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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

REX OverDrive Released!

I'm still defragmenting and backing up, but am looking forward to a first test. Screenshots look great.

Is there a rundown somewhere on which textures are new? What with the install issues, I haven't had a chance to look for one yet. I will, but if you know of one, let me know. Thanks!

EDIT: OK, I see now that all the new textures are marked "OD" in the pull-down menus. Disregard the question. Will check some of them out now.
 
I think I'll just order the DVD at some point. Downloading that large of a file is just not right. Why not break it up into more manageable bits? All this for a few HD clouds? I don't get it. With all the cloud and water settings in REX, do I really need more? Hmmmm. It it worth it?
 
dvj said:
I think I'll just order the DVD at some point. Downloading that large of a file is just not right. Why not break it up into more manageable bits? All this for a few HD clouds? I don't get it. With all the cloud and water settings in REX, do I really need more? Hmmmm. It it worth it?
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No, not really. . .as a matter of fact, given my system specs, even though I did download and install, what it's done now is simply bog down the sim, so I'll be reverting back to the original. Even flying a couple hours this evening, it was difficult for me to see any real visual difference. So unless you think you just have to have the HD stuff. . .I wouldn't bother.:salute:
 
It is all freeware though so yeh people can take it or leave it as they please :) You are missing out on some amazing items in the OD package though if you don't get it.
 
I have to say I'm impressed with some of the new textures. I put together a sky texture package of Graceful Rising, Perfect Polluted and Silverish (all new), and the skies finally look realistic for the northeast and mid-Atlantic U.S. I'd been struggling with some of the technicolor options before. More experimenting to do but this feels like a nice improvement.
 
Well, after I lost the download yesterday due to a power failure, I downloaded it during the night. This morning I installed it, somewhat..

It took a good 30 minutes just unwrapping and processing to get to the install screen and after above five minutes of installing, I got this:

afinekettleoffish.jpg


I tell you folks, I am as pissed at everything in life as I have ever been and this did not help matters. I am deleting the entire REX from my system and going with the HDE clouds. Tim, I'm sorry, it is not worth the time it takes, you people have got to come up with a better way. Your programs are excellent, but the packaging and installing are a PITA!

I am not about to try to re-download the program as it takes a half a day. By-by, I'm am washing my hands of this!

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
Well, after I lost the download yesterday due to a power failure, I downloaded it during the night. This morning I installed it, somewhat..

It took a good 30 minutes just unwrapping and processing to get to the install screen and after above five minutes of installing, I got this:

afinekettleoffish.jpg


I tell you folks, I am as pissed at everything in life as I have ever been and this did not help matters. I am deleting the entire REX from my system and going with the HDE clouds. Tim, I'm sorry, it is not worth the time it takes, you people have got to come up with a better way. Your programs are excellent, but the packaging and installing are a PITA!

I am not about to try to re-download the program as it takes a half a day. By-by, I'm am washing my hands of this!

Caz
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Caz- I my previous post I suggested several things to do and directed you to the REX forum,OverDrive section. A lot of folks have posted and gotten the fixes....
REX Forum,OverDrive section: http://realenvironmentxtreme.com/forum/index.php?board=35.0
 
OUCH!
Cazzie said:
Well, after I lost the download yesterday due to a power failure, I downloaded it during the night. This morning I installed it, somewhat..

It took a good 30 minutes just unwrapping and processing to get to the install screen and after above five minutes of installing, I got this:

afinekettleoffish.jpg


I tell you folks, I am as pissed at everything in life as I have ever been and this did not help matters. I am deleting the entire REX from my system and going with the HDE clouds. Tim, I'm sorry, it is not worth the time it takes, you people have got to come up with a better way. Your programs are excellent, but the packaging and installing are a PITA!

I am not about to try to re-download the program as it takes a half a day. By-by, I'm am washing my hands of this!

Caz
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Amazing what we've become.....it's FREE! I had the same problem as everyone else. Took me 10 seconds to fix it.
 
Downloaded and installed fine here, although I did learn the 'put the exe in the REX folder first' thing from an issue I had reinstalling SP3 and the default installation folder of c:\program files (x86) needed to be changed to the REX folder - but it says that in the text on that screen of the installer, so that was straight forward.

Would probably be worth including a readme file in the installer package that tells you some of this stuff though and I'm not sure why the installer has to be in the REX folder either - no other update programs I've encountered do, but it's free so I can live with a few 'features' of the installer.

thanks REX
 
I only use the 512mb textures and they look great, so this would be a waste of drive space for me.
 
Alan_A said:
My install went fine, but when I loaded textures, my video card shut down - most of the screen went black, though certain areas were restored when I moused over them. I rebooted, then discovered that somehow, my boot device had been removed from the priority list in BIOS and I couldn't boot. It was easily fixed, of course - all I had to do was go into BIOS, reselect my 3Ware RAID card and re-insert it in the boot priority list. But it's a strange thing to have happen during a texture install.

All I'd wanted to do was change my cirrus textures. Of course, I had to reinstall all my cloud and sky textures, since the installation wiped out my old custom themes. I guess it was duirng the cloud and sky (re)installation that the rest of the problems got touched off.

Hell of an installation experience, is all I can say...
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Just an update - according to the (very quick) replies I got on the REX forum, the screen blackout is an effect of the program used to convert textures to FSX format, and isn't specific to REX. I'd never seen it before - maybe it's specific to Windows 7, and earlier I'd been on Vista 64. In any case, it's easily addressed - you just right click on the (black) desktop and select "refresh." No need to reboot.

Still experimenting with textures - the new skies are quite good.
 
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