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Ah! That explains the struggle. Thanks! We'll examine options to help out low vram users.

For my own technical info, what video card do you have?

Have you tried adjusting your reflection settings in X-Plane? Just curious if that makes a difference for you.

The HotFix system is code only, not objects, so the quick and dirty answer is "no".

Whoa! 2GB seems awfully low these days. Are you on a Mac or something? I guess that would make a little more sense. I'd have to agree, with 2GB as a whole you're really pushing the limits of X-Plane as it is.

Considering most other sceneries do not cover a span of 64 sq miles with custom buildings and objects all throughout, this is to be expected. "Many other sceneries" do not do this type of coverage in detail. @Attitude will have to answer the rest of your thoughts.

Is this the R5 with the 1080 or 1080ti? Both are comparable cards, and I am basically running the same system as you (Alienware as well), but I do NOT have any significant FPS impacts. In fact, I just had the following review come in from someone with a MUCH lesser system than you or I have: "First impressions is that there IS an insane amount of detail with no noticeable hit on my laptop (MacBook Pro, Mid 2015). I thoroughly enjoyed doing a memory lane lap around the old patch." I suppose it would be difficult to apply everyone's scenario to one another though. Some people love to try and slam the sliders full right, and that's unrealistic expectations (nor is the trade-off usually worth it when it comes to gain in visuals vs performance impact)!

Released!

Captains, We are pleased to announce the first The Gate to the Great Lakes region has been released! You may purchase the Custard region by visiting the store. Enjoy!

Not sure what you mean? The product page says "Sunday 12 November, 2017" Until that bit is removed from the page it is not available for purchase just yet. We're getting very close.

Sounds like you're still not deleting both of the files specified. Show a screenshot of your X-Plane/X-Aviation folder.

We are currently working on wrapping it up. There is one more piece to the package we are adjusting and then we'll have it out! This weekend is still accurate. Either today sometime, or early tomorrow.

Major airports are very much so in the works.

Requests never hurt and are always welcome! Your show of support for the product is the first step to ensuring things like that happen.

I'm not going to turn this topic into such a discussion of semantics. Plenty of people will be able to prove my point this weekend. You can wait till those verdicts are in. The video in and of itself does a good enough job in showing fluidity even with capture software running.

Heavily optimized. I am not noticing any crazy impacts on my machine vs default.

Promotional video is below! Captains, It is with a lot of excitement that I get to announce a new developer and product today! Attitude Simulations has come aboard with X-Aviation to produce a new series of regions in the X-Plane scenery world. The first series/regions of sceneries will fall under the title of 'The Gate to the Great Lakes' and will feature numerous regions (both cities and airports) within the State of Michigan that when purchased together will give you an entire region of unparalleled detail never before seen in X-Plane! The amount of work that has gone into producing this series is immense, and we are absolutely certain you will be in awe of what you see when you get a chance to see it in sim for yourself! The Gate to the Great Lakes series will feature Custer Airfield (KTTF), Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (KARB), Erie International Airport (KERI), Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW), and Mackinac Island Airport (KMCD). More may be added depending on how the community reacts to this type of scenery, so if you like what you see here (and we really hope you do), please consider supporting this type of development with your purchase. This is a very dedicated, hard working team of people, and there are other regions outside of Michigan already in the works! The first airport and region to be released will be Custer Airfield (KTTF). We are pleased to announce it will be available for purchase this weekend! Subsequent regions as listed above will be released after Custer and are already very far into development. So, with the above said, let's talk about the Custer Airfield region! Custer Airfield and the nearby town of Monroe, MI. Custer Airfield is small public airstrip located just 20 miles south of KDTW Detroit. The airfield was created in 1946 and originally used as a bombing practice area. There are still signs to this day warning of digging and metal detecting as there have been recent discoveries of unexploded ordinance. Monroe, known for the partial meltdown of its Fermi II nuclear facility back in 1966 (included as POI), is located on Lake Erie’s western coast. KTTF Custer is in perfect range to some exciting destinations, such as New York City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, Washington D.C. & Toronto. Why start with Custer and not the massive, greater known Detroit International Airport? Attitude Simulations wanted to develop an airfield close to home that would offer the real world pilot and avid simmer the ability to simulate realistic VFR training as well as a tough workload in instrument conditions. Working in the pattern you will notice an incredible amount of detail below that helps to bring in a great feeling of immersion as well as flying so close to DTW and having to be aware of the Class Bravo shelf and altitude restrictions in the area. When DTW is landing to the North the traffic comes in directly overhead of KTTF. This presents many challenges and for online pilots it will be a fun place to fly their GA aircraft on busy nights. Helicopter pilots will find themselves getting lost in the details. With several helipads and fun landing zones off field, you air beaters will love simulating medical emergencies and police operations in Monroe, MI. I implore all of those police pilots to search for some illegal operations hiding in the bushes. Utility & charter helicopter pilots should depart from KTTF and give the raised platform at The DTE Fermi II Nuclear plant a shot. Gusty winds off of Lake Erie can make the final approach a bit rough but tons of fun! Here are the features for this first region: ⦁ Hand painted airport ground textures with highly detailed specular maps ⦁ 64 square miles / 164 square kilometers of high quality USGS orthoimagery ⦁ Thousands of hand-placed custom “autogen” buildings ⦁ Realistic foliage for this region of the US ⦁ Commercial areas include actual businesses and industrial warehouses ⦁ DTE Fermi II Nuclear Plant completely modeled with custom raised Helipad ⦁ Accurate night lighting for the airport and surrounding area ⦁ PBR materials for the airport’s structures and static objects ⦁ Many hard to find Easter Eggs ⦁ Animated custom windsocks and airport beacon ⦁ Custom accurate static aircraft ⦁ Created from on site photography and videos ⦁ Plausible LIT textures for most structures ⦁ Edited road system and powerlines Video: A promotional video has been put together to show off this amazing scenery. We hope you enjoy and and support the cause of what promises to be some amazing scenery packages and states/regions throughout the country developed by some very talented individuals at Attitude Simulations! Again, we really hope you like what you see and find the announcement of a developer like this around for X-Plane as exciting as we do. There are many developers which exist for MSFS and P3D who are skilled (ORBX comes to mind as one), but nothing of this caliber has ever been produced for X-Plane. We are proud of what's been produced, and with your support for this kind of scenery creation we are excited at the prospect of bringing many, many more! We'll see you at the release this weekend!

X-Plane 11 is not officially supported at this time (just as the Saab tells you when you load it).

Reading this very thread for the answer and solution to your problem would be a great start!

Fill in the information it asks for?

The sun and angle of the camera needs to be just right for you to see the effect.

One post below the one you just started...

We all responded within a minute of one another! haha.

This is well documented in the forums. Use stuffit expander to unzip.

This post was not even necessary or contributionary, and totally takes the post you are responding to out of context. No one said anything about an explanation needing to be posted on this site. Nicolas should address this. It does not matter where. The X-Plane world is small enough that people will see the response either here, there, or on the reddit thread.