Ok you wonderful downloaders, I'm reinstalling FS2004 after a fairly long hiatus. I finally built my new computer and want to get the best enhancements for FS.Which are the top 10 best GLOBAL changes(i.e. which downloads are the ones that enhance FS2004 OVERALL the best...(I'm not looking for area specific airports and things yet)So for, Bluesphere and Chris Arringtons (SP?) airport upgrades look promising.Thanks to all in advance!

Chris Willis' replacement clouds (performance enhancement).Various mesh terrain for the areas that you like to fly over.Try B.C. mesh as an example

Greetings. I am a stickler for visuals.I use the following:Chris Arrington's Airport environment upgrade. The latest, I think is aeu6.zip. Love those dirty runways, cracked taxiways, and pretty night lighting.Marcel Aerni's replacement wood and desert textures. 2004_wood_desert.zip I really wish this guy had done an entire set for all ground textures because I think they're incredible.Chris Willis' generic night lights. fs2k4gnight.zip and the fix: gnfixv2.zip.Blueshpere reduced visibility layers fs9envis.zip only. This is mainly to fix the bug of low altitude/low visibility layers looking way to white - like ground fog. The major bluesphere replacement ground textures, in my opinion, lighten things up too much. This effect looks great when you're flying in perfect visibility conditions, but add just a little haze and things just look to washed out to me.Nils Danielsson's sky textures: fs9envtext.zip. Without these the sky often looks too blue. Also enhances dusk/dawn shading.OceanFx 2.0 - ofx20sa.zip. Lots of replacement water textures to choose from but most of the newer ones make the water look like something out of a 1st person shooter. OceanFX is the only one I've seen that keeps the waves small enough to be in proper scale to the rest of the Fs2004 world. I turn on water and ground texures and turn off all water effects.FsGenesis replacement 38m terrain mesh for the U.S. Some of it is now freeware. I also bought some of the higher resolution mesh for Yellowstone and Monument Valley.Last, but not least, I use hdmoon.zip as a replacement moon. Good stuff! - Matt Duren

Thanks guys! I really forgot how much I liked flying around in the Mooney Bravo :) I got into playing Unreal Tournament 2004 and LOMAC and haven't just relaxed and flew around a bit.