What kind of frame rate reduction will I experience with MegaScenery?
The answer in short is…. NONE! In fact the opposite is true. MegaScenery gives you faster framerates than default FS2004 scenery! The reason is that FS2004 default scenery consumes processor power to render vector based objects over the landclass tiles such as roads, rivers, etc. This can consume significant processor power. Since MegaScenery does not need these objects (as they are already part of the scenery image), frame rates are faster. How much faster? Well depending upon the landclass type you are flying over it can be up to 300% faster. In some testing over Palm Springs, MegaScenery was getting over 37 fps while the Palm Springs default scenery was getting around 9 fps with autogen and scenery complexity settings set to normal.. You will experience a slightly slower loading time when you go to a MegaScenery airport since there are thousands of tiles/files to load but when you are actually in the simulator flying over MegaScenery the frame rates are faster than if you were fly
