Beside the "big name" brands I like to discover up & comers or small shops producing some nice entries. Comes to mind is Latin VFR's Key West and Pacific Simulations Marshall Islands and the Kingdom of Tonga. Also picked up 'Antartica' over the holiday sales which appears to real creative (waiting on my DVD). My fav's are FSDT and Fly Tampa who I can always count on for superb modeling and superb customer loyalty.But always do your research, read reviews, get feedback, install trials if available.Clutch

A few specific questions about specific payware airport sceneries, that I may buy:(If it's possible, please provide framerate information, in relation to Aerosoft's Mega Airport Amsterdam (Schiphol - EHAM), for comparison.)OrbX Melbourne 2.0 (YMML):- Does it need other OrbX sceneries for full functionality (night/day, lighting, everything)?- How good/bad is it on framerates?Also, for all the following airports, how good/bad are on framerates?- FlightBeam Studios----> KSFO- FSDreamTeam:----> PHNL (Honolulu)----> KDFW (Dallas Fort-Worth)----> KLAX (Los Angeles)----> KLAS (Las Vegas)----> KORD (Chicago O'Hare)----> LSGG (Geneva)- LatinVFR----> MDSD (Santo Domingo)----> SCEL (Santiago)- Greek Airports Project----> Rhodes International 2010 (LGRP)- UK2000----> Gatwick Extreme (EGKK)

Edited February 15, 201214 yr by cptawsom

GEX has been giving me some pretty low frames on landing

HelloGEX will not affect your FPS, if anything the better optimised autogen placement should help you.The GEX textures are exactly the same size as the default textures, just a straight replacement.UTX however has many features that will affect your FPS if you are not careful, such as the much greater freeway traffic densities.Run the UTX config tool and look at the cpu loads of each feature.

Diego you can try and download the demo for all fsdreamteam airports it give's you about 5 min to try it out after that the buildings and details disappear for me the best in scenery design are fsdreamteam flytampa flightbeam follwed by some other very good scenery designers not listed. and I believe JFK is getting in update by fsdt after Vancouver is released.

Edited February 15, 201214 yr by Silverbird

Wow...

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Diego you can try and download the demo for all fsdreamteam airports it give's you about 5 min to try it out after that the buildings and details disappear

I know that but you can't do any serious testing with 5 minutes. If they gave you 20, would be OK.You need just five minutes or more to set the basics for your testing scenario - which has to be from medium to worse -> aka dusk or dawn, some serious clouds and so on. There is no point in testing the framerate in daylight, with a completely sunny and spotless sky.Also you need at least another 3-4 minutes to load a take-off config and take-off to do the testing.5-minute demos are just a joke.

I know that but you can't do any serious testing with 5 minutes. If they gave you 20, would be OK.You need just five minutes or more to set the basics for your testing scenario - which has to be from medium to worse -> aka dusk or dawn, some serious clouds and so on. There is no point in testing the framerate in daylight, with a completely sunny and spotless sky.Also you need at least another 3-4 minutes to load a take-off config and take-off to do the testing.5-minute demos are just a joke.

All you have to do is go to the spot you want save it with your favorite aircraft restart fsx load save flight and take a look around I honestly don't see why its bad its just a sneak peek hardly anyone does a demo anymore and it will give you in idea on frame rates and also gives you enough time to check if you like it or not even if you have to restart fsx again its only meant to be a sneak peek I personally never had a problem with it maybe in the future they might add a little bit of extra time I'm just grateful at the fact that they give you a demo in the first place.

As far as airports go my signature reflects the products I support. I was given Sim Savvy photoreal for Xmas by my wife. I think it is absolutley amzing and I love flying with it. I know some people do not like photoreal but if you do this is the way to go. The developer could use the support so check it out. It is a big investment up front but well worth it in the long run. It also works well with add on airports. As far as airports go anything from FlyTampa, FSDreamteam and Flightbeam. ORBX scenry is top notch and so are their airports. I just spent the weekend flying around Australia which I have not done in a while. It was a real treat. LatinVFR did a decent KMIA.

HelloGEX will not affect your FPS, if anything the better optimised autogen placement should help you.The GEX textures are exactly the same size as the default textures, just a straight replacement.UTX however has many features that will affect your FPS if you are not careful, such as the much greater freeway traffic densities.Run the UTX config tool and look at the cpu loads of each feature.

The funny thing is that ever since I installed GEX after UTX, the FPS is lower. I did the install correctly.