After a week of flying and tweaking a few things in V4, testing airplanes, scenery and weather programs, here is my non-technical opinion. . .Wow!
1) Freeware scenery, for the most part makes the transition to V4 with few problems (elevations mostly). Even the Vietnam Project Scenery looks good.
2) Most of my airplanes are FSX Native Freeware and have no problems making the move, some payware work also, but the limitations are well documented.
3) What has been most impressive is the world we fly in. I have not seen a single building or tree "pop into place", as I fly along they are just there and they remain there. Even distant objects simply seem to appear as I fly along, rather than suddenly seeing a group pop up. The loading of distant scenery objects and vegetation is seamless and quite impressive.
4) Ground textures stay in focus. . .aside from the one instance with the Skyraider last week, I have never looked down from my aircraft or even to a distant point and seen a texture that looked blurry.
5) FPS. . .this is the "Holy Grail" of Flight Simmers everywhere. . .getting that perfect fps, lol. I no longer pay much attention to that information because everything is relatively smooth and that's what makes it enjoyable for me. My flying involves smaller airports, airfields and airstrips and by their very nature most of them are out away from large cities where fps could take a hit. So for me, I have my frame rate set to 30 and normally it will only change +-2fps. I'm good with that. Heavy weather will knock it down as much as 10fps as will having to fly over a major city. . .so I avoid those situations whenever possible.
All in all a very pleasant and enjoyable experience.
1) Freeware scenery, for the most part makes the transition to V4 with few problems (elevations mostly). Even the Vietnam Project Scenery looks good.
2) Most of my airplanes are FSX Native Freeware and have no problems making the move, some payware work also, but the limitations are well documented.
3) What has been most impressive is the world we fly in. I have not seen a single building or tree "pop into place", as I fly along they are just there and they remain there. Even distant objects simply seem to appear as I fly along, rather than suddenly seeing a group pop up. The loading of distant scenery objects and vegetation is seamless and quite impressive.
4) Ground textures stay in focus. . .aside from the one instance with the Skyraider last week, I have never looked down from my aircraft or even to a distant point and seen a texture that looked blurry.
5) FPS. . .this is the "Holy Grail" of Flight Simmers everywhere. . .getting that perfect fps, lol. I no longer pay much attention to that information because everything is relatively smooth and that's what makes it enjoyable for me. My flying involves smaller airports, airfields and airstrips and by their very nature most of them are out away from large cities where fps could take a hit. So for me, I have my frame rate set to 30 and normally it will only change +-2fps. I'm good with that. Heavy weather will knock it down as much as 10fps as will having to fly over a major city. . .so I avoid those situations whenever possible.
All in all a very pleasant and enjoyable experience.
