July 13, 20178 yr On 7/11/2017 at 11:48 AM, nandrou said: I spoke to one of the team at Pilot's - the response was: So I have ordered the Next Gen DVD version to save on bandwidth! I purchased the DVD version directly from Pilot's a few weeks ago. Very quick delivery.
July 13, 20178 yr 11 hours ago, lownslo said: LCSims Thank you for the response! Has anyone in the community done a comparison between Toposim and the Next gen mesh?
July 13, 20178 yr 4 hours ago, denali said: I was using Global Ultimate 2010 version. I think they claim up to 2m resolution, LOD 14, but I don't know if I've seen it that often. I'd say 5m was common, LOD 13. At that resolution that's every 15 feet or so, where you can see a road level out on a hillside, but there is no edge definition of anything. There seems to be "edge definition" to some things in this new version. Maybe not the right way to explain it. The bottom of the grand canyon at the river level is a good example, It has an edge, a bottom corner of the side canyon wall, rather than a curved bowl. Thanks for the concise description... very useful! I'll follow this thread for more info but will probably buy before the sale ends on August 15. Just have to get past giving up my beloved LCSims mesh... Greg
July 14, 20178 yr I purchased both versions, FS Global 2018 FTX DL and FS Global Ultimate – Next Generation FTX DL (for the upgrade price) No I'm not crazy, well maybe I am, but I was curious as Orbx target 5m so I wanted to see if there is a difference (performance wise). Unfortunately it's all moot point because I can't extract the downloads even when using WinZip ... get stuck in some loop about selecting a folder (which I do) but there is no Ok option to make the extract happen so nothing extracts. Not sure what Stephan was trying to accomplish with these zip files. Anyone know the trick on how to get these files unzipped? I tried to find the PILOT's forum, but its only for FS Global Real Weather. Cheers, Rob.
July 14, 20178 yr 3 minutes ago, Rob Ainscough said: Unfortunately it's all moot point because I can't extract the downloads even when using WinZip ... get stuck in some loop about selecting a folder (which I do) but there is no Ok option to make the extract happen so nothing extracts. Not sure what Stephan was trying to accomplish with these zip files. Anyone know the trick on how to get these files unzipped? I tried to find the PILOT's forum, but its only for FS Global Real Weather. Cheers, Rob. You've got to do it gently Rob, just like a sexy red dress! Oh man, another dev fail. My god. Jacek G. Ryzen 5800X3D | Asus RTX4090 OC | 64gb DDR4 3600 | Asus ROG Strix X570E | HX1000w | Fractal Design Torrent RGB | AOC AGON 49' Curved QHD |
July 14, 20178 yr Rob, I think the mistake made was a naming conflict. Anyways, I used 7-zip and extracted to PILOTSFSGUNGFTX. Disclaimer: [email protected] on Asus Maximus X Formula, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB 4266/17 XMP, EVGA 2080 ti Kingpin (8400/2160Mhz), Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD , 28TB HDD total - 4TB+ photoscenery, Romex Software PrimoCache RAM and SSD cache (must have!), 3x1080p 30" monitors, Samsung Odyssey VR HMD, Pimax 4k & BE HMDs, Samsung Gear VR '17, Homdio v1, Cardboard, custom loop 2x 360x64ML Rads, Thermaltake View 71, VRM watercool, Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut CPU (naked die), Fujipoly / ModRight Ultra Extreme System Builder Thermal Pad on MB VRM. 8x Corsair ML120 (slight positive pressure). 🙂
July 14, 20178 yr Ah I think the light bulb went on ... so I need all .z01...5 files downloaded FIRST before I attempt to unzip from PILOTS_FSG2018FTX.ZIP. That seems a little odd, so if one of the servers are having file transfer/corruption issues, I'll have to select another (1 of 6) server sets and start the 24GB download all over again. I guess the same with Ultimate FTX. Guess I better hope all the files are good from my selected server. Cheers, Rob. EDIT: glad I have 1Gbps down speed and unlimited data usage to my house, but flightsimstore servers are throttling unfortunately
July 14, 20178 yr The nice thing about FreeDownloadManager is it has a "file integrity" check on the context menu. I haven't had any issues with downloads, and for a while I usually did have issues with large downloads. I downloaded from the servers that had little country flag icons. The cloud and the ones on the left were slow here. Disclaimer: [email protected] on Asus Maximus X Formula, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB 4266/17 XMP, EVGA 2080 ti Kingpin (8400/2160Mhz), Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD , 28TB HDD total - 4TB+ photoscenery, Romex Software PrimoCache RAM and SSD cache (must have!), 3x1080p 30" monitors, Samsung Odyssey VR HMD, Pimax 4k & BE HMDs, Samsung Gear VR '17, Homdio v1, Cardboard, custom loop 2x 360x64ML Rads, Thermaltake View 71, VRM watercool, Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut CPU (naked die), Fujipoly / ModRight Ultra Extreme System Builder Thermal Pad on MB VRM. 8x Corsair ML120 (slight positive pressure). 🙂
July 14, 20178 yr I have the Internet Download Manager ... but I had to add file type extensions to Z0* or else it wouldn't pick them up. Cheers, Rob.
