I think 7 or 8 is fair right now for XPX64.  As much as I like it and have a lot of fun flying in it, I can see a lot of potential for improvement, and if I give it too high of a score now, how can I justify raising the score when it is improved?

I still feel that the scenery doesn't seem to have the depth of rich color and realism of FSX.

I don't care much for the ATC.

I don't like that default airports are empty of buildings.

I'm very happy that payware aircraft have received much better treatment with visuals and systems, and are almost, and in some cases, at a level with FSX.

Soon we will have a cloud and weather addon, which will help immensely and take away the floating "Brillo Pad" clouds.

The biggest indisputable plus for XPX64, is that it is 64bit. No concern with OOMs and very smooth graphics.

The UI does not bother me, now that I am used to it and I like how you can magnify and get a close look at a gauge, simply by scrolling the mouse (which I find myself trying to do in FSX too).

I'll score it with an 8 just to give it room to improve.  FSX has a lot of strong points, but just the fact that it is 32bit causes it to receive a 7.

A solid 8 for me.  Solely for one reason: it's usable and stable, plus I can get 40+ smooth frame with very good visuals.

 

Warning: the following is a rant.  Turn back now and get back to the thread if you have no interest.  I just returned to FSX once yesterday night and spent 45 minutes figuring out why it now froze on me.  It was fine two days ago.  I am hoping the add-ons for XPX will not end up killing it.  FSX with all the add-ons is beautiful and spectacular then the stutters that inevitably occurs due to the framerate dropping below 20 kicks in, plus the OOM that totally kills it.  Sorry for the rant, but right now my FSX setup is not running, and I was looking back at the hundred if not already thousand of dollar I spent on FSX and contemplating should I spend again more hours re-installing it again for the umpteen time, if my current problem is not fixed (sigh) :mad:

I'd probably give it 6, but it has all the possibilites to have full marks in the future. I'll keep my eye on it where it goes, although I fly XP pretty seldom nowadays as it is.

8.0

Socal will be a sold 9 with some of the info I got today !

Socal?  Can you expound on that please?

While we are bringin up things that would make us rate it higher I would throw in missions.

 

    One the one hand a lot of people think missions bring it in to the realm of a game but I know there are a lot of simmers that get fun out of a good mission and they can be great when you are out of ideas and just want to fly a predefined route that sometimes has a hidden surprise thrown in that might test your skills on the spot.

 

   GA flying is what I do the least but when I feel like flying something without guns and hop on fsx is can be nice when I just have 30/60 minutes to pick a good mission and not necessarily what I will be doing at the end of it.

 

    Sometimes when you only have 30 minutes and decide to fly that 30 minutes can be gone while you decide what you want to do.

 

    Missions are not adding only a gaming aspect, they can test your vfr, ifr, emergency procedures etc.   A good mission can be good fun.

 

    I dont buy in to the plugin that is available, it should be part of the sim with good support for mission makers.

Socal? Can you expound on that please?

Ditto! SoCal is prime Pilot Edge territory for me I'd love to know more.

Ditto! SoCal is prime Pilot Edge territory for me I'd love to know more.

I dont want say until its a for sure thing, and i have permission to talk about it. Do you live in SOCAL ?

I do.....

You can do a pretty decent SoCal with g2xpl, converted scenery, and some free WED contest airports

 

Here's what I wacked up, if you took the time, this could be refined into quite a nice scenery area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These shots look just great!

 

I have been able to download a version of G2XPL (6.51 demo), but I don't know if this is the latest available, and I still have to read the manuals...

PingPOng:

Very nIce! Where do you get the height of the buildings from? G2XPL is based on Google, right? How can you have these nice skyscrapers ?

G2XPL just makes the Ground photoscenery tiles.

 

Those buildings are from Aerosoft Los Angeles, which I converted for use in X-plane with FS2XPlane.

 

Further out from the downtown, it is just regular X-plane autogen.

OK, thanks for the info. So the Aerosoft-Mega-CIties scenerys are converting fine?