I think they are backing away from SLI because DX12 has more potential (which is able to use any combination of GPU's you have).

 

And thanks for the heads up on the Orbx regions! That is indeed of interest to me and something I am very happy to hear! So they are indeed planning (!) on doing what I'd like the most! Great! That sounds VERY good! Pity it probably won't happen before 2018... If they deliver what JV is talking about I don't mind at ALL that prices will be higher than current DLC. This is the kind of scenery I want, in fact, this is the kind of scenery I'd want in XP so if Orbx pulls this off in AFS2, AFS2 might become my main sim. Again, pity it will take ages before all this is going to happen (if it is ever going to happen) but you just raised my interest for AFS2 some 50 to 100%.

 

Also a pity I am banned for a week on Orbx because I'd like to share my enthusiasm there now.

Jeroen, I will say a simple statement....and that is, if you were to take off in the B737-500, (any skin you choose), and you depart Phoenix, to land in Vegas....that one flight alone, over what is already available within the free DLC Southwest, with the sim totally set to Ultra...you would be a groupie just from that flight alone. You could then wait for anything else that will show up this year, or the next.   I had that flight yesterday, and it was like I was really over the actual region.  Fly over the Grand Canyon in this sim...and it will convince you, that you are there, upon a commercial flight, or in the cockpit as crew.  One of the biggest beefs, I have always had with FSX and then P3D, was the color pallet of both sims.  They always looked 'cartoonish' to me, and I tried to meddle down with great products such as PTA.  

 

Flying over the Grand Canyon yesterday at FL200, I could see the actual pink strata layers within the cliffs, on the canyon faces. It looked exactly like what is truly there in real life. My wife and I love the Grand Canyon, and have visited it many times.   Took the walk down the Angel Trail, to Indian Gardens.  The Canyon looked so real...that I stated in another post, that that one flight yesterday alone...would have justified my purchase of the entire sim.

 

I suggest you buy it,...fly it,...enjoy it,...and see it as a complementary addition to what you already use and enjoy.   This one sim is totally, and truly unique, in that it will be solely based, world-wide, upon photo-real.

 

I was also amazed in how they can 'tech' it, for if I understand the 'taking a snapshot' in time, of the scenery by satellite, it is amazing, that you can get the illusion of elevation over the terrain....that as you ascend, or descend, the (for example) the mountain range you are flying over, gets visually larger, or smaller,  even though, photo-real is that...a set-in-place photo over mesh. I wonder, is the sheer size of the GB's...of the scenery needed because, there are hundreds of x/y photo takes of the same viewed area, but at differing altitudes?  Just wondering...but the end event...that it works, and works beautifully.  So well so, that I will buy whatever hard-drive hosting room, I need to 'land' the DLC areas of operation I am going to be interested in.  This sim is unique amongst all my other sims. It is photo-real within its foundation, and having never experienced it before, other than viewing HLJAMES's Screenshot Forum postings, am totally sold upon it.  It delivers to you, what it looks like below, in real life, for IT IS, lol.  The colors of the photo-real pallet in AF 2 look real. Add that to the sky treatment within this sim...and the whole shebang looks as real as you are going to get, flying over the scene upon a computer system.

 

I wasn't flying this sim 15 minutes, for when I knew this was something not-released to date, and special.  Call it a 'speciality' flight simulator, if we must label it and compartmentalize for some.  Ok...I see this labeled as a killer VFR AND...IFR 'high visual value' flight simulator, whereby to the user, what is around and below the wing to the horizon, is just, or even more important than what is only confined to the virtual cockpit/cabin.  If that is the case...then this a sim to purchase and immediately start enjoying, for what content is published to date.

 

So...Jeroen, take the plunge, it isn't all that expensive to...and you have the whole state of California, with its beautiful coastline and mountains, with bordering Nevada and Arizona to bring fabulous flights to your desktop.  Yep, I use all of my sims, including even FS9 of which I love to fly.

 

This one, though, and because it is...totally photo-real, and that has fired my imagination and emotional response...will be the sim I first fire up for a run, to let me stretch my legs...

 

Try it. Take time to check out the literally thousands of square miles in California, alone.  Why?  Because every square mile WILL NOT BE A REPEATED graphic depiction, in anywhere else of those thousands of square miles.  This is a rush, Jeroen!  THAT's what makes this a unique sim to purchase, and to fly within.

 

Cheers,

 

Mitch

 

 

So...Jeroen, take the plunge, it isn't all that expensive to...and you have the whole state of California, with its beautiful coastline and mountains, with bordering Nevada and Arizona to bring fabulous flights to your desktop. Yep, I use all of my sims, including even FS9 of which I love to fly.

 

Can we glimpse the girls on bikinis in the beaches ?

Can we glimpse the girls on bikinis in the beaches ?

LOL...well, you can zoom down if you tilt the view of the wing. Try it and let us know how it went...

 

On a serious note, though...I have had no problem with the 'baked in ' cars upon roads, as you are flying quite fast over them, they look real, and your mind registers 'traffic'.  It would be great to see actual traffic moving upon those roads as in ESP driven, but, for now, nice to see 'caught in the moment' action down there...  Coming into that hand approach into Vegas yesterday afternoon, my eye and mind caught those cars that were actually there when the scenery was 'snapped'...and it does make you feel the area is 'inhabited' (smile).

 

Bikinis and girls...hmm....let me take a flight over Malibu....yeah...let me... ))))))))  I used to live in California, and haunted Zuma Beach as the beach-of-choice.  I'll have to do a fly over of that stretch of sand as well...and see, if the famous kid's swing, the really tall frame that allowed you to fly off of the swing into the surf and swell, is captured, lol.   As you can tell, I'm being seriously entertained by this simulator. It's great.   

