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REVIEW: Megascenery NoCal - Part IV - Conclusion (Read 199 times)
Feb 13th, 2005 at 4:28pm
The Mad Robster   Ex Member

 
As seen in the previous parts, this scenery package is quite extensive and very detailed.

Quite possibly the only complaint I have is that PC Aviator did not include winter textures in it. But remember that if they had then the price wouldn't be $25 (around £14), it would be more like $100 (£55), and that the detail only really stands out over 1000 feet.

The overall detail is unsurpassable, espeically the detail of the mountains and cities at night, however, we cannot just discredit the daytime scenery; it is also superb.

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Possibly the most amazing thing, however, is that you actually get better FPS than you do in the default scenery. This astounds me and to be honest, I am amazed. How? Well, with the default scenery, the landclass and autogen are made up of identical tiles being repeated over and over again. In Megascenery, however, each part of the scenery has its own tile, and autogen is placed logically and cleverly, so that FPS can be saved and, thus, be bettered.

On NTFS systems, the folder it is installed is automatically compressed to save space, and also on this type of format the scenery displays in all fours systems. On the test PC, it too up around 3.5 GB.

My rating for this package is 9/10. I highly recommend it and you certainly haven't flown VFR until you fly with this scenery installed.

TEST PC:

Intel Pentium 4 EE 3.46 GHz (2MB L3 Cache)
4 GB Kingston Hyper-X RAM
256 MB ATi Radeon X850 XT PE PCI-Ex16

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Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2005 at 4:29pm
BenMK   Ex Member

 
Awsome review! I love the first three shots!! Smiley Smiley
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 13th, 2005 at 5:10pm

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I love that terain color that you talked about before which is very present in number two
 
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