Hi,I have FSX on a new system and am trying to decide between ASE or AS12. Right now I am using the default FSX weather. My concerns are the size of AS12 with hard drive space, as well as performance. Can AS12 be tweaked or adjusted so only some of the texture sets rather than all of them can be installed thus saving some space? And do the new textures have much impact on performance and if so can the settings be adjusted also? Thanks, Tom

Hi,I have FSX on a new system and am trying to decide between ASE or AS12. Right now I am using the default FSX weather. My concerns are the size of AS12 with hard drive space, as well as performance. Can AS12 be tweaked or adjusted so only some of the texture sets rather than all of them can be installed thus saving some space? And do the new textures have much impact on performance and if so can the settings be adjusted also? Thanks, Tom

AS12 is the choice if you want textures that are weather sensitive - the installed size on disk is 4.7Gbytes. There is no option to install a partial texture library. I have seen no impact on performance on my system and you can adjust performance (memory footprint) to some extent by choosing the size of the textures to be installed - sizes range from 256x256 to 4096x4096 depending on what texture is involved and can be DXT or 32bits. I test on an i7 920 @ 3.2GHz, nVidia 260GTX card, 6 GBytes of Corsair RAM system. I'm one of the Beta testers and quite like the program - I've used all of the HiFi programs and this is, overall, the best yet.DJ

Hi,Just to clarify on the installed size, we have implemented some new compression techniques to keep the footprint smaller (and the download smaller!) than the traditional system used by other graphics add-ons. The uncompressed size is over 16GB (raw imagery) but the typical installation will be under 5GB total HD space. When you start using certain features like recoloring, creating new variations, and/or snapshots, the size can really increase.

Thanks for the help, guys. Tom

AS12 is the choice if you want textures that are weather sensitive - the installed size on disk is 4.7Gbytes. There is no option to install a partial texture library. I have seen no impact on performance on my system and you can adjust performance (memory footprint) to some extent by choosing the size of the textures to be installed - sizes range from 256x256 to 4096x4096 depending on what texture is involved and can be DXT or 32bits. I test on an i7 920 @ 3.2GHz, nVidia 260GTX card, 6 GBytes of Corsair RAM system. I'm one of the Beta testers and quite like the program - I've used all of the HiFi programs and this is, overall, the best yet. DJ

Thanks for info.I am a user of REX2 for textures and ASE for weather engine, any advice for me to upgrade to AS2012 or not? is it worth for me?Sorry , I know here is not good place for asking about comparing with other product. So maybe I have to ask about that after AS2012 release on FSX general forum.(the reason that I didn't open new topic).

While I obviously don't have AS2012 yet, I do have REX. One of the big selling points for me for AS2012 will be the snowy runways. If you fly in places that have hard winters and especially remote areas, having snow on the runways is a huge bonus in terms of the immersion factor. As well, apparently wx interpolation for sparsely settled areas is improved. So those are my main reasons for getting AS2012, if that helps any.