sikarin Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Hi there, I just seen your great ORBX stuff and before buying I wanted to check out the demos. After installing and folllowing the configuration guide I was more than disappionted how it turned out on my FSX-Steam Edition. It was only a lLittle more detailed than the FSX stuff. Maybe there is a simple answer to that. Also uninstall and install didn'd help. This is my System: CPU I7-2600, 16GB Ram; NVIDIA Geforce GTX580; Win7 64bit; FSX-Steam edition, no other add ons The Monitor resolution is 1920x1080. In general I think the performance of the PC &graphic card should be sufficient enough. It would be great, getting this brilliant scenery working on my machine as well. Can someone give me a hint? so long Klaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Demos are only a small piece of the full product, are you sure you took off from the right airport? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sikarin Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 I tried the Iceland Demo and took off from BIRK that should be the right one? correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 The Iceland demo manual should tell you which airport(s) are covered. Can't say for certain, as I don't use the demos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 It should look something like this Did you install the latest library and also click on Apply in FTX Central? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_auau Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 here my example of the demo just installed it to see how it looks on my pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Newman Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 It looks like it installed correctly (You're seeing the photo-real city and airport back ground). Also, it looks to me "as it should", though it also looks like you're running with some lower settings in FSX. Here's a shot I took during testing, from a slightly different angle, but you can see it look pretty much the same: The differences I can see are that your screenshot seems to show a lower detail radius (the distance at which FSX draws detailed terrain and autogen objects), and your autogen objects seem "thinner" due to a lower autogen slider setting. My screenshot has autogen set to "Extremely Dense" so that's the reason why the buildings and trees are much denser in my shot. Also, I have a detail radius of 6.5... You can set this by opening your FSX.cfg file, found here: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\ and finding and changing the line that reads "LOD_RADIUS = X.500000" (X is your current setting... it won't actually say "X" ) to read "LOD_RADIUS = 6.500000" You should also make sure your FSX settings is set to "Anisotropic" for filtering (first page of settings) and not "Trilinear" or "Bilinear"... this should sharpen the textures in the distance. As a final check, make sure you used the correct version of the demo... there are 2 Iceland demo versions... one for those who already have FTX Global Base, and one for those who do not... One last thing to bear in mind, the Iceland Demo is designed to demonstrate the combination of the FTX Global products; Global Base, Vector and OpenLC. While these products are much better than FSX default and when combined provide a high fidelity world to fly in, they are not as good as Orbx FTX full regions... Full regions contain everything that the FTX Global combination does, and then a whole lot more... You may have seen videos for full regions and so the comparison between those and Iceland (which incidentally, is very barren and empty in real life too ) would be night and day. Perhaps try the Pacific Northwest Demo or the Tasmania Demo areas... These provide a glimpse of the quality you can expect from full regions. Lastly, have a read of this guide... it will show you the differences between the Orbx product ranges, and also explains a bit about flight simulators, and how they work in general... essential reading as you get to grips with the hobby: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/74345-the-definitive-guide-to-ftx-products-the-go-to-source-of-ftx-information/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_auau Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Thx for the info, yea I got my auto gen set to normal as per the manual suggest will try to raise it up more, yea I installed the off version since of the reason being I could remove it . And I havnt got ftx global as of yet since iam still waiting on my post earlier I made yesterday. So I ask in here again can I install ftx global over the demo of Iceland or do I need to uninsatll the demo first than install ftx global Yea got most of the orbox regions etc the only region I havnt got is the England one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Newman Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 FTX Global includes the Iceland demo as part of its installer. You should be able to simply install over the existing demo, but if you prefer, you can also uninstall the demo before proceeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.