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tirith63

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  1. People here present some good points to keep in mind. Here are a couple things to note about FSX to consider (and yeah, the Steam version, at least for me, has been more reliable than disc installs - I can't get the disc installs to register any longer). 1. FSX is heavily CPU bound, so a high end, modern, fast CPU will do you a lot of good there. I would start with that before upgrading my graphics card. 2. FSX is a 32-bit program, so no matter how much memory you have, it's stuck in a 4 GB limit. It uses a lot of this memory for add-ons, scenery, and sim objects like complex aircraft (which can slow down performance a lot). So you will be limited to how many add-ons or complex sceneries you can utilize. Too many can result in crashing and out of memory errors soon into a flight. I have been a flight simulator and P3D user for many many years (more than I want to count) and MSFS is a fine and very accurate simulator. If you want realistic flight as well as beautiful scenery, and your computer can handle it, it's an excellent choice. I keep P3D around for some of the aircraft I can't get on MSFS, but that's the only reason. Now that FS Traffic from Just Flight is out, I have one less reason to keep P3D active. As with most things, which simulator to use is a personal choice based on your needs, capabilities, and preferences. As far as scenery for FSX or P3D, I chose to go with Megascenery Earth's excellent satellite imagery. Over the years, I acquired most of the United States. It looks good from at least a little altitude (about 3,000 ft?). Since it's real world scenery, I can use it for VFR flight using landmarks. No real framerate impact, either (although having a lot of them can increase the startup load time for your flight). I attached a sample screenshot so you can see what that scenery looks like. Hope it works out well for you, regardless of which simulator you use.
  2. Finally able to download. The license agreement is pretty draconian - almost afraid to use it. Might be my last product from them.
  3. There it is! Purchased and waiting on download links. It was, in fact, $69.99. However, the PMDG site is so overloaded I can't download it. Suppose I'll wait until tomorrow. I'm one bummed out virtual pilot.
  4. It shows on their main site page now, but for some reason, you still can't purchase it yet. Refresh...refresh...refresh...
  5. Posted the screen saver here this morning, and it should be available when Nels is able to add it to the library. Thanks again!
  6. Thanks so much, everyone, for your kind replies and advice. I believe I'll go ahead and post it in the file library here at FlightSim.com. If a developer of one of the products has a problem with it, which I think is highly unlikely, I can remove images featuring their product(s) and repost it. I'll ftp it up in the next few days. You people are the best! Tony.
  7. Hi, All You Aviation People, Being both an aviation enthusiast and a photographer, I have loved flight sim screenshots for decades. And whether you love or hate MSFS 2020 (or fall somewhere in between), it is capable of amazing visuals and gives you excellent control over cameras and your environment. So I've amassed a decent collection of images over the last year and a half. But what to do with all of them? I decided that I could share them with the community and return a little something to them for their years of friendship, help, and good times by making a slideshow screen saver (Windows 10/11) and distribute it for free to the flight simulator community. I also included a readme file that listed all the 3rd party aircraft and scenery use while making the images. And that's when the gremlin of potential copyright issues reared its ugly head. Would 3rd party developers of aircraft and scenery have a problem publishing screenshots that include their creations? Generally, as they are all listed in the accompanying readme file, this should be good for their sales, creating additional exposure and interest. But you never know. And I don't have time to go asking each one if they're OK with it. There is no money involved; the whole thing would be free. Any thoughts on the matter? Any experts out there familiar with the legal concept of Fair Use? An alternative would be to just post a new screenshot here in this forum every day. Not as good, but at least it could be fun. Thanks for any help you can provide. Attaching an example (resized down to 1600 pixels in width, and shows FlyingIron Simulation's P-38L recreating a fake recon flight over the coast of France prior to D-Day - or something like that). Tony.
  8. Hi Gasman, Just another data point for you here. Most of your rig looks great. I also have a 5th gen i7 that does fine. I also have a recent Nvidia 2070 Super (8 GB VRAM) in the box, 16 GB of RAM, a SATA SSD, and am running at 2560x1440. I regularly get 30-50+ fps with everything running on High (except clouds which I set at Ultra). In some challenging situations, like urban areas, it drops into the high 20's. But flying the length of Manhattan at about 2500 ft I was getting 33-35 fps, which is very smooth and looks great. Your mileage may vary, but so far, so good. I fly about every day, and no real issues with the sim (except I *still* can't purchase anything from the market place -oh well). I also have a friend who runs a recent i5 CPU, 16 GB RAM, with a 980ti with 6 GB of VRAM, and his does quite well, too, at 1080p. I think your box will run the sim pretty well as-is, perhaps with most settings at High. The 4 GB of video memory might cause a stutter here or there if it needs to do some texture swapping. And as others have mentioned, a respectable internet connection will help a lot. You don't need a gigabit connection, but something above the bare minimum (that old AOL dial-up connection won't quite make it :) ) Best of luck - hope it works out well!
  9. I agree with plainsman - good assessment. Pretty sure it will run, but you'd have to dial back the settings pretty far to get a usable frame rate. My friend has an i5 box and gets a good experience out of MSFS, but he also has an NVidia 980ti and 16 GB of RAM . If X-Plane runs to your satisfaction on your machine, that might be the way to go for now.
  10. Never mind - answered my own question. Drop it in the Community folder. Thanks for the great rendition of this landmark - great fun to fly by (really wanted to land at the visitors' center, but resisted the temptation).
  11. Any thoughts on how to get this installed into MSFS? Haven't done an end-user scenery install yet. Thanks!
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