July 1, 200421 yr Hiya Albaro...It does sound like a mouthful but it describes the process beautifully! :)sys-tem: A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.ie: your computer!u-Ni-fie-ca-ti on: To make into or become a unit; consolidate.ie: getting all the bits of your computer to love each other and cooperate rather than and hindering each other!
July 1, 200421 yr Todd, could you post your system specs so we could get an idea of what you had to work with before the unification. I am really, really tempted to plop down the bucks for the service as my tired 2.53 GHZ system is really ticking me off.Thanks man, and great videos. I really enjoyed watching them at the office!:>
July 1, 200421 yr Author My system specs are as follows:Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe MotherboardAthlon XP 2.8 GHZ (Running at default speed, no O.C.)Corsair XMS 512MB DDR400 Low CAS LatencyPowercolor Radeon 9600XT 128MB
July 1, 200421 yr Great videos again - keep them coming.One thing puzzles me: how do you manage to control the aircraft through landing and taxiing while the screen just shows wing view? Do you have a multi monitor setup? If I try landing without looking forward things get ugly fast :)--Bryn
July 1, 200421 yr Janey, that Little Blue video is superb - and what an incredible soundtrack. I'd be interested to hear what your system specs are, as you seem to be getting a very smooth performance in what I assume is a very demanding scenery (despite what the makers say to the contrary).Swiss Pro looks like an enormous step forward in scenery design. At last we have some spikey mountains, and not the rounded hillocks that FS normally gives us. A few years ago everyone was talking about fractals and how they better matched real landscape, but we don't seem to have them in FS yet. In some ways FS98 (or was it earlier still?) gave us more realistic mountains - at least they had points on top. Now if only Swiss Pro were about 100 Euros cheaper :) --Bryn
July 1, 200421 yr Author Look in the lower left hand corner of the video ;) The word Replay might be a hint... :)
July 2, 200421 yr Janey...Neat to hear about the Thun thing. I have indeed been to Switzerland, and in fact stayed overnight right on the shores of Lake Thun. The lakes there are very blue. I also, of course, have landed on that lake many times in the Sim. When I taxi up to where I stayed, it is just amazingly the same. I was involved in a project where I spent a lot of time in Austria, and was able to get away on the weekends. Then about three years ago I rented a car at Brussels and spent two months touring Belgium, Germany, Austria, and finally Switzerland. I went 4000 miles all together. Those countries are so nice. I recently got the Swiss Pro program, but have not installed it yet.Have fun.... It's beautiful.Bob (Lecanto, Fl)
July 2, 200421 yr Hiya Bryn...Swiss Pro from what I can tell isn't really a great advance as such, it just happens to be a great combination of an amazing country, some excellent aerial photography and a very high detail mesh all of which combine to create that wow factor! My 'puter is a P4 3GHZ 800FSB 1GB FX5600XT. As you probably know photo scenery is very demanding on any system due to the large amount of textures that have to be loaded and the well known limitation of FS's scenery rendering engine. Having said that I still get good frame rates when using it, 40-50fps 2D Cockpit, 30-40fps VC away from detailed airports and with "light" a weather scenario.Freshly released photo scenery will never be cheap as the source material is just too expensive but as I am someone who has been using it for as long as I can remember (I started off my flight simming journey with Flight Unlimited, remember that? :)) I find the default FS scenery a tad bland and repetitive.
July 3, 200421 yr >Look in the lower left hand corner of the video ;) The word>Replay might be a hint... :)Well, learn something new every day - never knew that the full gamut of views was available in a replay.Thanks!--Bryn
July 5, 200421 yr Very nicely done. Forgive my ignorance but what program are you using to make these videos? Surely not the FS9 flight video option?
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