Fsx or x plane 11

[ShadowWolf1981]

I haven't played a flight sim in years and now I'm looking to get back into it. I just can't decide what one to get so I'm asking the community what one is better FSX or X plane 11?

[opjose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0LwQNxyIfE&t=287s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wEQqruENE

[ShadowWolf1981]

Thanks for the videos. Now my decision is even harder lol

[Dazven]

In that situation, it is usually both then.

Just gotta decide which one first and when for the other (FSX/P3D/XP/DCS/etc. user). Each are amazing in their own right.

[ShadowWolf1981]

Is fsx showing its age? And if so is there mods out there to give it a fresh look?

[Virtual]

Originally posted by Akilas81:

Is fsx showing its age? And if so is there mods out there to give it a fresh look?

Well, remeber that FSX is from 2006 and 12 year old. Except for an minor update for the steam edition, it has remained pretty much the same ever since then.

You can find plenty of visual upgrades for it, but you will most likely run into the old Out Of Memory problem that it has due to it's 32-bit limitations.

Still, it's an enjoyable flight simulator, with it's flight instructor and missions if you are into those things.

If you want a more modern flight simulator using more of your computers capabilities, you should go with X-Plane. Unlike FSX, X-Plane it still a work in progress, which means that it will continue it's development. And as default looks a way better than FSX.

[lavochkin]

Originally posted by Virtual:

Originally posted by Akilas81:

Is fsx showing its age? And if so is there mods out there to give it a fresh look?

Well, remeber that FSX is from 2006 and 12 year old. Except for an minor update for the steam edition, it has remained pretty much the same ever since then.

You can find plenty of visual upgrades for it, but you will most likely run into the old Out Of Memory problem that it has due to it's 32-bit limitations.

Still, it's an enjoyable flight simulator, with it's flight instructor and missions if you are into those things.

If you want a more modern flight simulator using more of your computers capabilities, you should go with X-Plane. Unlike FSX, X-Plane it still a work in progress, which means that it will continue it's development. And as default looks a way better than FSX.

I agree 110%.

[John W]

There are plenty of threads on this forum asking the question you are asking so you could do a little digging to find more responses.

That being said, take a look at videos of X-Plane 11 and FSX Steam edition. But it's not all about the default graphics. In both FSX and X-Plane 11 the default weather is OK. Personally I think the default weather is better in FSX but for both many people end up purchasing a weather engine so that adds to the cost.

The default ATC is much better in FSX compared to the default ATC in X-Plane 11, but Laminar Research is supposedly working on the ATC. I have purchased a 3rd party ATC program that works with both.

In my opinion the AI air traffic is better in FSX compared to X-Plane 11. Many purchase a 3rd party Air Traffic plugin like World Traffic 3 for X-Plane 11, I did.

You can purchase scenery addons for FSX that will bring the graphics quality up to the level of X-Plane 11, such as ORBX scenery, but that increases the cost.

With FSX you will encounter (if you add global scenery packs like ORBX FTX Global Base Pack, FTX Global Vector and regional packs like ORBX FTX Global OpenLC North America) blurry scenery from time to time. This happens when you use an aircraft that has a higher ground speed and you change altitude not allowing the scenery to keep up with the aircraft. There are tweaks that can be applied that help with this but nothing eliminates it. This does not occur with X-Plane 11.

If you add enhanced terrain mesh to FSX you will endounter airport elevation issues, because the airports are flat in FSX and do not follow the terrain like they do in X-Plane 11.

Now you could consider purchasing P3D V4 instead of FSX but you would still need to purchase the additional scenery to bring it up to what X-Plane 11 looks like and P3D is expensive.

My recommendation would be to go with X-Plane 11. I have both and what I have said above is from my experience with both.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

x plane is far from perfect but, to me, feels like it has more opportunity to move forward compared to fsx.

I prefer xplane to p3d,fsx etc etc however it has some catching up to do contentwise.

that said Orbx is now on-board and thats a huge leap for my tastes.

once they get the proposed Vulcan changes in, I think it'll be the best in it's class.

not perfect but superb.

[ShadowWolf1981]

thank you everyone for your thoughts and opinions I'm going with x plane

[ShadowWolf1981]

One more question where do you guy's get your downloads?

[John W]

You can search on the web but for the most part start at X-Plane.org. There are fourms there and downloads for utilities, scenery, aircraft, etc.

[John W]

One thing regarding X-Plane 11 that I didn't mention before. FSX and P3D have seasons, X-Plane 11 does not. There are addons and downloads that can provide winter textures but there are issues with both.

I have a lot of add on airports, etc for X-Plane 11. Some have their own seasonal textures which is great. Others do not and use their own ortho type textures for the scenery. For those addons the seasonal plugins/downloads will not provide winter (seasonal) textures.

I purchased TerraMaxx which provides seasonal (Summer/Spring, Fall, Winter, Deep Winter) for the default X-Plane 11 textures. I also have xEnviro which essentially is in development (they are doing a complete rewrite of their code).

In the upcoming release of xEnviro 1.10 (release date to be announced) not only will it provide 3D volumetric clouds, but it is supposed to provide winter textures on the mountain areas (I.E. snow on the mountain tops) so you would have seasonal snow on the mountains. This is supposed to work on all scenery types (default and ortho). Eventually xEnviro is supposed to provide seasonal textures on later releases.

So eventually once xEnviro provides seasonal textures I will be uninstalling TerraMaxx, or at least that is my gameplan. Something to look forward to in my opinion. I have also heard rumors that LR intends to provide seasonal textures in the future, but I cannot confirm that rumor.

[ShadowWolf1981]

Thanks John for all the info. Is it hard to install add ons?

[John W]

Originally posted by Akilas81:

Thanks John for all the info. Is it hard to install add ons?

Not al all, most you just extract the addon folder into the x-plane11\resources\plugins folder. Others have installers. Just follow the instructions provided in the addon.

[Tom Johnson]

I'm from way back Microsoft Flight Simulators, and have made the switch to X-Plane, on my system X-Plane runs so much better than FSX, better fps, better load times. It was a little learning curve to understand how to install add-ons to X-Plane but now I'm even making my own photo scenery with Ortho4XP ( its free! ). I started with X-Plane 9, and X-Plane 11 was a big step forward, and with the new Valcan Graphics enging coming it will make it run even better. I use XOrganizer to keep Scenery in the correct order.Another free program. I had a lot of money tied up in FSX, but now that money is going towards X-Plane.