Reviews (by John)

I had also bought the Prealsoft Rome yesterday and tried it out but wasn't completely satisfied. The differences between these two sceneries are like night and day. It depends on what you are looking for.. 1). The Prealsoft is perfect for flying over and having the city there. It runs fast. I am getting 120-140 fps with all the sliders in the middle and maybe a hundred or so autogen objects . The photoscenery ground is nice quality and displays the city streets layout which looks fine from above. It looks like there are no custom Roman buildings and the same red roof houses are used for just about everything. It looks great but only if you don't look too carefully. 2). The SamScene is perfect for low level helicopter tours. But be warned: It is a serious frame-rate killer and you will need a beefy computer to run it. I am only getting 7-15 fps using the same settings as above as there are still many hundreds of custom autogen buildings still being displayed. (My computer is Ryzen7 8-core 3.69GHz, 32GB Ram, Nvidia 1070GTX w/updated drivers which should be able to handle it.) There were black squares everywhere at first run which was fixed by turning off "Preview DX10". The SamScene autogen however is absolutely amazing. All the Roman antiquity highlights look to be there and modeled in very detailed and precise fashion. There are square buildings where there are supposed to be. Statues and pillars modeled individually. I felt like I was flying over the real city without the honking and yelling. Your settings will have to be adjusted just for the city though.

Similar to Prealsoft's Rome I didn't notice many or any unique custom buildings such as government buildings, churches, monuments etc but I'm also not familiar with the area. These absolutely define a city during helicopter touring. The trees are a little too aqua green but that's not a deal-breaker for myself at least. There is a major water masking flaw in the harbor however which is quite noticeable! (On a side note: I wish all content creators extended photo tiles a few hundred yards out into the water with a gradual blend. Water can be just as important as land...) Overall the landscape looked clean and organized from a few thousand feet and ran smoothly on my computer. This scenery also blended nicely with MegaSceneryEarth Switzerland and was enjoyable to fly.

I may have had an incomplete or performed an incorrect install, but at first glance it appears to just add standard red-roofed buildings and trees autogen. I did not notice any new beautiful custom buildings and cathedrals which should be so common to the city. The obvious ground mesh flaw in front of the Vatican was still there after installing this scenery. There were a few houses inside of the circle as well. I'm a little disappointed in the product, but it does improve somewhat on what was there before.