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Hi Folks,

Have just started PPL lessons at Welly so I was thinking about buying the Real wellington scenery to improve my VFR flights for fun at home

Thing is my laptop isnt great at all....its a Turion 64 1.6 with 2.5Gb of ram but only 128Mb GeForce graphics. I'm getting about 15-20 FPS at the moment in FSX though I have only recently installed and havent tried any of the fixes for augtogen or installed any service packs yet.

My question is if I get that scenery will my frame rates drop below usefull and will be worthless? Looking for anyones opinion basically on how it will run on a low spec machine

I've also considered going back to FS2004 and would'nt mind doing that if the real wellington scenery would work better. Also thinking about buying the Just Flight Tomahawk to help with training. I've been using this http://www.fsdownload.com/modules.php?name...cle&sid=117 but the Just Flight one looks a bit better.

Thanks all

Shamrock55

Even my machine doesnt handle the wellyX addon that well in FSX, the addon worked fine in FS9 for me but in X it always comes to a crawl with my normal settings only when im going into nzwn runways ,i doubt and honestly think you would be wasting money if you got that addon for FSX with those specs ,
wellyX is a really good addon otherwise and if you had been telling me you had better spec i would have said go for it ..

ps i wouldnt think it would run that well for FS9 ether on that spec machine ,
mine is 3.0ghz ht 8600gts 3gig of ram desktop with no bottle necks for example

. Also thinking about buying the Just Flight Tomahawk to help with training. I've been using this http://www.fsdownload.com/modules.php?name...cle&sid=117 but the Just Flight one looks a bit better.

Thanks all

the just flght package is well recomended good vc and aircraft! i have it you get the seneca c152 tomahawk as a cpl pilot i use the senea for ifr training to keep me current i cant help on the wellington thing

I think the Turion 64 1.6 may be equivalent to about an Athlon 2800+. I don't think you'd be happy with Real NZ Wellington performance on this, as you are pretty much sitting on the low-end specs for this scenery. Your processor is borderline, as I said, but the main issue is your graphics -- 256 MB is almost a necessity. By the time you turn down the settings to fit inside 128MB of graphics RAM you'll be looking at something similar to the default anyway:)

FS2004 would give much more reasonable performance.

However I would certainly recommend updating FSX to at least SP1 -- I was not able to fly into Auckland or Wellington before this patch, whereas since the patch at least I can land...

Okay folks...thats great advice and much appreciated before i go spending money. I'm just going to have to make do with what I've got then and maybe buy the tomahawk addon instead, the default scenery in FSX for welly isnt too bad I was just drooling over the screenshots!

I'll just have to invest in a decent PC for FSX, Im just in the frame of mind now that I'd rather put the cash into actual lessons and flight time rather then spend it on my PC....Cheers for the advice though

Shamrock55 wrote:

QUOTE (Shamrock55 @ Sep 2 2008, 12:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Okay folks...thats great advice and much appreciated before i go spending money. I'm just going to have to make do with what I've got then and maybe buy the tomahawk addon instead, the default scenery in FSX for welly isnt too bad I was just drooling over the screenshots!

I'll just have to invest in a decent PC for FSX, Im just in the frame of mind now that I'd rather put the cash into actual lessons and flight time rather then spend it on my PC....Cheers for the advice though

Hi there

I fly with WAC also and have both the Just Flight Tommy and the RealNZ Wgtn Scenery for FSX. I have used both throughout my PPL training (64 Hours now) and think they are both a worthwhile investment, infact I believe if you are serious about completing your PPL, then an investment in a desktop that will run FSX (or even FS2004) is probably worth it. The Tommy is great for re-doing your lesson a day or two after you have done it, you realise what you have actually learnt and it is reinforced. The flight model is pretty accurate however I find an issue with the RPM gauge not behaving as it should. When you come to do Flight Planning and Navigation and Instrument Flying the sim is absolutely invaluable for trying out what you are learning and for practising your Cross Country Flights. This is where the photo scenery is great, it just needs to cover a bigger area than what is available. Wellington will get you around to the Low Flying Area and north of Upper Hutt and Paraparam though so that is handy. Marlbourgh is great for those trips to Omaka. If you are looking at spending $15000 for a PPL I think $1000 on a sim is well worth it, I think in my case I have maybe saved $1000 in revision lessons.

Hope this helps

Glenn