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OK thanks Tony. That is the information I was hoping for, I'll try one of these right now.

Has anyone been able to get good orthophotos for Catalina? I have downloaded with Ortho4xPlane both from Bing and from Google both times Catalina is covered with empty tiles, the tiles have a picture of a camera in a circle with a crossbar, the whole island is covered with these empty tiles. Previewing the downloads shows the island and it looks OK in the previews. The rest of Los Angeles is fine.

That's it exactly! I'm not a gamer, flight sim is all I do in VR, in fact I have never played any other game on a computer other than flight simming. I've been doing that since the middle 80's started on a TRS 80 Model I upgraded to the model III and have been upgrading ever since. LOL. I had been following Oculus Rift for some time waiting for the right time to jump, which turned out to be now.

If you like helicopters the Bell 407 from Dreamfoil will fill the payware bill perfectly. For freeware helicopters the Bell 429 from the org, is an amazing freeware easily payware quality in looks and flight.

If you mean the NVidia control panel, download Gforce Experience, and run it. that should give you the control panel if you don't already have it.. Right click any empty space on your desktop, you should get NVidia control panel in the drop down box.

FlyInside is worth buying. There is no telling when native VR support will come for XP 11, I'm afraid it will be close to the end of the year if not the middle of next year, judging how LR releases their updates. Of course that is only guessing. I don't have Aerofly or DCS so don't know how their VR is, but I am glad I am not missing out on XP 11 VR.

If you go into FlyInside settings, they give four different options for resolution. The 3840 x 2374 is the clearest for me, but does cut down on the fps. the next lowest setting is still readable and gives a bit more fps, but I prefer the higher resolution. In VR I use the 2x+SSAA+FXAAwhich is acceptable to me in VR but in flat screen I have to use 8X+, I can't stand the shimmering that I get in flatscreen at 8X + I get away from the shimmering. In VR the shimmering is not nearly as noticeable, it is still there but not as objectionable to me. I think that shimmering is different for different people, I see people using 2X AA in flat screen without any problems apparently, but one of the few things that drive me crazy, if that makes any sense. LOL

For those having a bit of difficulty reading small gauges in VR, and if you are using FlyInside, you can make the cockpit just a little bit larger than life size by decreasing the world scale. I did this in the Dreamfoil Bell 407 helicopter by changing the world scale to 90% rather than 100%, this makes the cockpit just a bit larger and the small gauges on the 407 are all readable. I have a I7 6850K and GTX 1080, all stock no overclock, although the 6850 K runs natively at 3.75 MHz instead of the stated 3.6 MHz, so I guess it is in a sense a small overclock. Anyway at those settings, in the Los Angeles Basin I get a solid 25/94 fps as reported by FlyInside, that is with maximum world objects, everything else turned down to one click less than maximum. By running ortho4xplane I can easily turn down the world objects two clicks left and still get acceptable graphics for me. At those settings I get a 34/94 fps as reported by FlyInside I keep the AA at 2x, Oculus trey is set for 2.00 supersampling and resolution is 3840 by 2376. with these settings all of the gauges are readable. Of course the screen door effect and haze are still there, for me however it is not a problem as in the real life area I fly in visibility quite often is under 10 miles to 7 miles anyway. Haze is quite pronounced in the summer times, quite often.

Looks pretty good in the daytime with VR on.

I got the Rift on the summer sale with Touch. FlyInside has a setting for 3840x2040 which I use and works OK with a GTX 1080 video card. Get 25/95 to 30/90 in the LAX basin. In the new LasVegas default scenery I get about the sam fps unless I am flying right down the strip, on the Las Vegas Strip it gets pretty choppyy VR, but around the periphery of the strip it does OK.

I can relate to the wife thing Jimmy, my wife doesn't think its a big deal at all. apparently she can't see in 3D, although she didn't like the tyrannosaurus rex running over her in the dreamdeck app. Have you done a flight sim yet? X-Plane 11 is remarkable in VR.

