I am presently using REX, GEX, and UTX and I thought I was completely covered using all of these together but I was wrong. Since GEX released the Africa/Middle East scenery I decided it was time to get more scenery. I have also discovered that GEX is pretty expensive especially for an area that I don't fly in often. So I thought about other areas of the world that GEX doesn't cover specifically Asia and South America and how I can have the world covered and not have to wait for GEX to cover the area. Looking at the other option offered was Scenery Tech and they cover the entire world for cheaper than GEX. Now here are the question that I have, Can I use all of these together or is it overkill?. Isn't Scenery Tech and GEX the same thing or what makes one better than the other. Can I install the scenery just for the areas that GEX doesn't cover. Does it make a difference if I install Scenery Tech into an area that GEX does already cover. And last but not least, if they can be used together how do I make that work, the installation for GEX and UTX was so picky to say the least.Thank you so much guys for reading this post. I am so confused with all of the options but never gave it a second thought because I thought I had everything that I needed. I can't believe that with the hundreds of add ons that I have bought that I would still need more!

I think you are mixing up things here. Scenery Tech does landclass, GEX are textures. Therefore, they don't offer the same thing at different prices, but completely different product categories.So you can e. g. use Scenery Tech landclass together with the GEX textures around Africa, which is great.Some more detailed explanation can be read here. http://forum.avsim.n...ost__p__1991314When looking at the huge area GEX titles cover and the rather low price there, the value is actually pretty high in my eyes.Same goes for the Scenery Tech stuff so far.

Ok Thanks, but let me get this right. If I activate the scenery tech scenery, I have to sandwich the entry between the two UT urban and vegetation entries and that's it. I don't have to alter my GEX?UTX? because there are so many customized options available that it seems like I would have to do some "tinkering" for it all to work together. Will I notice a big difference when using scenery tech?. Since GEX is so good and I am so used to it, I am not sure if Scenery Tech is working underneath. Thanks again

they will work seamlessly together and it will enhance the visuals of the FSX world a lot. And yes you had it right where the Scenery Tech info goes, you do not have to do anything else to GEX r UTX to make it work.Kyle

Thank you everyone, I'm off to Sim market!

Ok, so I bought the whole scenery tech collection and tested all of the areas and they all look fine enough to me. So the question that I have is why do need to have GEX installed if they basically do the same thing?. People have told me that all GEX does is make the textures sharper or is there more. When it was released, I bought it on the same day without a second thought but now I am thinking if I got everything that I could out of it. So will I notice a big difference by not having GEX installed because I am so used to GEX that I take it for granted. Can I just uninstall GEX in the usual way or is there a more technical thing that I need to do. It's also a pretty big file that can free up precious space for more airport scenery. I know I can go to the GEX forum but I get more advice from here and have never been let down. Thanks

So the question that I have is why do need to have GEX installed if they basically do the same thing?

Did you read the other replies in this thread? They aren't the same thing. SceneryTech is a new set of landclass data for FSX. That means FSX will have more accurate placement of regions like residential areas, farmlands, dense urban areas, grassland, etc. SceneryTech does NOT make any changes to the textures in FSX.GEX does the opposite. It has no effect at all on the position/placement of the different landclasses, but instead replaces all the textures with far better and higher resolution textures.Put simply, SceneryTech tells FSX where to place each texture on the terrain and GEX makes those textures prettier.

so there wouldn't be any FPS decrease with scenerytech? Is it like FSglobal?

so there wouldn't be any FPS decrease with scenerytech? Is it like FSglobal?

I've never noticed any FSP hit from using SceneryTech.Imagine the FS world as a grid of squares.* Mesh (e.g. FSGlobal) adds elevation data so the grid is no longer flat. * Landclass (e.g. SceneryTech) tells the sim what each square should look like (urban, farmland, etc). * GEX replaces the default FSX textures for each square. Each texture represents a square bit of urban landscape, farmland, etc.Mesh, landclass, and texture replacement addons do different things and can be used alone or in combination.

Do you think it will be ok to remove GEX to free up space and see what happens?. Would it then be easy to reinstall if I need to. I haven't played around with GEX since I first installed it but I remember that it was a nightmare with the updates and order of installation and all the options that I had to pick. I just hope that I am not preparing to do something that will give me a headache to get back to the way it was before the uninstall.

Bosflo, maybe people could help you better when actually knowing about your intentions. What are you trying to achieve exactly?Better frames, cheaper scenery, nicer looking places, all of it? I can't really get to the point so far.You can enhance the optics and the realism in the sim with some addon scenery and you may have to choose which thing to enhance first if your money is limited. See Trisager's explanation on the different elements there.The simple uninstallation of a nice addon to save HDD space while losing image quality isn't a recommendable thing in my eyes. Unless you really hate what GEX gives you, leave it installed and enjoy the textures, that's what it's for. :( You also paid for this to happen.If you still want to uninstall the thing, follow the Uninstalling Ground Environment X chapter in the manual.

Well quite simply, I would like to have more room for airport add ons and reducing slow loading scenery. I noticed in areas where scenery tech is used the scenery loads faster than the GEX covered areas . GEX is over 5 gb, so without GEX I will have a lot more room to get back precious space. UTX is a must have, but now I don't see the "need" for GEX if scenery tech looks fine.

Well quite simply, I would like to have more room for airport add ons and reducing slow loading scenery. I noticed in areas where scenery tech is used the scenery loads faster than the GEX covered areas . GEX is over 5 gb, so without GEX I will have a lot more room to get back precious space. UTX is a must have, but now I don't see the "need" for GEX if scenery tech looks fine.

HelloScenerytech only calls whatever textures you have installed.Scenerytech is not textures, With scenerytech and no GEX you will only see the default MS FSX textures as arranged by scenerytech landclass.With scenerytech and GEX you will see the GEX textures as arranged by scenerytech landclass.If you cannot see the difference between GEX and Default then you have not got GEX installed properly.The difference is so apparent.UTX also contains Landclass