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Hi all, The PMDG NGX for P3D and the 2.5 release have brought me back to flightsimming after a year. I am impressed by both packages, but I have this one phenomenon that I was wondering about if anybody else sees this behaviour. I took the NGX for a spin from Heraklion into the mountains, and switched on the terrain radar. Immediately FPS dropped from about 20 to 10-11. (terrain radar looks great though!) I of course switched it off immediately, but I did not regain my FPS back. :-( Is this a known issue? Erik

The textures show up with DX9 OK. With DX10 and the fixer, night textures at LGTS, HESH and LOWW don't show properly. I have tried adding a lightfield to HESH, but it didn't have any results.

Hi, I use UT2 with the latest Summer 2013 schedule, and some additional paints and models installed (FAIB 737 and A320, UTT 787 and 7478, etc.) ASNext, REX Texture Direct4 and the DX10 fixer are my other important addons. Erik

That is what I actually liked about this, and why I took the screenshot. Normally, FSX is way to light during the night. DX10 with the Fixer, bloom enabled and REX4 really made my night flights a lot more interesting!

Just one, after landing at OSL as flight AB8244 from TXL. Cold and slippery it was! Add-ons used: PMDG NGX Aerosoft Oslo 2.0 REX4 Direct Textures AS Next DX10Fixer 1.4 Bye, Erik

Good question, I am pretty sure that Vienna has nice night lighting on its apron textures, but I haven't ever tested Sharm el Sheikh with DX9. I don't want to go back, so why would I? ;-) I will see if I can test it later tonight. Erik

Hi All, I have searched around for this, but I could not figure out if there was a solution possible for this. Some of my payware airports have dark ground textures during the night. This is especially bothersome during winter, when contrast with the white surroundings is quite big. Two airports I have found that have this behaviour: - FlyTampa Vienna 2.5 - FSDG Sharm el Sheikh (Aerosoft) I have the latest update of the fixer installed, and the compatibility slider set to full left (scenery). Is there any solution for this problem? Erik

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks great! It seems this one is not AES-compatible though. Does anyone know if this is yet to come?

Amen to that. As others said, I investigate my purchases before I make them but this was one of them that I bought just because of the reviews. It gave me lots of errors, when selecting a gate or service the appearing vehicles made my FPS drop 50% or more and with pushback I often ended up being dumped in some ditch with the towtruck behind my nosewheel crashed in the fuselage. (those who have been there know what I mean) Also, the COUATL-engine acted very frustrating. Fact is, after removing all FSDreamteam stuff, COUATL and their AddOn Manager I didn't suffer any more CTD or stutters. I reinstalled AES with the 140 credits I bought over the last four years and wondered why I ever considered leaving it behind. My list of great purchases over the last year is way longer though. With PFP X, FTX Global amongst others. Erik Brouwer

Its default FSX. That is the nice thing about DX10 - using bloom without the slightest FPS hit. Last part of the Flickr-set is with REX4, the new textures are great for use in DX10. Have fun, Erik

Hi, All these http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeblogger/sets/72157636899353884/ are the NGX used with the DX10 fixer (various versions). I haven't seen any cockpit shadows, but the combination works great nonetheless. Hope this helps, Erik

Hi Paul, Thank you for the explanation. Any news on the 1.3 update yet? (Steve?) I run FSX on a sort-of dedicated laptop (Lenovo Y500) With an i7 Ivy (3,2GHz) and two GT650's in SLI. Fed by 2x 512GB SSD and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Would you consider that enough for UsePools=0? I really don't know how to test properly.. Hope you have seen similar configs before.. Thanks, Erik

Also looking forward to this fix, it definately feels like a flash of the black texture! (this is btw an issue Dx10 suffers of more than DX9, isn't it? For example - looking in one direction, then quickly panning to the other, all my AI is black and needs some time to catch up loading textures. Is this normal behaviour? Why is DX10 suffering of this and DX9 isn't?)

After flying there IRL last month I'd say you should have the virtual Darwin award for flying there in that weather! ;-) Being curious - do you have any mountain flying experience? Did you do any preparation for the flight, and what were your means of navigation? I would like to do some mountain flying in the sim as well, but so far I have not succeeded in creating a good immersion of what it its like in reality..

Hi all, Just some shots I took over the last few weeks. Add-ons used: - PMDG NGX - D-ABKC repaint (on Avsim) - DX10Fixer (Legacy slider full left) - REX 4 Texture Direct (partly) - ActiveSky NEXT - FTX Global - and more.. The new REX combined with ASN and the DX10 fixer offers incredible immersion IMHO. All are highly recommended. ASN with REX and DX10 really shine here, on approach to runway 19L at Aerosoft's new Oslo Gardermoen: Hope you enjoyed this series. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Rgds, Erik