5 hours ago, Rimshot said:

I have a strong suspicion that the creator of the video is not showing default MSFS 2020. There definitely is some kind of mod active to reduce the size of the trees and the number of trees in urban areas. Actually I think I know pretty sure.

Even worse, the more I look at it the more I suspect the creator of the video has the sims reversed; the whole feel, variety of trees and hue makes me think what he states is MSFS 2020 is actually 2024 and vice versa: 'MSFS 2024' looks way to blue and the huge number and size of trees in the urban area looks exactly like MSFS 2020 🤔

No matter what, I don't look at these kind of videos anymore. They're mostly clickbate with the intention to misinform (there are exceptions of course).

Wow. Did you just question the integrity of the OP because it disagrees with your personal narrative? You essentially called him a confused liar, producing clickbait. You should apologize to him.

1 hour ago, Mike T said:

Did you just question the integrity of the OP because it disagrees with your personal narrative? You essentially called him a confused liar, producing clickbait. You should apologize to him.

OP is not the creator of the video. As far as the Youtuber is concerned, I didn't use the word 'confused' and I didn't use the word 'liar'. Nowhere have I said there is an intentional mix up, if at all. I expressed a suspicion because when I look at the video there definitely seems something strange to me. His MSFS doesn't look like default at all. If he does a comparison of a modded MSFS 2020 versus a default 2024 without mentioning this that's misinforming the viewer as far as I'm concerned.  I see no reason to apologize, unless proven wrong.

6 hours ago, Lange_666 said:

Texturewises 2024 look better but... I see quite a bit of stuttering in the 2024 version compared to the 2020.
That amount of stuttering is already a reason to close it and stop playing.

Yes you are correct...
Hate stuttering...
Seems we start all over again with MSFS2024...
And it is still vanilla.

 

7 hours ago, Rimshot said:

I have a strong suspicion that the creator of the video is not showing default MSFS 2020. There definitely is some kind of mod active to reduce the size of the trees and the number of trees in urban areas. Actually I think I know pretty sure.

Even worse, the more I look at it the more I suspect the creator of the video has the sims reversed; the whole feel, variety of trees and hue makes me think what he states is MSFS 2020 is actually 2024 and vice versa: 'MSFS 2024' looks way to blue and the huge number and size of trees in the urban area looks exactly like MSFS 2020 🤔

No matter what, I don't look at these kind of videos anymore. They're mostly clickbate with the intention to misinform (there are exceptions of course).

From the first approach at Sydney I don't think he has the two reversed. However, the MSFS2020 version is modded IMO. The trees are much smaller than in the MSFS2024 version.
As to what's more accurate: when I look at the Google Maps of Sydney of the same location, there's lots of trees which are higher than the buildings so while MSFS2024 might have overdone it a bit, it seems closer to reality than MSFS2020.

Nowhere in the description of the vid it is mentioned that MSFS 2020 is modded.

But if it has been it only shows how good it looks compared to a vanille MSFS 2024 ….

My current modded MSFS 2020 :

 

Edited November 23, 20241 yr by GSalden

8 minutes ago, Allard said:

From the first approach at Sydney I don't think he has the two reversed. However, the MSFS2020 version is modded IMO. The trees are much smaller than in the MSFS2024 version.

You're right; I just checked in MSFS 2024 and there's no mix up in the video, so I wrongfully suspected that. I agree with the rest you said.

2 minutes ago, GSalden said:

But if it has been it only shows how good it looks

I absolutely agree. MSFS 2020 is a fantastic sim.

7 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

I feel underwhelmed after watching this.

Pretty small of a sample to mean much of anything, plus nothing in it showcases changes in cloud/lighting depiction.  4000x increase in polygon density does translate to superior texture and mesh resolution.  Things like trees being too tall or what have you is kind of hard to say if you don't really know what specific trees are there.  To make my point here is a photo of my former house location in Nor California post largest wildfire in California history in 2018.  The trees are way over the top of our house of course as they were 60' tall oaks and ponderosa pines to 100' or more, and the fire took out 12 big trees, and a few remain:

 

40 minutes ago, Noel said:

Things like trees being too tall

I have always found this claim a little odd about default 2020/24.  

Tree height does seem to be regional. The trees next to my house appear to be the correct height in the sim.

Now I agree that there are way too many trees in some places.

Edited November 23, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

In the videos, 2024 looks nicer. BTW, he obviously isn't using local time and date but has reset to spring (2020 is always spring except for some color filters).

2024 is not a giant upgrade visually. But IMO, a nice improvement. Especially when I drag the slider to change weather in flight. The clouds and terrain can begin to resemble a Constable or Turner landscape painting from the Victorian age. Especially the sky.

34 minutes ago, Fielder said:

In the videos, 2024 looks nicer. BTW, he obviously isn't using local time and date but has reset to spring (2020 is always spring except for some color filters).

2024 is not a giant upgrade visually. But IMO, a nice improvement. Especially when I drag the slider to change weather in flight. The clouds and terrain can begin to resemble a Constable or Turner landscape painting from the Victorian age. Especially the sky.

So you like all these “Skyscraper” trees?   Already in MSFS 2020 they were to tall ….

Hopefullly Asobo will correct this.

Is it just me or the overall ground textures quality are lower than MSFS2020? As well as the photogrammetry? To my eyes it look's worse than MSFS2020. Also not too sure if Anisotropic Filtering is working. Can't see a difference between Off and 16x. Also tried to Force it at 16x through Nvidia CP without any success. 

 

Here's some pics I took on my last flight which was an area with photogrammetry. Everything is set at Ultra on a 4090. on a 1Gbit connection

 

1.  Beautiful Bridge

 

2. Seems photogammetry isn't fully loaded in isn't it?

 

3. Runway has really low resolution and jagged edges.

 

Maybe they're lowering the quality to give them some breathing room on their servers. But would be nice if they actually acknowledge that. Really hope it's not going to stay like that for a while...

Edited November 23, 20241 yr by DuckZilla85

27 minutes ago, DuckZilla85 said:

Maybe they're lowering the quality to give them some breathing room on their servers.

You got it--give it a few more weeks...

Just to add  to this  thread  the  author  of  the  utube  said  no mod  added  to  the  msfs2020  version