^{So I recently bought Anacortes from orbx and in the read me it says I need PNW? Do I really need that for the install to work?}

Yes, the addon airports need parts from the base PNW to display correctly.

Superfly123,

 

You won't regret adding the PNW area scenery....it is beautiful.

 

Bill

Thanks everyone

If you have spent the money to get a custom airport, I highly suggest that the first time you run FSX after installation, that you run all graphic sliders at full out. Forget FPS on your system for a moment, and then see just what exactly ***IS*** in the scenery! Taxi around the airport and enjoy...then take off, (even at the risk of being clunky on your system, if any....) and then enjoy all the eye candy and upgrades to the island, town, marina(s) etc.

 

Keep MESH at 5M so Obrx auto-gen buildings don't 'float' above the terrain in some elevated instances.

 

After that if needs, be....start to dummy down visual output. You'd be amazed how many persons have these airports (Orbx) and have never seen 100 percent on the visuals this type of scenery file offers, as they already had some or all of their SCENERY sliders at less than the highest setting for each one.

 

Enjoy...

^{So I recently bought Anacortes from orbx and in the read me it says I need PNW? Do I really need that for the install to work?}

 

Although your experience will be better with it, and although you will miss some elements (traffic?) if you don´t, it is not technically necessary to have PNW and you will certainly be able to install Anacortes. But it will not be integrated with the rest of the scenario.

 

By the way, I also got Skagit and was positively surprised with that one.

If you have spent the money to get a custom airport, I highly suggest that the first time you run FSX after installation, that you run all graphic sliders at full out. Forget FPS on your system for a moment, and then see just what exactly ***IS*** in the scenery! Taxi around the airport and enjoy...then take off, (even at the risk of being clunky on your system, if any....) and then enjoy all the eye candy and upgrades to the island, town, marina(s) etc.

 

Keep MESH at 5M so Obrx auto-gen buildings don't 'float' above the terrain in some elevated instances.

 

After that if needs, be....start to dummy down visual output. You'd be amazed how many persons have these airports (Orbx) and have never seen 100 percent on the visuals this type of scenery file offers, as they already had some or all of their SCENERY sliders at less than the highest setting for each one.

 

Enjoy...

 

I once try this and my CPU burned...I had to get a new CPU. haha...juast kidding. Though you may be able to see all the eye-candy stuff, you want to go easy at first. Some systems out there will refuse going all out, at once.

Although your experience will be better with it, and although you will miss some elements (traffic?) if you don´t, it is not technically necessary to have PNW and you will certainly be able to install Anacortes. But it will not be integrated with the rest of the scenario.

 

By the way, I also got Skagit and was positively surprised with that one.

 

There are a number of problems with running the airports this way, which is why we don't recommend it. They weren't designed as stand-alones.

It doesn't cover the Anacortes area which you do really need the full version of PNW for to get the most of out of but don't forget the free time-unlimted demo which is already a pretty large area and includes Bowerman which is the airfield I fly from most of the time anyway despite having countless other PNW airfields I paid a lot of money for! You will need to uninstall the demo if you opt to upgrade to the full product.

 

http://fullterrain.com/product_demos.html