I get almost exactly the same picture with the sliders set in the default medium high setting.That's one of the great things about this set of textures and the autogen - you don't have to come anywhere near max settings to have good forests.Though to be honest - I can't remember that many really tall trees on those islands when I lived in the region.Almost every island has severe problems maintaining a fresh water supply. Homes are built to channel rain water into cisterns constructed on each home. There is no ground water table - all fresh water has to come from rainfall, desalination plants or shipped in by the tanker load.The runways of the airports have special drains to take any rainfall and store the water - avoiding as much runoff as possible.Many years the islands face drought conditions.On the west side of each island under the shadow of the mountains will be a rain forest type area - but if you've lived in a real tropical rain forestlike the Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam, the ones in the Caribbean are pretty poor excuses for the name.There will be the biggest trees on the island.The vast majority of the trees never rise about 40 feet in height.

Those screenshots are nice but nothing speical. Anyone with a mid range computer can slew or pause in FSX, take a snap and touch it up with PS. Of course the big question is how many fps is he getting with everything maxed and is FSX flyable? My guess is low fps and not really flyable.

>Those screenshots are nice but nothing speical. Anyone with a>mid range computer can slew or pause in FSX, take a snap and>touch it up with PS. Of course the big question is how many>fps is he getting with everything maxed and is FSX flyable? My>guess is low fps and not really flyable. If you read my answer with an AMD64 3700+ and 6800GT 1.5 gb ram with all maxed exept the aircraft shadows and AI to the left 24 fps ;-)Andr

Does anyone play FarCry? This level of detail looks very much like what I'm getting every day in FarCry on an old P4 @ ~ 3.4 ghz and a 6600GT . . . at 30 FPS. In "GOD" mode, I can fly around the island, similar to a flight sim. There's even a hang glider in one scene. These screenies are JUST what I'm getting: Super lush, dense foliage on a tropical island. No stutters, no crashes, no hangs. Just a constant, uninterrupted 30 fps. Sliders high up. Smooth as silk. Those folks at Crytech are at the leading edge. This could mean that this LOD might be available on normal machines. (It certainly is right now, in FarCry.) Might it be that MS is just now catching up to the state of art in programming? Sure hope so! This would not be unheard of. Remember, the

How big is the world in FarCry?Do people demand several different texture sets for different regions?Does the program have to search for and select the correct regional textures?Is the player or hang glider a 12-20,000 polygon model with 50 different moving parts which each have to be animated separately?Do people demand that FarCry be opensource so that people can change the terrain, textures, models and such and have them integrate seamlessly?

Um, either my demo is corrupted or something, because it looks nowhere near as good as those shots.For starters, most of the cars in my demo are chassis, yet the ones in those pics are complete. And I swear the textures etc look better.Am I missing something?btw I have a fairly high end system with an X800XT vid card.James

In fairness I think our old X800's are getting a little long in the tooth now. When I do build my new FS Rig it's gotta be something way more potent.At current prices and top specs I've managed to price up at

Generally, you are right about the Caribbean, Reggie, but perhaps your assessment only applies to many of the small islands. On the large islands, we have water tables, more than adequate drainage patterns, abundant rainfall, and very lush forests, rivaling anything in other places.For vegetation maps of the area, please see:http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/tnc/Best regards.Luis

Partly in anticipation of FSX I've finally (after a long wait) consigned my old P4 to the scrapheap and ordered the new Dell 9200 -- with Core2Duo E6700 processor, 2gb and an Nvidia 7900GS. I'll probably replace the card (which comes as standard) with a DX10 compatible when they come out next year.I'm hoping this will do the trick with the new FS -- what do we think?I went off FS last year because I couldn't run photoscenery without blurring, and couldn't stand the autogen (no use for navigating). I like VFR.Looks like FSX might get me back in the air.

been away for a month, got back and popped in the demo.. well... 3fps. awesome. it did get up to 15 however.. incredible. and it was jerking. i used real weather and it came completely clear. plane was shaking like mad - i swear it's a bug.control sensitivity.. had to basically turn it off and the baron was still responding as if i was jamming the yoke up and down. annoying. landed and didn't crash, but it was a slideshow.this with stock planes and ai traffic off? please. i am waiting about 2 years before that nasa computer goes on sale. i like what i see but it looks like far cry.. too cartoonish. been to st maarten countless number of times and it doesn't ever look like this... reality has missed FSX by a long shot

Hmmm, one also notes that he's taking those piccies off a $1000 monitor. Too rich for my pocketbook. And my Samsung is working just fine; it'll do better than FS does, at any rate.:DEdit: Or possibly I just looked at an ad right there under the pic?