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I have LatinVFR Miami, and you are right...it only (that exclude file from the pointed out site) gave me back the large Terminal building roof, that was showing grey in my original pic. There are other buildings in the LatinVFR Miami terminal properties, that are still being overrun with default or that of Orbx T.E. Florida. I also rendered the two Orbx T.E. Florida KMIA files as KMIA.(whatever).bgl, to lgb. That didn't take care of the other buildings that are still affected. It seems to me, that one would need to buy only an airport or scenery that is STATED to have been created for P3D version 5.x If it states (on the purchase page that it can be used for P3D 3/4/5...you most likely will have that property not render as intended if used within v5.x

I downloaded v 1.16 from XP.Org...and then in the running XP11.55, brought up Xenviro, and the Activate Screen came up. Put in my email and the serial number from my purchase, and nothing happens...Xenviro seems to not call home...and to activate. Is the program D.O.A.?

I just took a flight in XP11.55 the other day, out of months of not using it...have been focusing on P3D v5.x. Well, I set myself up in Orbx's Key West, and flew to Miami, where I have been fooling around with a P3D Miami X recent install. I had obviously forgot how good and smooth XP11.55 is....and really enjoyed the eye candy and performance. So...for myself...along with the recent MSFS W7, which I found to be really good....I'm all set up. I have three choices now, that in my view, all have their few perks over the other. So...time to cycle through them on a regular and not so much sporadic basis that I have been for a couple of months. For sure though, I will be buying XP12, as I have always been an XP supporter since v8.x

How so, Bob? What makes you post that?

I have installed WU7 but have not flown anywhere in Australia yet. Is the Gold Coast well done? Hope to fly somewhere there this morning...

Just applied it this morning...and everything seems really good. I truly think that now, they have a handle on the updates...and more is being advanced, rather than one step forward, but two steps back. I think we might be truly past that!

Well, I see actually, now that it has been brought to my attention, that even with the BGL Exclude files..there are still some black out textures or textures not showing up in some v4.x scenery installed in v5.x I guess you have to live with that...and enjoy what does show up as normal. In Miami City X, there are some buildings that are black. They have windows, but in running it in v4.5, I see that those buildings (some, not all) have some nice outside textures to them, that are not being displayed within v5.x I wonder now how many other sceneries not specifically tweaked for P3D v5.x are also affected. I guess you want to buy only scenery and airports that specifically state they were created for v5.x so as to display properly in all assets.

I just checked the exclude product file but did not see one for Miami X. I will check out the Orbx and turn to off, what I see for KMIA...and thank you! I see what you mean now...the roof of the terminal...and just renamed in the Orbx Folder: to.... KMIA.bgl.off KMIA_CVX.bgl.off Did the exclude for LatinVFR KMIA I hope that that does it for KMIA. Thanks!

That was actually v5.3 HF2 that I was referencing. Here are some shots of one climbing out of Miami X/Orbx T.E. Florida 'marriage', and then Miami X KMIA taxi explore...

H.S.! P3D v5.3 HF2 can look just as good...RL, as MSFS with the right scenery combo....and man oh man...Miami X (cityscape) is so huge in area and detail...I'm not sure where it begins or ends, or Orbx T.E. Florida begins or ends...and where they are hip to hip...but WOW....the detail LOOKS exactly like MSFS pretty much in Ultra. I am so amazed...and of course thrilled beyond doubt! 🙂 Back to Miami on steroids...LOL! Wozer....

WOW...what a killer combo....Miami X and Orbx T.E. Florida. I thought it was only the airport KMIA...heck...it is the entire city of Miami....wow...detail supreme!~ This is a must have....great performance with v5.3 HF2. Not so much, in v4.5...it is basically with DX11, a snail... Getting back to my Miami City fly over...way MORE than merely the redo of the airport, and a great marriage between this product and Orbx T.E.Florida! This ROCKS!

I just installed (KMIA) Miami X Intl airport into both v4.5 and v5.3 HF2. I started off with v4.5 to check it out. The property is fantastic...very well detailed...gates, cargo, planes...very nice...and the price most generously, at $0.00 by the Dev's is a great gift of generosity! Check it out with your account over at Sim Market! v4.5 FPS...in the toilet...with the sim at full throttle: 12-17 FPS. v5.3 HF2 flying high at 28-33 fluctuating depending on the view... (my locked setting via nVidia Mask) I am just as the title says, flabbergasted at how much performance is being pulled from DX12 and v5.3 HF2 as a whole package. Simply marvelous.... Simply so!

Stan, the bottom line, for all of us...is that whatever we choose to view cloud art as real life...well, we can buy those add on's and placing them into a running P3D, can achieve our viewpoint/visual needs met. So, isn't that all good for each user? I personally really like now P3D's Vol Clouds set to Medium. I now have them on as my 'carved in stone' no longer mess with, sim settings. They (for me,) look real enough to relax the mind...and not think of hoping to look at better (to satisfy me) cloud art. So...a win/win for everybody running it. Buy (or don't buy) what you need, to make P3D work for you, session start, to session end. Cheers, Mitch

