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but is the val d'aosta worth the 3 hour download for the 2 parts?
since i want some more scenery to soar in i decided to download it.
but now i am wondering:is it worth the download time?
it has to be relatively fps freindly.(yeah,like 800MB is often frame rate freindly.)
this isn't a demand but i am curious.

It's photoscenery SO it's FPS friendly.
Photosceneries often have very sparse autogen (most of the times, no autogen at all) and very sparse scenery objects. As a consequence, there's nothing to hammer your CPU, other than the usual texture loading.
Knowing Frank's stuff, you should be good to go

Like Daube said, photo real scenery is great for frame rates.  I prefer photo real for desert areas, like the Utah scenery sets, and most mountain sceneries, too.  You can see the frame rates drop when  you move out of the photo real area, and the sim throws up the autogen trees. 

thanks.
this got me over my fear of downloading even more photoreal scenery since i am a fan of photo-real.

thanks.
this got me over my fear of downloading even more photoreal scenery since i am a fan of photo-real.

Photoscenery is about the only thing I fly these days. Default FSX which, when I first got the sim I thought was great, now leaves me cold.


Rich

Depends on what kind of flights you like.
Photosceneries without any scenery and autogen are absolutely terrible and ulgy when it comes to low-and-slow flying, bush flights etc...
Photosceneries WITH autogen and scenery objects can be extremely cool though. The problem is:
- you only get one season
- you often get only DAY textures, which look terrible during nights/evenings/mornings
- you almost never get any autogen/scenery.

That's why, for now, nothing beats the generic textures with good landclasses.

Like Boikat said, I only enjoy photosceneries in those place that never change all year long (tropical, deserts etc...) and only in places where I fly at a certain altitude. I love the Death Valley scenery for example, and I also love the Kauai island, but I never fly them at low altitude. I only fly those places at medium-high altitude, often with military jets

i am a low flyer but the places i do fly at medium altitudes i do use photoscenery.

and the ironscenery for hawaii is good,even for low altitude.