[Thessaloniki X City Configurator [v3.0] (if you have OOM issues)]

I'm happy for you but sure is a mystery how different this scenery runs on different machines!

As for the lighting in FTXG I'm not sure honestly, need to do more testing but so far to me it doesn't seem to do any real difference. I've tried disabling the so called 'Vector road lights' and if my memory serves that didn't do anything to my VAS value.

One thing I'm considering (if I find the time and can force myself going all this way for a single addon scenery...) is to completely uninstall FTXG and see what happens to my VAS.

I do know FTXG is known for doing some "things" to FSX that not all other developers are too happy about since these things not always follow the FSX developing guidlines sort of speak with the result that some other addon developers won't be able to co-exist with FTXG after FTXG changed or even replaced default FSX stuff that some other addons might be dependent on. Some even went as far as saying Orbx's way of doing certain things are like they are trying to get a monopoly.

Edited to add in all fairness that Orbx responded they needed to do some of these things to be able to bring FSX to the "next level" sort of speak. Obviously you can look at these kind of things from different perspectives, risk stepping on a few toes to implement brand new features never been seen or possible before or stay friends with everyone but at the same time by doing so not being able to implement new technique.

Another "interesting" thing about this was that when FTXG was first released people soon discovered that there was no uninstaller included with the product and at first it almost looked like if you ever install FTXG then you're stuck with it. However some other developers then came out with how to get rid of FTXG should you want to without having to perform a complete reinstall of FSX and after some additional time also an "official" uninstaller was released by Orbx. Still though these kind of things do smell a bit bad to me...

Sorry for sliding away again from the topic!

Sure is an interesting hobby this, we don't need any drama on TV since we get everything we need in here

Hi Richard,

another post to try help I hope . I've just bought this scenery and I also bought Fly Tampa's Athens . Installed them last night and did a flight from LGAV to LGTS. VAS was around 2.5 at LGAV maxing at around 3 after landing at LGTS.

This was with the NXG. I have FTXG installed , was using ASN for weather and MYtrafficX for AI. I also use REX Essentials plus for textures.

I'll give you my settings, hopefully it may assist in your troubleshooting .

I had LGTS set to lite II after reading this and other threads however may now experiment with default and lite 1, Scenery seemed excellent though at the lite II setting from what I could see from the flight deck on my NGX.

My computer specs are: intel core I5 with a mild o/c to 4000MHz, 8gb Ram paired with a fairly old graphics card, a GeForce GTX460 with 770MB memory using 331.58 drivers and I run win 7 64bit as my operating system.

FSX is running with the acceleration pack and I am running DX10 with Steves DX10 tool.

Only tweaks in FSX.cfg are highmemfix and widescreen

Relevant ASN settings include:

Download interval=5 mins

max cloud layers = 6

Minimum and Maximum cloud draw distance = 60

enhance overcast conditions enabled

haze layer disabled

min surface vis 0miles

max surface vis 40miles

max upper vis 60miles

auto adjust upper vis

relevant fsx settings:

Graphics tab:

target frame rate locked at 20

resolution: 1280x720x32

anisotropic filtering and anti aliasing ticked

global texture resolution: very high

advance animation ticked

Aircraft tab:

3d cockpit selected

cockpit tooltips ticked

high res 3d cockpit ticked

Scenery tab:

Level of detail radius : medium

mesh complexity : 100

Mesh resolution: 5m

texture resolution: 7cm

water effects:mid 2.x

land detail textures ticked

scenery complexity : very dense

autogen density:notmal

special effects detail:high

weather tab:

cloud draw distance 60mi

detailed clouds

density maximum

Traffic tab:

airline :15%

ga: 10%

airport veh :none

road veh :none

ships: 15%

boats 14%

Rex essential settings:

3d clouds 512x512 (find them just as realistic if not more than 1024X1024)

cirrus clous: 512x512

water:1024x1024

wave animation dxt1

currently using the "reality" theme in REX

I also use fs2crew ngx button control version whenever im flying the NGX

never really looked at FPS settings during the flight but flight seemed v smooth from take off to touchdown and I also used default ATC for the flight.

I have lots of other pay-ware scenery and add-ons such as the ultimate terrain series and some FTX regions but the only add-on scenery for this region is as I mentioned earlier and all my scenery is active (I may look at the scenery config editor for enabling and disabling scenery, looks interesting)

I hope this helps you troubleshoot and get you up and running with this scenery.

If I've missed anything relevant out or you want to know more about my set up please ask.

Cheers

Steve

[My Traffic]

Hi Gabe,

If I'm understanding you right, are you asking why the My traffic aircraft aren't showing in the fsx aircraft section screen? They won't show up there as they are purely AI aircraft and non flyable. If i've misunderstood you I apologise. Do they show up at your airports as AI? If so then everything is as it should be. If not then there is a problem with the installation. There are a couple of manual steps that need to be taken to fully install the program correctly.

hope this helps

Steve

[Autobrake Use Pic737]

Hello Steve,

You can read the TSR Autobrake manual as its available on the product page at the shop.

On page 20 it explains how to proceed should you want the air file modifying

Cheers Shaun,

Steve

[Autobrake Use Pic737]

Hi Steve,

TSR works fine with the Level D 767, makes it a lot more realistic when landing especially and you now have to think about landing distances and runway condition when landing, not just plonk it down lol. Only real caveat is that as it stands, you cant use the 767's autobrake switch to control it. I have a reqistered copy of FSUIPC and assign key presses to activate the various autobrake modes so i dont find it a problem. I don't know if there is a way round this, that may be what the others are talking about when mentioning a modified 767 file.

Hope this helps and if you want any more info just ask.

Cheers

Steve (as well!!)

[Pricing Query]

By the way, I went ahead and bought it. Had a quick play with it and I'm impressed. Good service too.

Thanks

Steve

[Pricing Query]

Thanks for the detailed reply, Its appreciated.

Steve

[Pricing Query]

Hi,

Just a query regarding your pricing. I was looking to buy a copy of TSR Autobrake. The price shown on the website I found was $18.99 USD. Using a currency converter that came out as £13.45 UK pounds.

When I went to buy it however, and went to the checkout, the price was shown as 17.95 Euro which according to my currency converter is £16.10 UK pounds.

I appreciate its not a huge difference but i cant understand why I should be charged more than the price shown.

I have not bought the product yet and will not unless the above can be explained.

Thanks in advance

Steve Mckenna