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Great pictures Dappo.
Looking forward to the 4K Monitor review.
I bought ActiveSkyNext and it's amazing.
I flew the EGTE to EGLC route (again) last night. Great flight. I was under London Control from 'the' Matt Davies. Excellent flight and I completely ballsed up the landing at London City with a Tower Controller. I was so embarrassed, apologised and disconnected.
Looking forward to the 4K Monitor review.
I bought ActiveSkyNext and it's amazing.
I flew the EGTE to EGLC route (again) last night. Great flight. I was under London Control from 'the' Matt Davies. Excellent flight and I completely ballsed up the landing at London City with a Tower Controller. I was so embarrassed, apologised and disconnected.
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Having owned the PMDG T7 for a few months it's time for a new purchase soon. I'm obviously thinking of the PMDG 737ngx however I'm wondering what the Aerosoft Airbus package is like in comparison? The T7 is amazing thus I am tending to want to stick with PMDG based on that alone. I can't say I'm particularly a Boeing or Airbus fan so not really fussed on a particular manufacturer of aircraft I just want one that is as good as the T7.
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Can't recommend the Majestic Dash8 Q400 highly enough, excellent systems depth, brilliant flight model and excellent performance
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Second vote for the Majestic Dash 8. It is just superb.
I do love the Airbus A320/2 & A318/9 packs.
Great support from Aerosoft.
It concentrates on 'normal' day to day Airbus operations from the captain's seat.
You get a route planner, Runway Assistance, livery manager and lots of liveries and a sound pack.
It is a joy to fly, once you get use to the Airbus 'logic'.
I do love the Airbus A320/2 & A318/9 packs.
Great support from Aerosoft.
It concentrates on 'normal' day to day Airbus operations from the captain's seat.
You get a route planner, Runway Assistance, livery manager and lots of liveries and a sound pack.
It is a joy to fly, once you get use to the Airbus 'logic'.
Thanks gents, I already have the Majestic Dash 8, that was my first purchase earlier this year and is the reason for wanting to purchase the higher end addons now.
That's interesting about the Airbus packages, as long as they're as detailed and involved as the PMDG I'll be happy (not that I fully utilise everything on the T7).
That's interesting about the Airbus packages, as long as they're as detailed and involved as the PMDG I'll be happy (not that I fully utilise everything on the T7).
Hi everyone , i have been browsing through here and must say some of the screenies look awesome !
Anyway , as you may well know , this has appeared on steam at a bargain 3.99 and many people (myself included ) have taken the plunge and purchased this.
I was hoping to call upon your wealth of knowledge for a couple of things , i fancy getting a joystick for obvious reasons ... what "budget" joysticks would people recommend ?
Also what would you call the "essential" mods to get in order to get going and enjoy max immersion etc
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
Anyway , as you may well know , this has appeared on steam at a bargain 3.99 and many people (myself included ) have taken the plunge and purchased this.
I was hoping to call upon your wealth of knowledge for a couple of things , i fancy getting a joystick for obvious reasons ... what "budget" joysticks would people recommend ?
Also what would you call the "essential" mods to get in order to get going and enjoy max immersion etc
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
What's everyone's thoughts on the steam edition? Better performance? Worth 4 quid?
I don't know if it's still the best, but Rex will make a huge difference to your skies and weather. http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com
I don't know if it's still the best, but Rex will make a huge difference to your skies and weather. http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com
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For my screenshots I usually resize then apply one hit of sharpening due to loss of crispness from image compression / resizing and that's it. There are many ENB mods out there that can adjust the tones / contrast of colours in the sim and many use these hence why some pictures may look a lot different to default. Also many have addons that add detail to the sim.
I just bought FSX on steam, couple of questions:
- My FSX worked fine yesterday, today it reset the res to 720p, disabled AA and AF and it won't go into fullscreen, I just get a black screen ( when I press alt+enter), I can play windowed fine though, any ideas why ?
- Is there a way to increase the field of view ( in both the 3rd person and the cockpit views)?
- Is there a way to increase the draw distance for the ''high'' textures ( over the default max I mean ? ) I can see popup in the distance/blurry rubbish textures until I get closer even though all the distances are maxed out.
- Is there a way to make the make the ailerons self center when not pressing any of the arrow keys ? ( without manually having to do it every time, like in most arcade flying games), when flying with the keyboard.
