For Series S, detail is pared back (perhaps necessary bearing in mind the memory constraints) but it looks like a full 1080p presentation. There's an interesting balance between Series consoles then: the X leans into image reconstruction at the expense of core resolution, freeing up GPU resources to double down on detail. Xbox Series S maintains high quality clouds similar to that of Xbox Series X. Xbox Series S reduces the level of detail for buildings, foliage, terrain, and lights at a distance. Xbox Series S runs at 1080p internally and also outputs at 1080p. Xbox Series X runs internally at 1440p and has level of detail presets visually similar to PC's ultra. It still looks good judged by its own terms, but clearly there was some hard work needed here to get this to work. Not only is the draw distance pared back, closer detail seems to show lower fidelity models streaming in. However, there is the sense that Series S is compromised in other respects beyond the pixel count and level of detail is the main casualty - draw distance is pulled in (to my eye, more equivalent to PC's medium setting) and while terrain generally looks fine, it's the cities that suffer most. It's native 1080p, with 1080p UI but just like Series X, there is no sign of dynamic resolution scaling. Resolution is therefore cut to 1080p, with no kind of reconstruction. Series S is intriguing because Flight Simulator is a beast on PC, so the concept is getting it to run and look good on a four teraflop GPU paired with only 8GB of accessible memory is an extreme challenge. Overall though, the core spectacle is there and it's beautiful. There can be aliasing artefacts in motion, however, especially on hard edges on the planes in chase camera view. The effect is only really compromised with fast moving objects near to the camera, but that doesn't happen so much in Flight Simulator. The output is 4K but as is the standard these days for demanding games, temporal reconstruction is used: frames are natively rendered at 1440p, with data from prior frames injected to increase the detail level. It levels off CPU and GPU load, allowing Asobo to deliver the top-end visual experience. Microsoft Flight Simulator is not an arcade experience, so capping frame-rate to 30fps in its standard presentation makes a lot of sense. In terms of how this is achieved, Asobo Studio makes a number of sensible nips and tucks.
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Xbox Series X? Certainly in terms of overall level of detail, it's comparable to PC running at ultra settings. In the past, we've talked about how challenging this game is to run - in fact, we've embedded a library video further on down the page from the RTX 3080 launch showing that even one of the most powerful GPUs on the planet can't deliver 4K60, even with our carefully blended range of optimised settings. Developer Asobo Studio delivers incredible visuals on multiple fronts: terrain rendering is first class, the sheer density from the cityscapes is still awe-inspiring while atmospheric rendering, cloud simulation and weather characteristics look simply phenomenal. Microsoft Flight Simulator literally gives you access to the entire world thanks to its unique world generation systems, backed up by streaming from the cloud. Yes there are some drawbacks, but the takeaway is that Series X is delivering a visual experience up there with PC at its best, while Series S - although compromised - is borderline miraculous to behold bearing in mind this is a $299/£249 console with onerous memory constraints.īut it's all there. When it launched on PC, we described it as the new Crysis in terms of the way it's able to push hardware to the limit, so successfully executing a console port was never going to be easy, no matter how capable the console is.
In fact, in many respects, it is simply in a class of its own. We like to talk about 'next generation experiences' at Digital Foundry and this is up there with the best.
Microsoft Flight Simulator has finally arrived on Xbox Series X and Series S consoles - and it's simply terrific.
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