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This simulator is a total freak show. If you manage to get it running (by telling Windows Defender that it's not a virus), the keyboard interface is insane.
To move around in the menus, you use the WASD keys. Don't bother trying to use arrows keys or the mouse, they won't work.
If you're down a few layers into the menuing system you'll find that pressing ESC to go up a level doesn't do anything. That's because you need to use BACKSPACE.
If you managed to get into freeflight mode without the app crashing then good luck. ESC doesn't give you a menu. Want to try exiting the freeflight mode so you can go see the Keyboard settings? Too bad, BACKSPACE won't work. When this happened to me I started pressing keys at random. If you hit ENTER, you get some sidebar thing that lets you select things with a mouse. Get used to that menu though, because I have no idea how to get rid of it. You'd think BACKSPACE would do it, but nope. That much I know for certain.
If you are able to get out of that menu you can get a more useful one by pressing P. I assume it's P for "pause". From there you can getting to settings, or change your take off spot, but not the location. You can also exit the level entirely, and if you're lucky, when you get back to the main menu all the enterprise features will be unlocked. You can do skill challenges, time trials, all sorts of extra stuff that wasn't there before.
I wouldn't know if those work though because no matter what I pick, the app crashes.
I'm also only able to get the City and Hangar levels to load. The island won't - I crash every time.
How do you fly? If your controller works (mine only does some times), you'd think following the on screen prompts would work. They don't. I've only ever been able to take off by first trying in vain using the controller, then using the Keyboard instead.
But the Keyboard only works for taking off if you're in the camera mode that allows you to see the tablet AND the controller on screen at the same time. Then you can see your sticks move to the correct positions when using the keyboard. I've tried this about 6 times, and it's the only way that works for me.
When it works, I can then use the controller to fly the drone around. But only the sticks work - all other controls are ignored.
It's shocking how poorly done this software is.
I have a pretty robust gaming rig: i7-9700k, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080, 32GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD. This software simply crawls. There's no reason that it should be so laggy/choppy at 1080P.
If DJI wants to do software, they really need to step up their game. Otherwise it's pointless and hurts them.
Don't bother using this simulator. Total utter waste of time. |
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