January 3, 20251 yr Beginning to explore low & slow in 2024 free flight. Was curious to see what Hearst Castle looked like in 2024. It's pretty good in 2020 but 2024 takes it to a whole new level. No flight shots in this set - I did a flight from here up to Big Sur and will go back and see about some shots from that later. I've been to both those places a couple of times IRL and done the SF to LA coast trip a few times as well. Amazing place for real, and (once they've sorted out the issues with the sim) it looks like it is going to get pretty close to that level of amazement here too. All 4k, settings on ultra, Bijan's trees may well be responsible for the big palms here - haven't checked without it and I know his package provides these sort of trees in LA. Time was just before sunrise, clear skies. Enjoy or ignore, depending how you feel about scenery shots! I was initially going to go walkies around the place, but it doesn't allow the external avatar on to the model itself. Or maybe I just haven't figured out how to get the guy to move up steps So I went back to using the drone camera The level of detail here is amazing. If you've got a big screen take a look at the wood carving on the door here More exquisite detail Back in the plane now, and about to head off Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
January 4, 20251 yr Look like the Original Hitman Intel Core i9-10900K at 5.2GHz, Corsair H115i PRO, ASUS MAXIMUS XII HERO Z490, G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 15-16-16-36, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090, SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 1TB x 3, Corsair HX Series HX1000 Watt PSU, Pimax Crystal LIght.
January 4, 20251 yr Looking beautiful - well done ! 👍 cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
January 4, 20251 yr Amazing, Andy. There is only a small difference to the real thing: the tiles in the outdoor pool are blue 😃 Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
January 4, 20251 yr Amazing tour and shots Andy. Even while the only flying thing here is our fantasy! Cheers, Gerold Spoiler Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.
January 4, 20251 yr Nothing compares to the scenery in 2024, great job Andy.. HP Omen Obelisk Gaming Computer, Intel Core i7-9700, Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 System Memory 4.7GHz 8 cores, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Graphics with 8GB GDDR6 memory, PSU 750 watts, 1TB hard drive, Samsung T7 2TB SSD, 512 GB SSD, WD 5TB HDD, Logitech HOTAS X52 Pro Joystick, AOC 27" monitor,
January 5, 20251 yr cool shots! All my FSX/P3D repaints are here on Avsim, for my MSFS repaints, go to FS.2
January 9, 20251 yr Yes, wholeheartedly agree, Andy...truly Stunning (close-up) images...here. Of course, you have nearly mastered the art of it in MSFS ...🙂...I recall you'd explored and posted about the Castle before, but this set looks outstanding... BTW, you seem to have got rid of that annoying "Toggle EFB" in your later pictures...How did you do it...maybe digitally...? I normally don't do many close-ups, but when I do, that pop-up in the screen bothers me in MSFS...🙂...
January 12, 20251 yr Author Thanks everybody. I'd always thought this was a prime candidate for some serious attention in the sim, but even so was fairly amazed to find this had benn done as well as this just as an unannounced POI (as far as I know) in 2024. I wonder what other little gems are hiding out there? Oh, and @P_7878, unfortunately I don't have a way to get rid of that message box. All the pix apart from the first two are just via the standard drone cam (which is more flexible and useful anyway) Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
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