MSFS 2020 vs X-Plane 12 vs Real Life! Landing in Paris

Good day, avgeeks! Today, as always, we will conduct a graphics comparison, throughout the landing in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

We will look at vegetation, colors, and weather effects in both MSFS and X-Plane 12. Let's determine the best looking flight simulator!

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[CyberSystemOverload]

You go through a lot of trouble making these. MSFS is just great, Im trying to like XPlane 12, the airplanes feel excellent but the problem is MSFS has spoilt us with its visuals. But XP12 is getting better all the time, specially its rain and puddle effects! Thanks for a great vid!

[killsapm]

- Both simulators require some color adjustments.
- The haze you mentioned is caused by weather conditions and the flight simulator engine. MSFS2020 has various issues related to the weather engine.
- The forests, roads, and houses in Xplane do not look very realistic; they appear cartoonish.
- When you mentioned that MSFS seems too green, it might not be the same time of day. Also, I don't see the fuselage shadow on the engine in MSFS as I do in comparison to the other simulator.
- Yes, MSFS has a problem with tree sizes and airport surroundings.
- If I had to choose, I would have issues related to what you mentioned, as well as aircraft dynamics and platform stability.
Very nice job.

[MtheHell]

I respect the effort and the amount of work you put in this comparison. But tbh, you can't really compare three different sources with completely different conditions.
But you can gauge the main differences:
- RL is not so colorful, shiny bright and friendly as it should be 🤗
- MSFS (out of the box) is a candy shop with exaggerated colors and saturation 🥳
- and XPlane... yeah... like the last 30 years it's the sim for those who rather like data, numbers and scripts than looking outside the cockpit window. 🤓

There is one for everyone, but RL is - by far - the most expensive way of flying (actively or as a passenger)... 😂

[tiemji]

Thansk for making this comparaison. I still love how XP renders compared to MSFS

[NotTheRambo]

How did you record the landings in the sims? I mean did you use the autoland feature of the aircraft or handfly and record using some external mod/addon?

[magentilized]

i personally think Real Life took that W!!! It has ∞Rendering Distance where you can even get ∞FPS which is crazy for a low low price of 200$ per flight!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Patrickhajjar]

Great comparison! My ego prefers msfs but my heart prefers xp12

[ruialexandre]

Always been an msfs guy ever since version 3 but i must congratulate XPlane here on the most realistic scenery view with haze: visibility and color wise. Also: real life has the dirtiest airplane window of the three.

[Solent]

1:05 that's probably because it's winter irl and summer/spring in the simulators

[yogowong]

Not only the forest is odd but the shadow too 🤣🤣

[HT]

There is no lag in real life mode.. What's your gpu ??

[JordanFly]

Great Comparison!
Did you use any add-on for x-plane?
would be nice to see the same with x-europe, global forests and ortho.

[averty]

This looks like msfs and xp12 are on ultra low settings 😂

[svenwd]

Wow without Ortho? Not bad. Both great. Here it is clear that msfs has too bright colors, i like the atmosphere in xplane. But in the end, two very enjoyable sims with their own strenghts and weaknesses

[JamesGaunt]

This real life engine has some pretty impressive graphics, shame it's clouds look so fake.

[ultimazilla]

msfs and xp12 look more realistic than real life

[Infinity]

Where are the advantages for IFR with Xplane in your opinion?

[MartinEkh]

One is oversaturated another undersaturated and the winner will be first one who reach normal fps some day..

[jonathanparle]

There is some pretty bad tree aliasing in the X-plane section of the video. Hopefully it can be overcome with an appropriate setting.

[gusram]

X plane looks more close to real life in the atmosphere and plane physics, is closer to the real life vídeo movements, if you put Ortho and simheaven to x plane 12 it will look better