funny thing is P3D is based of of FSX lol the fanboys just never accept that P3D is FSX with a few tweeks added lol
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Never say never my young friend. There are many ways to skin a catâŠ(apologies to all cat lovers)
It is not for home entertainment so will never happen
To be Honest you could post a great picture and a bad picture for each sim.
MSFS Strength is everything but remote places and airports.
P3D Strength is water and airports.
X-Plane Strength are Night Lightning and ortho when thereâs no overlay.
You could post pretty pictures for all those Games. Look at this video from p3d https://youtu.be/r4RJG-xWpEI
MSFS 2020 is start and go thatâs the main thing. And thatâs why Casual simmer/player Will only Play that. And itâs okay.
That video is made with a metric ton of post-processing and color correction.
There literally isnât a single way any competing sim can actually compete with Microsoft Flight Simulator in visuals, no matter how much pricey addons you dump on them.
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How are default airports a P3D strength?
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Please mateâŠuse your imaginationâŠwho says by teaming up with Google, disqualifies the programme for training purposes? It would make a fantastic platform for VFR purposes, as well as helicopter training in rugged mountainous areas. AnywayâŠit is only speculation.
i am wondering the same lol
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Yeah, I think Asobo is doing a good job in the vram management, if you noticed on the fps counter, the vram usage has been always in check, which means I donât think it will be an issue when they go to DX12.
However, LR also implemented Vulkan and also did a good job of the vram management, sure they will sometimes aggressively lower down the textures quality in order to keep the vram in check.
I think LM didnât do a good job with P3Dv5, the platform is totally unstable and the vram management is not optimal, the chances to crash has been always high with v5. I just hope, 5.1 will bring stability as if now, is not appealing to me.
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very much agreed, that code has been around for a while and there is the odd foible (sound glitch fixed by hitting Q twice and the large library megapause on airport load). that has made it from fsx through all the p3d versions. Also made me laugh that an old high alt airport temp issue also made it into MSFS.
LM also have the military side of their business to focus on.
Iâll take the bugs with MSFS than going back to P3D. Once you climb through stormy weather and break out of the clouds in MSFS and see the amazing visuals I was done.
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Could not agree more.
The first time I broke through the clouds I knew there was no going back.
Magical.
I found a cure for the dodgy VRam situation in P3d!
I simply removed P3d from my system.
P3d was my go to sim for years but MSFS 2020 has, in my opinion, made everything else obsolete.
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To be honest (and I would think many here will agree) when people bring up the cost of adding Orbx scenery, better airlines, etc⊠if MS had advertised and sold FS2020 for $200, even $300, instead of $60-$120, as an âelite, state of the artâ flight sim, and everything worked as well as currently in P3D or XPlane) plus had the amazing advanced graphicsâŠI would not have complained about the higher price tag. FS2020, without the bugs is worth much more than the $60 I paid for it. But in itâs present state is hardly worth anything for many, many users.(planes, ATC, IFRâŠyou know what I mean by âworked as wellâ.) So, comparing sims, it is not fair to say this or that costs so much more for addons because even without addons those sims (even FS9!!) had everything working as advertised and the scenery is the bonus. FS2020 needs to get there still.
I agree with some of what you say.
But even âas isâ I donât know how you can say 2020 is âhardly worth anythingâ.
For me, 2020 keeps delivering magic and keeps capturing the moment.
And I am no starry eyed novice.
As for P3d and add on scenery, well I have not forgotten, cost aside, what a time consuming absolute chore it could be to get it all âinâ [in the right order or nothing will work] and up and running.
Knowing full well that at the next iteration I would have to do it all again [I want clean installs].
No, no thank you. I have flown the future and itâs MSFS 2020.
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lol, well said!
Honestly, I barely open P3D, that was even started before MSFS release, when the first time I got to know X-Plane last yearâs Christmas and I got hooked up with it. Of course since the release of MSFS, I have been mostly flying with MSFS for GA and sometimes FBW mod and X-Plane for mostly airliners.
What made it worse to me with P3D, I tried v5, and oh boy, until today I canât get it to run probably on my system, is just âŠ
Honestly, Iâd like to just remove it but I feel bad, for my wallet that I invested tons of money on it in the past years and I keep saying to myself, next version perhaps will get better, just keep it so you can feel good about your money lol.
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Hahaha. Yes, I think our wallets must have had a quantum entanglement moment.
I too have spent inordinate sums of money on add on scenery for P3d.
But the more I flew 2020 the easier it became to finally bite the bullet and cut my losses.
Besides, in doing so, it frees up vast tracts of goodly NVMe real estate!
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agreed, please show your side working for qe . please refer to this for help answering : https://www.albany.edu/faculty/miesing/teaching/assess/hell.html
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