I’m sorry for those that are having issues with the update, but WOW. I have a medium ish… 8 year old computer with a little more RAM and a decent graphics card.
With the initial launch I was borderline setting it at HIGH END, for the most part it looked great, but I had many scenery loading hesitations (I was able to live with those) and the trees looked Ok but were quite right… cities looked pretty good, and when I flew an airliner I had much worse FPS, had to set my graphics to LOW for those planes, but I was ok with that…
NOW, WOW… everything has improved for me. I have not touched anything except for the glass cockpit refresh rate. I set that to LOW… otherwise I am still at default HIGH END graphics settings…
Sitting at Ohare it was … barely acceptable but I lived with it… also on long flights it would freeze up every 10 minutes or so (I assume loading new scenery).
I did not change anything. I have BW limit set to 40.
Now, after this update…
Boy the trees look much better, realistic even! I see very little hesitations when flying long distances! My FPS has improved significantly! I hopped in an airliner at Ohare and wow! No hesitations… Took my little Cessna for a long trip… not more stopping for 3 seconds to wait for scenery to load.
I don’t know how you guys did it but in my view, I say great job!! Thanks!!
EDIT: Sorry I must add in full disclosure, on the airliners, with the glass cockpit refresh rate set to LOW, it does update those internal cockpit maps with a much slower FPS (you can see it) but I say who cares lol?? I don’t fly around staring at those maps, I only use them when necessary. If it makes my flying experience better, I would be ok with 1FPS on the glass cockpit! Just needed to add that.
Glad it’s better for those with older systems… truly! That’s good to hear!
I just wish those of us with high end systems didn’t have to get the short end of the stick. This is a AAA game after all – why can’t the game look amazing and perform amazing? Pretty frustrating in my opinion. The sim looks great about 80% of the time until you see the terrible LOD and pop-ins of buildings when flying over cities in airliners.
I am hopeful that they will fix all issues for those with higher end systems eventually. We are about one month into this since release. I understand some people expected a polished, finished product. I think this is going to be an ongoing, continuously improving, project.
I am excited about this. I find it refreshing that they post actual comments/concerns that people have posted. They seem very transparent. This is great.
All I can say is stay with it, and see how it goes. There is always X-Plane (another really good sim) and the P3D/FSX sims (still great sims!)… This is something that has really taken on a huge challenge. I don’t know, I’m willing to see where it leads.
I am very happy with the update too. Better fps and fewer stutters. I only fly the Airbus. Other than the APU needing to remain on to stop the engine shutdown its working perfectly fine.