I don’t know if you do good step!
If you said this in end of 2018, maybe I said to you go for. Now is no other as same lottery as with MSFS. I recommend to you WAIT if you can! Really!
I also wouldn’t invest too much in XP11 right now if someone wants to choose a new platteform. But did you watch my video just above? I find it a very good description of the actual state. For someone interested in the visuals there is no doubt i would choose MSFS but for accurate flight-training XP 11 is still the better choice for now.
Agree with you,
but with after 2 years with so much problems with XP11 higher version than 11.36r2 I lost taste for this product, saw 11.50 pains and I’m now not interested to this. I had my backup, no problem to return to my version and maybe buggy HotStart TBM900 (Sry saso but true) but still not interesting…
Sure XP is not perfect but for me XP 11.50 is really stable and gives me great perfomance. Not want to “give it back” but when talking about “pains” i must say that in 35 years of using PC’s i never ever had such problems installing a software than MSFS. I had to spend 4-5 hours with the Microsoft Support and they even told me to get a refund because “it was not working”. Right now, the programm will hang at start, i have to usually restart my PC 2-3 times and disconnect my joystick and/or Firewall to make it work. Again: i never ever had such a mess with any software. I am talking only about the software itself and not about its content but it really makes me quite upset.
I keep switching beetween both and am really looking forward to how the future developpment will be. It’s a very exciting time and i find it fantastic that Microsoft came back into the market. It will make move things forward.
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You should have been a police detective (or perhaps troll hunter in a long thread at some forum) because you can easily see clues and motive.
I don’t think all XP users want or can get all their desired eye-candy from the x-plane store. I read here that some bought ORBX packages for certain parts of the world where they may want to fly. I haven’t been able to understand that yet because of the blatant contradiction. One the side they claim that they are not xp fanboys but nevertheless also claim on this forum that the ORBX scenery is better than FS2020 scenery (they nevertheless bought FS2020 because it has better scenery) and on the other side they state that they don’t look at the ORBX scenery during approach or landing because they have to concentrate so much on the landing (even though they have played at being armchair wannabepilots for more than 30 years) and then also fly tubes at FL300 where scenery (ORBX or FS2020) does not matter.
It alls seems a bit strange to me - especially in view of the thread title and the new opinions that a piece of software can indeed not worry but a company can but the Laminar Research company does not have to worry. I always thought only people worry, like shareholders or a useless CEO that can get sacked by the shareholders or a company owner that sees his sales revenue substantially decline due to competition that he has ignored. I do however understand that a company owners does not need to worry if he does not care a hoot if he looses his loyal and adoring customers. Silly me.
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So, I’ve been trying out Vulkan now. Frame increase is amazing. Went from 40 to 90 in default Cessna.
I have been critical about a lot of stuff on MSFS when comparing it with the marketing screenshots. But now that I was flying MSFS for the past month only, the contrast returning to X-Plane was incredible. Oh boy, does it look bad. 
You are spoiled when getting used to MSFS visuals I guess. Even though I am using Google Ortho.
And even though XP fanboys point out the flight model, it felt like flying on rails. I had to check if my NOAA weather plugin was working. MSFS gives me a much more believable feeling of flight. (Yes, I am a RL GA pilot, if that matters)
Conclusio:
GA - MSFS only!
But please - fix the sensitivity issue! 
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The reasons are obvious, you don’t have to be a detective for that. Follow the money ™.. It is quite clear that 3rd party developers fear massive sales losses. I can imagine that they also troll Then there are the users with their potatos. They do not inform themselves properly or cannot estimate the requirements and are then disappointed. Then there is the group of gamers. Oh looks cool, must have. No plan of airplane, navigation etc. and are then disappointed if the bird does not take off or crashes.
Basically, I don’t care what fanboys say. For me, FS2020 is the ultimate release from all this fricke. The fantastic immersion is unbeatable either way. I still have two weeks’ holiday (due to corona restrictions, no travel possible :/) and can still enjoy it.
That is the next point. Come home, just want to fly a round and have to generate orthos again. etc. etc. etc.
For me it was like waking up from an ugly nightmare. Thanks MS.
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Honestly? You do have a wicked and suspicious mind 
I would never have suspected something like that, despite all the funny posts. 
Is it not better to see such awful scenery with more FPS??
Yeah funny how that old ‘better flight model’ scam keeps being used despite what real pilots have said.
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Follow the Weather Addon discussions. Of course there not idiots like the usual troll. They are more sneaky. Invest a few minutes to read their disclaimer. 
Read where?
Homeepage of the Developer. I meant FS2020 weather addon.
You have over 100fps there. That means you have overhead to crank up the visuals, where you can. Anything over 40fps is good, to be honest.
I have Texture maxed out and objects on high (one below max). All the other stuff won’t make much difference in that screenshot. But I will tinker around with it later to see what’s possible.
The main problem to me is the bad placement of autogen and the looks of the autogen itself.
Yeah. Have refunded X-Plane 11 as well. Sold my T.16000-combo. I will wait till Xplane 12 and/or MSFS 2020 when it’s matured. Loved MSFS 2020 for VFR flying and X-Plane for the education, tho. X-Plane is so much more advanced aircraft/simulation-wise. Spend like 20 minutes doing checklists before I could fly. 
Sim flying is somewhere in a weird limbo at the moment. For now I will just go Simracing solely and try to find a other game when I am not simming/racing. Loved Train Simulator as well, but Raildriver as hardware is 20 years the same product. No innovation or competition hardware-wise.
Edit: I got a taste what it is to be flying/fly-simming and I love it! 
I am curious what Laminar is going to do with XP12 and hopefully MSFS 2020 will be catered towards simmers and not the casuals. They are probably gone by now for a week or 2, lol.
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He actually cannot stop trolling around after having already been banned from another forum because of trolling…it looks like he learned nothing at all.
True. I also hope that MSFS will be able to come out of its only-gaming-mode and please the serious simmers as well in future.
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Are those the people that use “study level aircraft?”
RIGHTFULLY SAID!!! 
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No, not necessarily … to be true, study level aircraft are not really that much a necessity, if you stick to grass-root flying with GA. Study level is a another matter concerning airliners, where they have a legitimacy… but see, if you just enjoy flying vfr gazing outside - for what does one need a study level aircraft…? it is more suited for people, that are interested to look over the “edges of the plate” … So in my personal opinion, a serious simmer can also be the 64 year old guy or girl, who loves to cruise over colorado rockies with his c172 since 25 years. (Next to the fact, that those girls or guys tend to be extremely fit in their environment. I hardly doubt, that a 25 year old "simulator professional with xp v125 and 1200 flight hours aquired in long haul flights with autoland only, would be a serious match … rather a little snack for the flying grand dad)
but back to topic - maybe serious simmers are people, who have a rather pragmatic approach to simming and have the necessary cognitive capabilities to understand that it does not really matter that much from which tables a simulator drafts it´s flight model - may it be from xp-standard tabs or from a2a´s aircraft specific files … both are just sims …
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