I guess this does not really belong here but I was not sure where else it would go, maybe too many rums on a hot Australian night! Anyway having spent a fortnight backwards and forwards trying to recreate some of my FSX collection (aeroplanes and scenery) in P3DV5 I surrendered and accepted what I have for the time being, not bad mind you but still. It led me to consider that between LM and MS we have an unholy mess in the sim world now. Two completely new simulation programs, albiet properly configured and focused on where software and hardware is and should be, but, here is how I see it, LM have the functionality and graphics sorted, their latest version is stable and reliable, compared to FSX and the inbetween stuff it is very very impressive, but it is still a stand alone sim reliant on constructed scenery and models both.
Then I look across the fence and see MSFS2020, so much potential amazing scenery, graphically outstanding but here we have a half baked program shoved out to market with incomplete SDK, uncertain model dynamics but above all a complete reliance on the user having a super fast unlimited bandwith internet connection - well stuff me! That probably only applies in about 15 percent of the planet.
Then jammmed in the middle is everyone else, user and developer, trying to work out, first can they rebuild what they have done for the new sim, is it worth doing and for what sim do you go LM or MS? Buying both, installing both and then oops sorry that did not work well not in that sim, not yet, not ever maybe actually! And no this is not a case of a new update and refresh, this is a complete cluster and we the consumer, customer or user are left standing in the middle. As comedian George Carlin once said, they are just 'servicing the account' and boy are we being serviced!
And last but not least is the hardware issue, yep, unless you have a cutting edge PC with mega RAM, SSD's and super GPUs or video cards your effectively out of the game as well. I guess the point of this thread, well I am seriously p*^%$#@d with both of them, yes actually and then some, thats all, are we all not at the moment?
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