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5 Reasons Why MSFS Did Not Kill X-Plane 12

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1 hour ago, mjrhealth said:

Funny thing about MS is in last update, seems they went back from multi thread to single thread, for performance. I must admit it does look nice, But one sim is enough for me.

Nah, it's a great time to try both. Just wait for SU 4 to release, it's a whole new sim. And XP is looking ever more amazing these days.. and it's smooth and performant, anti aliasing is vastly improved.. it's just so much better than the pre-release launch. I'm really enjoying having two amazing sims to choose between. 

 

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2 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

But one sim is enough for me.

For those of you on MSFS only, X-Plane 12 at $32 is cheaper than dinner at McDonalds. You have the PC, monitor and flight peripherals so why not? X-Plane loads very fast and is very easy to set up. You would be blowing your mind in mere minutes.

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Flight Sim Software/Hardware: MSFS 2020 Premium Deluxe | MSFS 2024 Aviator | X-Plane Mobile 12 | X-Plane 12 |  Thrustmaster TCA Captain Pack Airbus Edition | Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition | Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls | Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant | Turtle Beach Velocity One Rudder | Xbox wireless controller | Stream Deck + | Flight Radar 24 Gold | Navigraph | Simbrief | WINCTRL PAP 3 MAG, 3N PDC, 3M PDC & PFP 7 Wingflex A320 EFIS, RMP & FCU Cube | 3rd Party Hanger: Fenix: A319, 320, 321 | Flight Factor: 777-200ER with engine variants | Flight FX: HondaJet HA420 FlyJSim: Dash 8 Q400 | Hot Start: Challenger 650 | iFly: 737 Max | iniBuilds: A350 |  PMDG: 737-800, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, DC-6 | Toliss: A321 with engine variants | Zibo: 737-800 Computer Equipment: Intel i7-13000K | Asus Tuf Z790 | 64 GB Corsair Ram | 2 TB NVMe OS Drive | 4 TB NVMe Game Drive | 3 X 4TB SATA Data Drives | Windows 11 | Asus Dual RTX 4070 CAE Full Motion Flight Simulator Experience: Boeing 737, Boeing 767, Boeing 787 Real Aircraft Flying Experience: Schempp-Hirth Janus, Cessna 172 and Cessna 185

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1 hour ago, JonathanC said:

Nah, it's a great time to try both

Why...One is enough

 

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8 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

Why...One is enough

 

If your only sim is X-Plane 12 then yes, one sim is enough. Had I started with X-Plane 12, I would not have bothered with MSFS.

Flight Sim Software/Hardware: MSFS 2020 Premium Deluxe | MSFS 2024 Aviator | X-Plane Mobile 12 | X-Plane 12 |  Thrustmaster TCA Captain Pack Airbus Edition | Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition | Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls | Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant | Turtle Beach Velocity One Rudder | Xbox wireless controller | Stream Deck + | Flight Radar 24 Gold | Navigraph | Simbrief | WINCTRL PAP 3 MAG, 3N PDC, 3M PDC & PFP 7 Wingflex A320 EFIS, RMP & FCU Cube | 3rd Party Hanger: Fenix: A319, 320, 321 | Flight Factor: 777-200ER with engine variants | Flight FX: HondaJet HA420 FlyJSim: Dash 8 Q400 | Hot Start: Challenger 650 | iFly: 737 Max | iniBuilds: A350 |  PMDG: 737-800, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, DC-6 | Toliss: A321 with engine variants | Zibo: 737-800 Computer Equipment: Intel i7-13000K | Asus Tuf Z790 | 64 GB Corsair Ram | 2 TB NVMe OS Drive | 4 TB NVMe Game Drive | 3 X 4TB SATA Data Drives | Windows 11 | Asus Dual RTX 4070 CAE Full Motion Flight Simulator Experience: Boeing 737, Boeing 767, Boeing 787 Real Aircraft Flying Experience: Schempp-Hirth Janus, Cessna 172 and Cessna 185

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22 minutes ago, alanw2005 said:

If your only sim is X-Plane 12 then yes, one sim is enough.

Meh. I don't get it. If you are a car lover, you wouldn't mind test driving a variety of cars to see what they offered.

I've used MSFS, DCS, Xplane, P3D and Flight Gear because I love aviation and I wanted to see what each offered. 

If another quality Sim came on the market, I would try it also. 

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1 hour ago, brinx said:

Meh. I don't get it. If you are a car lover, you wouldn't mind test driving a variety of cars to see what they offered.

I've used MSFS, DCS, Xplane, P3D and Flight Gear because I love aviation and I wanted to see what each offered. 

If another quality Sim came on the market, I would try it also. 

Good point. Yah, you are probably right. With the MSFS marketing budget it would be hard to resist. MSFS 2024 teasers got me super excited when I was on MSFS 2020.

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Flight Sim Software/Hardware: MSFS 2020 Premium Deluxe | MSFS 2024 Aviator | X-Plane Mobile 12 | X-Plane 12 |  Thrustmaster TCA Captain Pack Airbus Edition | Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition | Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls | Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant | Turtle Beach Velocity One Rudder | Xbox wireless controller | Stream Deck + | Flight Radar 24 Gold | Navigraph | Simbrief | WINCTRL PAP 3 MAG, 3N PDC, 3M PDC & PFP 7 Wingflex A320 EFIS, RMP & FCU Cube | 3rd Party Hanger: Fenix: A319, 320, 321 | Flight Factor: 777-200ER with engine variants | Flight FX: HondaJet HA420 FlyJSim: Dash 8 Q400 | Hot Start: Challenger 650 | iFly: 737 Max | iniBuilds: A350 |  PMDG: 737-800, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, DC-6 | Toliss: A321 with engine variants | Zibo: 737-800 Computer Equipment: Intel i7-13000K | Asus Tuf Z790 | 64 GB Corsair Ram | 2 TB NVMe OS Drive | 4 TB NVMe Game Drive | 3 X 4TB SATA Data Drives | Windows 11 | Asus Dual RTX 4070 CAE Full Motion Flight Simulator Experience: Boeing 737, Boeing 767, Boeing 787 Real Aircraft Flying Experience: Schempp-Hirth Janus, Cessna 172 and Cessna 185

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9 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Funny thing about MS is in last update, seems they went back from multi thread to single thread, for performance. I must admit it does look nice, But one sim is enough for me.

Quite the opposite. They reinforced MT. 

It was already my smoothest sim, but now on beta 4 turns out to perform even smoother...

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