Just flew AeroFly FS-2 OMG!

[HiFlyer 9,336]

How do I download and install the High Resolution Texture Pack? When I click on "download" in Steam, it just loads AeroFly FS2 itself :huh:

 

This is the way it should work. Also, make sure to do it from within Steam and not from your browser.

 

https://track4.mixtape.moe/lvdpiw.webm

[jcomm 5,882]

It's supposed to be done automatically. Same happened to Switzerland when I bought it.

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

How do I download and install the High Resolution Texture Pack? When I click on "download" in Steam, it just loads AeroFly FS2 itself :huh:

if that is the case, then it already HAS downloaded and installed...you are good to go

[HiFlyer 9,336]

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Wrong thread

[jcomm 5,882]

And, just as with X-Plane, AEFS2 doesn't have seasonal textures, nor proper daylight and Moon according to date and place on Earth :-)

[Guest]

and Moon according to date and place on Earth

 

Oh! Thanks for the heads up! Now I won't be buying it!   (Seriously, I am already in doubt again after seeing Ses's recent screenshots topic...  :nea:I should probably simply avoid AFS2 topics for a while LOL because I am aware of the fact that I am getting too annoying. :wink:  I just love this hobby too much, I guess.)

[Christopher Low 5,325]

I can't see how the High Resolution Texture Pack has been downloaded yet. The download took around two hours @ 4.5MB/s (36Mbps), so that makes around 30GB. My AeroFly FS2 folder is 37.5GB in size, and I am reasonably sure that the High Resolution Texture Pack is a lot bigger than that. I am clicking on the Download button in Steam (as per HiFlyer's instructions above), but this just loads the simulator. I am confused :huh:

 

EDIT: It has now appeared in my list, and I had to untick the box and then tick it again to activate the download. I seem to remember having this same issue with Assetto Corsa DLC packs...

[Chock 17,769]

It should say 'already in your library' on Steam on the AeroFly FS2 DLC page if you have it installed.

[HiFlyer 9,336]

Restart your computer and then reenter steam and see what happens.

[Christopher Low 5,325]

See above :smile:

[Paraffin 2,197]

A lot of this back and forth is also based on a premise that I've never really subscribed to: that you kind of have to choose one sim and stick with it. Like a marriage or something.

 

(snip)

 

Why do we so often act as if we have to choose only one and settle down for life?

 

I can understand having a preference, but one sim forever? How boring!

 

I like Pepsi, but I drink Coke too. And tea! I love tea! And.......

 

I try not to drink to much of the Kool-aid, though.

 

Horses for courses, we all have different experience and motivations. I also enjoy combat sims. I have Rise of Flight on my computer and I've dabbled with IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad (I'm just not that into the Eastern front). I like the historical stuff more than modern, so I don't fly DCS.

 

I only fly X-Plane as a civilian sim, and here's why -- the FSEconomy game. I spend 99% of my time flying in the FSE because It gives me motivation to fly and interesting places to go. It's a mission generator. I like the challenge of bush pilot ops, finding my way to a small airstrip I've never seen before, as well as hitting the larger airports when assignments take me there. 

 

Now, FSE supports pilots flying FS9, FSX, P3D (unofficially), and X-Plane. I could mix and match, but once you get to the point where you've "bought" a plane or two, consistency starts to matter. Right now I "own" two planes in the game --  a twin turboprop Goose conversion and a Bell 412 helicopter, and I rent a few other types like Twin Otter and DC-3. I have hundreds of hours now in these planes. I'm very familiar with them, in a way that just wouldn't happen if I switched around to different simulator platforms. I fly with real weather most of the time, and I don't think I'd do that if I wasn't very familiar with this small number of aircraft models, in a single simulator. 

 

So that's my reason for a "marriage" to one simulator. It makes me a better sim pilot.  :smile:

 

Flying in FSE  also means I'm always taking off from the ground (usually from a hot start), and I'm always landing. I never start in the air. Maybe that makes me more sensitive to blurry ground textures from orthophotos, both around airports and while hunting for those tiny bush airstrips.

[Christopher Low 5,325]

I would never start a flight in the air.

[HiFlyer 9,336]

And see, I've heard it said more than once that missions turn a sim into a game etc, etc.

 

And Ms Flight was a game supposedly due to missions.....

 

Seems no matter which direction you go, somebody is unhappy....

[simmerhead 885]

Simmers are one unhappy whining bunch, that's for sure!

[Christopher Low 5,325]

Download of the High Resolution Texture Pack is currently around 65% complete, and it will probably be another two hours before it is done.