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Best Freeware Airports for MSFS2020

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1 hour ago, GSalden said:

LGTM (Istanbul) is a great scenery but it takes 27 min to load.

Someone else posted too that it took 35 min to load on his pc....

That is simply not true, 27 min for a single airport? Not possible.

I have about 50 Payware Airports, and 110 freeware airports including LGTM. It takes 2 additional minutes to the 3 min (with no addons) totaling 5 minutes. No more.

I have unlinked all cities (non airports) sceneries. These take too long to load due to file size and number of file.

Edited by Manny

Manny

Beta tester for SIMStarter 

29 minutes ago, Manny said:

That is simply not true, 27 min for a single airport? Not possible.

I have about 50 Payware Airports, and 110 freeware airports including LGTM. It takes 2 additional minutes to the 3 min (with no addons) totaling 5 minutes. No more.

I have unlinked all cities (non airports) sceneries. These take too long to load due to file size and number of file.

This is not about LGTM but about LTFM. My bad.

Did you read the comments posted at Flightsim.to about LTFM ?

 

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The payware developer will release a LTFM too.

Edited by GSalden

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FOV : 200 degrees

My flightsim vids :  https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0

 

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I too meant LTFM Istanbul Intl. 

No i have not read the comments by the developers. let me read it.

edited: I don't believe I am using the huge files he is talking about. I just need the airport. If the surroundings are trees, I am fine with it being older than 8 years old. When I lived in Istanbul, it was even longer than that. Ha Ha! . So you maybe right , with the whole google files it could slow your load timing. Yup. 

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Manny

Beta tester for SIMStarter 

8 minutes ago, Manny said:

I too meant LTFM Istanbul Intl. 

No i have not read the comments by the developers. let me read it.

edited: I don't believe I am using the huge files he is talking about. I just need the airport. If the surroundings are trees, I am fine with it being older than 8 years old. When I lived in Istanbul, it was even longer than that. Ha Ha! . So you maybe right , with the whole google files it could slow your load timing. Yup. 

The extra file is a 1 Gb or surrounding as the one in Bing is 6 years old and the terrain has changed.

 

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FOV : 200 degrees

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1 hour ago, GSalden said:

LTFM (Istanbul) is a great scenery but iafter 35 min MSFS was still loading the scenery .

Someone else posted too that it took 35 min too to load on his pc....

Ha, that is too much. Is this the lite version? I have the lite version and it is running with no issues.

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17 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

Ha, that is too much. Is this the lite version? I have the lite version and it is running with no issues.

No, this is the full version. I have posted it already in the developers comment.

I have a 14 core / 32 Gb 3600 / 3090 / 2x M2 setup so loading is normally 1 minute.

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FOV : 200 degrees

My flightsim vids :  https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0

 

1 minute ago, GSalden said:

No, this is the full version. I have posted it already in the developers comment.

I have a 14 core / 32 Gb 3600 / 3090 / 2x M2 setup so loading is normally 1 minute.

That full version is problematic. The lite version works the best in my end, they are almost the same, the only difference that developer mentioned something about ground textures being reduced a bit. 

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7 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

That full version is problematic. The lite version works the best in my end, they are almost the same, the only difference that developer mentioned something about ground textures being reduced a bit. 

In the Lite version the projected meshes are removed.

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FOV : 200 degrees

My flightsim vids :  https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0

 

15 minutes ago, GSalden said:

In the Lite version the projected meshes are removed.

Ah I see didn't realize that 😅. Then let's see when Scenery TR releases the payware for MSFS.

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3 minutes ago, Manny said:

Freeware  Set 4

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Looks very good, but from where would we get it?

- Harry 

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13 minutes ago, Nemo said:

Looks very good, but from where would we get it?

I just completed the Hyperlink for each of those. Most times they are from flightsim.to

Manny

Beta tester for SIMStarter 

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