Simviation Forum - Newbie help appreciated

Dec 31^st, 2012 at 11:32am

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Hi all first off Happy New Year.

Hope someone can help, I have FSX and have been playing around with it for ages. I have set up a flight plan from London Gatwick to Palma Majorca and have flown it a few times with various planes. However the graphics although set to max are still very unrealistic, I have seen on here and youtube people with amazing graphics particularly at the airports and during low flight (scenery) what is the best way to get these graphics and what do I need to download.

Also was hoping for a Thomas cook plane with some announcements.

Many Thanks

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Reply #1 - Dec 31^st, 2012 at 4:26pm

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What are your spacs and settings?

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #2 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 4:48am

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Have all settings set to full in fsx pc specs are:

nvida geoforce gt 610 2 gb graphics
amd phenom II x4 850 3300mhz 4 core processor
8gb ram
windows 7 ultimate 64

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Reply #3 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 7:06am

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If you haven't installed them allready, there are some enhanced autogen addons:

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=nick+autogen&x=17&y=16

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Reply #4 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 7:42am

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....as 'cat says...

Its only when you start adding all the exciting freeware and payware add-ons available, that the various Flight Sims really come to life!

Time to start searching!

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Reply #5 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 1:06pm

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Sounds like your machine should handle FSX pretty well......
Here's a couple of freeware gems that will work wonders on your FSX environment:

HDE v2, Photo Realistic Texture Pack

FSWC Real Water

REX OD is a payware product that will replace both of the above freeware programs (although I often use FSWC in conjunction with REX)
if you want to shell out a few clams........
REX w/Overdrive

Check the SimV site for some great sceneries:
Freeware Kauai and Niihua photoreal
Use with this:
Hawaii terrain mesh

Look for the Grand Canyon and Death valley sceneries here:
http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/category/1-ozx-scenery/

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #6 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 1:38pm

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CHUCK79 wrote on Jan 1^st, 2013 at 1:06pm:

Sounds like your machine should handle FSX pretty well......
Here's a couple of freeware gems that will work wonders on your FSX environment:
HDE v2, Photo Realistic Texture Pack

Whats the difference between the two packs listed besides their size? Both are for FSX.
HDE v2, Photo Realistic Texture Pack
and
HDEv2 Sky Colors Converted for FSX

Take Care,
Brett

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Reply #7 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 1:43pm

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I forgot to mention the sky colors. The sky colors go along with the HDE package Wink

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #8 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 2:05pm

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Great thanks. So both are needed.

Take Care,
Brett

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Reply #9 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 2:18pm

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brett wrote on Jan 1^st, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Great thanks. So both are needed.

Yep

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #10 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 2:24pm

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Can I just copy/rename my texture folder as TextureOriginal or does FSX bypass the texture folder name and call up whats inside?

Take Care,
Brett

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Reply #11 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 3:24pm

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It's usually a good idea to make a copy of the entire texture folder, or if it's just a texture replacements, a folder with the original textures, under a different name, and keep that folder in the main texture folder in case you want to go back to the original textures for some reason.

For example, I have a upload for a high resolution "moon". It's been a while, but I believe I included a folder with the original moon .bmp's. That would go into the FSX texture folder too, and the High Rez moon .bmp into the texture folder and replaces the originals. A copy of the High Rez moon texture folder would also go into the texture folder. That way, you can swap them out if you wanted too. (There's also a "Strange Moons" DL, which is another reason to keep the original as backup!)

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=high+rez+moon+v2.0&x=19&y=12

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=strange+moons&x=24&y=14

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Reply #12 - Jan 1^st, 2013 at 4:25pm

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Thanks for the reply. I reread my question and do not think I worded it correctly. I often rename my files with the NameOriginal and just keep them in the same folder. In this case I was going to make a copy of the whole texture folder, rename it and place it next to the original Texture folder in my root FSX folder. I guess I could just place it inside it to. My question arises because I really don't know when FSX looks at the main folder name first as a path or bypasses the folder name and instead goes right to the files inside the folders as it's path.

I have noticed that I can make a new folder inside my FSX Gauges folder with the addon aircraft name and place all its gauge files in it, FSX will find them when I call up the aircraft. So in a way it bypassed that new folder name. In the case above I was worried that if I added a new folder(using a different name) with the originals in it, that it would do the same thing and cause a conflict. Thats why I was going to make a seperate folder.

Take Care,
Brett

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