Sometimes I hate FSX and sometimes I love it.

[Bjoern]

The nice thing about FSX is, that it doesn't require much tweaking and fiddling anymore with today's hardware and SP2.

Oh, if I think back to RTM days...I couldn't even run maxed autogen on my E6600...the horror, the horror...

 

[txnetcop]

The nice thing about FSX is, that it doesn't require much tweaking and fiddling anymore with today's hardware and SP2.

I agree. I just noticed in my prior post I said quick tweak and I meant quit tweaking and fly. If your system is right you don't need to tweak anymore.
Ted

 

[Naki]

Naki I also am looking forward to more time and effort spent on NZ and the islands in general. If you haven't already experienced it, FTX/Orbx has done some awesome things that are worth every $.
Ted

The desert look is been banished by this project:

http://flightsimtopo.freeblog.co.nz/

There are also the Real NZ scenery airports/areas that cover a chunk of NZ along with freeware airports like Whakatane and freeware photoreal scenery areas like the Coromandel and Takitimu

http://www.windowlight.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

I have all of them for FS9 and FSX bar the FSX version of Wellington.

FTX/Orbx would probably bog my system down for me to enjoy. My set up copes with fairly sparse areas like the Wanaka area of NZ ...come to a large city and it turns to crap. Ive tweaked the heck out of my FSX but will now need some expenditure on hardware to get any more FPS.

Australia is just too flat and large for me and I would prefer to fly around the mountains and hills of New Zealand (or Alaska and the PNW). There are rumours that ORBX will work there magic on New Zealand which would be interesting to see but it is a wait and see what happens with the above project as well. Tongass and the ORBX project on the PNW are on my shopping list for possible future purchase after a graphic card upgrade..anyway I digress...