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Well GlowWorm, i can tell you that i've followed in the past years the FPS debate and 30Fps are enough most of the times, depends in what you want to achive, or can achive, with your hardware. I've flown FS9/FSX for 4 years and i usually locked the Fps to 30, that in my opinion was enough for my tastes. I usually have flown in X-Plane with 30 Fps, thanks to the problems with Nvidia drivers, of course 60 are better, but i can live with stable 30 in any conditions. I can see very well differences between 30 and 60 Fps, and i bet you can too, but if you need more useful and interesting informations, i suggest you, when you have some spare time, to do some researches on internet, you will find plenty of interesting things about the differences between 25 cinema FPS and 25 FPS on games, and how many FPS a human being can see. Just google for those informations. Have a good day! Alessandro

It's inside your X-Plane folder, X-Plane manual charapter 8. Regards. Alessandro

Low fps on Mac with Nvidia is due to the video drivers. I had a Mac Pro 2008 with an Nvidia 8800GT, i got poor framerates with X-Plane and the FPS test was embarassing. I read a Ben post on his blog in wich he posted his tests with an Nvidia and an ATI 3870: the ATI card resulted in a better framerate (the post is here and the results with Nvidia 8800GT are the same i had). Today i've finally recived an ATI 4870 for my Mac Pro, and the tests results are: Test 1 FRAMERATE TEST phase 1:time=30frames=3900fps=130 FRAMERATE TEST phase 2:time=30frames=4372fps=146 FRAMERATE TEST phase 3:time=30frames=4934fps=164 Test 2 FRAMERATE TEST phase 1:time=30frames=3338fps=111 FRAMERATE TEST phase 2:time=30frames=3697fps=123 FRAMERATE TEST phase 3:time=30frames=4088fps=136 Test 3 FRAMERATE TEST phase 1:time=30frames=2238fps=75 FRAMERATE TEST phase 2:time=30frames=2372fps=79 FRAMERATE TEST phase 3:time=30frames=2524fps=84 As you can see i get more than double FPS than i had with the Nvidia 8800GT. Anyway, i reccomend tsedge to get a iMac with an ATI inside and i think he will be good with the performances using X-Plane. Regards. Alessandro

Good morning, I'm interested in your products, but i have some questions: 1) I'm really new to the whole "orthophoto" thing, looking around on internet i've found hard to find a way to download the images needed for making some scenery. At this point I'm a bit lost. Is there a way to download orthophoto images legally and where i can find them? Any help here is much appreciated. 2) I don't intend to use the program in a commercial way, but i do like to eventually to share the works i will do, is this permitted without a commercial license? Thousand thanks in advance. Alessandro

Sorry if i've made some confusion, i've completely forgotten the CoreDuo which was equipped on early Intel Mac's. Alessandro.

I've had in my hands a Core 2 Duo equipped pc and worked flawlessly with Vista 64 and Linux 64. Tis processor is an x86-64 capable of running 32 bit 16 bit and 64bit software. "The last processors Intel manufactured which did not use AMD's x86-64 design were early versions of the Pentium 4 "Prescott", introduced in February 2004." (source Wikipedia). Said that i presume that any Mac Intel should be more than capable to run 64bit software without a problem, i know that my Mac Pro can, and it has Xeon processors that are x86-64, like Core 2 Duo. For what it concerns Snow Leopard, it is the first Apple OS that has a 64Bit kernel, with compatibility mode for 32bit applications, if I'm correct here it shouldn't be able to run on old 32bit only processors (but it's a no problem if, as i presume, any Intel Mac has x86-64 processor). Alessandro

First of all, thank you both for your kind words, glad you've liked this video! Very often, it's the only one i fly, almost one flight a day is guaranteed. I love twin-engine turboprop aircrafts and the MU-2 is really one of my favorite, plus, in my opinion, this is an outstanding addon for X-Plane. Alessandro

First post here, a tribute to the MU-2B with a short flight from Reggio Emilia to Marina di Campo (Isola d'Elba) also available in HQ. Wish you the best luck! Alessandro