If IPACS (and ORBx) deliver the goods mentioned in my list further back in this thread, then I too will be using AeroFly FS2 as my main flight simulator. A fully tricked out South Western USA region is all that I need.

LOL Mitch, I started reading your post above (the longer one) without taking note of who wrote it and in no time I knew it had to be you. I will try that flight you mentioned but then in the Airbus. As I said earlier on I will do some airline flights to see if I like that more.

 

And it seems you missed it but I do already own AFS2! My quite negative remarks about AFS2 weren't based on hear say or screenshots or videos's: I actually own the sim! Which is btw the reason that I feel I am allowed to post negative remarks about it: something I wouldn't do if I didn't actually own it.

 

And I am totally on the same page as Christopher: give me a fully tricked out region and I am happy as can be. That's all I need for AFS2 to become my number 1 sim.

LOL Mitch, I started reading your post above (the longer one) without taking note of who wrote it and in no time I knew it had to be you. I will try that flight you mentioned but then in the Airbus. As I said earlier on I will do some airline flights to see if I like that more.

 

And it seems you missed it but I do already own AFS2! My quite negative remarks about AFS2 weren't based on hear say or screenshots or videos's: I actually own the sim! Which is btw the reason that I feel I am allowed to post negative remarks about it: something I wouldn't do if I didn't actually own it.

 

And I am totally on the same page as Christopher: give me a fully tricked out region and I am happy as can be. That's all I need for AFS2 to become my number 1 sim.

Hi Jeroen, yep...did miss that..that you now have it!  Enjoy!

 

Here is a just landed flight of my swinging inland to final, from a departure in Vegas, to land at Monterey, dawn approach.  GAWD...but do I LOVE this sim.       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He's right, go ahead and buy it, its good now, but will only get better and better, Orbx is already on board and I'm sure other developers will follow with planes, ATC, AI, weather etc., not to mention what IPACS themselves will deliver, I've flown FSX & P3D for years, while they were leaps better to me than any version of X Plane ever, they still had the cartoonish look, this sim is different, when you fly over a area and look down it actually is the area, its a snapshot yes, but it IS the actual area, not a autogen created likeness, and the lighting is practically perfect, this sim is very different, much more of at least what I've been looking for in a sim. Now if someone would come up with a way to import all  FSX planes in Aerofly FS 2 they'd make a lot of money, lol.

I agree with Mitch regarding the sunlight. The sun itself (plus lens flare) looks really nice, but so do the shadows in the plane cockpits....and these just seem to make the light look right. I don't know quite why that is the case though. Maybe the the contrast between the shadows and the sunlit areas give the impression of a really strong light source? Or maybe the light has that very slight "yellowish" tint that makes the brain think "this is real"?

Folks, I had been increasing all the cloud sliders from top to bottom, equally, and had the sim set at around 50 percent of the allowance.

 

I just took off out of Monterey, headed for Yuma Int., and decided to fully open up the cloud sliders.  The view...WOW...the FPS hit, NONE!

 

Crank those clouds up...folks...the graphics engine feeding your GPU, has FPS 'horsepower' room to spare, at least on a GTX1070 FTW!

...just a thought, and I so smile over it...

 

...I wonder how many AVSIM members have ALREADY purchased, and are flying this sim, forum-silent, for fear of castigation by other member's posts, as to they're abandoning, the status quo?   You can bet your bottom dollar, right now...that there many new AVSIM users of this sim, that have not, or will not reveal that fact...well, for at least, the time being...

 

   

I have just realised.....assuming AeroFly FS2 is taking advantage of my Nvidia Inspector settings....that I will be running it with 4x SGSS enabled. I will need to test this to see if [a] I need it this high for this simulator, and how much this is affecting my framerates when cumulus clouds are enabled. I fly with clear skies in P3D so that I can use 4x SGSS.

Sky-rendering wise, nothing beats IL.2 BoX for me - it's simply ASTOUNDING! And you should try it too Mitch!

 

But I do agree AEFS2 has some really nice / tempting sky rendering too, although I don't like the clouds that much!

Sky-rendering wise, nothing beats IL.2 BoX for me - it's simply ASTOUNDING! And you should try it too Mitch!

 

But I do agree AEFS2 has some really nice / tempting sky rendering too, although I don't like the clouds that much!

Oh, I'm sure that they will tweak the sky, etc, as well.  Still early-access of course.   I cranked up the clouds to full on each slider this morning, and really liked the difference, with not one FPS hit as the result.  I have an 8 year old CPU, buddied up to a 1070 FTW.  Doing AF 2 really well. 120 FPS no sweat,  although I have taken it down to vsync...60 FPS, and the same fluid animation. I am testing to see where the smoothness start to waver...but at 60 constant...not any such happening.  I'm pretty well set then, for whatever other possibly taxing sub-systems or coding will be added to AF 2.  There's no way, that anything would absorb 60 FPS of performance, in a hit.  So...good to go, and they can bring it on...Orbx, or IPACS themselves...

I have just realised.....assuming AeroFly FS2 is taking advantage of my Nvidia Inspector settings....that I will be running it with 4x SGSS enabled. I will need to test this to see if [a] I need it this high for this simulator, and how much this is affecting my framerates when cumulus clouds are enabled. I fly with clear skies in P3D so that I can use 4x SGSS.

 

You might also try DSR and see what happens.

http://www.avsim.com/topic/501370-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

This might be helpful as well. They sometimes say a picture (or video!) is worth a thousand words, but both is even better.