Here is a quick demo of the FSAltitude package for Australia installed over FTXAustralia SP4. On the last screenshot you can see how the FTX terrain textures show under the aircraft. I will test some Simsavvy stuff and compare the two products. Hope this helps those of you that are contemplating FSAltitude, FPS impact is negligible on my system i7 920 3.65GHz / 6 GB PC1400 / ATI HD 6890 1 GB / Vista Business 64 Thanks for looking

Stunning work Brzl...I thought you were all FS9? Darryl

Yes...I was...until PMDG released their 737NGX with a 2D panel that has great performance. Now I finally have something that gives me great FPS. Was never a fan of VCs for performance reasons. Not to forget *******' fsx.cfg tweaking web site. Together with disabling widescreen mode I now get FPS similar to FS9. I am now officially 50/50 with leaning to FSX. And then there is the new LGAV.

Welcome to the other side....now we have to work on Ed Cox...LOL Splendid shots as usual

Switching over to FSX is not only an FPS thing for everybody. Outside the FTX areas I would say that the ground textures are terrible. It is a blurry cartoon world with awful saturated colours and the scenery enhancement packages do not help at all. FS2004 with a well adjusted GePro and ENB along with Real H2O simply looks more like real life. If only it was an FPS issue only I would have switched over a long time ago. And I read Ed Cox say the same some time back. Anyhow just my 2 cents. Alex

Beautiful shots Brzl, you should try that freeware scenery for death valley ;)

Outside the FTX areas I would say that the ground textures are terrible. It is a blurry cartoon world with awful saturated colours and the scenery enhancement packages do not help at all. Alex

I agree. That is why I am looking at bypassing those textures...by flying in areas that have more appeal and customized textures.

Beautiful shots Brzl, you should try that freeware scenery for death valley ;)

You bet I will !

Awesome shots. Nebojsa

I've been thinking about getting this. Id like to see a video of it in action to see how smooth the transition is when in motion.Looks good in the screen shots though.I've been thinking about getting this. Id like to see a video of it in action to see how smooth the transition is when in motion.Looks good in the screen shots though.

Outside the FTX areas I would say that the ground textures are terrible. It is a blurry cartoon world with awful saturated colours and the scenery enhancement packages do not help at all. FS2004 with a well adjusted GePro and ENB along with Real H2O simply looks more like real life. If only it was an FPS issue only I would have switched over a long time ago. And I read Ed Cox say the same some time back. Anyhow just my 2 cents. Alex

Yes GePro, Enb, and Real H2O look much better than GEX, Enb, with REX water, not. Well maybe if you like low res textures and old looking water. Thats ok though, stick with whatever Ed does. Really both sims are about equally 'cartooney' since neither one are the real deal, just that one is an HD cartoon and the other is a standard def cartoon :-)

Yes GePro, Enb, and Real H2O look much better than GEX, Enb, with REX water, not. Well maybe if you like low res textures and old looking water. Thats ok though, stick with whatever Ed does. Really both sims are about equally 'cartooney' since neither one are the real deal, just that one is an HD cartoon and the other is a standard def cartoon :-)

Hi, If HD is all you care for than I cannot argue with you. For me the general colour tone is much more important and there the addons I mentioned outshine anything FSX can offer apart from FTX which is perfect in my opinion. On the other hand the view you see from an airliner most of the time is too hazy and HD or SD does not make much of a difference. An example (once again I am talking about the colour tone of the images - and actually my FS2004 is even less blurry than this one):

Hi, If HD is all you care for than I cannot argue with you. For me the general colour tone is much more important and there the addons I mentioned outshine anything FSX can offer apart from FTX which is perfect in my opinion. On the other hand the view you see from an airliner most of the time is too hazy and HD or SD does not make much of a difference. An example (once again I am talking about the colour tone of the images - and actually my FS2004 is even less blurry than this one):

I've seen the video before. You can tweak either sim to look that way if you know what your doing and/or how to do it. You can even turn down the texture resolution in FSX to make it less sharp if you want it to look like FS9's textures. As far as your argument about what you see in an airliner is true and you can replicate that in FSX as well using ASE settings and ENB settings. You could even take it a step farther and use a custom ENB palette to adjust the overall tone to match that of FS9 if you wanted to.The argument about those addons is debatible though. Aside from a certain plane or scenery that might only be available for FS9, you can pretty much do or have the same result in FSX if you want. The only problem is that the majority of FSX users dont know how to set it up colorwise to make it look realistic and opt for totally unrealistic ENB bloom effects and out of this world looking sky textures.We can agre to disagree and I always say to each their own. Everyone has a different idea of what looks realistic and what doesn't. I'll disagree and saythat you can get any desired look you want in FSX though if you are willing to take the time to do it, and more importantly know how to do it. You could certainly make the color tones look like FS9 if you chose to.

All right you said the same thing three times and I understand your point. On the other hand I have never seen anything in FSX even similar in overall effect to the video I have shown. As I said I would be happy to switch over if I could reach the same look as the planes are much better in FSX now - but I have never even seen an example apart from the FTX ones. I have been using FSX for 2 years and then I switche back out of drustration on how the Earth never looked right. Using GEX (I am only talking about Europe here) made things worse. REX is beautiful and I have won screenshot contests with images enhanced with REX but honestly our world does not look like that most of the time. In the end I hit home with FS2004 and the combination I described. It seems that the OP feels the same way as he said himself a few posts above. I would be happy if you could direct me to the FSX videos (non FTX areas) that convey the same overall feeling as the video I inserted above. If you own a custom ENB palette that has proved really good I would be happy to test that too. Thanks, Alex

Ah ... a little something ... turned out to be FS2004 too...