August 25, 201312 yr I can see where there are users that live in dry/desert climates, that would not find FSX-G an acceptable product at this time. I just took a flight out of Tucson, Arizona, and the entire desert had a pall of 'green' where there should be white/brown/grey sand and desert scape. GEX did a superb job of the more arid climes, and so ORBX needs sooner-than-later, to address this pall-green-in-everything/everywhere, with their OpenLC's. If those LC's don't address this...than major points from the accolades thus far lavished upon FSX-G, must be adjusted for this glaring flaw. I can see why some are so irate! If you live in a green/summer clime...than fabulous, but Arizona? C'mon....ORBX can do better than this! My 16 cents... Mitch
August 25, 201312 yr V1.1 is due out by months end. Working on fix for SW US, but may not be 100% complete by 1.1. That's paraphrasing JV from a couple of days ago. I'd link if I knew how on an ipad. The US fix is not the complete US LC, so hopefully the LC will settle it. Mike Mike Dryden
August 25, 201312 yr V1.1 is due out by months end. Working on fix for SW US, but may not be 100% complete by 1.1. That's paraphrasing JV from a couple of days ago. I'd link if I knew how on an ipad. The US fix is not the complete US LC, so hopefully the LC will settle it. Mike Let us hope so...
August 25, 201312 yr I can see why some are so irate! If you live in a green/summer clime...than fabulous, but Arizona? C'mon....ORBX can do better than this! Thanks Mitch I am definitely going to hold off on FTXG after hearing this. Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
August 26, 201312 yr Thanks Mitch I am definitely going to hold off on FTXG after hearing this. Hello, Noel; Noel, to be fair, FSX-G looks fantastic anywhere there would be a green, lush, summer, and/or tropical, but it has a problem with dry, arid, and/or outright desert. I lived for many years in Phoenix, Arizona, and would not at this time, be a 'happy camper' if you wanted to fly around parts familiar. But having said that...I don't think that I would NOT purchase the product for that reason alone. You get a pretty mean 'rest-of-the-world' outside of arid areas. This will be fixed, to be sure. A company that has pretty much rewritten scenery for FSX, will not leave Arizona's Sonora looking like it has pond scum across the state! Not for long, anyway.... BTW, that 'than' should have been; 'then'....typo, and too late to edit it for correction....lol. Mitch
August 28, 201312 yr Just a H-U: The FTXG uninstaller has just been released. Do you have a link? I went to their site, but could not find anything on it....
August 28, 201312 yr Do you have a link? I went to their site, but could not find anything on it.... Public section of their forum (link accessible without registration/validation): http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/63761-ftx-global-uninstaller/ What happened to AVSIM
August 29, 201312 yr Public section of their forum (link accessible without registration/validation): http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/63761-ftx-global-uninstaller/ Thanks, I have no intention of removing FSX-G, but also wanted to have a hard option, if ever in the future I need to look at that option, for whatever reason. Have now downloaded it, and put it onto a back-up drive.
August 29, 201312 yr Judge for yourself! I'm currently in flight, enjoying the sunset over Southern Germany Imagine looking at this in FSX default....*shudder* :lol:
August 30, 201312 yr Hello, Noel; Noel, to be fair, FSX-G looks fantastic anywhere there would be a green, lush, summer, and/or tropical, but it has a problem with dry, arid, and/or outright desert. I lived for many years in Phoenix, Arizona, and would not at this time, be a 'happy camper' if you wanted to fly around parts familiar. But having said that...I don't think that I would NOT purchase the product for that reason alone. You get a pretty mean 'rest-of-the-world' outside of arid areas. This will be fixed, to be sure. A company that has pretty much rewritten scenery for FSX, will not leave Arizona's Sonora looking like it has pond scum across the state! Not for long, anyway.... BTW, that 'than' should have been; 'then'....typo, and too late to edit it for correction....lol. Mitch Thanks Mitch. I bought the software but I'm not going to install until this preposterous deficit is remedied! It's a big planet I know but that's a pretty big chunk of land mass. Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
August 31, 201312 yr This is my first post here since I've bee banned from the official Orbx forum for being overly critical of FTX-Global. I have to agree with Mitch. The Great American Southwest where I live an fly looks like spilled green-pea soup. Those who have claimed 'to have flown all over the world and it's great' either have not flown the desert southwest or don't know what a desert is supposed to look like. Since the uninstaller wasn't available until just now I uninstalled my whole FSX system and started over because the default textures IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD I INHABIT are an order of magnitude better than FTX-Global's. My opinion of FTX-Global would be much different if I flew Europe or the temperate zones of the planet, but I don't Having said that I do own all the Orbx regions except North Ireland and more than 20 airports and they are great! I fly mostly the North American regions and my own home area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. I would not hesitate to purchase more Orbx airports in North America or the upcoming Northern California and later to be released Southern Rockies. And if Orbx does eventually get the Great American Southwest right I will re-install FTX-Global. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
August 31, 201312 yr And if Orbx does eventually get the Great American Southwest right I will re-install FTX-Global. The patch will fix the "green" desert issue...
August 31, 201312 yr Where can I find this patch? Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
August 31, 201312 yr And if Orbx does eventually get the Great American Southwest right I will re-install FTX-Global.Noel I'm holding off on installing FTX-G as I tend to include The Land of Pea Soup frequently in my flight planning and had I known about this in advance I would have saved the $100 and waited to see if this was addressed. Does anyone know if the have made a statement that they plan to update this pretty large area? Perhaps they are holding off so as to include a whole new separate payware region, i.e., this was an intentional omission? Could be I guess. Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
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