Some interesting comments, but why is the thread "dead" since February? FPV Sims are constantly evolving.

My background started with fixed wing back when I flew with Fred Flintstone. I currently own 1 x 6", 2 x 5", 2 x 3.5", 5 x 3", and so many smaller down to Tiny Whoops its silly!. Analogue and DJI Digital.

I'm too old to race seriously now since no matter how you work at it, age takes its toll on reactions (I was a successful RC pylon racer in the 70's!!), but I thouroughly enjoy freestyle, flying most acro moves increasingly aggressively. Our main field's Oak tree now quakes in its roots as I hurtle by, under, and through its branches where gaps exist. I try not to make new ones.

I have the following FPV Sims (deep breath) .............. LiftOff, LiftOff Micro, Tiny Whoop Go, DRL, Velocidrone, Kestrel, Orca, FPV Skydive, AccrO, Freerider, Freerider Recharged, Curry Kitten, and a few others not worth mentioning. I run them on new(ish) gaming laptops, which I replace every two years to keep hardware at the cutting edge.

Interesting so many here like Velocidrone, I find its graphics poor, its realism suspect, and its feel even after a lot of experimentation/tuning isn't enough like my quads for me to want to stick at it.

I deliberately didn't list above one I'm currently bashing daily, and that is "Uncrashed". Yes, it currently has erratic contact mapping depth, like for example tree greenery is not mapped, while the main branches and trunks are, but after a bit of wrangling with settings, its the nearest of the lot in terms of feel and the best in terms of graphic realism.

For Fixed wing and Heli's I use Pheonix, much modified and extended. I was a volunteer Beta Tester at v3, so don't mention to me how Horizon Hobbies managed to pay people to ruin it before killing it. Luckily a few people decided it wasn't going to be allowed to die, so its still out there with a lot of happy users.

I've just picked up FPV Freerider Recharged since it's probably the only sim that will run on my old 2nd Gen i5 Thinkpad (Intel HD 3000). Also because it's simple. I am learning to fly, ie, use controls. I don't want really nice graphics, just something basic.

My main windows gaming PC will run any game without issue (RTX 2080 Ti). I would like Uncrashed or DRL eventually for it.

(09-Jun-2022, 06:46 PM). Pathfinder075 Wrote: I've just picked up FPV Freerider Recharged since it's probably the only sim that will run on my old 2nd Gen i5 Thinkpad (Intel HD 3000).  Also because it's simple.  I am learning to fly, ie, use controls.  I don't want really nice graphics, just something basic.

My main windows gaming PC will run any game without issue (RTX 2080 Ti).  I would like Uncrashed or DRL eventually for it.

I learned how to fly in recharged and really like it myself. I spent alot of time creating levels aimed at different aspects of flying I was working on. If you are interested in more levels to fly in, heres a link to all the ones I created. Unzip the files into the subfolder "FPVFreerider_Recharged_Data".

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v7i94sa...aYDHc/view

I have most flight sims, FPV, Fixed wing and Helis.

For FPV, it is "Uncrashed" I prefer, with Freerider Recharged a close second.

For the other two (but NOT gliders) I still prefer and use Phoenix, that a variety of people have refused to let die despite being dropped by HH after a travesty of a supposed "update" that made glliding perpetual motion.

ONE point, a GOOD Sim allows plenty of tuning of the model and of the environment (weather, etc), AND YET.........few people EVER do so!!

Have had people in my club berate a Sim for being unrealistic, yet they have never even turned on weather, let alone tuned it, and are using rates they never would in reality!

Updating here, Steam Has Drone CHAMPIONS League on 75% so down to £6.24.

HAD to have it and so far I'm impressed, esp as its Factory/Refinery/Bando scene is about the best yet, large, lots of lines and exactly the layout I needed to advance doing power loops back under obstacles like aerial pipes, etc

My favorite is the one that will work on my old laptop.. “Flowstate” is a racing sim, but it helped me progress into ACRO a whole lot faster.. there was no way I could get that kind of stick time actually flying..
Hopefully I’ll pick up a new computer after the holidays so I can run Velocidrone.. and liftoff (I warn to fly Bardwell’s farm)..
I heard it somewhere and I will continually repeat it. “Every time you crash in a Sim.. you save yourself $100”

(25-Dec-2022, 03:26 PM)Rob Axel Wrote: My favorite is the one that will work on my old laptop.. “Flowstate” is a racing sim, but it helped me progress into ACRO a whole lot faster.. there was no way I could get that kind of stick time actually flying..
 Hopefully I’ll pick up a new computer after the holidays so I can run Velocidrone.. and liftoff (I warn to fly Bardwell’s farm)..
 I heard it somewhere and I will continually repeat it.  “Every time you crash in a Sim.. you save yourself $100”

Oddly I'd not heard of the Flowstate Sim, only the video. Just tried it out, and frankly its very unimpressive. I'm sure as you say its not processor intensive, so with limited hardware it likely rises markedly, but for freestyle with a limited spec machine I'd suggest the very low cost Freerider Recharged.

As to your possible wants, my 5 penny worth:-

Velocidrone - I really cannot get on with this Sim, its graphics are at best poor. It may or may not be a great Racing training sim, but its singularly pretty useless for Freestyle, and  the style of menu/management process is clunky and obstructive.

LiftOff (and LiftOff Micro) - I have had a love/hate relationship with this sim for years, having it since it appeared.  Drone physics handling is IMO somewhat limited, and the sceneries are restricted and lack flyability.  Nothing like as polished a product as its time out there should signify, from its pretty poorly designed controller calibration through to actually flying experience.  Its like flying Betaflight 3.4 after time on 4.3!!

Tryp is not too bad, but my current favourite is Uncrashed, and, especially for its low cost, Drone Champions League with the racing turned off and used as a freestyle platform is WAY better than most, though I suspect its sceneries might be processer hungry. I have it on two machines here now but they are both pretty high spec so cannot tell.

I'm only really interested in flying freestyle in the sims for the most part though I've done a few races with DRL.

I've tried:
Liftoff
Velocidrone
DRL
Tryp
Uncrashed
AIDroneSim

Of those they all don't feel like a real quad, I guess if you're working on some weird trick they may be good for getting the muscle memory of a complicated trick but not sure it will really translate to a real quad. I find myself firing up DRL the most when I get the itch to fly. The freestyle maps are nice and spread out with plenty of things to mess with. The others work too, but the quad feels even less like my real quads than using DRL.