Ah, another post whose avatar has a certain elegance. Are you related to David Niven by any chance?

 

In all seriousness though I have to agree. Even the OSM autogen is pretty horrible which is why I tend to stay in the naturally impressive areas rather than the cities.

 

I know your passion for flightsim from when I was an FSX user over at the ORBX forums Howard, and think your passion over here would be a plus too but I wouldn't want to lie to you. The urban autogen is still crap, particularly if you're used to regional-specific autogen that FTX gives.

 

On the other hand if you're happy with the countryside then XP10 really shines.

 

David Niven? You cad sir! :lol:  So here we go Stephen, you are now saying exactly the opposite to what others have said about OSM in XP! No wonder I find it difficult :huh:

 

 

Hey, thanks guys. I really do think XP is just around the corner for me. I guess I'm just waiting to see what the forthcoming update will reveal. I think what I'll have to do is slowly make the move across as I have soooo much invested in FSX it's hard just to turn my back on it. Does anyone here run both FSX and XP on the same drive?

 

I thought I recognised your picture from the ORBX forum and the recent run-in you had with JV over vector. I'm glad you're considering giving X-Plane a try now, and as others have said, you can't go wrong with OSM, HD Mesh v2, and some of the tubeliners appearing. I run both FSX/P3D and X-Plane on the same drive without any problems, in fact X-Plane completely installs into one single folder, so it's incredibly easy to move around. It used to sit on my desktop, till I simply moved the entire folder to an external drive, and it continues to run. Contrary to what seems popular belief, you don't need to uninstall FSX when you install X-Plane. 

 

The OSM scenery can seem confusing at first, so have a look at the FAQ I created here http://forum.avsim.net/topic/430976-scenery-and-openstreetmap-osm-faq/. Hopefully, it will make things clearer for you, and explain what you need and what to expect.

Howard,

I feel like we have similar simulation desires. I only fly commercial airliners, and am a huge fan of anything PMDG, or any other study sim. I always held off on XP because of a lack of any true study sim. But then I found out about the IXEG 737 project, read their blogs and watched their YouTube videos. After that I purchased XP because once this aircraft is out, XP will have a true study sim...and it doesn't hurt that the 737-300 is one of my all time favorite airliners. United airlines in the battleship grey, and America West in their last livery, ahhh, I can't wait for this bird to come out haha