6 hours ago, SayAgain said:

in FSX and FS98 and FS2000 …

I'm currently reinstalling my old P3D systems to enable me to see some old planes again, and it's turning into an interesting exercise. I'd put P3D versions 2/3/4/5 back on, and I already had my old FSX/SE sitting in Steam anyway. I'm currently settling on P3Dv4 as the primary P3D systems as most of my older planes work on it (rather then v5) and it doesn't have the OOM issues of the earlier versions.

I've been pleasantly surprised with how it's looking so far. With a bit more tweaking I will have a perfectly acceptable environment in which to buzz around in some old favourites that are probably never going to see the light of day in MSFS. As long as I don't get too near the ground. Because it is obviously near a whole order of magnitude behind what MSFS is capable of visually. 

But for me, MSFS 2024 is losing its shine a bit of late. It really is like nothing we've had before, and is a truly exceptional piece of work visually, but these LOD and culling issues then become even more irritating than the equivalent issues in P3D for instance, simply because MSFS is so good otherwise. I personally don't mind so much about the hovering AI traffic generally as the fact that whole blocks of scenery pop in and out around me. I'm very much a low n'slow person in sim, and don't really use tubes and big airports much anyway, so hovering 777s parked up don't affect me so much as streets of buildings or patches of trees coming and going in the distance. 

And it's possible that I'm also seeing it more because I'm running 4k HDR on a big (55") screen, but the real point is that it's gotten a lot worse in 2024 compared to how it used to be in 2020, and even in 2024 sometimes it feels like it's getting worse still.

I'm no coding or technical expert, and I wasn't in the room at the planning meetings, so I don't actually know the reasons behind any of this, but my suspicions have to lie in the "it's all down to making it fit on the consoles" camp. And if that's true it doesn't bode well for the future.

But it is what it is, and I'll certainly stick with it. And having at least one old P3D system in place provides both a useful antidote when MSFS gets too annoying, and a great reminder of just how much better MSFS is inspite of its problems.

Never thought I'd be buying addons for P3D again though! (already bought a couple of planes)

On 11/30/2025 at 10:44 AM, Langeveldt said:

Why on earth are people playing a flight sim on an XBox?  And why are we all paying for it?  And I say this as someone who is a console gamer.  It's like pulling an ice cream van out of a hangar to go and do your PPL in.  

kids, this is the new market.  gamers and simmers, chalk and cheese