New version of Guam scenery on Avsim today...

[Navy Chief]

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
New! Guam X v2

File Description:
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
(IATA: GUM, ICAO: PGUM), is an airport located in Tamuning and
Barrigada, three miles east of the capital city of Haga in the United
States territory of Guam.

Filename:	guam_x_v2.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	18th February 2013, 14:09:28
Downloads:	680
Author:	Morten Thomas van der Linden
Size:	184106kb

---

[Dave22]

I installed it. It's very beautiful. However, it's beautiful at only 10 FPS on my machine.

[Navy Chief]

I installed it. It's very beautiful. However, it's beautiful at only 10 FPS on my machine.

I haven't installed it yet, but the previous version didn't slow my machine down. Hope this one does ok.....NC

[jeansy]

I installed it. It's very beautiful. However, it's beautiful at only 10 FPS on my machine.

try deleting the 3 3d grass files from the scenery folder called

vol gras 6.bgl & vol grass parking.bgl & grass cargo area.bgl

i also removed the reserve trollies bgls and FPS went up a little more

[flaviossa]

Tried to use this scenery and it is gorgeous BUT unfortunately it brings my FPS to single digits very fast even with defaut aircraft. No way to use it. Tried the workaround by jeansy above and it did get a little better, but still to hard on fps going from normal 30-25 fps to 14-9fps. It´s a shame because it really is well modeled.

[FSX68]

I too experienced a slide show effect albeit the removing of a few texture files that jeansy mentioned. There was on effect that was a duplicate of what was already in my effects folder
and I should of wrote down that file as I elected to overwrite it. I wound up deleting (manually) all the Guam files including all the effect files and the one I overwrote. I hope it wasn't a critical
_fx file but I figure I'll find out soon enough which one it was. Nice scenery 'cept for the FPS penalty.

[CrisGer]

I will try this and will also demo it to a friend here in my town in Colorado he was Base commander at Guam and i am sure he will have some good comments. thanks for another great add on.

[flaviossa]

Old topic, but version 4 was released today
guam_x_v4.zip at flightsim.com

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib....ght&fid=179859

[StormILM]

I've got it and it is outstanding! Word of caution, if you have the Marianas 1945.zip scenery installed, it will conflict with the Guam v4 scenery. The way I set things up is to install both BUT click activate/deactivate one or the other which I intend to use/not use for a particular sim session.

[Navy Chief]

Also wanted to say a couple things about the latest version. Morten Van Der Linden did a magnificent job on this scenery, but it is hard on FPS. For my own tastes, I have removed some of the static objects, i.e. KC-135, AWACS, etc.... as they were not based at NAS Agana; plus I will look to remove some other objects. What I REALLY need to do is configure my video card settings, because I know it can produce more than it currently is.

But this IS a beautifully done piece of scenery! NC

[StormILM]

Also wanted to say a couple things about the latest version. Morten Van Der Linden did a magnificent job on this scenery, but it is hard on FPS. For my own tastes, I have removed some of the static objects, i.e. KC-135, AWACS, etc.... as they were not based at NAS Agana; plus I will look to remove some other objects. What I REALLY need to do is configure my video card settings, because I know it can produce more than it currently is.

But this IS a beautifully done piece of scenery! NC

Chief,

You're not the only one who has a significant FPS hit from the scenery. Performance is okay but certainly not optimum which seems to indicate there is an object or few that is an FPS killer. The previous version ran at target FPS. If you weed out the offending object(s), let us know.

[Navy Chief]

Chief,

You're not the only one who has a significant FPS hit from the scenery. Performance is okay but certainly not optimum which seems to indicate there is an object or few that is an FPS killer. The previous version ran at target FPS. If you weed out the offending object(s), let us know.

Well, I am certainly not that adept at such things. I do know there are a LOT of objects in this scenery. What I had planned to do (not sure when I'll get to it) is remove several objects from the International Guam Airport side of the airfield (across from what USED to be NAS Agana). I have a feeling the FPS "offending" objects are over there. Either way, I hope to improve the FPS. Makes it difficult to fly, eh? NC

[Navy Chief]

Well, I have removed several more static objects, but my FPS are still quite low (mostly single digits). I don't know enough about the workings of scenery creation to find/remove what is causing the impact on FPS. If anyone on SOH can offer some advice, I would appreciate it. I am really only interested in the "Navy" side of Guam's airport, where NAS Agana was officially located. NC

[Paul Anderson]

I noticed there is a fix from the author posted at Avsim today to address FPS problem.

[Navy Chief]

The "fix" involves the replacement of a light pole .bgl file, and accompanying textures. The fix does help, but I went through the files and deleted a lot of objects that were not important to me. The combination of the "fix" on Avsim, plus the deletions I made, DID improve the FPS! NC