FlierHawk

I was coming here today to see if anyone was talking about exactly the opposite. I flew around NYC last night and was FLOORED at the new much sharper PG scenery. Previously my home was clearly pre 2015 imagery and blobish and blurry. Now its the right shape, clearly defined features and looks to be from 2022, I can even see my car in the driveway now!

Looks nice, i've been running V1 along with RK Bridger and KLGA in 2024 since day 1 before they disabled the marketplace content. It'd be nice to upgrade.

I will say that I noticed my mothers house, which was built in the last 2 years, has an AI building placement in the new sim. It's a whole new community so based on which houses are actually constructed she could tell me how old the aerial imagery is for that area. So they DID put new satellite images in the sim. It does seem like the PG hasn't been touched though and it does look dreadful in many places. NY looks dull flat and lifeless. The samscene3d NY times looks pretty great in 2024 and gets the city pretty up to date. In fairness to Asobo, if you go to Bing maps and explore NY in 3d..... it's exactly what you see in MSFS 2024. So depending on which way the data flows either Bing hasn't gotten around to updating their PG data so Asobo can't get anything newer or Asobo hasn't finished working on updated PG data for the existing areas and therefore Bing can't get updated either. More likely, they are prioritizing getting PG for new areas so existing stuff will have to wait, regardless of how old it is. I highly doubt they will let major metro areas like NYC get 15+ years out of date so I'd expect a refresh before the next version of the sim. Probably as a WU.

5900X, 3080 ti, 64 GB DDR4 3200, 1TB M2 SSD I'm getting about 40fps on the default "high-end" settings in NYC on the ground. In the air flying the city i've gotten up to 55. This is with DLSS on Auto and running in 4k resolution. Samscene3d NYC Times is installed. I'd say I'm pretty happy with those results.

I thought they had gotten much newer and up to date aerial imagery for FS2024. Checking out NYC i noticed that an entire outlet mall that started construction 10 years ago and was complete at least 5 years ago is still the parking lot that was there before they ever broke ground. It's a pretty big mall, visible from NY harbor. My own home in NYC is also at least 10 years out of date. This is likely the same imagery from FS2020, at least in the NYC area. Anyone out there notice newer better PG areas?

Yes I have, it's probably just the fact that my NY is a system killer. add ons for EWR, JFK, LGA and FRG. samscene NY, rkbridger for all the river crossings. GSX pro, BATC, with a PMDG 737 then throwing VR on top of that....... In other news I had a very pleasant flight from KPHX to KSAN in my 737 with full traffic in BATC and everything went just fine in VR.

I just got a quest 3 this week. I find that as long as I'm in a light setting such as a bush trip or some far flung low density scenery it works fine but when i try to run a complex airliner in a heavy place like NY even getting the VR to start up is a chore and once it's running its a laggy low frame mess even though the stereo image that's on my main monitor is smooth as silk. I'm guessing that in those scenarios the meta app is finding it hard to encode and send the feed to the headset even though the GPU is rendering the frames just fine. I'm wondering if something like virtual desktop can fix that but I don't have a Wi-Fi 6 router and am not really interested in buying one at this time. Other than that, can't beat it for immersion. Even having to lean in to read the displays isn't such a bad tradeoff for what you gain by being "in" the cockpit. Flying VFR takes on a whole new meaning. I'm in love! 5900X, 3080ti, 32GB Ram, 2TB M2 SSD for reference.

I am a dunce. Somewhere along the way I must have disabled frame generation. For the most part and in anyplace other than NYC i get my intended framerate. Flying in NY last night seemed a bit.... choppy so i checked and sure enough it was off, i just never noticed. All that to say that the 2D element ghosting is certainly still a thing for me.

It just stopped for me. no idea what i did. but i get smooth frames and no ghosting.