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The announcement isn't actually on the DTG facebook page, it's on the dedicated FSX-SE facebook page...

You'll read all kinds of different perspectives on this stuff. The flightsim crowd is a fickle and finicky and somewhat obsessive one. Perspectives vary considerably largely based on the specific circumstances under which a person is using the sim. Everybody has a different system, a different set of requirements from the sim, and a different set of expectations. For me, having come directly to FSX-SE from FS2004 after taking a break from the hobby for a few years, I can say that FSX-SE is a fantastic sim that performs quite well for me on my laptop with the sliders cranked up pretty darned high. I think DTG has a reasonable idea of what they are doing...

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you're on quite the mission aren't you? I don't mind you noting that you don't find there to be any improvement in performance, but you should take it easy with the placebo brainwash stuff. It's entirely possible that you are wrong y'know...

Yeah the Vsync thing caught me too. I would assume all they mean is that folks who have vsync enabled won't likely see any 10% increase in performance since their framerate is going to be locked anyway. I would assume if you are running vsync and your system struggles to meet the limited framerate imposed by that then you might see an improvement there. I keep my framerate locked at 30fps and vsync enabled. Under very rare circumstances I will see drops down to 25 or 26 fps. Perhaps this update will help to minimize even those rare occasions...

That's the freeware OZx Grand Canyon scenery

Hey thanks for that, the OZx Grand Canyon scenery is lovely! I'm going to grab the Death Valley one as well. :smile: Cheers...

Here's some shots of OZx's Grand Canyon scenery in FSX-SE using the rather nifty Steam screenshot library... http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995844850/screenshots/?appid=314160

Is 100% traffic even "realistic?" Just curious... Its worth pointing out that FS9 is more than a decade old now and for a good portion of those years you needed a pretty monstrous system to be able to run it at 30fps with all the sliders maxed...

Yeah I know...as I said in the first post I bought right in between the two 5 dollar sales... dangit!

BTW, thanks for the tip about clicking in the empty folder window in the scenery library. That worked and the Bella Coola scenery is installed now. :smile:

Yeah I realize there are all sorts of payware options available that are likely to give better results, but I'm just not terribly interested in getting back on the big money treadmill just yet. I bought a veritable ton of stuff for FS9 and I am tempted to track down my discs and re-install that too but that would be a huge undertaking and frankly, I'm not really looking to jump that far down the rabit hole so to speak :smile: Heck, I'm flyin around with an old PS1 dualshock gamepad here! lol...actually it works surprisingly well though! As great as some of the payware I bought was (RealAir, I'm looking at you! :smile: ) some of my favorite things in FS9 were created by the brilliant freeware guys (Howard500, Glacier Bay)... The GEX thing I have is a freeware autogen texture package that just gives the buildings a bit more "pop." Other than that, like I said I'm just putting the freeware mesh of Raimondo Taburet in there as it does improve on the default world mesh by a fair margin. So I guess what I'm looking for is just suggestions as to a couple really good freeware items that may have been released in the past few years since I dropped out of the scene...

Hello all. Back in "the day" I was a huge FS9 devotee and spent a lot of time on these forums but as of 2010 or so I basically dropped out of the hobby. However, I recently came across the Steam edition of FSX and having never tried the newer version of MSFS before and having also just purchased a fairly nice laptop I decided the price of $13.99 was an irresistible opportunity to give it a whirl finally. Sadly, had I found it a few days earlier, or had I waited a few days longer I could have had it for a fiver, but oh well - still a deal afaic. Anyway, I've got it installed and up and running and it really seems to perform very nicely on this new laptop. I've got the gfx nice and high and it looks great and I'm able to maintain a steady 30fps (locked) under the msot stressfull situations I can throw at it. So now - having been pretty much out of the loop for years, I'm looking for a few recommendations. I've tracked down an autogen update (GEX I believe it is) that makes a nice general improvement to the look of the autogen, and I'm slowly downloading all the pieces of Raimondo Taburet's mesh for most of the globe, but as a guy who likes to fly low and slow and look at the pretty scenery I'm looking for a few suggestions as to some great freeware planes and sceneries to grab from the library. Also, I have dowloaded Holger's Bella Coola scenery but it doesn't seem to want to install in any way I can figure out. I've tried adding it through the scenery library as well as adding it manually to the config but the sim won't recognize it. When I try and add it through the scenery library it never gives me an option to exit from the "add location" window...it just seems to sort of stall before it does anything once being pointed to the bella coola scenery folder. Any ideas what the issue is?