Thanks a lot WebMaximus, I really appreciate the answer. I don't unplug my HDM its so on handy to get to the back of my computer, I do however power down the computer when I'm not using it. I turn off all power to the computer anyway. I only use VR for flightsimming, have never been into actual gaming, I might start with Robo Call however, LOL

I would like to know the answer to the OP question too, not everyone goes to the Orbx forum, or that forum or another forum, that's why I come to the Virtual Reality forum to learn a VR question.. I don't have time to lurk in every forum. :=)

The decal setting certainly improves the look of the orthos. Especially if the autogen is cut back.

Perhaps you might have s suggestion for why my ortho.cfg file won't work. when I bring up Ortho4XP the command window says the cfg file is missing or corrupted and won't read it. I have to input my settings by hand each and every time. I have tried changing the setting in the cfg. file but so far they won't take. I use Notepad++ Do you have any suggestions?

When I use Ortho in congested cities, I cut World Objects to half or more, so that trees don't end up on the roofs of buildings and so much autogen covers the ortho representation. With a ZL 17 flying 1000 feet above a city that you know well. is pretty nice. with ZL17 down to 500 feet looks pretty decent without a lot of the autogen cluttering the landscape up.

I have looked at 3 VOR''s in the USA, spotting them visually, and they are actually in the correct location, or at least within a few seconds of being in the right place.

I have the 120b version, its installed ok. I'll try the anti-virus, although I haven't had a problem in the past. I'll make sue it is running with administrator rights.

Here is the problem I am currently having with Ortho4XP. I can't get the program to start downloading or do anything for that matter, I set up for ZL 17 get everything else in push the step one button Get Vector data, the program says it downloading OSM data, but it just sits there doing nothing. I have had it running for over an hour and it does not do anything. Does anyone else have this problem. Or is there a workaround. I have managed to get two tiles done and working out of three I have been able to download. Tulsa works fine, Wichita works fine, Oklahoma City where I do most of my flying of course will not do right, I can fly in Oklahoma city area for about 10 or 12 minutes at the most before I have the CTD. I have recut this tile a dozen or more times all of the dds files are readable look fine, I just cannot get X-Plane to accept that tile. About to decide this isn't worth the effort, although the sim does look amazing when it works. I have never had a problem with X-Plane very few CTD I could count the total number of CTD on one hand, but it doesn't want to play in OKC. LOL

https://gateway.x-plane.com/ This is the web page for the X-Plane Scenery Gateway. It is here that you can check and see if a particular airport has been made in 3D or if it is still in the original 2D format. As people update the stock airports in X-Plane they are uploaded to the Gateway, then when X-Plane is updated by the developers these are sent out to us the users. A lot of the airports have been made, they are made with a Laminar Research program called World Editor or WED. There are many more airports that have not yet been updated. Making these airports for some people is an additional part of the hobby in and of itself.

Try to download the 430 data from X-Plane 10. That is what we had to use when they first upgraded to X-Plane 11. When I bought the Panthera I had to use the 430 data from XP 10 as the data did not come with the Panthera at that time.

Some people claim to have Plan G connect to X-Plane 11, but I have never been able to get my copy to work together, There was a quick partial fix rom the developer that would let 11 conn3ct but there wee a lot of things lost. still waiting for an update to Plan G, although I haven't checked for it recently so there might be an update.

Hi hjsmuc, I finally got one downloaded and working from USA2 also. I didn't like the color too much, but it is working in ZL 16. I finally got a working ortho in ZL 17/19 from GO2, which has very good color, there are some areas though in this one, that are just water. LOL It does work though so will keep plugging away. I really don't have an interest in doing too much ortho, I just like the areas that I know and are likely to fly in. Thanks for answering though.

VERY true, I can't stand to run around Oklahoma City without ortho. LOL. It's just seeing the dam in the proper place at the lakes, there is the state capitol, worst of all, there is my house, Hey the shed in the back yard is THERE, go around to the other side of the house, there is the carport, not to mention my neighbors, some of there cars sitting in the driveway. Fortunately I can fly other places and be happy without ortho as I am not so familiar with the streets in other large cities.

Thanks Ses, All sounds reasonable, and doable I will try at different levels.