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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

FTX NA BLUE - USA Canada Pacific Northwest Officially Released

Low Level in the T-45 on VR Route 1350

I'm not an expert screen shot artist but here is the flight I just finished in the T-45 from NAS Whidbey Island to Grant County Intl. I used the Plan-G flight planner to follow the VR1350 Route through the Cascades on a low level mission. FTX NA BLUE is great scenery and will be fun to explore!

Brandon
 
Stan V. said:
Thank you, spotlope, you answered my question. Twin Oaks is not released yet. I ordered and paid for the two packages mentioned and both products showed up on my order invoice - but there was no download link for the Twin Oaks part. The PNW package arrived via download with no problem. All I have to do now is to keep checking the order site to see when a download link appears...

Stan V
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Hi Stan,

When 1S2 and 7S3 are ready for download, you'll automatically get an email sent to you from the Flightsimstore.com, so hang off "loitering" mate, we'll save you the trouble :)

With the new server setup we have in place now, we've not had a single failed download in 24 hours, or at least, no-one has complained about it yet - touch wood ;) We did spend a bunch more $$ and worked with our CDN ISP to ensure the retail launch was smooth, and thus far it is.

Thanks for the comments everyone, it's appreciated!
 
dswo said:
After your money is processed, there's a download page with two options. I chose option #1, where you start out by downloading a little 2 mb program. Run it and it goes out and downloads all of the files and then unpacks them for you. Wish I could remember the name, but it's on the same page as the main download.
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We call it FSS2Go. Will download all the individual files that make up the installation package and then runs the wrapper.
 
Excellent video up above here. I already know I will get this software but must be patient for now. Hats off and big HIP HIP HOORAY to the whole team!
Ted
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Congrats on the release guys. :)

Screenshots around KAWO please? My proper video card died so I haven't been able to make use of FSX in a long while ... but once I get a new card sorted would like to pick this up.
 
Now all I need is an overclocked i7 and 6gb of RAM ;)

It is very nice though. Mid range PC's like mine struggle a bit. Intel 8400 C2D @ 3.0Ghz, 4GB PC2-6400 RAM, ATI 4870 w/ 512MB.

30 fps locked everywhere but get near Vancouver and it drops into the high teens and low 20's. A little stutter. But lowering autogen and scenery complexity help smoothen it out.

Charles.
 
I downloaded it late last night and took a flight around KPAE. It's pretty much phenomenal but I noticed that the Navy base and ships were pretty much ignored.
Kyle, I'll go take some screen caps at KAWO and see if I can figure out how to post them here.
I have a 9800GT lying around, message if interested.
 
Took forever to download, went to sleep. Took forever to unpack and install, I went back to sleep. Took forever to load on FSX, first flight seemed to stop loading at 27%, went and fixed vitals for the animals, came back and it was stop at 69%, continued morning chores. Came back, hooray, loaded flight, flew, got immersed, lost track of time, what time is it now? Boys going to school two hours late, must not forget.

In short, like REX was, good things take time to develop and ensue. This is total flight sim immersion gents, as good as it gets! :medals:

Caz
 
Numerous stock fields have been enhanced. A few iterations ago, FSAddon published First Air and Harvey. Here's what Harvey, S43 looks like now.
 
i downloaded and installed last night/this morning/sunrise. slept for six hours, got up grabbed the epic and turned on rex weather, and ****, its raining today.. ::sigh:; oh well,, had a fantastic flight up to portland from redmond ( krdm ) and loved the hell out of it.. now i'm beginning to think it may be worth it to break out the old fs9 zone2 portland scenery so i have complete accuracy.. just need to change the alpha channel on a few hundred textures ::shudder:: ..

great work FTX.. I live where you made it and was looking for something to bash.. couldnt find anything though.. major cudos to you and thanks for making my workday a whole lot nicer with beautiful scenery..

Pam

PS.. it may take me a wee bit longer to get those FDE's out now.. its all FTXs fault.. really.... :D
 
warchild said:
i downloaded and installed last night/this morning/sunrise. slept for six hours, got up grabbed the epic and turned on rex weather, and ****, its raining today.. ::sigh:; oh well,, had a fantastic flight up to portland from redmond ( krdm ) and loved the hell out of it.. now i'm beginning to think it may be worth it to break out the old fs9 zone2 portland scenery so i have complete accuracy.. just need to change the alpha channel on a few hundred textures ::shudder:: ..

great work FTX.. I live where you made it and was looking for something to bash.. couldnt find anything though.. major cudos to you and thanks for making my workday a whole lot nicer with beautiful scenery..

Pam

PS.. it may take me a wee bit longer to get those FDE's out now.. its all FTXs fault.. really.... :D
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I'm tickled you're enjoying it, Pam. It's always doubly nice to please a fellow Oregonian. ;)

As for the FlightZone PDX scenery - I wish it were as simple as changing some textures. I'd have fixed it a long time ago if it was. No, sadly, you have to actually have access to the source files to change the trees, something none of us has. I know there have been a few semi-successful ports of it, but not being FSX-native means the performance is less than stellar. Sure would have been nice if Stephane had stuck around and done a native version, but I guess we'll have to do it ourselves.
 
KAWO screencaps

wconkle said:
I downloaded it late last night and took a flight around KPAE. It's pretty much phenomenal but I noticed that the Navy base and ships were pretty much ignored.
Kyle, I'll go take some screen caps at KAWO and see if I can figure out how to post them here.
I have a 9800GT lying around, message if interested.
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Here is what I got; I don't think I am getting the right effect though? Perhaps a setting is wrong in my system. View attachment 1146View attachment 1147
 
I think I need to read the manual. Im getting some very unacceptable blurriness issues, as well as hardly any autogen. I switch to a non FTX area and no blurries at all.
 
Looking through the manual I couldn't see if I am supposed to return to FSX default before adding any additional scenery addons, as is the case with FTX AU. Maybe I missed it. Anyone know if I can add scenery with FTX NA already enabled or not?
 
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