From a post by Rob Ainscough: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/441318-apart-from-dx11-what-has-improved-over-fsx/

 

Here is a list of items/features FSX does NOT have:

• Tessellation
• HDR (not the same as Bloom)
• Special effects distance
• Water reflections user vehicle
• Water reflections SimObjects
• Water reflections Terrain
• Water reflections Vegetation
• Water reflections Buildings
• Shadow Map Count
• Terrain Shadow Cast Distance
• Cloud Shadow Cast Distance
• Object Shadow Cast Distance
• Internal Vehicle Cast/Receive shadows (partial Aircraft cast only in FSX)
• External Vehicle Cast/Receive shadows (partial Aircraft cast only in FSX)
• SimObject Cast/Receive shadows
• Vegetation Cast/Receive shadows
• Buildings Cast/Receive shadows (partial Buildings Cast only in FSX)
• NoShadow Flagged Content
• FXAA support
• MSAA specification
• Texture Filtering specification (although bug requires setting in P3D or using NI to set anything above 16X)
• Volumetric Fog
• Wave animations adjust to conditions and wind direction
• DX11 support
• Updated SDK (with VS support and more recent versions of 3DMax for better modeling)
• SimDirector
• Integrated SimConnect (now a managed part of P3D not a separate install)
• Continued development of the product

Edited May 7, 201412 yr by n4gix
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Very good point Sir.

Here is what P3D does not have: PMDG, tons of addons I paid a small fortune for.

 

Nonetheless, I too have P3D v2.2 installed on a seperate HDD.

 

Best regards,

Rene