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Flightbeam SFO RELEASED

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10 hours ago, Just-66 said:

I see from the official screenshots that the airport from  Flightbeam  is flat. On the KSFO charts, the airport's elevation above sea level is 13 feet. Can anyone confirm this? This is important information for captains. The BMW looks more accurate. They have the light bridge and runway elevation correctly modeled.

You do realize that San Francisco Bay is tidal water correct? Typical tide swing in the bay is 5-8 feet with a king tide swing of 7-10 feet. Personally, I would not interpret anything from a static screenshot...unless MSFS is in fact correctly representing tidal waters in the sim.

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    Hi Peter, You are clearly a dev from BMW since your burner account is fully dedicated to putting our brand down with cherry picked, ridiculous screenshots (we’ve got those too). No, not goin

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    Cherry picking. Yes, they have black backgrounds, we were there. https://www.mediafire.com/view/4dh6x0ttcxb9zb2/Screenshot_2024-06-18_165419.png/file They get painted black again every once in a

It looks like Flightbeam used a photo from Google. The walls of his parking lot are less detailed.

 

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FPS is pretty hard. Similar to what I have at DD KEWR (the worst performing airport IMHO). Just curious if BMW has the same pattern.

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10 minutes ago, Flying-Hare said:

It looks like Flightbeam used a photo from Google. The walls of his parking lot are less detailed.

 

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I appreciate that some people care about these things, but personally I couldn't care less, I can't see that from the flight deck on the ramp.

Fine. But you can probably see the end of Runway 19 from the cockpit. And BMWorld & AmSim did the job more accurately here too. The concrete fence is hard to miss.

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17 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

FPS is pretty hard. Similar to what I have at DD KEWR (the worst performing airport IMHO). Just curious if BMW has the same pattern

Well that is kind of concerning. FlightBeam has previously been very good at optimization but maybe there is just too much detail in this Captain's edition. What have others found?

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15 minutes ago, Flying-Hare said:

Fine. But you can probably see the end of Runway 19 from the cockpit. And BMWorld & AmSim did the job more accurately here too. The concrete fence is hard to miss.

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Except for... there is no wall in real life (IIRC)? And the pier has no big red wall below either in real life.

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6 minutes ago, Cognita said:

Well that is kind of concerning. FlightBeam has previously been very good at optimization but maybe there is just too much detail in this Captain's edition. What have others found?

Pilotter previously said: "FPS are excellent. " on Flightbeams KSFO. And IIRC someone else also mentioned good FPS, but you have to find that post yourself if you want to know. I have purchased it an hour ago, but not yet being able to jump into the sim.

I most seriously doubt that this performs as bad as DD's KEWR. That's almost physically impossible I dare to say.

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Very first impressions and I should share that I'm a fan of FlightBeam certainly because of my FS2004 experience 😉 I really really love the ground apron texture:

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Am I the only one getting the feeling that the yellow letters on the black background look blurry ?

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Something wrong on my side ?

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... all VDGS seems to be at the wrong height.

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As I'm focus on piloting, I really don't care of this but...

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16 minutes ago, vbazillio said:

Very first impressions and I should share that I'm a fan of FlightBeam certainly because of my FS2004 experience 😉 I really really love the ground apron texture:

i2qSKN1.jpeg

Am I the only one getting the feeling that the yellow letters on the black background look blurry ?

eqxXVEc.jpeg

Something wrong on my side ?

G1KCPFk.jpeg

... all VDGS seems to be at the wrong height.

FiNvjaw.jpeg

As I'm focus on piloting, I really don't care of this but...

8IAtm6F.jpeg

 

Check old GSX profiles for KSFO. This usually explains floating VDGSs

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I too am having significant fps issues and stutters.  I removed Asobo discover ksfo. Do I also need to remove asobo discover ksfo sunset? I also have a lot of flickering on terminals etc. I have several ini builds, fly Tampa and several others with very few issues. Ini ksat kills my system for some reason but all others ok. I’m thinking my fb sfo issue may be something on my end. Other fb airports are fantastic, for example KDen.

55 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Except for... there is no wall in real life (IIRC)? And the pier has no big red wall below either in real life.

I can’t believe my eyes, there is a concrete fence in Google Maps.

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41 minutes ago, vbazillio said:

 

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A top developer shouldn't use blurry Google photos instead of handmade textures

13 minutes ago, Peter113 said:

I can’t believe my eyes, there is a concrete fence in Google Maps.

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Indeed, just found a recent video showing it too. That must be new.

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