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  1. Consumers have every right to demand that merchants deliver products that are suited for their intended purpose. When a merchant merchant treats those same paying customers with such hostility, voicing your opinion in a public forum is the best way to respond (See Yelp, Epinions, etc.). If that merchant can best be described as an a-hole, then deserves mentioning as well.


  2. Here you go with UTX 40 / 40 in heavy clouds:

     

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    Yea so it is a shameless plug for FSXAssist but so be it.

     

    Regards

    jja

    Ok, but FSX Assist just automates what many of us do using Word Not Allowed's or NickN's guide. Describe a scenario where you get 100+ FPS, though.

     

    What are your PC specs (cpu, gpu, etc.)?

    What are your FSX display settings?

    What aircraft?

    What scenery (mesh, landclass, texture sets in use)?

    What resolution are your "heavy cloud" textures?

     

    Seriously, if FSX Assist is enough to get you 100 FPS using settings, and under conditions, that the majority of simmers use, then someone ought to tell Word Not Allowed and NickN. They've been slaving away on their setup guides for some time now. NickN could have ended world hunger with all of the effort and time he's put into his bible.


  3. I'm now running 3 new products: REX 4 Texture Direct, ASN Next and ORBX Vector. All are No Fuss - No Muss products that greatly enhance the FSX experience with FPS in the 100+ range.

     

     

    Uhh, 100+ FPS?? With zero AI traffic, no weather, default airports, default aircraft, sliders full left, no AA, and no AF, all at a crystal clear 640x480 resolution?

     

    Otherwise, please do share your fsx.cfg. You just might have found the holy grail we've all been looking for.


  4. Yeah, it's a real shame RC5 is dead. ProATC-X had hope until the devs abandoned it. At one point, they were updating it on a regular basis. Now I haven't heard or seen anything from them in months. The only thing they've developed, as far as I can tell, is an empty promise.

     

    Perhaps I'll give VOX a try.


  5. Soooo, what happen to the elevation fixes??? :rolleyes:

     

    I'm not really seeing that many elevation fixes to be honest. Didn't JV advertise all 29k airports fixed or something??? I don't have to fly around Colorado much before I see elevated runways all over the place. Posting pictures of every elevated airport for Orbx too tedious and time consuming, they should be paying me for the beta testing. The amount of elevation issues with Vector is almost mind numbing, to be honest. Even KDEN is elevated?!? Really! Wow...simply wow.

     

    Aspen (KASE)

     

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    Yeah, that's unacceptable. Are you using a mesh (FS Global, etc.)? Just wandering if the mesh would fix this, or this is simply Vector being Vector.


  6. I agree with you Brian. I think the thread so far has been really informative. There is always drama but the essence of the thread still there.

    Just my opinion.

    +1

     

    I've been on the fence and have been monitoring this thread constantly. Sure, some people go a little overboard, but who cares? The last thing we need is big brother watching over us.


  7. Yes. I thought the discount would be applied when I placed the order. Instead, it charged me the full price. I emailed them asking for a credit back to my card. So far, no response. This happened last night (24 hours ago).

    $6 isn't a whole lot of money, but that's just sloppy and unprofessional. I was on the fence as it was. What a disaster of a release.


  8. ...On the other hand those lights are awful. The halo for normal streetlights looks about the same size as half a house. Don't know why FSX / P3D just can't do realistic-sized night lighting.

     

     

    I thought the same thing, although it may just be because he's skirting the treetops. It looks like hot air balloons are invading the U.S.

     

    I'm enjoying the new textures ... quick video of inland water and dusk sky/clouds:

     

    ...

     

    just low and slow around Minnesota.

    Rob, is that FTX Global vector lighting that's making the enormous lights? Or is it REX? I've just never seen that before. Then again, I don't spend that much time at 100ft agl in my 777. :)

  9. I have a mixed review on it really. I was using REX E with OD for textures before and really liked those. They claim that they have some 16,000 new textures but to me it seems like there are much fewer textures than before. However, that being said, the water animation is awesome along with the airport HD signs. I'm also not sure if REX is the reason for my night textures being much darker but I never noticed it this dark before (I like it). Is it worth the $30 upgrade? Yes, in my opinion anyways. The way it loads textures super fast and the ability to choose individual textures to install instead of having to re install the whole theme is awesome.

     

    1. ASN

    2. REX Essentials Plus w/OverDrive

    3. The only thing I'm using I might see as "post production" is the FSX addon Shade.

     

    Hope this can give a little insight!

    Interesting. Thanks. Like you, I was using REX-E with OD textures. I switched to AS2012 last year and decided to get rid of the monstrous OD textures, as I couldn't really see any difference between the OD textures and what came with AS2012. I'm wondering if I should let REX back on my hard drive now.

