WU IX - Italy/Malta due today 17MAY22

[Farlis]

I just checked out Rome. Who on earth gave the greenlight for a release in this state? It looks like humanity has ended and the city was deserted for 300 years leaving it time for a complete forrest to grow.

[alpha117]

Italy is now the new Amazon Rain Forest🙃

[Cpt_Piett]

5 minutes ago, edpatino said:

Looks like many people here don't know a bit about a download size, or what's going on, when they're talking about a 12-17 GB update.

Initially I got required disk space 13gb.

Then:

[DAD]

Those having issues with the WU9, don’t  forget to leave your feedback here:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/discussion-poll-world-update-ix-italy-1-25-9-0/518393

[yanfeng12342000]

6 hours ago, Farlis said:

I checked out the new DEM near Bozen and Kastelruth for a start. Finally the Dolomites look like they should. The distant LOD rendering within the sim still leaves something to be desired though. I was looking due west towards the mountains near Meran, and from the distance they still look too round. That is something that needs to be worked on.

Edit: It seems the Tre Cime got a 3D Model. Nice! And a very good one at that. It blends in perfectly with the surroundings. But sadly it also shows that the only way to adequatly portray the Dolomites in the Sim is with 3D Models. Even the better resolution mesh next to the model can't hold a candle to it. I want them all at that quality.

Yes. We need Frank Dainese for that. He modeled almost every moutains of the Dolomites, but only for Xplane and FSX. We need to convert him.

[Cpt_Piett]

4 minutes ago, DAD said:

Those having issues with the WU9, don’t  forget to leave your feedback here:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/discussion-poll-world-update-ix-italy-1-25-9-0/518393

Just did. Did the poll and left a comment. 

[nikolajz1]

I wish we had an option to stream these world updates when playing instead of downloading them. Will need a new hard drive soon

[Cpt_Piett]

Hmm. There's no code changes with this update, so getting CTDs doesn't make sense. I'll remove all addons and try again. Don't know what's reported here https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/discussion-poll-world-update-ix-italy-1-25-9-0/518393/10, takes a while to read through all 252 replies. 

[alpha117]

9 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Just did. Did the poll and left a comment. 

Same here, did the poll and left a comment (Trees, treees!)

[MrBitstFlyer]

8 hours ago, DAD said:

my wife would stone me for that

I live on a UK canal narrowboat. My wife wouldn't stone me for that as it wouldn't fit anyway 😁

[Bobsk8]

GA Ramp Area at LIRN looks kind of strange.  

 

 

 

[MrBitstFlyer]

5 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Hmm. There's no code changes with this update

...but how do you know - after all, this is MS! 😁😉

[edpatino]

18 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Initially I got required disk space 13gb

That's another thing. You got what it says below, just 4.63 GB

[MrBitstFlyer]

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

GA Ramp Area at LIRN looks kind of strange.  

 

 

 

WOW - the photogrammetry has been massively improved! 

[edpatino]

2 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

GA Ramp Area at LIRN looks kind of strange. 

I wonder if this update is mandatory, otherwise I would like to forget everything about it. Haven't updated yet, so maybe I'm just in time.