Month: April 2025

886: MSFS 2020 Still Dominates in 2025

| Tom Tsui

A survey report conducted by Navigraph released about a week ago said that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 continues to be the most popular choice among flightsimmers in 2025 so far.

Although its successor, the MSFS 2024, still comes to second which reflects a notable migration to the new version, the actual percentage of respondents saying that they have migrated to MSFS 2024 is less than half of those who reported the older MSFS 2020 is still their go-to simulator.

I am not surprised about the result Continue reading →

885: My AimxyZ Settings 25-0422

| Tom Tsui

My current AimxyZ settings for FS2020 and FS2024 have been slightly changed to cope with the updates in graphics, which I found more comfortable to my eyes when flying with small aircraft.

This is my settings for FS2020:

This is my settings for FS2024: Continue reading →

884: My nVidia Settings 25-0417

| Tom Tsui

Followings are my latest nVidia Control Settings, which have been slightly modified to cope with the changes in Graphics Settings of FS2020 and FS2024 I made earlier this month.

The Shader Cache Size in the Global Settings Continue reading →

883: My MSFS Graphics Settings 25-0409

| Tom Tsui

In the past, I’d been deciding my Graphics Settings based on trial and error.  To be honest, I was quite happy with the results of what I achieved in general.

Last month, I decided to give the Nvidia App a shot to see how far my flight simulation system performance it can take.  I was glad to find out the optimized recommendations by the App, both for the FS2020 and FS2024, were not far off from what I anticipated.

Followings are the latest upates of my FS2020 and FS2024 Graphics Settings after repeating adjustments for optimum results from my rigs.  They are put side-by-side for quick comparisons:

The values in brackets Continue reading →

882: Changing Shorter Trees Density

| Tom Tsui

The “Shorter Trees” by YankeeMike01 by default increases the tree density to 200%.  After playing it for awhile, I prefer to lower it to original 100%.

To make the change is simple.  Just copy the “00-asobo_biomes_fallback.xml” from the “vegetation.DEFAULTS” folder, and use it to replace the 200% one in the “vegetation” folder.  That will do.

Should you need to go back to the 200% density, simply Continue reading →

881: My ReShape Settings Update 25-0403

| Tom Tsui

After nearly two years, my ReShade settings for FS2020 have been slightly changed based on the color tone of FS2024 as follows::
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880: An Enhancement Shouldn’t be Missed

| Tom Tsui

One of the most criticized issues with MSFS2020 is that the trees are oversized and don’t look realistic.  There are many different solutions out there.  For example, I’ve been using the “Short Height” Vegetation setting in REX AccuSeason Advanced Edition to deal with the issue.  It does help a little, but the results are still not ideal.

Until recently, I found an addon in Flightsim.to called “Shorter Trees and Improved Density” by YankeeMike01.  I was surprised to find out that it almost perfectly solves the problem of unrealistic oversized trees in MSFS, at least in my case. Continue reading →

879: MSFS UnAssigned Keyboard Keys

| Tom Tsui

Have you ever encountered a situation in which you need to create some Hotkeys for specific actions or custom controls for hardware peripherals?   But then you suddenly realize that you have no idea which keys or keyboard combos are available.

Here come at last a complete listing of the UnAssigned Keyboard Keys that I have been wanting to put them together for a long time for references:

You can also download Continue reading →