ORBX FTX England

[DaveB]

The trick to making the Duxford scenery appear correctly is to have the Duxford scenery higher in your add-on scenery list than the England scenery.

.. or, to put it another way.. have England below every other scenery you want to see correctly You do this with GenX too

That's not a GenX tile under Duxford btw.. it's the JF version. It's a little less conspicuous sitting on GenX but all the ACG airfields use JF ground tiles and have this slightly pale look. A mate of mine ordered the JF series some time ago thinking it was GenX.. actually, he thought it was VFRPhoto Scenery by Getmapping/VisualFlight, not GenX and I remember it having a sort of pale green hue. Still.. better than a poke in the eye He wasn't very happy though

ATB
DaveB

[speedbird591]

A new issue with OrbX has come to light (for me).Recently I've been getting a lot of 'out of memory' errors (that cause the sim to close).

Hi John. It's not new and it's not an ORBX problem, although flying with more complicated scenery or aircraft will trigger it. It's the sim coming up against it's 32 bit memory limitations. It applies equally to FSX and P3D. There are several things you can do to ensure your PC is using memory efficiently and when you've exhausted all those, you have to turn down the settings.

It's been discussed quite extensively on various forums and this is quite a good example (it's about P3D but applies equally to FSX)

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/384873-out-of-memory/

The latest version of FSUIPC will intercept the most common cause of OOM errors, but not all. So that's the first thing to check and Microsoft have a fix here that is worth installing:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947246

You should ensure that your sim is properly tweaked and this entry should be in your config file:

[GRAPHICS]
HIGHMEMFIX=1

Check out Kosta's tweaking guide for FSX and P3D here, including for Nvidia Inspector: http://kostasfsworld.wordpress.com/fsx- ... are-guide/

I used to get OOMs over FTX Pacific North West when I was stressing the system but having tuned my sim as above I now run it just about maxed everywhere. I do very occasionally still get an OOM but FSUIPC is set to save every couple of minutes so I don't lose the flight.

I hope this helps.

Ian

[Paul K]

I finally got around to seeing how the amazing Duxford freeware scenery looks with the new England scenery. Here's a view during the summer season. The trick to making the Duxford scenery appear correctly is to have the Duxford scenery higher in your add-on scenery list than the England scenery.

Brian

Brian, could I prevail upon you to take a similar shot with Orbx's snowy winter textures in place ? I have a feeling Duxford will look like its got underfloor heating.

[GHD]

It doesn't fit very well, does it?

[J0hn]

Thank you for your response, Ian, I am checking those posts that you linked to, although I have read extensively on similar issues when it last occurred and tweak guides etc in any case, I'm always willing to have another look.

Have to say that I have a 'top-end' system (I always build my own) and the reason things like this stick out is that FSX normally runs pretty faultlessly, regardless of settings. The only really bad stutterage (new word ) I've had is over Anchorage running UTX Alaska at full whack. Apart from that, performance issues are a non-entity for lucky me.

So if something like this turns up, the first thing to ask is "what have I changed" and in this case the only thing is the installation of OrbX demos. So while the fault itself may not be down to an OrbX error, I'm pretty certain that is what has kicked it off.

No worries, anyway, as I don't intend installing any OrbX stuff again and if the issue does not arise again then all is fine.

[speedbird591]

Are you running Aerosoft Anchorage, John? I have it and love it. At the moment it's surrounded by default P3D scenery but hopefully it will be soon surrounded by FTX. I can hear you groan from here

Anyway, I'll let you know how it turns out!

Ian

[FlyTexas]

Brian, could I prevail upon you to take a similar shot with Orbx's snowy winter textures in place ? I have a feeling Duxford will look like its got underfloor heating.

You nailed that one Paul. Looks like the snow shovel brigade has a little more work to do on the upper right corner of the field.

[Chris Sykes]

Hi chaps,

had a flight on friday around lincolnshire, starting off at Waddington heading North to the river witham, noticed one thing straight off, there is only one river here (should be two next to each other) Following this towards boston i noticed a few rivers that flow into the Witham are missing the banks are there. Quite a few are patchy like the Steeping around wainfleet!

I have noticed one thing while flying around that they have put in nearly all of the disused railway lines even where you struggle to find them in Google earth they are there in ORBX.

Overall im Ok with the product but its not a finished product...

[J0hn]

I wonder what Boston docks look like, Chris?

I can't remember now whether default or UTX showed them more accurately, but one did and one didn't. Have to have another look.

It was the same with Scrabster, on the North coast of Scotland. I lived there for a couple of years whilst my old man (RAF) was posted to the US NAVCOMMSTA at Forss and know it really well. The default is not great, but shows Scrabster harbour, but the re-drawn coastline in Scotflight doesn't have it at all - and the village itself is nigh-on non-existant if memory serves me right. I spent ages flying around the area in a King Air, looking for a harbour that wasn't there!

Ian, I'm pretty sure I don't have the Aerosoft version of Anchorage - I'll have to get it. The UTX Alaska version is extremely busy - especially in the evening when it puts the lights on that massive suburban sprawl with a myriad airfields littered all over the place. It's actually one of my favourite places to fly, so I had to turn down all the scenery settings in UTX each time I 'go' there. It's great fun running an Air Hauler company around the small strips there with the Carenado GA aircraft.

[Chris Sykes]

IIRC the ORBX shows it quite well. and the rivers minus in boston well... You can navigate around using the roads and rivers (when there that is) quite well.