February 20, 200422 yr All current owners should be receving the update today. Update Info:1. Fixes the blue line that appears in he scenery2. Updates the night MIP levels for better display of night lighting3. Makes summer textures appear for all seasons so you are now no longer just limited to summer flying and can fly in any season4. Moves library objects (such as stadia, Queen Mary, etc) for FS2004 only.*****************************************************My Note:Blurry textures are still present. This is not a Megascenery issue but a FS9 issue.TP
February 21, 200422 yr I wish to add a comment.The update to Mega-Scenery Southern California was sent to me yesterday by e-mail from the publisher with a zip file attached. The e-mail was signed by Robert Ferraro, president of PC Aviator Inc. (I know, I know - its a machine signing those things....)This is the first time ever I received an update to a payware add-on with such care. My thanks go to the publishers and developers. Hopefully all publishers of payware will follow this example.Have funSeevProcessor; AMD Athlon 64 - FX51Motherboard; Giga-Byte FA-K8NNXP-940, Dual Channel DDR400Memory; Corsair, 2 X 512 MB 400Mhz (total 1,024 MB)Video card; GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, 256 MB bufferHDD; Western Digital 200 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB bufferCase; Thermaltake Xaser III lanfireSound card; Creative Blaster Live 5.1DVD burner; PioneerCRT Monitors; 17" for panel, 19" for view - with 25" fresnel lens (Edmund Optics)O/S; WIN XP Home
February 21, 200422 yr Author "Hopefully all publishers of payware will follow this example."I hope not. I'm on 56k and would have prefered to download the file myself instead of having it forced on me when checking my emails.What's wrong with sending out a notification with a download link to download the actual file?Sure, it was "only" 600KB but that still takes a few minutes with a modem. On the Internet, sending filies bigger than a few hundred KB's without prior notice is considered rude.There are several reasons:-What if I was in a hurry and just wanted to check if I had received that hypothetical, very important email from my colleague? I wouldn't want to wait several minutes for a patch for a game in that case.-Some ISPs and email services filter and remove attachements bigger than e.g. 500KB and some even filter out certain file types such as .zip, .exe etc.-Some email providers don't give you lots of storage space for incomming emails. If it gets filled up, new messages are refused and you could loose important emails.-There have been many email viruses on the loose recently. The latest viruses are able to spoof the Sender address to make it look like it comes from a trustworthy source. There's one email circulating, that looks like it comes straight from Microsoft, with an attached "update patch" that you are asked to run. It's of course a virus, and most people realize that and delete the email. I'd imagine many users would just delete this email as well, afraid that it's just a virus disguised as a patch.-When I checked, the patch was still not available on the website, but only sent out via email. That means you can't re-download the patch, should you loose the email. -
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