Won't load...

[Akro Man]

Downloaded as soon as it bacame available, but didn't have a controller. Went and bought an Xbox One windows controller. Now the game will load through the intro screens, but hangs up on the ACRO FS screen... I've let the little airplane at the bottom of the screen go round and round more times than Spencer Suderman, but to no avail...

[NoBeard]

Thanks for the report. I had to look up Spencer Suderman! 98 inverted flat spins is... a lot.

Can you tell me your system specs?

We have a known issue where the loading screen will not go away if the framerate doesn't get above about 10fps.

It's possible that for some reason, your framerate is staying too low.

If you want to see if this is the problem, you can try this:

1. While the airplane is spinning, open the console with ctrl-alt-~
   
2. In the console, type "show_fps 2" (without the quotes)
   
3. The framerate counter will show in the upper right corner of the screen. If it's staying below 10fps, then you system isn't getting up enough steam to tell the sim that everything is loaded.
   
   Let me know your results, and we can see what options exist.

[Akro Man]

HP Pavilion laptop, 1.60GHz Pentium N3710, 4 Gig ram, Windows 10. Not a gaming system by any means, but I figured it should at least run... Looks like I'm getting a whopping 2.8 FPS... I've run Microsoft FLightsim X and X-Plane on less powerful machines and still get frame rates of 30-50 (depending on display settings of course) This is disappointing :-/

[NoBeard]

Unfortunately, that system won't be able to run Acro FS. I doubt that any integrated (on-CPU) graphics will be able to run it. A discrete GPU is needed. I'm not sure that the 1.6GHz CPU would be up to the task on the computation side either.

Our minimum specs recommend a 2GB midrange card. In practice, something like a GTX 750Ti or GTX 1050 is a good starting point. I have run it on a GT 940, and it was playable at 720p, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Acro FS is a bit different from simulators like FSX and X-Plane. We've brought modern rendering to the flight sim genre. That results in visuals that have been mistaken for live footage more than once. That comes at the cost of requiring moderate gaming hardware to run.