything to do with terrain LOD and objects LOD I have managed to get mine up to 300 and 140 respectively on a 2080 Super. I am happy with the results. Gets a bit choppy over big cities though.
HELL YES
I wonder who made this aircraft. Hmmmmmmmmmm does this give you a sense of dejavu lol I have only tried the draco once must give it another whirl. 👍 again AV thanks. Also I tried the map enhancement addon and adjusted the quality of the underlying map images and it was a huge improvement in imagery suggesting the underlying imagery in MSFS2024 is overexposed as it flares badly in direct sunlight, it is only the AI trees etc that cover this flaring some tweeking by Asobo may help.
Oh its Got Friends Alright :D Hey, trust me to review the big bush beasts first... they just happened to make them all :D
You talk about the difference between streamed aircraft VS installed. Could you maybe explain HOW to install them? I don't see that option in the game and couldn't find any videos on YT on how to install content. I'd love to have as much installed as possible.
You can’t yet. Once the market place is available we can
@@AvAngel I'm confused. Wasn't the point of flying the 206 to show us an aircraft that was installed rather than streamed?
I assume the marketplace also wasn't available to you when you installed it.
Yes, the 206 was installed locally into my community folder to show the difference. Many 3rd party aircraft one simply drops into your community folder and that IS the install. (PC)
@@AvAngel I looked for the community folder in both my 2024 install, (Gamepass) and my 2020 install, (Steam) thinking I could try just moving my M20 and V35 from 2020 to 2024. I couldn't find a folder with that name in either of them. Is that something you have to add yourself?
Also, when I installed the M20 and V35 into 2020 I did that through the marketplace. Does that mean they ended up somewhere other than a community folder and that I need to download both planes directly from the Carenado web site to try installing them in 2024?
Sorry if I'm being a bit dense about this but I'm sort of a casual flight simmer and have never even tried installing mods in 2020 so advice is appreciated.
I haven’t made it even one landing without breaking the tail wheel strut
Citation doesn’t belong there, but a PC24 would be a better biz jet for that area.
What's up with the caravan parked with no wheels?
Likely cannot decide which variant to spawn for the static, the wheels or floats.
I am running an RTX 3070 and also had a lot of stuttering on the ground with High-End preset. It looks like the 3070s 8GB GPU memory could be an issue. I dropped down to Medium preset and have had no stuttering on the ground.
I believe stuttering during takeoffs may be attributed to backblast calculations and associated particles calculations and rendering. So may be this is why stuttering occurs during takeoffs at high graphic settings.
Entirely posible, I may mess with those settings.
Hey guys,
I have a I7 14700, 32GB RAM and RTX4070. Do you think the game would run well?thanks
There seems to be a lot of different experiences for people right now. Mine runs really smoothly most of the time at 1440p. I use high-ultra settings and I get higher fps than 2020. My PC = Ryzen 7 5700X, rtx 4070, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz, 1tb nvme m.2 ssd with 300mb fibre broadband. Hope this helps.
So much bugs in 2024 😥
How to download aircrafts ? :)
That plane IS rude...and nasty... and cool .... and sexy as hell!
I want one!!
I'm confused why they're calling this Draco X? It's Draco, Draco X was supposed to be the new Draco he was gonna build at some point after this one was crashed, with a bunch of improvements no?
I think it might be the 'future' draco build... I'm not positive myself. I know I think I gave the existing (former) Draco's stats like a goon >> (the X exceeds them all)
@@AvAngel Hmmm, interesting, as I don't think (I may be wrong) that Mike's ever given any details of what the future Draco X will be, other than better in a whole bunch of ways than the original. Either way, it's cool to have something like it in sim.
@@Streaky100001 Got Friends worked with Mike to get the most accurate representation of DracoX based on his vision at the time of development. Of course, knowing Mike, there will probably be some changes to that vision during the build process.
@@Rotornut44 Oh, ok, I see. Thank you!
I refunded MSFS 2024 and do not regret... Hope in 2 years they will fix it...
A lot faster than 2 years, i think that's a bit of a mistake but hey.
2020 never did this…i expected reliability …but I wonder..- oh and it sometimes crashes to the desktop…surprised me
I mean it's week one still.. well start of week 2. Reliability it ain't... and I'm not super bothered by that YET. If it's still this in a month I'll join ya.
Thanks for the review, and looking forward to a bright future with 2024 - I've got it in the hanger and will get it fired up as soon as the Marketplace is up, and some of the minor bugs get polished out. I upped my RAM to 64 and I'm guessing its got to help. So since you were flying around my stomping grounds I thought I fire up the Lama and give you a sightseeing trip around some of my wee additions to the Dogfish Bay area. Love flying Alaska. Thanks for keeping us posted on the latest and greatest. Have a great Thanksgiving! th-cam.com/users/liveRtSAXpZnncY
There's a lot of negative hype about how bad this sim is but you don't seem to be having many issues. Recommend downloading now? Is it really that bad?
Most of that negative hype was literally day one and two. It's... way too quick. We all expected issues, sure they were pretty huge but they were all fixable issues. A week or so down and it's not doing badly... but its got a way to go yet.
Sometimes it freezes
This is very rude and nicety😮😁
epic
Too bad Mike got careless.
Most likely its the 3070.
The card is more than sufficient… it’s way over recommended spec of a 20 series. It’s also barely running over 50% while my ram runs high
@@AvAngel I'll have to recreate what you did here and check my usage. I've got 64gb of ram and a 1gb connection. But I'm also running a 4090.
Draco X = PZL-104 Wilga.
On steroids :D
Draco and DracoX are built off of the Wilga 2000 airframe. Some slight differences to the airframe and gear. Just a more modern production of the 104. :)
In my version..most of the planes do not work. Not a lot of fun
He crashed it.
Is this a woman's voice ?
No it’s a sealion
@@AvAngel Makes sense ! My brain was spazzin' out !
@@AvAngel😂👍
*rolls eyes*
holy hell this game runs like crap