Are tehse addons listed below any good? I'm lookiing for Jets and addons to improve the visual aspect of the game

Flight Sim Global 2008

Extreme Landscapes V2

Airbus 380 V2

Abacus 787 Dreamliner

If you have a good site to recommend that would be great.

With regards to the mesh:
Most global meshes are using the same source data (NASA SRTM + some local mesh data e.g. for some parts of the alps). These source data have a lot of voids which need to be filled by interpolation. Depending on the method used the end results can look different, but in general I would not say there is a global mesh that is better than another. I have FSGlobal2008 and am quite happy with it. In most parts of the US and Europe it has the same resolution as the FSX default mesh but for the rest of the world it is a great improvement.

If you are interested in very high resolution mesh for smaller areas, I can recommend FSDreamscapes:

http://www.fsdreamscapes.com/web/

As for the airliner, in additon to the PMDG ones, I can recommend the LevelD 767:
http://www.leveldsim.com/sevensix_home.asp

If you are interested in a vintage airliner, the A2A Stratocruiser + AccuSim is the state of the art:
http://www.a2asimulations.com/

Best regards
Manuel

Yep, you can use them at the same time.

As I said, Real Environment Xtreme does the clouds, water, tarmac and sky. Full Terrain Xperience does only the ground textures and landclass.  

At the moment, Full Terrain Xperience only covers four different regions in Australia, but a Pacific Northwest package is coming soon for Alaska and Canada.

Your PC should be able to handle this stuff. I don't run Real Environment Xtreme, but I have heard that it may increase performance in some cases. REX has scalable texture sizes for clouds (beteen 512 and 4096), so it shouldn't be much of a problem to adjust it if it doesn't run smoothly anyway.

Full Terrain Xperience really made a difference for me while flying in the country. There is no performance hit, only a performance gain. In large cities around Australia, it is more or less the same as default.

With autogen at normal, my Nvidia 8800GT and Pentium 4 3.2Ghz can handle the default A321 on an approach to YSSY at 17 FPS, which is quite good for my CPU. With a quad core, expect a relatively higher result, even with higher autogen settings.

Rich H wrote on Jan 24^th, 2009 at 6:33am:


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