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 Post subject: Best Add-On For Mountains And Alps?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:35 pm 
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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Please go to screenshot subforum of CVA forums and look at my screenshot flight report called Beautiful Banff Crossing. From the entire flight, you can see how unimpressive the FSX default mountains and alps are.

So has anybody got better idea for amazing best freeware or payware add-on for mountains and alps so that all mountains in Alaska and Canada will look realistic and amazing, please?

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:39 pm 
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Many of us use Orbx scenery for the west coast, out to the foothills of Alberta. You know we think it is the best scenery in the world for large areas. But did you mean free?



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:39 pm 
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I use www.fsgenesis.com for more accurate terrain elevations.



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In the Canadian Arctic I use the works of Gille's Guathier. He did some excellent landscapes scenery of NWT, Nunavut and Yukon. Remember the Arctic is finicky and picky in FS compared to RW. It is a challenge to design in.



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:40 pm 
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If you like freeware sceneries, this is a good site which is updated regularly;

http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx/canada.html

The top section is airports and the bottom section is terrain mesh and accurate landclass addons.

Another thing you may want to do is try adjusting the terrain mesh complexity and resolution in the FSX options.

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 Post subject: Re: Best Add-On For Mountains And Alps?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:57 am 
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Thanks all for suggestions. I will explore options.

Rob, when I say freeware, I mean freeware add-ons:):):)

cva1077 wrote:
Another thing you may want to do is try adjusting the terrain mesh complexity and resolution in the FSX options.


Will it help sharpening cities when flying at FL350??? Everything seems to be working but cities and towns are not sharp enough. I must have been using wrong settings. In my old dying laptop with 256 mb dedicated video ram 3 GB ram, and duo core, the cities and towns were extremely sharp when flying at FL350 YET in my new laptop with whopping 2 GB dedicated video ram, whopping 12 GB ram and quad core at 3.0 GHZ, the cities were half sharp and half fuzzy when flying at FL350. Really irritates me since in both laptops, I am using same FSX with same planes and same stuff. The only difference might be wrong settings.

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Aharon wrote:
cva1077 wrote:
Another thing you may want to do is try adjusting the terrain mesh complexity and resolution in the FSX options.

Will it help sharpening cities when flying at FL350??? Everything seems to be working but cities and towns are not sharp enough. I must have been using wrong settings. In my old dying laptop with 256 mb dedicated video ram 3 GB ram, and duo core, the cities and towns were extremely sharp when flying at FL350 YET in my new laptop with whopping 2 GB dedicated video ram, whopping 12 GB ram and quad core at 3.0 GHZ, the cities were half sharp and half fuzzy when flying at FL350. Really irritates me since in both laptops, I am using same FSX with same planes and same stuff. The only difference might be wrong settings.


I'm not 100% sure if it will increase the sharpness of the towns/cities, but it will increase the "sharpness" of the mountains, which was the original problem.

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Aharon, don't compare only the cpus, compare also the graphics cards, bus speeds, ram, hard drives, etc.

Manufacturers have a way of cutting corners and marketting things as "better".



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CVA0014 wrote:
Aharon, don't compare only the cpus, compare also the graphics cards, bus speeds, ram, hard drives, etc.


Hard drive is 7,200 rpm at one TB hard disk space. Graphic card is 2 GB dedicated video ram by Nvidia Geoforce 640 GT With Cuda. It is quad core i7 at 3.0 GHZ

Look at my old laptop's all my screenshots of planes flying above cities or towns as seen on those fine examples below. You can see everything in the city is crisp sharp without fuzzy in the old laptop. When I fly over any city or any town in my new laptop, a city and a town will be half crisp sharp and half fuzzy. That annoys me because I am BASICALLY using same FSX, same add-ons, and same stuff in both old and new laptops especially the new laptop should show same or better results. This tells me I must be using wrong display settings.

Here are examples of old laptop showing entire city of Yuma, AZ:

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