How to make Microsoft flight simulator look more realistic

If you have installed Microsoft flight simulator X make sure that you have installed at least service pack two. Microsoft flight simulator is always developed to run on computer hardware at least 2 to 3 years from its initial release date. Even 5 years later on, if you were to drag all the visual and performance sliders all the way to the right you would suffer big frame rate dips at busy airports.

Despite the fact that updates to Ms flight simulator 10 have halted, the release of add-ons means that Microsoft flight simulator will continue to get more realistic and accurate as time passes.

The terrain mesh quality in Microsoft flight simulator is upgradable via various add-ons and this significantly enhances the flying experience. The world that is drawn in Microsoft flight simulator is modelled after wireframe meshes. This wire mesh determines how accurately the world is rendered when textures are overlaid on top of it. In short these terrain mesh is tell Microsoft flight simulator how tall or deep terrain features are when being presented to you. This mesh data is used to create a 3d model of terrain features such as hills, mountains, cliffs, plateaus, valleys etc.

The default resolution of this terrain mesh data can be quite low in country and non-populated areas. If you are a bush flier than the accuracy of this terrain mesh affects both the realism and enjoyment you get when terrain spotting. If you like to fly low and slow than how accurate those mountains and hills are compared to the real world depends largely on the resolution of those meshes.

In the United States that terrain mesh is set at 38.2m. What this means is that a sample of the grounds elevation is taken at every 38.2m. You will be happy to know that you can now buy add-ons which improve his resolution up to 10m. This means that now elevation data is recorded every 10 m. Now instead of flying through hills and mountains that look smooth out, cliffs will actually look jagged and terrain features that are normally loss become much more apparent.

The best way to find terrain mesh add-ons for your area is to start a search on Google. Because the size of terrain mesh is are generally very large, they are split into geographical regions such as America or Europe. You can find meshes as either payed or freeware. In general payed meshes will offer you higher resolutions and meshes for more faraway locations. Regardless, a terrain mesh upgrade will make a real tangible experience for those that want to practice flying VFR and navigating using key landmarks.

Upon having your terrain mesh updated the next task is to further improve the default terrain textures. These terrain texture updates can either be downloaded for free or you can buy add-ons which greatly improve the visual appearance of Microsoft flight simulator 10.

I have been flight simming since the early release of Microsoft flight simulator. I am an avid flier on Microsoft flight simulator. Before I invested in add-ons and made sure I had the right flight controllers to really simulate flying properly. The thrustmaster warthog or the Logitech G940 is great for those that wish to fly jet planes just like they do in real life.

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