XP is still excellent and for Linux only simulation fans it's still a must. Still today, you can have bleeding edge hardware and, flying in metro areas, still rarely crack 30 FPS with the usual add-ons while MSFS in all its glory on ultimate everything settings will be at 60-120 FPS with DLSS2 or 3. Also, XP's engine is showing its age and has never been very good with performance.

MSFS and flight simulation is literally the only reason I have a Windows install still left.Įven for XP devotees, while many of its early 3rd party add-ons were platform agnostic, sadly the better recent releases (weather add-ons, traffic add-ons, planes, etc) for XP have been Windows only affairs. Even some of the most hard-core XP streamers have moved over to it. Quoting: peta77And from the foot I have in the flight simulation community, those that rate flying above fancy satellite photo scenery still prefer XP over msfs.This was true at launch with its default aircraft, but currently even from a flying and simulation standpoint, MSFS has really caught up and, with some of the recent excellent 3rd party planes, really (IMHO) surpassed XP over the last 6 months. Last edited by peta77 on 16 November 2022 at 5:43 pm UTC so graphically I'd wish for something like helicopter flight in arma3: Doesn't need to look exactly like the original in case of buildings etc., just so that it could be like that when looking at a map, without having the feeling of big data reduction. I'm just wishing that terrain quality would be better (internet bandwidth and hdd sizes nowadays can handle the data), so you would have better / smoother coast lines, better matching ground textures to osm-streets, etc. It's rather the arcade mode of a flight sim. And from the foot I have in the flight simulation community, those that rate flying above fancy satellite photo scenery still prefer XP over msfs. :) Anyway, msfs is never going to be an option for me, so the comparison is irrelevant. The funny thing is that FSX was always applauded for having seasonal graphics while XP did not.

Something like that would be completely unrealistic for development of just a flight simulator.

It's a bit unfair though because you ms can leverage their maps and cloud services without explicitly paying for it. That is an issue, especially with msfs now. it's very good, but for low altitude flight (ultra light planes, helicopters, VFR, etc.) it doesn't look too good. Quoting: Ehvis Quoting: peta77I just wish they'd give a little more attention to ground graphics.

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