Megascenery X - So Cal! Woo hoo shipping Sept 6th

[Manny 1,293]

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

[Guest firehawk44]

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

[Chalkman 0]

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

[Manny 1,293]

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.

[WarpD 824]

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

[frankla 44]

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

[Guest sssummer]

Yes, it has full custom autogen and night lighting.

[Guest SkyDrift]

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

[Guest cwright]

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

[pastorpilot 0]

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

[Manny 1,293]

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