Comments on: X-Plane 930 Beta

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:47:00 +0000

amalahama – I cannot discuss future potential unreleased features.

By: amalahama

amalahama — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Hi Ben!

With pixel shaders, I think that a huge step in X-Plane has been done.

Can we hope for next X-Plane version (9.4 or so) self-shadowing, 3D external light and environmental maps?

Regards

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Er: I realize I didn't answer the question:

930 will NOT require its own updater...or rather, the installer version does NOT have to change with each update of x-plane. We only change the installer and updater version (2.05 is current) to fix bugs/make it more usable. So...probably 2.05 will be the current installer/updater version for at least a few more months.

2.05 won't be current forever -- I have some requests from Randy to make the installer easier to use and some bugs to fix.

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:35:00 +0000

Austin – no idea where beta 1 went…looking at the server list, it still is up internally. PROBABLY Austin has already cut beta 2 because we are getting a huge number of emails about the full screen prefs not being saved, so he wants to get that fixed to cut off the email.

Re: installers…we changed the installers a little bit – from now on all web-base installer updaters allow the option of beta – this has been true since the 2.0 installers, but in 2.05 the beta check-box is up front. It just looks for an exta-new version on the server.

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:21:00 +0000

gazrang – yes. I’m not sure how much … bottom line is that I just haven’t had time to do much tuning to 930 yet, so I don’t even know if it’s close or not. Some of the changes already in SHOULD make fps better in SOME cases (for example, the Falcon’s 3-d cockpit should be much faster) but on the other hand the per pixel lighting code has not been optimized.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:21:00 +0000

Hi Ben,

Last night 9.30 beta 1 appeared on the beta page on x-plane.com but has disappeared from there this morning - is there a problem with it?

Secondly, I used the updater2.05 file to update 9.22 to 9.30 beta 1. It gave me the option of installing the beta so I did. 9.30 will not require its own updater?

I backed up x-plane anyway before updating to 9.30.

thanks
austin

By: gazrang

gazrang — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:01:00 +0000

May I expect more framerate optimization on official release?

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:11:00 +0000

oops — fixed. But, um don’t use an early 922 beta if u have one either. 🙂

By: sothis

sothis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:50:00 +0000

“Don’t use early 922 betas on critical files – make backup copies”

you mean 930? 🙂