Simviation Forum - MegaScenery X

Mar 23^rd, 2008 at 11:31pm

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Stumbled onto the website for this stuff. Looks fantastic-- photoreal and all... Anybody have any experience with it, good or bad? Thanks.

My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 850W modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans, Windows XP Home and SP3, 2 x 250Gb Western Digital SATA-300 HDs (1 for apps, 1 for storage and precious files backup), CoolerMaster CM 690 case, NOD-32. Won't run FSX. Locks up a lot with FS9, too.

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Reply #1 - Mar 24^th, 2008 at 3:47am

Sir Crashalot Ex Member

Mark, were you very drunk when you moved this topic? Too much Hungarian wine and beer perhaps on Easter?

Homebrewer, sorry can't answer your question. I'm sure someone will.

Crash Wink

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Reply #2 - Mar 24^th, 2008 at 8:34am

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Standing by...

My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 850W modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans, Windows XP Home and SP3, 2 x 250Gb Western Digital SATA-300 HDs (1 for apps, 1 for storage and precious files backup), CoolerMaster CM 690 case, NOD-32. Won't run FSX. Locks up a lot with FS9, too.

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Reply #3 - Mar 25^th, 2008 at 10:56am

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I have PHX, So Cal, DFW and Hawaii. It is great, but keep in mind that it is also flat, it is not 3D so all the buildings are 2D. I live in DFW and I can fly over my work, home, etc. All the streets are in the right place. The one thing that I do not like about it is that smaller airports do not have many buildings. They did a really poor job with NAS Ft. Worth (old Carswell AFB), they do not even have any of the Lockheed buildings where the F-16 is made.

Over all I would have to say it is worth the money. Flying from Edwards AFB into and around LA and OC can't be beat.

I will say that if you do not have a pretty good setup then you may get a lot of blurries with the scenery if you try to fly to fast and since I fly F-16's and F/A-18's most of the time this can be annoying.

Rod

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Reply #4 - Mar 25^th, 2008 at 11:14am

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I have SocalX, Pheonix X, and Las Vegas X. It's ok but a lot of the airport runways are borked when you install this with FSX SP2. Also, flat is an understatement. If you fly at altitudes at or above 5000 ft it looks pretty good (especially Socal). Lower and it feels like flying over a picture, not a landscape. Flat buildings suck!

UTX and GEX enhanced beat the pants of Megascenery for overall use. Much more dynamic and 3D all the way, night lighting is the best anywhere. And less space on the HDD. AND faster loading times.

If you get any Megascenery at all, get Socal X. It is really spectacular when you fly at higher altitudes, but as stated above, make sure you have a faster system or you will see nothing but blurries!

One more thing: Megascenery product support is very poor. Worst I've seen for ANY FSX payware. Patches, if any, are slow to arrive. And customer communication on their forums is nonexistent. For that reason alone I'd be very wary of spending my money on it.
(voice of experience)

-Jim

Edit: Actually, GEX also has flat buildings in the textures too but it is not nearly as "Flat" overall as Megascenery.

« Last Edit: Mar 28^th, 2008 at 9:59pm by raptorx »

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Reply #5 - Mar 29^th, 2008 at 9:56pm

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Thank you to all who relied. I will not buy the Mega stuff because even though it is very accurate, I want some height to my buildings. Of what value is flying over flat terrain? I want to see mountains and valleys and rivers and lakes and all the good stuff. I like to fool around fairly close to the ground. Looks like Mega ain't for me...

My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 850W modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans, Windows XP Home and SP3, 2 x 250Gb Western Digital SATA-300 HDs (1 for apps, 1 for storage and precious files backup), CoolerMaster CM 690 case, NOD-32. Won't run FSX. Locks up a lot with FS9, too.

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Reply #6 - Mar 30^th, 2008 at 12:28pm

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homebrewer wrote on Mar 29^th, 2008 at 9:56pm:

Thank you to all who relied. I will not buy the Mega stuff because even though it is very accurate, I want some height to my buildings. Of what value is flying over flat terrain? I want to see mountains and valleys and rivers and lakes and all the good stuff. I like to fool around fairly close to the ground. Looks like Mega ain't for me...

The mountains and valleys are NOT flat. I didn't mean to say it's ALL flat. Actually, if all your flying was over unpopulated areas you'd be very pleased at how good it looks. It's when you get into cities, at low altitudes, that the flatness takes everything over. But overall, Megascenery has more work to do to catch up to GEX/UTX (add to that 10m mesh like FSgenesis). Here's the worst part: Product support absolutely sucks. They ignore questions posted in their forums, they promise patches/updates that are never delivered, and they blame all the problems with their scenery on Microsoft-and leave it at that. With the GEX & stuff you get just about all the product support you need. Never have to wait more than a day or so to get a question answered. And they release patches when needed-quickly.

One thing I didn't mention before is where the Megascenery covers only a city or region at a time, GEX etc. covers entire continents.
What you might try is their MegasceneryX Hawaii. It's a $15 download from their site and a good sampler (from what I've read). You can see how your system handles the photoscenery. Good Luck!

-Jim

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Reply #7 - Apr 8^th, 2008 at 1:13pm

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Even more reasons not to buy it. If it's one thing that really honks me off when I buy something it is a lack of support, be it software, hardware or onion bagels...

My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 850W modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans, Windows XP Home and SP3, 2 x 250Gb Western Digital SATA-300 HDs (1 for apps, 1 for storage and precious files backup), CoolerMaster CM 690 case, NOD-32. Won't run FSX. Locks up a lot with FS9, too.

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Reply #8 - Apr 12^th, 2008 at 1:17pm

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A wise decision.

Edit: I just edited my post to delete my negative comments.

A patch has just been released by Aerosoft that is supposed to address all SP1 & SP2 related issues, it is over 500mb so appears to be quite substantial. I haven't installed it yet but will comment after I do.

-Jim

« Last Edit: Apr 24^th, 2008 at 9:07pm by raptorx »

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