I played around with the scenery toggling ORBX files on and off. This picture is the Mary Island Lighthouse. That what I should be expecting? Yes, it is clearly terrible when ORBX scenery is turned off, but not the WOW effect I guess I was expecting from their site's pretty pictures! But if this is as good as it gets for my setup, I'll just get back to flying and start searching for the RTMM cabins.
When ORBX takes the screenshots, they probably turn
all of their settings
all of the way up and slew to the best looking part of the region. They are most likely getting 5 FPS
. That said, with ORBX regions, you get scenery objects at all of the airports and you wont see any random squares of vegetation like in default, plus it gets rid of oatmeal mountains, sand and adds nice landclass. Even on my really low end machine (Intel i7 2Ghz, 8Gb RAM, Intel 4000 graphics HD) I still have a nice improvement over default.
Ryan
PS: Try looking in summer first. It's easier to see the ground because its not covered in snow