Good post, Paul. How I personally 'see it ' now...and I agree with you, the sat/A.I. in MSFS (right now...P3D and XP could change the mix at any time...that we are not privy to...) is the most 'real life'. I agree...but then, what I also know for myself, is that when I fly P3D v5.3 HF2, I ALSO, am very happy with the synthetic Orbx Global, T.E., and Regional representations, as well as all my currently installed non-terrain scenery, as like, for airport properties. When flying P3D, my face would not reflect back in a mirror, a grimace. I am VERY happy with what I see for a 'synthetic based' terrain graphics world. In P3D v5.3 HF2, Orbx T.E. (I bought all of them the last sale, only BECAUSE of how P3D v5.3 HF1/HF2 (bought between them) renders out. It looks 'real enough' to me, that I also feel it is real world. I like the green/brown/black/orange/red based and mixed sprites to form the ground and season terrain, as well as the two Orbx product tree add'on's which I run together. I guess Paul that if I were to use current MSFS as a 12 inch ruler, Present P3D v5.3 HF2 with all my current 3rP terrain/airports/airplanes, would be sitting somewhere about 10.5 to 11 inches in height. That's good enough for me, so actually, I make a mental note NOT to be thinking of any other flight sim, when running either P3D, MSFS, or XP11...I truly focus on the flight sim, and the great features it has to induce me to tap on the start icon...only with the current sim being flown. In that way, I don't have any other envy of 'lust' for the other....or as you use the term, 'being spoiled' by one or the other. Obviously I must find something with P3D and XP to interest me, other than hitting the MSFS start icon, instead. I fully intend to buy XP12, but only will delay from the RTM date, to make sure by other's comments that it will run on my present system spec's...as I am not changing up or intend to at present. If I see it could run not at a snail's pace...sold. For now, I am quite happy to run P3D every day as my first go-to...and as I say, I do run MSFS, but more now, as a 'what's new' curiosity, rather than the 'oh boy, oh boy, can't wait' experience that I did indeed garner, at its release, and probably for the first couple of break/attempt to fix....break/attempt to fix....break....blah, blah. After that...the shine and 'go to' draw, went out the Den window... All I can say...is that I am VERY appreciative of the fact that I like P3D so much...for it still makes me want to go grab a coffee and take a flight. That...is simply uber 'ok' with me...and I can live with that!

My system by today's standards is rather modest...and yes, I also have a delay to load in (but very few per flight session) but only because I only have 12 GB's of System RAM. That is all my current M.B. will allow to be installed. But after that...smooth as silk flight animation.

"Totally agree..." Like a movie...yep, I'd agree with that description.

Like probably everybody, in learning about the early stages (or announcements) for MSFS, I was so hyped beyond crazy! Wow...a sim that would be based on actual photo sat imagery, with 'intelligent' A.I. superimposed over the 2D landscape. I thought that I had died and gone to Heaven! Then the RTM version. Yep..I did 'die and went to Sim Heaven'. Never before a sense of real life, or realism. This was fantastic! Then....the endless cycles of down tuning, (in my view) visual graphical reduction, since RTM release, one after another code breaks, one update to fix the broken last....until well, for myself, The 'fragrant scent left off the Rose'. I came back to firing up P3D and XP, not that they were ever deleted off of my system, but I rather felt they were going to (by me) be let out honorably to pasture, after the RTM MSFS. So...no longer goo-goo eyed over MSFS and the constant twists and rapids in the MSFS river....I started to use at least a 50/50 usage of MSFS and P3D v5.x. After v5.3/HF1/HF2 current) has come out, I find now, that I mostly spend my sim time, within P3D v5.3HF2. What I like...is the continuality of it. Whatever stage it is at, YOU are in control of KEEPING that version, correction after the fact, H.F.....whatever...and, only if you WISH TO...you can download past that. Until then...the sim, day to day...flight to flight....working features, to working features, and add-on's to add-on's will keep working for you. Any new or modified version, that might...that might break all or anything....and what time event the producers of the flight sim, will or might get around to trying to resolve what they broke in the standing version....will only come into play, if YOU the user download it. So...I really (for myself...and not preaching a viewpoint) , ...really now do appreciate the control that P3D as a flight sim platform affords me. Also, that every aspect of it...that is required for it to run...is intrinsic. On my system...day in....and day out. No 'off system' connection is needed to make the sim properly operate, and to fully render out. So for me....I'd have to say, again, for me...that P3D once more is my primary go to Flight Simulation platform. I do run up MSFS occasionally, but not so much anymore, as I am simply thrilled with the graphics of P3D v5.3HF2, as well as the full performance in FPS generation and animation fluidity. No other sim...on my system...MSFS, XP11 (latest v), can now match the absolutely stutter free, pause free, virtual animation to simulate real life flight of an aircraft over ground terrain, as P3D v5.3 HF2 gives me. Just thought to share my mind-set. Nothing more...not trying to influence anybody else reading. I really can say, that had MSFS never come along...and P3D came up with P3D v5.3HF2....I'd be a very, very contented flight simulation user. Very contented. I find P3D v5.3HF2 to be THAT good! Cheers, Mitch

And P3D ain't dead...no, more like with v5.3HF2, a Phoenix rising out of its ashes for rebirth.... 🙂

Well, I changed up one thing...am really liking E.A. Volumetric Clouds set to Medium....no loss of FPS whatsoever, and they look GREAT! So...now 'in stone'...I've added Medium Vol Clouds to the mix... 🙂 P3D is just looking the greatest it ever has...and so absolutely satisfied!

Yes..P3D v5.3 HF2 with E.A. on, no Vol Clouds.

You too! Heading now to Orbx Washington T.E. for some low and slow in the Twotter Amphib....

Vol Clouds inactive...

"LOLOLOL...yeppers...slaps you right across the kisser...makes you do the start sequence right..."

My Otter DOES have vibes...pontoon splash...stall...all with Accu-Feel...as soon as I install a new plane, Accu-Feel (for P3D) picks it up and assigns my defaults... If you get Accu-Feel, you will have all your planes with cockpit immersion and environmental immersion.... You can buy it off of Orbx Central...or out upon the Net.

Don't have that one... mostly low n' slow G.A., and I gravitate to pontoons and amphibs. I do have a couple of Business Class Jets, and would like to get the Honda for both P3D and I see/reading that someone is soon going to be releasing it (Honda Jet) for MSFS. I think that is just on the cusp....