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REX OverDrive Released!

papab

papab

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM REAL ENVIRONMENT SIMULATIONS

Real Environment Xtreme OverDrive Released!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Real Environment Simulations is pleased to announce the release of REX OverDrive. REX OverDrive is a 9.9GB FREE High Definition texture upgrade for REX FSX and is available to all current REX/FSX customers.

REX users will be able to expand their FSX experience with hundreds of free high definition textures for all areas REX has made improvements in, and will be user-scalable for the FPS conscious pilot.

"Our team worked tirelessly for almost 6 months, with more than 1,100 man hours on this update and we're extremely confident users will enjoy the outcome" states Tim Fuchs.

All REX customers who wish to update to OverDrive will need to make sure they have REX Service Pack 3 installed prior to the OverDrive install process. Visit the link below for more info: http://realenvironmentxtreme.com/forum/index.php?topic=10463.0

Developer Reed Stough also adds, "We've also been working tirelessly on multiple projects, including the next stage of service packs for REX/FS2004 and REXPlane for X-Plane. The updates will also include weather-related and under the hood enhancements.

For more information, please visit: http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/overdrive.html
For discussions, please visit: http://realenvironmentxtreme.com/forum/index.php
 
Made it a sticky, don't have time to DL this morning but I am looking forward to it tonight,Thanks ...Mike:jump:
 
Lots of folks, me included are having problems with the installer. There are quite a few already who have posted this problem, and it doesn't seem to make any difference which download site you use either. If you don't have a problem installing then that's great, but this is a problem and a lot of folks have it.
 
I managed to download it eventually and it installed without the error messages but all the favorite themes I created have completely vanished. I had to pick all the separate bits again and to be honest, I've only chosen one of the new 'Overdrive' textures which seems like a poor return for a whole mornings download and 10GB on my hard drive! I really think that unless you are the type who likes to experiment a lot or who changes the texture sets on a regular basis (and who has the time) then it seems like a bit of a faff.
 
falcon409 said:
Lots of folks, me included are having problems with the installer. There are quite a few already who have posted this problem, and it doesn't seem to make any difference which download site you use either. If you don't have a problem installing then that's great, but this is a problem and a lot of folks have it.
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I have the same problems.

VCN-1

It seems it needs to be installed in the REX folder not the Program Files(86) folder. When I changed the folder it installed correctly. I got that information from the REX forum.
 
VCN-1 said:
I have the same problems.

VCN-1

It seems it needs to be installed in the REX folder not the Program Files(86) folder. When I changed the folder it installed correctly. I got that information from the REX forum.
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Excellent!!:salute:
 
I'm running version 02-2010.0611 and there doesnt appear to be an update path for it. Is it possible to use one of the others???
 
warchild said:
I'm running version 02-2010.0611 and there doesnt appear to be an update path for it. Is it possible to use one of the others???
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I think you are up to date as all the links here - http://realenvironmentxtreme.com/forum/index.php?board=25.0 - mention 20100611 as the name of the update.

Besides this is not an update as such more an enhancement with a heap of extra HD textures.

Get it from here (and go and do something else for a few hours while it downloads) -

http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/overdrive.html

(You'll need to be logged in to the REX forums)
 
Well, here is my good fortune, I start downloading from Mirror 1 this morning, at 2:30 PM the download is 93% and guess what, we have a total power outage! My frikkin' luck! Sorry REX, but I am too PO'd to go after the 3.5 GB again,. I'll stick with what I have in SP 3. If at some time I see a significant difference in the REX Overdrive textures and they do not cause major frame hits, I'll start the download again at bedtime and let it load through the nigh. Otherwise, I am just in too ragged a mood from the outage and lost of all that time downloading and the letter i received from the Social Security Administration yesterday, which is just entirely too political to rant about here.

Needless to say, I am currently at war with the Federal Government of the United States. I may go to jail over this matter, which is a total travesty of justice and freedom!

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
Well, here is my good fortune, I start downloading from Mirror 1 this morning, at 2:30 PM the download is 93% and guess what, we have a total power outage! My frikkin' luck! Sorry REX, but I am too PO'd to go after the 3.5 GB again,. I'll stick with what I have in SP 3. If at some time I see a significant difference in the REX Overdrive textures and they do not cause major frame hits, I'll start the download again at bedtime and let it load through the nigh. Otherwise, I am just in too ragged a mood from the outage and lost of all that time downloading and the letter i received from the Social Security Administration yesterday, which is just entirely too political to rant about here.

Needless to say, I am currently at war with the Federal Government of the United States. I may go to jail over this matter, which is a total travesty of justice and freedom!

Caz
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Caz,
Sorry for the problems. If you go to the REX forums and go to the general discussion thread you can find several dowmload manager links. This is how I downloaded mine.
Secondly,Flightsim store has a CD for OverDrive ( they are just charging $9.85) to cover handling and shippinf costs

BTW- REX forums now have a Thread dedicated to Overdrive. Lot of quesions have been answered.........

Take Care!

Rick
 
falcon409 said:
Lots of folks, me included are having problems with the installer. There are quite a few already who have posted this problem, and it doesn't seem to make any difference which download site you use either. If you don't have a problem installing then that's great, but this is a problem and a lot of folks have it.
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I had this problem also.
I have REX-OD working now.
I uninstalled REX then reload everything and now its working
getting ready to try REX-OD now.

flyer01
 
I had no issues with the download even after I accidentally stopped it when I closed the download window by mistake! Thankfully I pointed my browser at the file again and Firefox 3 spotted that I already had part of it and picked up from where it left off.

Installation took a while as did the usual transfer of files once I had picked my new 'look'.

Only had chance for a quick look so far as I have been trying to finish a paint off but I like what I am seeing although I may change things again as I prefer my previous sky and water settings so I'll either look for something closer in OD or go back to the 'low def' textures for those.
 
As i've been following this thread rather closely ( and use firefox as well ) i didnt have any problems with the download and install. however, after selecting my new set of textures, and beginning the installation progress, the copy sticks at cumulus_01.bmp and doesnt give me yhe option to cancel he install. On top of which copying the files is taking up so much of my memory ( 8 gigs ) that i cant open the task manager to kill rex or do anything else for that matter. I've taken ownership of the FSX directory, i've given myself and everyone else liberal read write permissions, and its still no joy.. I suspect that the problem with cumulus_01.bmp is on my end, but the copy process is taking an inordinately large amount of my system, and wish that when it cant write a file, that it would eventually time out and give me an option to cancel, which it doesnt.. To qualify, i timed the second attempt on the one bmp file to over half an hour and had to hard crash my machine to stop it.. Believe me, this part is never fun, irregardless of how much i love the rest of your work..
 
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...
 
Well, for some scary reason, my install went perfect. Which is not usual for my system. I actually think I get better frame rates with the Overdrive package. I can now run my water level on 2X max. Before I could never get past 1X Low. I am very satisfied with it. Still have to pick out the perfect combination.

I have never had my water look this good before!

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the culprit for me turned out to be a corrupted cumulus01.bmp file that was over 23 m3egs in size.. i renamed it and had a flawless install with the exception of everything going black for a while.. Immediately headed to NOAA's site and brought up the severe weather radar, which resulted in me heading for little rock arkansas.. After punching the core, mi watched my p-61 get knocked a hyndred feet sideways like it was a piece of paper.. Good work guys.. simply great work..
 
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