hi there i am trying to find out what the best programs are for the best scenery results.i currently have fsglobal 2010 and ultimate terrain but was wondering if this was helping get a realistic look or making it worse has anybody got any ideas what programs to use to get the most realism out of fs9 i also thought about installing rex but wasnt sure if it would conflict with the programs i have already my specs windows xpan-m2hd mb with amd 4800+ processor 2 gig ram onboard nvidia 7050 graphics with a geforce 8050 gtx addon graphics card any help you can give would be much appreciated i love flight but really would like to get the most from it thanks

hi there i am trying to find out what the best programs are for the best scenery results.i currently have fsglobal 2010 and ultimate terrain but was wondering if this was helping get a realistic look or making it worse has anybody got any ideas what programs to use to get the most realism out of fs9 i also thought about installing rex but wasnt sure if it would conflict with the programs i have already my specs windows xpan-m2hd mb with amd 4800+ processor 2 gig ram onboard nvidia 7050 graphics with a geforce 8050 gtx addon graphics card any help you can give would be much appreciated i love flight but really would like to get the most from it thanks

HiREX will work with those without problems and will give you excellent sky and cloud textures and very good water textures. You probably could also do with something to improve the default ground textures such as Ground Environment from Flight 1 although IMO Ground Texture Plus recently released by Simview is even better (and better value) but mysteriously it has disappeared off of the SimMarket web site (?why). Other than that you might want to get addon scenery for specific areas, the best of which are the France VFR series and which add tremenduous realism with very low frame rate effects.Hope this helps,Bill_{Windows XP Pro SP2; Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0Ghz CPU; Arctic Cool 7Pro; ASUS P5N-E-SLI Motherboard;4GB Corsair 800Mhz DDR2 RAM; 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800GTX Dual VGA Graphics card;2x 500GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive; 650W (2 x 12V) PSU; 2 x 1000GB + 1 x 150GB Western Digital External Hard Drive; CH Pro Yoke and PedalsAll helping to power 291GB of fs9!}

hi there thanks for the reply that was very useful information and kind of what i was thinking myself :(

You might want to try Active Sky. I had to do some tweaking to it to get it so that it matched the performance of my old system which was slower Core Duo. Recently, I moved FS9 to a i5 core with an nVidia GTX-560 TI card and it's just beautiful. I took a flight from MMMZ to MMSD this morning and the haze layer depiction was very realistic. I mean, it looked like being in Baja on a lazy Sunday morning.The major issues is making sure that you get the settings to match what you're system can handle. Jim Skorna might want to chime in on this one and let you know the best settings for your box.Mark