     

    I heard the same thing about the water and airports enhancements. They look great.


  10. I haven't seen any hard hitting reviews yet, and I'm curious what people think about REX Texture Direct. To make sure we're comparing apples to apples, please provide:

     

    1. Your current weather engine (AS2012, ASN, Opus, FSGW);

    2. What texture set you used prior to REX Texture Direct; and

    3. Whether or not you are using any "post-production" effects (shader mods, etc.).

     

    Oh, and please for the love of everything holy, none of this politically correct "It's subjective, and I don't want to impose my opinion on others" silliness. Just tell me what you think and whether you think it was worth the investment.


  11. After glancing at the QW $20 sale on their B752, and realizing the only tube I have that's not outdated is the B738, I think I'd like to fly something faster than the NGX. But it needs to have Navigraph support, which rules out the F18 Superbug I already own. Since we don't have any updated bizjets (I also own the C750) which would easily cruise mid mach .8 I am starting to think harder and consider the PMDG B772.

     

    But golly, it's almost $90. Which is a lot to me because this tube thing isn't normally my type of flying. But the max cruise is around mach .89 - that's REALLY fast! When I fly it's online and I simulate being a bzillionaire with a private aircraft that I can fly fast fast fast. I don't care about entering the perfect CI for pax flying. I usually enter 80 in the B738! I will fly with the engine/s in the green but I like to push things.

     

    You might think $90 is cheap - maybe dinner and a movie for two (something I rarely see anymore with my lovely kids around!) But I want to know why YOU think the PMDG B772 is worth the 89 greenbacks they ask!

     

    If you could be specific - maybe it's something about the failure options you enjoy, perhaps the crystal clear text on the displays is the reason you parted with the money, or maybe it's just brand loyalty!

     

    My thought process is to spend less than one fourth the price and end up with a fairly "lite" but speedy B752 or drop the big dollars on the B772.

     

    Calling all PMDG phan bois - win me over!

    Fidelity is king. $90 is a lot of money for the casual simmer, but this isn't for the casual simmer. If all you want is a fast plane that uses AIRAC data, there are plenty of other cheaper options out there. If you want faithful system re-creation and the challenge of mastering a heavy airliner, then this is the best there is.

     

    By the way, my needs (short, medium and long range) are now met with the Majestic Q400, the NGX and the PMDG 777. All that's missing now is Hardy Heinlin's PSX, which I hope to have sometime next year. There are cheaper fleets out there, for sure. The only thing you have to decide is how serious you are.


  12. Great products, horrible protection scheme. Shame, really. Please consider the F1 wrapper or even AVSIM's new model, Addon Manager is... creepy.

    +1

     

    I want to smash Add-on Manager and the Couatl script with a ball peen hammer. I never really understood what they do. All I know is I hate setting FSX and everything up perfectly, only to have that stupid Couatl Live Update prompt rear its ugly head. I always dismiss it and run the update through the update.exe. The one time I allowed Couatl to update from within FSX, FSX crashed. That was probably a fluke, but these are nonetheless very invasive.

     

    That said, I love FSDT airports, so I'll probably take advantage of this sale.


  13. Try them all and you tell us which one YOU prefer.

    Because I already have ASN (got the AS2012 user pricing), and I don't need two weather engines.

     

    If people have both, I'd love to hear their honest opinions. So far, all I've seen are 1) people who only have one or the other program and yet claim that their product is superior, 2) people who have both products, compare them, and declare a clear winner, but do it without screenshots, and 3) people who have both products and compare them but decline to state their opinion.

     

    Yes, we know it's subjective, but so are most third party add-on reviews.


  14. Ses,

    what you are describing sounds nice. I use OPUS and tried the trial version of ASN and I think it depends what you are expecting from weather simulation software.

    To me, flying around in FSX, is a kind of mental travelling. When I look at the cloudscape in the sim, for instance in San Fransisco, I want to see the same cloudscape as someone who lives in SF and who looks at the same moment to the real sky. I compared the cloud depiction of both programms with weathercams which you can find all over the internet. OPUS was always spot on, absolutely amazing. ASN hardly ever! When I get turbulence, I want to experience the amount of turbulence I would get as a rw-pilot at that moment at that place and not a kind of at random heavy shaking. I trust OPUS a bit more and tend to believe that OPUS ist more about depiction of the real atmosphere. ASN might be more about aesthetics and fun.

     

    Regards, Hans

    Can you share some screenshots of this comparison? I hear a lot of people declaring love for one product or the other. Unfortunately, most of them (not you) have only one of the products and have no basis for making comparisons. If the folks who have both programs installed could run some side-by-sides of ASN and OPUS compared to sky cams, as you suggest, we might be able to put the debate to bed.

     

    Game on!

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