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Gramps

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I think I tried this a long while ago, but never got to far with it. I think I got a plane into the sim, but could never get it workin right.

What kinda progress has been made of the last few years??
 
Kiwikat, I find that the ground textures look pretty good from a distance, but blurry as all heck on the ground. I'd say they're roughly equivalent to FS9 in terms of resolution, or at least thereabouts.
 
spotlope said:
Kiwikat, I find that the ground textures look pretty good from a distance, but blurry as all heck on the ground. I'd say they're roughly equivalent to FS9 in terms of resolution, or at least thereabouts.
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Is that the highest setting? It would be fun to mess around with XPlane sometime just to see what it is like. I've got no intentions of switching to it from FSX, but just as I have my eee for playing with linux, it might be fun to play with XPlane for a bit.
 
Does it still have that sluggish DOS-like interface or menu system? I used to have version 6 and found that frustrating.
 
Kiwikat said:
Is that the highest setting? It would be fun to mess around with XPlane sometime just to see what it is like. I've got no intentions of switching to it from FSX, but just as I have my eee for playing with linux, it might be fun to play with XPlane for a bit.
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By the way, X-Plane runs in Linux, also runs on Macs.

Jim
 
JimC1702 said:
By the way, X-Plane runs in Linux, also runs on Macs.

Jim
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I 'think' you have to get the Mac version, seperate boxed item. The one I have is a Windows only version.

I hope to get the Mac version and see how well it plays in Mac mode. I wish there was away (yet) to play it in Mac (from the Windows version).


Bill
 
Lionheart said:
I 'think' you have to get the Mac version, seperate boxed item. The one I have is a Windows only version.

I hope to get the Mac version and see how well it plays in Mac mode. I wish there was away (yet) to play it in Mac (from the Windows version).


Bill
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You are correct. I didn't mean to make it sound like one version worked with all OS, you have to buy the correct version. Still pretty nice for Mac users, though.

Jim
 
Austin says you get the all-platforms version if you buy your DVDs directly from him, which I did. The brick-and-mortar stores usually have only single-platform versions.

@Kiwikat - My scenery settings are high enough that even on a rig that runs FSX very well, I keep getting those warnings that the fog is about to roll in because I've got my scenery settings too high.
 
I dont think the blurries for the ground texture are any worse than FSX.

Ive got my settings mostly maxed. If you want to know what XP looks like that way just check some of my screenies scattered across this board.
 
Bob, I don't see any close-ups of ground textures in any shots here--in fact, few shots in general. Were you talking about this forum or some other one?
 
Sorry Bill,

I thought some of my shots had good pics of the ground. After looking I guess they dont :redf:

The closest you get is the !st thoughts thread

I will post some high rez shots this evening.
 
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