I just got an e-mail. If you are preveious So Cal customer, look for your discounted (25%) link in the e-mail.This is the general announcement. It looks lovely!http://www.megascenery.com/megasceneryxsocal.htmMan! I have not use my sim in weeks. I got bored with it.... It had not happened in the last three years. But this one is exciting!Manny

I just ordered too and the preview pictures are absolutely stunning when enlarged. Yikes! I can't wait!Jim

That's great news. Looks like they just barely included my neighborhood too! Can't wait to get my hands on this.

Not sure how good the autogen trees are going to be on this. I hope someone would produce autogens for So cal sceneries as a separate software. That would be awesome!I have gotten spoilt with France VFR photosceneries. they come with a good bit of hand placed autogens for theor photosceneries (France North Alps) and they also have a separate autogen addons.MannyAnother thing is.. I should consider getting rid of SP2 patch to get rid of the blurries problem. I'd rather have a few FPS than blurries.

SP2 patch? I thought Microsoft only released a SP1 for FSX?

doesn't megascenery produce its own autogen? I really don't care for flat pictures either!

Yes, it has full custom autogen and night lighting.

Yes, you are correct. SP2 is due to be released towards the end of this yearhttp://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/default.aspx - skydrift

This sounds very interesting. Does anyone know whether there will be a flyable demo?best regards, Chris

I have seen Megascenery for years, but until now (with a pretty good machine)I was afraid of the frame rate hit. For those of you who have used it before, what have you experienced in terms of frame rate deterioration? That's a little hard to accept. I think their site says it loads as fast as the default textures, which may or may not be a plus in these "blurry" days. ;^) Thanks for the info!Steve

Photo textures generally does not affect FPS in general.However, FSX in my setup has blurries problem. So if I take off and hang around the place where I started from, it would be ok. However, IF I am flying from another location into an areas with photo textures I arrive into blurred mess. This was after the SP1. Prior to that, I have the thread% to fix any blurries issue. I don't have that anymore.IMO, SP1 has pretty much killed FSX for me on the account of there is no single parameter that would let me allocate computing resources for eliminating blurries. I know there are lots of people who have sorted their problems. But I have been unable to. I have a core 2 Duo 3.4Ghz and a 8800GTXManny