- Is there a way to un-invert the right analog stick for looking around on the 360 controller ? The left analog is fine and logical, but why on earth would you want to invert the camera controls ?
- Where do I go getting these beautiful high res sattelite ground textures ? I want Holland in high res like I've seen on many screenshots here. Also my water is very ugly compared to what I see here!
- My FSX worked fine yesterday, today it reset the res to 720p, disabled AA and AF and it won't go into fullscreen, I just get a black screen ( when I press alt+enter), I can play windowed fine though, any ideas why ?
- Is there a way to increase the field of view ( in both the 3rd person and the cockpit views)?
- Is there a way to increase the draw distance for the ''high'' textures ( over the default max I mean ? ) I can see popup in the distance/blurry rubbish textures until I get closer even though all the distances are maxed out.
- Is there a way to make the make the ailerons self center when not pressing any of the arrow keys ? ( without manually having to do it every time, like in most arcade flying games), when flying with the keyboard.
- Is there a way to un-invert the right analog stick for looking around on the 360 controller ? The left analog is fine and logical, but why on earth would you want to invert the camera controls ?
- Where do I go getting these beautiful high res sattelite ground textures ? I want Holland in high res like I've seen on many screenshots here. Also my water is very ugly compared to what I see here!
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I'm not sure on the Steam version. I wouldn't know the limitations.
I'm sure all the goodness of FSUIPC, REX, EZDok, hiRes and hifi airplanes and scenery will come onto Steam.
As for the ailerons, I don't think so. It's meant to be a simulation and not arcade-like.
The wide field of view for me, comes from EZDok, but I don't know if that's yet compatible.
Most tweaks can be done in the FSX config file, yet again I don't know if you can touch that on the Steam version.
I'm sure someone will be along to help you soon.
I'm sure all the goodness of FSUIPC, REX, EZDok, hiRes and hifi airplanes and scenery will come onto Steam.
As for the ailerons, I don't think so. It's meant to be a simulation and not arcade-like.
The wide field of view for me, comes from EZDok, but I don't know if that's yet compatible.
Most tweaks can be done in the FSX config file, yet again I don't know if you can touch that on the Steam version.
I'm sure someone will be along to help you soon.
For LOD detail levels you want to adjust the following in the fsx.cfg file under the TERRAIN section
[TERRAIN]
LOD_RADIUS=4.500000
Make this value 6.5
I however have to run 4.5 as I have complex addons and get out of error memory errors if I increase to this value. With a default setup you'll be fine however.
For water many use addon textures. Myself I use REX essentials for weather, runway and water textures.
Your issue as Blue has said is that you have purchased the Steam version and you'll have to find out whether you can edit files as us current users of FSX are all so used to doing. I think one of the numbers on the keypad or maybe spacebar centres the ailerons, look in the key assignments options to find out.
Again in the control assignments bit select your controller from the drop down and maybe you can reverse the direction of the LH stick there.
To fix your black screen problem I'd say delete your FSX.cfg and let it rebuild however I'm unsure if this fix would work with the steam version as I don't know the install structure.
[TERRAIN]
LOD_RADIUS=4.500000
Make this value 6.5
I however have to run 4.5 as I have complex addons and get out of error memory errors if I increase to this value. With a default setup you'll be fine however.
For water many use addon textures. Myself I use REX essentials for weather, runway and water textures.
Your issue as Blue has said is that you have purchased the Steam version and you'll have to find out whether you can edit files as us current users of FSX are all so used to doing. I think one of the numbers on the keypad or maybe spacebar centres the ailerons, look in the key assignments options to find out.
Again in the control assignments bit select your controller from the drop down and maybe you can reverse the direction of the LH stick there.
To fix your black screen problem I'd say delete your FSX.cfg and let it rebuild however I'm unsure if this fix would work with the steam version as I don't know the install structure.
I think it's 5 on the numeric keypad that centres the ailerons. Numlock must be off (I think) so the whole pad does plane control. However all these things are fully customisable in the options.
I'm worried that this Steam version will quickly run out of memory as Dovetail said in their change log
Along with manual tweaks, like the LOD_RADIUS one Gixer mention, and hi res addons you will quickly eat in to your memory limits
I'm worried that this Steam version will quickly run out of memory as Dovetail said in their change log
Along with manual tweaks, like the LOD_RADIUS one Gixer mention, and hi res addons you will quickly eat in to your memory limits
