The terrain depiction is not nearly as good as on FS9, and runways don't show up on many smaller airports as they used to in FS9. I mean the terrain is a blurry color-variation only depiction. On FS9, the depiction was a very nice shadowed effect.And at zooms above to 3.5m-1, I can't get those nice lines with the orientation of runways like I am used to, at least for smaller airports (was flying out of 2OR4 today). You have to zoom incredibly in. Same for the general map view.Admittedlly, I am using full beta (man, it sure is going to be nice to finally get to release date). Was this corrected in retail version?

I noticed that too. It is the same in the delux retail version as well. It is still washed out and blury. There are no more crisp terrain details. There is a chance that it may be a rendering problem as in when the system is overloaded it cuts back on some detail in other areas. I have been getting pretty good performance with 20-30 FPS, and I have a fairly good system but I still get the washed out textures in the GPS. Who knows, maybe that is the way it is supposed to be now?

I think the colors of neighbouring heights could use a bit more contrast, but aside from that I like the new system better. In FS9 it was harder (for me, anyway) to distinguish between a dark color that meant higher ground and a dark color that was simply a lighter color but with a shadow on top of it.In FSX there's no more guessing involved in that sense.