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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

ORBX Wales is released.

I've got it... I'm not as impressed as I could be... It seems to be Cardiff airport with addon scenery... not vice versa.... (Seems they cared more about the big iron fliers and similar types than anyone else, heck their own website had 3/4 of the pictures of the COUNTRY were of Cardiff airport and its pretty approach lights.)

England missed a number of VRP's from quite prominent locations in the north, and its rather frame heavy compared to the original team's work... Don't get me wrong, its incredible compared to what came before it... but does make me feel a little sad panda at the price.


(Bitch bitch whine I'll shut up now and go hide in the corner)
 
Really enjoying it...until I tried a flight from EGFF, which is included in the Wales package. Unfortunately some of the vegitation is not Dx10 compatible and I'm not going back to Dx9 for the forseeable future. I've posted in the ORBX support forum so I'm hoping for a patch soon.

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Just seen my topic locked by John Venema due to a similar topic to mine also posted! As ORBX always ask customers not to piggy-back on to existing support posts, I started a new one. The directive is to disable grass in the airport control panel.
 
I never got the dx10 fad... I'm happy using dx9 and sweet fx for my atmosphere... nice combo, and I can use all my aircraft and scenery. Runs faster too...

Well if someone else already asked about the problem, I guess they have it in hand, I can understand wanting to report it too... but if everyone did it... messy.
 
Firekitten said:
I never got the dx10 fad... I'm happy using dx9 and sweet fx for my atmosphere... nice combo, and I can use all my aircraft and scenery. Runs faster too...
Click to expand...

After following The recommendations on the Avsim Dx10 forum I have such a stable FsX now, that returning to stutters and bland seascapes in Dx9 is not an option. I've been Dx10 for about 6 months.
 
oooohhhh....interesting.

I'm just finishing up my explorations of 'ole Blighty....

On to new skies!
 
I never had stutters... but my fsx was tweaked up anyway, I tried dx10 with the new shaders etc but didnt like it.
 
I'm working on a patch for the DX10 grass issue, but I haven't wrapped up the work yet. Rest assured, we're on it.
 
I'm not a DX10'er, but its nice to see there is effort to support those who prefer DX10. Good work!

But, I'm concerned about the precedent of charging full region price for such an incredibly small bit of scenery, even with a nice airport added. I won't be getting it for that reason. To match the good value of the high price for regions in NA or Oz or NZ, they should have done England and Wales together, and then Scotland and Ireland together as just two packages. I realize its a new team, and JV was probably anxious to get revenue generating scenery out there, so released England while still working on Wales. Or maybe this was the plan all along. If the latter, then my days of getting pretty much everything Orbx releases are over.

I understand that there is a lot of work that goes into everything Orbx does, regions in particular. That's why I buy most of the payware airports even if I don't use them much. I want to support the work and the addon airports add a lot to a region. But Wales isn't a region, its a corner of a region. And I probably wouldn't have bought EGFF because I'm not a big airport guy.

Perhaps this will work for them, and many will be happy paying this price for this little scenery. We'll see I guess. But if this is the new normal for region size, then I certainly won't buy them if I get the quality in them that I got in England. At this size they'd better be little jewels, with at least the attention to detail I see in the preview shots of the forthcoming SAK, which is a region!
 
FTX Wales and FTX England quest

Hi

I have the FTX England scenery, wonder if the Wales scenery is copatible with it ?

I login in at ORBX, but for some risen I´m not allowed to post in the forum !? So I take the chance to make a quest here.

Best Regard
DennyBoy
 
A real bargain

EU Wales 20,780 sq km


US Canada Northern Rocky Mountains 570,000 sq km


What a bargain.
 
Well nearly everything in Britain is more expensive, cars, fuel etc. so guess this just follows the trend.

:icon_lol:
 
My rig doesn't have X installed as it wont run it, however I have to wonder whats going on at threshold of rwy 30, the road, entrance to Porthkerry village, should be below the level of the runway. Likewise the radar head has been removed from the roof of the terminal building and replaced with a remote head (scanner) on southside of airport (alongside the firefighters' iron bomber) since 2011.

ttfn

Pete
 
Regarding whether ftx england and ftx wales are compatible... yes, they are, they are both part of the ftx europe region, so yep, they work.



My only real complaint, is that as you fly across the border, time seems to wind back 20 years... is this a bug they intend to fix with the next patch? :D
 
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