I have a TON of addons for FS9.UT, FE, AS, PMDG, LVLD etc, etc.Nowhere in my bill of sale did it read "Guaranteed to run in FS (insert version number here)"!!!I got my moneys worth in FS9. If I want to keep using them, I keep using them from within FS9. If they can provide an update for FSX....Great! If not, well too bad, so sad.Glenn

Hi Geof,I can understand the 'sandy' textures in western USA, California etc.I can assure you in eastern Ontario and upstate New York, the terrain never looks like the sahara desert either during spring or fall!I'm sure in the correct locations the sand texture is not too far away from being accurate. I don't have a problem with the texture itself per se, just where it is being used.Glenn

Again-no disagreement! However-there are so many areas the out the out the window view isn't close-sand is one-but roads that look like roads (and don't look like lines painted over the terrain), landclass that matches (and rarely does), autogen that looks real and not like sim city 2000, rivers that are either too present or not there-runways that stick out like sore thumbs surrounded by a generic green or sand plygon-the list goes on and on-the limitation of trying to recreate reality from databases. Again-I don't like the sand-but there are a lot of other eye candy issues I don't like equally. I don't think it will ever be right till we get streamed scenery and worldwide coverage of such. But we do make progress with each version-though never perfect.I wish the devotion that was placed on outside aircraft models that look photoreal now in almost every respect was placed equally on the out the view window and realistic avionics-but those are my wishes.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpgForum Moderatorhttp://geofageofa.spaces.live.com/

Personally, I do agree, but apparently not everybody. Which is only human after all the money spent.I only tried to explain the why, I am not judging anybody.Jan

Geof,I also agree with the points you raise. I think it is just the overwhelming view of a 'sea of sand' that makes it so unpallatable to the eye. It's so far away from what it should look like that it ruins the immersion factor (for me anyway).Talking of autogen, I hate the autogen buildings in FSX but I love the trees. I added this to the .cfg to help out.TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES=3500 (upto a max of 6000)TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS=1 (min of 1 as 0 will cause issues)It works very well. I basically have zero buildings and lots of trees. Looks great with the 1m textures.Glenn

Sorry guys, I should have known better all considering.

Lith I am really not sure why you responded to *my* post with that.But it was an interesting read anyways :)RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

No particular reason. I just picked a random reply button i think.It's just the first time I read this thread I was like wth, but I should have considered who it was that was posting and the context. Especialy condering fancon was taking place. At first read it just sounded like a thread that was intended to flame ACES/Phil and then had gas dumped on it halfway through.

Well, it's definitely ruined this version of FS for me. I no longer am actively 'trying' to successfully tweak it. It doesn't matter how much tweaking we really do; it's a problem with the scenery engine and how it prioritizes texture loading.

I beta tested the thing-I have been using it many hours for over a year now and never experienced any blurries.I traded up to a 24" monitor from my 19" a few weeks ago-now I get blurries-quite regularly-and yes I've gone thru many tweaks in the last few weeks with not much luck.I am investigating-but it does seem like hardware might be more the likely culprit-especially considering I am running on a 4 year old dated computer -and again-never had the problem till the new monitor.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpgForum Moderatorhttp://geofageofa.spaces.live.com/

We probably just thru you off by taking a humorous tact for a change on a subject that usually goes south.I appreciate your concern though-very nice to see.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpgForum Moderatorhttp://geofageofa.spaces.live.com/

When you upgraded your monitor did you at the same time increase the screen resolution in OS and/or FSX? In that case you use more video ram, which means you'll likely cause your card to swap more textures in and out, which means that FSX cannot feed things in quick enough and you get blurries.I find with older systems running FSX (I have a second PC with just a 2.5 GHz P4 and a 128 Mb video card) that as long as you keep the visuals (including resolution) down to a level that you never cause the video ram to be continually maxed out so that it needs to swap textures too often, then you get reasonably steady framerates (natually at the low 15 to 17 rate which is where I lock) and far fewer blurries.Jeff

Yes-but I also have tried running in 1024x768-and all the resolutions in between-and I still get the blurries. Turning down settings seem to make no difference-etc.-all the stuff people have been reporting.The interesting thing-is I never experienced them before-and I only changed one component-the monitor (and resolution-going from 1440x900 to 1900x1220).http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpgForum Moderatorhttp://geofageofa.spaces.live.com/

Welcome to the club Geof! =) Seriously though, it's pretty upsetting when you have good hardware, and the thing runs like crap. I've tweaked and tweaked, but it never runs like it should. I haven't been one to really complain. One thing that gets me is, people with high-end hardware are even experiencing it. So, I wouldn't go out and drop all kinds of money on new hardware. To me, this is completely software-related in the coding of FS. Obviously, the texture loading is anything but optimized (think it has to do with how mips are loaded). Needless to say, it's pretty disappointing. At this point, I've pretty much given up on FSX and getting it to perform well. To me, FS9 is great. It runs smooth without any hick-ups. I can pretty much throw anything at it and maintain 30+ FPS, if not higher.Allan

Well I would think my scenerio would show that in fact it is hardware related as the only change I made was to hardware.I am even wondering if the video driver does not do as good a job at higher resolutions. Since nvidia put one out today I am off to give it a try.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpgForum Moderatorhttp://geofageofa.spaces.live.com/