FTX Global and REX4.

[Tsarcasm]

I currently have REX4. Thinking about getting FTX global but would like to know if having the two will cause texture problems or if they will work good together. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.

[3 Wire]

FTX Global and REX 4 will work fine together.

I currently have both installed in FSX SE and P3D v4.2, with no issues or conflicts whatsoever.

They are both great products, highly recommended.

[Tsarcasm]

Great, thank you. One more question-- How heavy is FTX on the frames? Especially at night with the 3d lights. I've seen screenshots and it looks like it would impact it a good amount.

[3 Wire]

Originally posted by Useless George:

Great, thank you. One more question-- How heavy is FTX on the frames? Especially at night with the 3d lights. I've seen screenshots and it looks like it would impact it a good amount.

Now this comes direct from the Orbx FTX page so take it for what it's worth, but they state "3D night lighting with no FPS hit".

I use FTX Global as well as Orbx HD trees and FTX Global Vector, along with scenery tech landclass for the entire world, and FreeMesh 2.0 Global. I personally don't notice a significant framerate hit with any of this stuff, but I also have a lot horsepower under the hood in my PC, in the form of an i7 8700k processor, a GeForce GTX 1080Ti with 11gb of DDR5, and 16gb of G. Skill DDR4 4000mhz memory, so I have a little headroom for running things at high settings.

Some things will impact even the most potent sytems, the one I've found to be the worst offender is AI airport traffic. If you've got 30 commercial airliners parked at the gate or taxiing around a large airport like Heathrow or LAX it's going to drag down your framerate, there's no "free lunch" here unfortunately, but there are ways to mitigate it.

[Tsarcasm]

Thanks for the info. Yea, I know about the AI traffic. I've been messing around since boxed edition came out in '07. But I'm on a laptop but I get around 40 - 50 steady. I think I'm going to get it because I really want the mesh and complexity upgrade. Thank you so much!

[3 Wire]

Originally posted by Useless George:

Thanks for the info. Yea, I know about the AI traffic. I've been messing around since boxed edition came out in '07. But I'm on a laptop but I get around 40 - 50 steady. I think I'm going to get it because I really want the mesh and complexity upgrade. Thank you so much!

If you don't already have it I would strongly recommend you get FreeMeshX 2.0

http://ninetwopro.com/

The only downside is that it's a Torrent download and you'll need a torrent client to unpack it. I would recommend a freeware program called Vuze for that purpose.

Orbx uses an online installer called FTX Central for installing and updating all it's products, I would strongly advise you to use FTX central versus manual installation. Orbx products will automatically install in to the correct order in your scenery library. Other sceneries like landclass or mesh add ons should be placed just below the main Orbx sceneries, which will be like the first 5 or 6 entries in the scenery library.

[Typhoon]

I just bought yesterday FTX Global Base Pack from Orbx store and you won't be disappointed its a whole new simulator, textures are awesome I also using a REX 4 Texture Direct and no problem at all working very well with FTX Global. And most important thing is there is no FPS impact. I suggest you to use DX 10 because you will get a big performance improvement I have about 55-58 FPS in DX 10 and about 30-35 FPS with PMDG 747 v3 in cockpit. Buy it! Worth every cent.

Cheers

[ametsopnafets]

Originally posted by Typhoon:

I just bought yesterday FTX Global Base Pack from Orbx store and you won't be disappointed its a whole new simulator, textures are awesome I also using a REX 4 Texture Direct and no problem at all working very well with FTX Global. And most important thing is there is no FPS impact. I suggest you to use DX 10 because you will get a big performance improvement I have about 55-58 FPS in DX 10 and about 30-35 FPS with PMDG 747 v3 in cockpit. Buy it! Worth every cent.

Cheers

And if you can spare a few more bucks, buy Steve’s DX10 Scenery fixer as well. You won’t regret it!

[cretedog]

How do you install Steves scenery DX10 fixer? I heard that if you don't know exactly what you are doing it can really screw things up. It's not user friendly.

[Morag]

Originally posted by cretedog:

How do you install Steves scenery DX10 fixer? I heard that if you don't know exactly what you are doing it can really screw things up. It's not user friendly.

you install it into a folder, run it, then click a button.