RichUK

I have been away from MSFS a while and just starting enjoying it again. I am a little shocked that the water color is way wrong in certain areas of the world. For example, the river Thames and surrounding lakes and rivers are not sky blue in color in real life. We are talking tropical blue. This is true of many rivers and lakes etc. where they never appear that blue in real life anywhere in the world. Is there a way to change this, or is this something we are stuck with? I realize that they may be reflecting the sky, but that just isn't the way it looks in the air most of the time in real life. Sometimes it looks so bad I kinda want to turn it off lol! Thanks for any input. Rich.

You used to enjoy the DC6, Bob. What happened? Isn't that an older aircraft?

Sure..I have a huge post count by making a couple of posts today. X-Plane that. You're a funny man, you should put your money where your mouth is an be prepar3d to donate. Avsim won't see another cent from me. These waste of time out of control threads. Isn't this is what 'Hanger Chat' is for? Most of the folks who have made comments about this thread aren't just talking about this thread. This isn't the only thread to go off the rails in this forum.

Elaine - you really aren't funny at all. Why do you take delight in wasting folks time with your inane posts? Funny how you quote my post because you knew the comment about bumping post counts was directed at you. Now accusing me of derailing a thread that went waaay off track several pages ago.You are just a troll. Why not just rename this thread 'General Nonsense' since that is what it has become. There doesn't seem to be any more P3D speculation that hasn't already been posted.

This forum is getting to be a real freaking joke. Certain folks posting stupid crap just to bump up their post count. Really not sure why I even donated anymore.

Agreed. Especially when some of the opinions here are from people that obviously don't even have or use XP.

Good job Kyle!

I agree. I really don't have to worry too much since my PC specs are pretty darn good. Out of the box it just works and I never had to tweak much of anything anything - unlike FSX where all I did was that. The flexibility that XP gives you is way better than any other platform. Certainly gives you every option that you'd ever need. If you have a lower end PC then you can change the config to suit. I'll say it again - UHD scenery and some of the freeware airports along with the LES SAAB. Looks and feels much better than anything else out there.

Well said Rob. The other thing I love with XP is you can throw everything at it and your only real limitation is your PC specs. No fear of OOM's. I hate flying wondering when it will OOM. With XP I really just concentrate on flying.as it should be.

I agree with the above comment about not treating freeware as free. Developers deserve a little something if you enjoy the work they do. Same thing applies to this forum too. Not that I have any ties to Avsim, but it ain't free to run this site.

Amazing quality free scenery (thank you freeware developers). Amazing free UHD mesh scenery. Amazing night lighting. Add the LES Saab and you have an amazing sim with XP. Also, it never hardly crashes, certainly nowhere near as much as P3D. FSX has nothing on XP. P3D is a little nicer than FSX for eye candy , but is too OOMy. The weather engine and AI are my negatives as some folks have said. I'm sure that is only a matter of time though. Rich.

MisterX rocks!

On the positive side - the aircraft seems to fly real nice. Haven't tried stalls etc. yet. On the negative side - I am disappointed in the interior textures. They are sub-par. I'm also disappointed that there are no rain effects. In fact, it doesn't appear you are even looking through glass.

XP does take a little tweaking, but I found that when you have done that XP gives you quite a few 'WOW' moments. It is stunning.

Except in my case it doesn't. I'm sure it is my fault somehow.