July 14, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, Rob Ainscough said: Ah I think the light bulb went on ... so I need all .z01...5 files downloaded FIRST before I attempt to unzip from PILOTS_FSG2018FTX.ZIP. That seems a little odd, so if one of the servers are having file transfer/corruption issues, I'll have to select another (1 of 6) server sets and start the 24GB download all over again. I guess the same with Ultimate FTX. Guess I better hope all the files are good from my selected server. With Ultimate ND I found that the first 4G file was given a .zip extension by the download manager, when I changed that to .z01 the extract went through without any further problems. Johan Pienaar
July 14, 20178 yr On the Ultimate download I have: PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.zip PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip and the rest are .z02 to .z18 I'm assuming PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip is supposed to be PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.z01? Cheers, Rob.
July 14, 20178 yr 36 minutes ago, Rob Ainscough said: On the Ultimate download I have: PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.zip PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip and the rest are .z02 to .z18 I'm assuming PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip is supposed to be PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.z01? Cheers, Rob. Affirmative. Same thing happened to me with IDM Cheers Hoang Le Hoang Le i7 13700k - Sapphire Nitro+ AMD RX 7900 XT - Asus TUF Z790 PLUS D4 - Gskill Trident 32GB DDR4-3600 LG 34GP63A-B Ultrawide - ASUS VG259QM MSFS2020
July 14, 20178 yr 2 hours ago, Rob Ainscough said: On the Ultimate download I have: PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.zip PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip and the rest are .z02 to .z18 I'm assuming PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip is supposed to be PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.z01? Cheers, Rob. Hi Rob. Mine looks like this : http://imgur.com/0vtwCZr And after unpack with winrar : http://imgur.com/539UWRe Intel Core i9 13900K, NVidia RTX 4090 FE, Corsair Vengeance DDR5 64GB@6000MHz, Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe M2, Asus OLED PG42 UQ
July 14, 20178 yr 10 hours ago, Rob Ainscough said: On the Ultimate download I have: PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.zip PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip and the rest are .z02 to .z18 I'm assuming PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2.zip is supposed to be PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.z01? Cheers, Rob. I don't have a PILOTSFSGUNGFTX_2. That looks like a redownload file, renamed download. might want to check the MD5 on PILOTSFSGUNGFTX.zip Disclaimer: [email protected] on Asus Maximus X Formula, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB 4266/17 XMP, EVGA 2080 ti Kingpin (8400/2160Mhz), Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD , 28TB HDD total - 4TB+ photoscenery, Romex Software PrimoCache RAM and SSD cache (must have!), 3x1080p 30" monitors, Samsung Odyssey VR HMD, Pimax 4k & BE HMDs, Samsung Gear VR '17, Homdio v1, Cardboard, custom loop 2x 360x64ML Rads, Thermaltake View 71, VRM watercool, Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut CPU (naked die), Fujipoly / ModRight Ultra Extreme System Builder Thermal Pad on MB VRM. 8x Corsair ML120 (slight positive pressure). 🙂
July 15, 20178 yr I hesitated to upgrade from FSG 2010 FTX to the new FS Global Ultimate - Next Generation due to the lack of some comparison shots. But like always in this hobby the urge to upgrade to something new and shiny was too tempting. So I did a few comparison shots between FSG 2010 FTX and the new 71GB heavy download product called FS Global Ultimate - Next Generation. My impression: There is a noticeable improvement in many parts of the world. (e.g. SE Asia). But also the US and Europe got some more subtle upgrades. But we should keep in mind that some areas (in my test around Grand Canyon airport) are already up to a high detail level in the old version and therefore improvement are not so visible at the first look. Hope this will help you all to make a decision whether a upgrade is worthwhile or not. If you want to see a specific area just let me know. Christoph _______________________________________________ Settings: P3Dv4, Mesh Resolution 1m, Tesselation ultra Best, Christoph Display resolution: 1920x1080 (8xSSAA) GPU: 1080TI CPU: i7-7700K (5.0 OC) RAM: 16GB SSD: Samsung 850Evo Monitor: 27K
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