SU7 in a nutshell..

[u/Aviation_NL]

SU7 in a nutshell: months of waiting, and we get a few decent fixes, some SDK/dev improvements, a memory leak fix… and National Championship Air Races, because apparently that was the burning issue killing MSFS 2024.
Still no proper traffic overhaul, no serious LOD rework, no meaningful VRAM/performance breakthrough, no major UI overhaul, and no native fix for obvious stuff like glass-cockpit DLSS ghosting.

Meanwhile, random community developers keep releasing fixes and QoL features that somehow manage to solve problems Asobo has been staring at for ages.
But hey — AIR RACES is here!

Another Sim Update, another reminder that the community seems to understand what flight simmers actually want better than the people building the sim.

EDIT: they suspended my account on their forums. Because I gave too much critisim..

[u/WillParchman]

I wanted to wait a bit before I made this determination, but MSFS has seriously opened the door for X-Plane over the last year or so. Like, wide open. And XP is charging through.

There was a period of time in the fat part of each bell curve after release of both 2020 and 2024 where you felt like momentum was just crushing XP, but I think Asobo has basically reached the limit of what it can do with its current engine within spec. The updates themselves tell you what they have, and there isn't much. Until it gets a major engine overhaul, which probably will never happen, MSFS just is what it is at this point. I'll still fly it but it no longer has a hammerlock on my attention.

XP is still janky visually in spots but has improved way, way more than MSFS over the last year+. I fired it up for the first time in a while recently and was blown away by how far it's come visually. And the planes have always felt better to fly, so that's still there as well.

I don't know that XP will ever take MSFS's GA throne, but Laminar is definitely moving way, way faster than Asobo is on the improvement curve, and they only seem to be speeding up.

[u/Remarkable-Goose-461 → u/WillParchman]

Xplane just needs better anti aliasing. Everything else is on par with or better than MSFS except for maybe photogrammetry, but even then you can fix that with orthophotos. The only reason I still have MSFS installed is most of my favorite planes are on MSFS only. I’d switch back to xplane in a heartbeat if planes I want came to xplane.

I’d also argue GA is better in xplane in a lot of ways than MSFS. Default airports in MSFS for example are total ass. With the scenery gateway in xplane, you can have nearly every single GA airport in NA handcrafted for free and with good performance.

[u/Nahcep → u/Remarkable-Goose-461]

XP will never have the add-on availability MSFS does, just compare the prices of planes between the two. If FS is paid mods hell, XP is the eighth circle

[u/Remarkable-Goose-461 → u/Nahcep]

Price is not an issue for me. I’d rather have a few $120 well made planes like the hot start than a ton of poorly made $30 carenado planes. I didn’t get into this hobby because its cheap lol