Advice to someone moving over from 2020...
Hi Folks. I used to enjoy MSFS 2020, but have not used it in a few years. I recently got a new gaming rig and decided to get back into Flight Sim. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for me? My old "cockpit" consisted of a Honeycomb yoke, and Logitech rudder pedals, throttles, switch panels, radios, multi panel and 4 instrument panels. I also had a screen and an old Android tablet that used Air Manager to display gauges. I used SPAD.next to configure the devices and it was a lot of work to set it up. I don't even remember all that I did. Above is a pic of it gathering dust. I also had the head tracking thing (TrackIR 5) and the sensor on my headset which I used to move the view on the screens.
So... Now I have a new PC (5090, 9800X3D, 64GB) and I like to get back into flight sim. I basically am an aspiring GA pilot and tend to just use MSFS to free fly to places and pretend that I am a real GA pilot. I usually only fly Cessna's 172's and 182's. I might fly other planes, but I not really interested in flying big commercial jets (at the moment).
Also, I now have a MetaQuest 3 VR headset (which I didn't have before), which I guess I can use as well.
Is the process to get all this stuff to work with 2024, roughly the same as 2020, or is it harder (or hopefully) easier. I just remember it being hard and a lot of work to get everything to work correctly and really was a lot of trial and error. Unfortunately, I didn't take notes.
What was your experience going to 2024 and getting everything working.... or did you just ditch it all and go VR?