Comments on: 64-Bit? It’s On the Radar

By: Filippo1974

Filippo1974 — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:29:28 +0000

Just to extend this topic to a long-term perspective, what about the use of GP-GPU technologies (such as OpenCL)? Could this be considered for future releases of X-Plane (XP 11 or later)?

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:20:44 +0000

We already support multi-core…8 cores or more. 🙂 We will continue to push in the multi-core direction in new releases of course.

By: Jack Skieczius

Jack Skieczius — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:19:09 +0000

I like the approach that most of the other programs coming over to 64bit have done. like Photoshop. you install both version if your on 64 bit. they made two versions really to suite everyones need.
Not sure if that works in x-plane. maybe an option somewhere tho either in program or in the installer?

Tho is 64 bit he first thing to look at or what about duel or more processors?

I know my Q400 addon will be very high-end on the graphics side so anything that comes to making the performance of x-plane better, i am all over it.

By: dancepuppy56

dancepuppy56 — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:56:33 +0000

couldn't you release 2 Xplane packages, 32bit and 64bit (pro), with an upgrade path, could help the dollars too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:29:26 +0000

Ben – here is an MS blog page on local Seattle newspaper – 46% of Win 7 installations are 64-bit, compared to less than 1% of Win XP.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/214033.asp

– Robin

By: simon

simon — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:33:20 +0000

Ben I have a 64 bit system but am in perfect agreement with your phased approach- just too many loyal fans on older systems. but don't hold yourself back if you can avoid it! most of the newer planes I find pretty well perfect, eg bk117 and Peters a380 (but a 3d deck would be nice), so hopefully the big improvement is in your specialty, scenery. Even then it's very good now generally, amazing with Istvan's .HU creations and Xpfr's, especially with that silky framerate, that sold ME. Keeping that silky, real feel is the killer strength of xplane

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:17:07 +0000

Ive been working on OSM importer for FSX. Not sure how often you update your .OSM files but they seem to get cleaned up by the OSM "bots" on a regular basis.

64bit in the future.. excellent!

Any hints/screenshots as to new features XP10?

Regards, MatthewS

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:23:53 +0000

It hurts me to think of X-plane running on that hw! J/k…its good to know it still performs decently. 🙂

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:22:20 +0000

Ben … you've optimize X-plane so well at this point you almost have to go out of your way to find a crappy computer to make it run as slow as fsx. And I'm not kidding. I have XP 9 installed on my netbook for when I'm on the road (an Atom N270 + i945GMA) and I achieve about ~20 – 25 FPS with some of the graphics options turned off (of course) but it still looks and runs very decent.