Exactly, it's not only the night lighting, but the general way how light shines dynamically on all sorts of things, like scenery, the vehicles, clouds, etc.

Plus, XPX's atmospheric effects are second to none in the civil flight simulator world.

Incredible!! So Realistic!!

Very good shots.

 

I am using it only with PSX, but the latest verisons, I am still unable to understand why, give me 50+ fps on HDR, even with SMP v3, and XView feeding PSX's weather.

 

Before I didn't have this performance, and my rig is exactly the same...

Thank you guys!

And enjoy your smooth simming experience, jcomm!

And don't ask or wonder too much about the FPS, sometimes (simming) life is just good! ;-)

XP is a Fabulous simulator! You can always tell the people who run XP down have never given it a fair go or spent more then a few hours on it.

Ya unfortunately this is what happens. It almost happened to me after being a devout MSFS Phan boi for years. But Goran from LES sat down and skyped with me and helped me!

Good to read that, Ryan.

Sometimes, I just don't get it. I mean, how can a GUI be much of a problem? Sure, it's totally different from what most of us are used to in MSFS, but it took me 2 or 3 hrs to set everything up and understand the structure of the menus, etc.

And, the sim itself is cheaper than any high end addon, and there is so much great free- and donationware out there. One can get fantastic and highly immersive graphics, without spending a fortune!

Absolutely agree, if you are intelligent enough to learn how to fly a plane real or virtual, its no great difficulty working out a menu system. Most FMCs are more complicated than the XP UI yet some people complain when a plane is released and the FMC is not complicated enough

 

Good to read that, Ryan.
Sometimes, I just don't get it. I mean, how can a GUI be much of a problem? Sure, it's totally different from what most of us are used to in MSFS, but it took me 2 or 3 hrs to set everything up and understand the structure of the menus, etc.
And, the sim itself is cheaper than any high end addon, and there is so much great free- and donationware out there. One can get fantastic and highly immersive graphics, without spending a fortune!

Absolutely agree, if you are intelligent enough to learn how to fly a plane real or virtual, its no great difficulty working out a menu system. Most FMCs are more complicated than the XP UI yet some people complain when a plane is released and the FMC is not complicated enough

That may be the case,but for me, it was probably just laziness.  I didn't want to learn how to change things, didn't think the time spent would be worth it.  I was only "slightly" wrong lol!

I am seriously getting into XP right now. The interface, in some ways, is actually surprisingly intuitive and powerful, especially the controls configuration system (although I wish it had built-in settings for per-aircraft basis.) It just takes a time commitment to "unlearn what you have learned," to quote a great Jedi master.

Im my eyes, there are only two things that XP needs to really take off (pun intended). The weather engine still needs some work, and a plug and play AI traffic program. I own World Traffic but it requires quite a bit in terms of set up. Some folks will mention ATC but we have plug ins for Radar Contact and ProFlight Emulator. Michael, keep posting screen shots like that and XP will get more converts.

I am seriously getting into XP right now. The interface, in some ways, is actually surprisingly intuitive and powerful, especially the controls configuration system (although I wish it had built-in settings for per-aircraft basis.) It just takes a time commitment to "unlearn what you have learned," to quote a great Jedi master.

I use X-Assign for my controls, you can create up to 3 different control profiles per aircraft and save them, it is a really clever bit of software, it is also free.

Beautiful screen shots!

 

 

The weather engine still needs some work

The biggest reason why I went back to P3D, for now.  If/when X-Plane gets something like ASN, I think it will have a real good chance to be 'the' sim.  Especially when PMDG brings the NGX/777 there too!

Very nice pictures! ☺

Thanks a lot!

Sure, X-Plane has room for improvements.

But this thread, with its screenshots, is mainly about the looks of this sim, and graphic wise, it's simply the best and most capable civil flight sim right now.

As for the weather, there is much work to be done, but I am quite excited about the upcoming WX connector by Maxx XP!

And, I encountered some very interesting and demanding weather conditions in XPX, that I've never had in MSFS/P3D. For example, flying through clouds in icing conditions without anti ice, brought my Airbus down, due to severe ice building up on my wings!