Screenshot comparison - FSX vs FS2020

[aleex 551]

Yep, very realistic, BUT, I miss some lights on the terminal buildings (those KLAX, tower? purple lights...) and some lights over the TARMAC (light Poles and so...) 

[Pastaiolo 1,688]

I added a view from Google Earth at the bottom.

[ashepherd316 63]

its like comparing a bicycle to a ferrari 

[Wink207 78]

Very impressive. I just worry we will need 6.0 or higher on the CPU and who knows what on the GPU.

[ashepherd316 63]

hopefully they will make it more gpu bound if they have any sense

[pmb 5,138]

Might be interesting to see a comparison with Marseille in France VFR, if someone has this and is good in taking shots.

Kind regards, Michael

[Wink207 78]

After staring at these for hours, I conclude that we are not in bad shape now. It all depends on the individual simmer desire. Sure, I like good scenery, emphasis on "good". But I would trade good aircraft, good weather, and good airport models for high quality landscape. I want the terrain accurate, but I don't really care if I can't find my town, my street, my home. Other guys want high res scenery. That's great. I fly a lot at 370, other guys fly VFR low and slow. This is what makes this such a great lifelong pursuit. Bring it on MS !! 🙂

[Wink207 78]

11 hours ago, Wink207 said:

After staring at these for hours, I conclude that we are not in bad shape now. It all depends on the individual simmer desire. Sure, I like good scenery, emphasis on "good". But I would trade good aircraft, good weather, and good airport models for high quality landscape. I want the terrain accurate, but I don't really care if I can't find my town, my street, my home. Other guys want high res scenery. That's great. I fly a lot at 370, other guys fly VFR low and slow. This is what makes this such a great lifelong pursuit. Bring it on MS !! 🙂

Ooops. Typo. Should have said "...would NOT trade good aircraft, good weather, and good airport models for high quality landscape...." 🙂

[rocketlaunch 617]

Really after 13 years we should be seeing this huge leap in scenery technology, imagine the huge disappointment if it looked like FSX again! I hope Microsoft can pull this off. The clouds and lighting also make a huge difference. 

[Kermit_70 7]

I think most of us use FSX with third-party scenery (ORBX, etc), so it would be fair to see a comparison between 2020 promo and FSX with ORBX, for example. Same goes for weather, enhanced by third-party REX .

I doubt the difference would be that striking.

I think the real advantage of the new sim would be obvious if the default package will already start from the same level of FSX+ORBX+REX+A2A+etc, at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the headache ...!

But I am not that optimistic.

[Wink207 78]

13 minutes ago, Kermit_70 said:

I think most of us use FSX with third-party scenery (ORBX, etc), so it would be fair to see a comparison between 2020 promo and FSX with ORBX, for example. Same goes for weather, enhanced by third-party REX .

I doubt the difference would be that striking.

I think the real advantage of the new sim would be obvious if the default package will already start from the same level of FSX+ORBX+REX+A2A+etc, at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the headache ...!

But I am not that optimistic.

I agree with all. I run FSX with GEX/UTX/ASN/REX and so on. I run LOD=6, and Autogen on Very Dense. I flew over to Marseille and made a screen capture of the point shown above. It looks much better than the stock FSX shots but not as good as P3D and Orbx. I have no way to upload it though. But none of those look as real as the MS2020. But then france89 posted the google earth shot and that amazed me. Note in particular that MS2020 captures the transition to shallow water. I would be great if MS2020 starts out at FSX+++++

Rick

Edited July 2, 2019 by Wink207

[irrics 1,517]

9 minutes ago, Wink207 said:

It looks much better than the stock FSX shots but not as good as P3D and Orbx

You think the best one of those screenshots is the P3D one?

[ark 1,295]

19 minutes ago, irrics said:

You think the best one of those screenshots is the P3D one?

The "It" in the sentence you quoted above from Wink207 refers to the screen shot Wink207 took himself. At least that's the way it reads to me.

Al

Edited July 2, 2019 by ark

[Pugilist2 880]

2020 simply looks amazing and even better than the Google Earth shot! Really looking forward to this release.

[Wink207 78]

1 hour ago, ark said:

The "It" in the sentence you quoted above from Wink207 refers to the screen shot Wink207 took himself. At least that's the way it reads to me.

Al

Correct Al. I was trying to say my system looks better than the stock FSX (it better after thousands of dollars spent:), but not quite as good as P3D with Orbx. P3D has no real LOD constraint and I give Orbx the nod over GEX/UTX in this setting.