Flightbeam Studios recently updated their rendition of San Francisco International Airport (KSFO), ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and introducing enhanced ground textures, performance-optimized assets, built-in native VDGS, and more.

The update takes advantage of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s modern SDK to further improve their rendition of San Francisco International, now without barriers imposed by the previous platform’s limitations: it would enforce, for example, a default detail map on all aprons, which is no longer the case, allowing Flightbeam to further increase the quality on the ground textures with higher resolution samples, more oil stains, tire marks and gunk, accurately matching the real counterpart. Furthermore, every single asset in the scenery was re-optimized and re-exported for the best possible performance.

It also brings a native VDGS system on A, B, E, and G gates, completely custom taxiway lights with correct runway entry/exit colors, diverse fauna and flora around the airport, and new scanned assets from their multiple visits to SFO in real life.

The update is completely free for previous owners, and new purchasers can find it on Contrail for roughly $13.29 (promotional price), requiring at least 2.44 GB of free hard disk space to install.

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