Simviation Forum - Horizon's VFR Scenery

Jan 27^th, 2007 at 2:26pm

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Hi, could someone here who has Horizon's English VFR Scenery give me all the pro's and con's of this product? If you're going to be biased, don't bother posting. I want everything that is wrong with this product to be posted in simple english

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Reply #1 - Jan 27^th, 2007 at 6:08pm

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ThePilot_Ace wrote on Jan 27^th, 2007 at 2:26pm:

Hi, could someone here who has Horizon's English VFR Scenery give me all the pro's and con's of this product? If you're going to be biased, don't bother posting. I want everything that is wrong with this product to be posted in simple english

I love it. it still looks good down at 200ft
Check out some of my screenshots over Snowdonia:
http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsimv5/cbfsbb/viewtopic.php?t=8855

What's wrong with it??....Well everywhere I've flown it it has been a vast improvement on the default mesh and scenery. I've got no complaints. FSX scenery and autogen for the UK sucks its like you're in some fantasy land...whereas Horizon puts you right there in Blighty! Also because its not having to draw all that Autogen stuff my FPS went up after I installed it
The only downside is that you'll need over 60GB of free disk space and it'll cost you £70 to cover all of England and Wales...but I reckon it's money well spent.

For a truly unbiased review read this:
http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=13249

Regards

Jim

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Reply #2 - Jan 28^th, 2007 at 5:56am

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ThePilot_Ace wrote on Jan 27^th, 2007 at 2:26pm:

Hi, could someone here who has Horizon's English VFR Scenery give me all the pro's and con's of this product? If you're going to be biased, don't bother posting. I want everything that is wrong with this product to be posted in simple english

I love it. it still looks good down at 200ft
Check out some of my screenshots over Snowdonia:
http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsimv5/cbfsbb/viewtopic.php?t=8855

What's wrong with it??....Well everywhere I've flown it it has been a vast improvement on the default mesh and scenery. I've got no complaints. FSX scenery and autogen for the UK sucks its like you're in some fantasy land...whereas Horizon puts you right there in Blighty! Also because its not having to draw all that Autogen stuff my FPS went up after I installed it
The only downside is that you'll need over 60GB of free disk space and it'll cost you £70 to cover all of England and Wales...but I reckon it's money well spent.

For a truly unbiased review read this:
http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=13249

Regards

Jim

Thanks, are there still probalems with the installers? And with my specs, will I get stutters - how do you fix them anyways?

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Reply #3 - Jan 28^th, 2007 at 7:58am

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ThePilot_Ace wrote on Jan 28^th, 2007 at 5:56am:

Thanks, are there still probalems with the installers? And with my specs, will I get stutters - how do you fix them anyways?

The installer seems fine now although you do have to sometimes put Disk1 back in ..that initiates an Autorun which you need to exit from because you don't want to start a 2nd installation. Apart from that it only takes half a day to install all 9 DVDs!!!!!!
Stutters??....well I've got my GenerationX installed on a 2nd hard drive with a 16MB databurst cache and that seems to prevent the stutters.
I upgraded my 7950GX2 to Dual 8800 GTX. With everything maxed out I was getting 15-30 fps with the 7950s now I get 35-60 fps with the Dual 8800s - This is on a TripleHead2Go running at 3072x768 for the outside view together with a 4th Monitor(widescreen) running at 1280x800 for the instrument panel.

Regards

Jim

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Reply #4 - Jan 28^th, 2007 at 9:40am

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ThePilot_Ace wrote on Jan 28^th, 2007 at 5:56am:

Thanks, are there still probalems with the installers? And with my specs, will I get stutters - how do you fix them anyways?

The installer seems fine now although you do have to sometimes put Disk1 back in ..that initiates an Autorun which you need to exit from because you don't want to start a 2nd installation. Apart from that it only takes half a day to install all 9 DVDs!!!!!!
Stutters??....well I've got my GenerationX installed on a 2nd hard drive with a 16MB databurst cache and that seems to prevent the stutters.
I upgraded my 7950GX2 to Dual 8800 GTX. With everything maxed out I was getting 15-30 fps with the 7950s now I get 35-60 fps with the Dual 8800s - This is on a TripleHead2Go running at 3072x768 for the outside view together with a 4th Monitor(widescreen) running at 1280x800 for the instrument panel.

Regards

Jim

Wow you must be very rich... Shocked

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Reply #5 - Jan 30^th, 2007 at 7:22pm

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To add some 3d buildings try http://vfraddons.co.uk/ ; ( all free ) Also www.uk2000scenery.com have some free demos Wink

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