At least I couldn’t find any ripped paper slices laying around!
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I’ve not really paid much attention to the BMWORLD KSFO before, but after watching a video it looks weaker airside/gateside & stronger landside, with a really nice interior to the international terminal. Would that be a fair comparison? Both perhaps rushed out a bit in order to compete with one another.
I don’t get the hatred towards BMW+AMSim. I own their CYUL, KSAN and KMIA and I’m quite happy with them. They both are very talented guys. I chose to wait for the Flightbeam’s version mainly because their photorealism is legendary and very immersive. But that awesome comparison shows that both renditions are very close in term of quality. I hope Contrail makes a habit of releasing these comparisons.
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i chose the AMSim one simply because it looks more alive, the Flightbeam rendition looks extremely good quality but too sterile for me
It’s certainly nice having interiors next to the gates (just a bit empty), and GSX profile doesn’t currently show passengers walking inside terminal gates, just down the jetways. I do take @DrVenkman3876 point about KSFO having a rather large number of gates for doing detailed interior GSX walking paths. In BMWorld version there is apparently a sign inside some of the gate saying interiors being worked on (or similar), suggesting it’s unfinished.
Does it have any people in the gates/terminal at all? From a video it looked devoid of interiors at gates, but still, a mighty impressive entrance and interior of international terminal.
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Some screengrabs of Flightbeam’s KSFO -
Some FPS info on my system (5950/3090 @4K TAA, TLOD=100, FSLTL{IFR=50, static 10%}):
- Basic GA with just AI traffic: 33-38FPS depending on distance from terminal
- In E190 at gate: 30FPS
- With GSX during pushback : 22FPS
- In E190 at takeoff : 28FPS
All in all about average for this type of airport. I’d say comparable performance wise to Fly Tampa’s EHAM.
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To be fair, that landside looks way better than FB’s normal quality. I’ve felt for a while that FB have been kinda stuck in 2022 in some key areas but this appears to be better. But I doubt anyone would disagree that FB’s texturing is among the very best — the only guys who can realistically compete are Jo Erlend Sund, Pyreegue and NZA. I do, however, honestly think MK and Ini will get to a similar level pretty soon.
As for BMW/Amsim, I’d certainly place them in the current top 15. Very underrated.
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It’s interesting to see their different choices. If you never go near the International terminal then FB is fine. If you do you will find a big empty void. With BMWorld it is the key feature but gate details “being worked on”. The main feature from memory of KSFO was the new (20+ years ago now) international terminal, so I can see why they went for it, but novelty visits aside, it’s the gates you spend the most time at, and perf consideration to keep in mid, so swings and roundabouts (as we say here).
Any word on a GSX profile for this airport?
It’s in the install directory. But it is a WIP I think.
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There is a “starter” version with the aircraft - I found the Contrail installer had placed the profile into my GSX directory automagically. But there should be an update next week. Per a Discord post from the fellow writing it, it includes passenger pathing to and from the gates, and “airport walkers” populating the terminal area around the gate. So all the people complaining about the empty terminals will have less to complain about. 
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Is there any ksfo on Xbox?
I am missing the Hotel in front of the airport….Did I do something wrong when it was installed?
Thank you
If you go to the Marketplace in MSFS on your XBOX and type KSFO into the search box, you will find out instantaneously.
Maybe I’m not home for some time and was just curious. So instead of passive aggressive if you knew the answer you could just give a yes or no…people have attitudes here.
No attitude. I was just trying to be helpful and also give you a tool for the future to quickly ascertain at any time whether a KSFO airport for XBOX has been released.
Thank you, I apologize.
Should probably edit the title to remove WIP since this is already released.
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There are a lot of buildings missing from my Xbox. I would say there is only the main airport terminal. Can anyone help?
Not sure but if asobo default ksfo is loaded with flightbeam version as well they may conflict causing your problem.