SimeonWilbury

It is very disappointing they chose to give no notice at all and indeed offer no transparency at all regarding what has been removed. Certainly I will not be purchasing from them in future where there is an alternative vendor.

That must explain it. 'During 2026' seems odd to be given we are only 7 months into the year - 2025 would have seemed fairer. I would have thought this would have been communicated more loudly and with more notice (to avoid people making my mistake). I so nearly bought that Luxor scenery last month and I am kicking myself that I held off. I suppose I ought to grab a few others now while I am at it... This must be what flying a 'legacy' sim will be like for the foreseeable future. What I cannot at all support is removing even the option for prior purchasers to re-download their products. That would be straight-up anti-consumer (albeit sadly legal). [Edit: I initially thought this had happened for a scenery I had previously purchased but after double checking the files are still available].

Thanks, it does seem to have some custom modelling + an updated afcad so probably better than nothing.

I have been planning a round the world flight recently, with one of the stops to be Luxor (HELX) in Egypt, of which there was quite a good looking version available for P3D, available on simmarket very recently. (link of a press release relating to it: https://www.simflight.com/2015/06/23/simdesigngroup-luxor-sp1-released-p3d-version-released/) Today I opened Simmarket intending to buy it only to find it had vanished. In fairness this may not just be a case of support discontinued for P3D as it seems the devs' website is no longer serviceable either. But it is disheartening to lose the opportunity to purchase good quality sceneries - particularly given I cannot stand the default option. Anybody know of any serviceable HELX scenery I might be able to find as a substitute?

Might be an option potentially? I have ENVSHADE but have never used ENVTEX. It could be worth a try if it can give a similar effect to EA, although at the moment I'm able to sufficiently suspend my disbelief to not worry too much about the sky so I haven't really been experimenting much.

I found this old screenshot I took in FSX many years ago which seems a good example of what the skies would look like at around Concorde altitude with the legacy skies - it would be noticeably darker than at lower altitudes.

It is something I have noticed with EA. I used to fly with EA off to improve performance before I changed GPUs - with the legacy skies iirc it would get darker more like it should. I expect the skies in EA aren't really designed to take account of this and so you don't get the same effect. I'm not sure if there's a way to modify the EA skies to get the darkening effect at high altitudes? Would be the best of both worlds if that were possible.

No legitimate means available any more I don't think, I don't have the expansion either.

That is more or less what I expected unfortunately. As other users have already noted, I expect there will ultimately end up being other avenues for sufficiently determined simmers to acquire these.

As a Concorde flier - I noticed there seemed to be virtually no sceneries available for GOOY (the old Dakar airport). Maybe a bit of a more niche one and there is a FSDG Lite scenery for GOBD providing an alternative, so not necessarily a one for the top of the list but perhaps one that would be nice to have a 'better than default' option for. There are a few other airports in more far-out places on the earth that occasionally get visited on cargo flights (Almaty, Bishkek etc.) that don't seem to have much more to offer than ones merely altering the default scenery (which I personally can't stand). Otherwise, there are plenty of third-party sceneries (some of which requiring various amounts of TLC to get working properly), though the big issue will be the tendency for these to get increasingly out of date as the real life airports develop.

Brought forward until 26 May? I'm about to leave for a holiday until then! I can fully appreciate the costs of keeping the ops-centre running - but I hope there would at least be an alternative method for obtaining liveries - otherwise this smacks overly of forced obsolescence... In the absence of such then I presume that PMDG will have no objections to said liveries being rehosted elswhere so they can continue to be enjoyed by their paying customers (presumably in non-ptp form if that is being disabled for good).

Sunday's return flight was also successful, with settings bumped up slighty (density up form 'normal' to 'dense'. I might try and go up to 'very dense', though I think draw distance will definitely stay down. Hopefully that will be the end of issues for now!

Today's run was successful (albeit with a slightly different route, as I took the marconi route into JFK due to 22L/R being in use) - this time with draw distance down to high and autogen density down to normal (along with a few other settings knocked down). I think I will keep the draw distance as it is as it does give a noticeable FPS boost. Next flight I will maybe try autogen density back up to dense and it that works when I will maybe keep as is.

Ray - your last post doesn't seem to be visible to me for some reason (edit: it is now, appears posting this helped!). I have however tried the Microsoft Visual C++ repair and will see if that makes a difference. Also, may be a long-shot, but I also wasn't having these CTDs when I had FSUIPC autosave disabled. I don't know if that was a factor, but is another change I will try reverting in case it somehow introduced a problem. I did at one point also change the dynamic reflection settings mid-flight at one point, don't know if that somehow messed things up. Alas I have had to abandon the current flight and have work for the rest of the week, so I won't be able to repeat the flight again until Saturday. Hopefully with a few more tweaks I might be able to get all the way across the atlantic without a CTD.

Not currently, I might give a try possibly, although again FPS isn't much of a concern for me currently. I may possibly try FSR which I understand has a similar overall effect. Unfortunately I have now had another CTD at what seems to be exactly the same position (near Halifax), which is worrying - this time the faulting module is VCRUNTIME140.dll.