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Apr 1^st, 2009 at 1:19pm

Taubin Offline
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Hopefully this is in the right place. Is there somewhere to get North American photorealistic scenery?

And, secondly, is it true that photorealistic doesn't have a very big performance hit? Thank you for all the help. I just want the US to look a bit better when flying

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Reply #1 - Apr 1^st, 2009 at 10:45pm

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As of right now you can't find photo real scenery of the entire USA, but if you check the scenery section here at SimV you will find lots of photo real scenery of some beautiful areas.

As for the performance, photoreal is terrific because it doesn't use autogen scenery, it's not 3D so your frames stay rather low.

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Reply #2 - Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 8:33am

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Cool, I'll see what I can find. I was hoping to find some Michigan photoreal Wink

Thanks for the reply Cheesy

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Reply #3 - Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 11:22am

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Taubin,

There are the Megascenery payware packs that cover some of the USA. They do not cover all of the USA.... but have the northeast coast from mid- atlantic to Boston covered and almost the entire west coast.

Unlike most photorealistic scenery they also have SOME autogen on them. FAR better than straight photo in y opinion.

The PCAviator webstore has them on sale now.... pretty cheap.

The main problem with them is they have only two seasons; summer and winter.

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Reply #4 - Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 2:19pm

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Thanks John,

I do have one question, the scenery on the PC Aviator site are listed as FS 9, are they compatible with X?

I searched the megasceneryx site, but, didn't see anything on it. Thank you again for your help

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Reply #5 - Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 3:02pm

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Reply #6 - Apr 14^th, 2009 at 2:04pm

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There are so very many impressive scenery downloads available out there. I simply google and look at the results. Sometimes you'd be surprised. Quite a few times you'll find that the lesser known businesses provide a higher quality product at very competative prices.
I have recently bought a package from megascenery covering N.Italy, and was very disappointed. Barely an improvement on the stock scenery. So do a little research.

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