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Hi,I just want to say I am a littlle concerned about the look of the scenery tiles. Not the scenery objects! They look improved and just great. I'm not really sure if the trees look better, but from other screenshots I have seen I am pretty sure there will be a lot more trees than FS2004, which is more realistic and just great. But I thought we were supposed to be seeing a 'quadroupling' in the scenery tile resolution, which should equate to a less grainy looking ground. To me those scenery tiles look like they are straight out of FS2004(256 pixel resolution).I'm not passing judgement yet. This is a demo. I don't know what settings you are allowed to make or what yours are. I don't know what your hardware is, ect. And did I mention, this is a demo!?Still, I am concerned as I thought the tile res. was supposed to be 4x times that of FS2004 and it looks to me here as if the scenery tiles bitmaps are straight from FS2004. But, as far as scenery tile bitmaps go I'll bet there is either something more to the final version of FSX than what's in this screenshot of the demo, or else there is something that I completely misunderstood about 4x bump in resolution.Other than the FS2004 scenery tiles the visuals look very nice. :)Cheers,OneTinSoldier

It's a demo. Lighten up. MS knows what they are doing.If not, and they are consumed by greed and only concerned with "dumbing down the game, to bring in the most players"...well, there is still FS9, which is the best #### simulator on the market today, bar none.My 2 cents,bt

Its been 3 years or so in the making, whats 2 months going to do?But yes, it will be the best flight sim on the market. And the second and third.Its all good fun. Im just glad they are doing another FS at all.

Keeping in mind what Mike said on his blog, I will give them the benifit of doubt on this shot but the tiles do nothing for me.

It's sort of funny to see the discussion of the FSX demo start to parallel the arguments about the GTR2 demo in my other simming hobby, racing sims.

this is 95% finished, so what you see is what you gonna get, so dont expect a huge graphical improvement from what you see here to what you get in october.

Well I've taken a look at some other screenshots posted, wehre a guy was flying the Baron at over 7,000 ft and 9,000 ft. From what I could tell, the tiles look a whole lot better at those higher altitudes than they do in FS2004. Still, if I am able to tell anything from this screenshot and those others, I am left wondering why they still look just as grainy as FS2004 when you're down really low. In other words, the tiles look great at altitude, but down low... as grainy as ever.Still, as I said before, I personally am not going to pass final judgement on a demo. Especially considering I've haven't experienced it firsthand yet and am just discussing my first impression of the tiles from screenshots of the demo. I will say... I would expect to see quite an improvement with a 4x bump in tile resolution over FS2004, they should be much less grainy, including flying low and slow! I will wait to see screenshots of the finished product and/or experience the finished product for myself to pass any sort of final judgement though.

I think they textures are just lower quality for the demo for the sake of saving space.

I don't know, I was up at 4000 ft and it looked pretty #### good

>I think they textures are just lower quality for the demo for>the sake of saving space.No, those are 1m textures, but there is a setting that will let you render them in lower resolution to save space. I wouldn't pass judgement too quickly, though, considering the demo only includes about 2% of the total textures that will ship with the product.