Hi

 

I'm considering to buy UK2000's London City airport, as I read it looks better than Aerosoft's version. Now, my question is, how does UK2000's EGLC perform together with VFR London? Is it comparable to VFR London alone, or is the hit bigger?

 

Thanks in advance for your comments,

Flo

Why not wait and see how the area is covered in the upcoming ORBX England scenery.

 

The UK2000 airport reviews give them better performance than the Aerosoft ones and although it won't be in the initial release ORBX are talking about doing a detailed area either side of the Thames. No details on that yet though. There's a lot of discussion about UK2000 airfields and airports on the Unoficial ORBX forum here but untill the FTX England scenery is released we'll have to wait and see.

 

You may find this review helpful? http://www.simflight...te-city-london/

 

The FTX scenery is due out in about (?) six weeks so there'll be plenty of folk posting screenshots and any compatability issues soon.

 

Geoff

You can try out any UK2000 scenery before purchase

VFR London has a switch to either use/not use the included City Airport. UK 2000 works just fine.

Thank you very much for your help. I hav downloaded the demo version, and as soon as possible, I'm going to install it.

 

Regards,

Flo

I had VFR London and it was terrible on my system, it basically made FSX unusable, it ground right down to some god awful frame-rate just flying default FSX aircraft, so I had to send it back for a refund. I'm looking at the UK2000 stuff now, but havent got round to trying it yet, so lease do let us know how you get on with it.

I had VFR London and it was terrible on my system, it basically made FSX unusable, it ground right down to some god awful frame-rate just flying default FSX aircraft, so I had to send it back for a refund.

That's interesting, I have no problems with VFR London, except for some stutters on approach, if I have a lot of AI traffic.

What I wanted to know by asking this question was to get opinions on the difference (mainly FPS wise) between the EGLC that comes with VFR London and UK2000's version of it in combination with the rest of VFR London.

Thanks for your input, though. I appreciate your warning very much. I hope you got your refund.

 

Regards,

Flo

Yep, Amazon were good about it... It was a shame too, as it looks real nice, and I had almost everything else turned right down to zero except for graphics and it just killed the frame rates. When I then disabled it in the scenery, everything was fine again.

It would be extremely useful if VFR London X had options to reduce the amount of scenery that is actually displayed. This can be done using the Scenery complexity settings, but unfortunately this reduces the scenery density of everything!

It would be extremely useful if VFR London X had options to reduce the amount of scenery that is actually displayed.

You mean like the ORBX control panels, for example? That would indeed be great.

I take it that these "ORBx control panels" can actively reduce the scenery complexity of specific scenery packages (and/or areas) without affecting other scenery assets (like airports)?

Yes, that's right. For example you can show/hide static aircraft, all the Flow objects(i.e. people walking around, cars driving, animals etc) can be switched on/off as well as various stages of 3D grass, and some more scenery features, and all of them seperately. Thus you can pretty much customize your displayed scenery, so you can achieve better frame rates while still being able to enjoy ORBX scenery. Sadly enough, I guess that this won't be possible with VFR London.

 

Regards,

Flo

I think VFR London X is broken down into several BGL files, but removing one or more of these would be a rather drastic (and probably not very welcome) solution!

So long as I don't keep changing views and don't go over the top with AI, both editions of EGLC give me 20-25 FPS...I run the UK2000 version by choice.

UK2000's EGLC works fine for me with VFR London and it is better than Aerosoft's ver (good job by Gary)

 

Rich