PAULO RICARDO - MEGA SAO PAULO X-PLANE 11
I've used Mega Sao Paulo on P3D and it was probably one of the best sceneries i've ever seen. And the best of all, it wasn't that fps heavy on my system, until it would fill up memory and crash to desktop every now and then. Now that I've become a XPLANE 11 convert, as many have, I assume, I've decided to write a review based on the issues that I've had with this scenery in XPLANE 11. I was unable to find any type of resource online how to fix it (make it better I suppose). Basically, I've had to figure it all out by myself. First of all, keep in mind that to run this scenery in an acceptable 20 FPS, you will need the best of the best hardware. My rig is a i7-7700K watercooled overclocked to 5GHZ with a DDR4 overclocked to 3200mhz. My graphics card is a eVGA GTX 1080ti running on stock clock. Still I'm only getting around 20FPS flying around town. Max 25FPS and minimum 15fps. Initially after installation of the scenery, it looked nothing like what the video showed. Congonhas airport looked very different from what I've seen and the runaway had a slope towards 17R. So I guessed that for this scenery to run at its best, it had to have Ortho4XP scenery installed as well. As I'm pretty new to XPLANE 11, I had not idea what Ortho4XP was. The manual does not mention that Ortho4XP part for Sao Paulo had to be installed to work great AT ALL. Anyway, so I did by clicking on the links in the manual. However I've had issues decompresssing the files as some of them were corrupted. So I tried the direct link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/6lsy5njbrb62r84/zOrthoBrazil_Hartung_-24-047_SBGR-SBSP-SBMT_mesh_v1.00.zip It's a large file, so it will take a while as the upload from the server is quite slow too. Installed and made sure the scenery was added before MegaSP files in scenery.ini That did the trick. Now it looks fantastic! However FPS was even worse than before. Adjusted the rendering down a bit and it's working at around the 20 FPS mark. Acceptable, but not GOOD. So be aware of if you purchase this scenery. You do need a powerful rig. Otherwise, better off forget about it.