I am truly in an emotionally enhanced state now 😅

On my rather mediocre 10 year old system with a GTX960, 16gB ram and i7 2600k, I can see beautifully rendered landscape with forests, towns and clouds in beautiful dynamic and very true-to-life lighting all the way till the horizon, while flying smoothly over it, at high settings. Yes, not 4K (1080), but in FSX or Xplane11, I could not even dream of such visual fidelity at an acceptable performance. Even flew over Milano, Italy, a photogrammetry city, and it was still good. Changing weather did not make a huge impact it seemed, even in these more urban dense environments. 

I for one feel deeply impressed and had never expected that my PC could handle these settings. Asobo must have done something right here.

The only point of frustration thus far: I cannot get CH yoke to work properly and the camera system seems overly complicated, but boy, what a work of art this is already!

 

 

I am enjoying it as well on my i7 2600k (what a great processor btw!) and 3Gb 1060 card, 16 Gb ram and running at 1080.  I'm running things at medium and enjoying the level of detail.  I'm waiting on the 3000 series Nvidia release and seeing how the Zen 3 Ryzen looks before pulling the trigger on a new build (Intel or AMD)