There is nothing in those screen shots that would have any effect on frame rates. Those shots are nothing but different textures that replace the standard texture set. Along with some nice detail work on the beach.
Those screen shots look nice, but I would also need to see what they look like down low.
What terrain are they from?
On the direct x version issue. Microsoft really made it a pita for game developers when dx10 came out not compatible for XP. To date very few developers use dx10 because of this.
HiTech
Can you post a link to DL this?
Sorry that I never responded to these posts - this is Nr RaVeN's North Africa terrain, apparently currently a work in progress. You can check his thread in the Terrain Editor forum here http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,344662.0.html
Glad to hear that this wouldn't cause any frame rate issues HiTech - please please please please can some of our $15 a month go towards getting some maps of this graphical calibre into the MAs?
I really believe that AH could pull in a lot more subscribers if we could entice people in with screenshots of terrain like this! The planes already look great, we have a great list of different aircraft to fly, we have a great flight model...the next logical step is to have some great looking maps to fly on!