Comments on: Rendering Settings and FPS: Don’t Panic

By: CrvenaZvezda

CrvenaZvezda — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:48:49 +0000

Just ran the demo on my Fedora16 with 16GB of RAM, ASUS Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 and AMD Phenom II X6 1055T. How it flies! How smooth! How stunning graphics! Can’t wait for my order to be delivered 🙂

By: Eddie Letmon

Eddie Letmon — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:03:13 +0000

As a PPL who uses X-Plane to practice an expensive hobby, relatively inexpensively, may I congratulate you all, from the developers to the wider X-Plane community. The obvious excitement with V10 and the desire to help / improve / bug fix a fantastic product for the greater good can only be admired, in particular the honesty of the developers in acknowledging ‘flaws’, which is lacking in other similar commercial products, to deliver a sound product for the benefit and enjoyment of it’s users is a revelation and pleasant surprise in these times. I am not technically competent in this field to assist, but would like to thank you all for your efforts and look forward to reaping the benefits of all of YOUR hand work and endeavours. Thank you.

By: Kezza

Kezza — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:55:33 +0000

Is it possible to have some sort of preference file that sets the rendering settings to the recommended values for the machine you are on? Maybe this could be a small app that runs when starting XP and adjusts settings on a lookup table. Maybe it could be a file others submit with their preferences or what they have found best works on their system. It could be a file available say on the XP org like other utilities are. There would obviously need to be a manual override and the ability to lock in the settings once happy.
Just some thoughts…

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:43:52 +0000

In reply to chris. Chris and everyone: please do NOT post bug reports here. Use the bug report form.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:43:18 +0000

In reply to chris. If you sent a bug report in via the bug report form or info@x-plane we probably have it, but it may be a bit before you hear back - we're working through a big pile right now.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:27:36 +0000

as you said you get 20fps in demo area with i5, I have quad i7 and get less fps . hmm , anything I or users can help input and help you guys fix performance I’m in

By: chris

chris — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:19:15 +0000

hey ben, perhaps this will help. copy text of my email

1- i sometimes have smooth flight but the fps is stuck at 19 -22 , and or my vram usage is way lower than 1024mb capability & sim lags a lot. seems odd .

( * testing still, i bounce back and forth between slow and decent- way better than first initial demo boot in thursday 🙂

2- there is a bug during rain storm where graphics look terrible
file:///Users/chrishallam/Desktop/37382w0_10150390908548093_524368092_8721338_901591710_n.jpg

By: chris

chris — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:14:54 +0000

ahh ok Ben, I also assumed so due to your comment regarding this being taken care of within a few weeks/ that you all know about the universal frame rate issue. Granted this is a new release, demo/ beta, faster improvements Id hope for updates in december / and or dvd to come with the fixes. .. even 10.1 not too far off in dec late or jan. Aka, we users know guys know about these issues and we hope to see improvements not too far off. 🙂 low fps/ sluggishness is very annoying, especially when we can do more on v9… hence your comment about v9 being 4 yrs old and v10 only a few days regarding fps.

thanks Ben, im having fun testing my settings btw.

p.s. i emailed info @xplane and posted screen on fb, there seems to be a major bug while in a storm, because there is graphical issues such has distorted rain or boxes on screen

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:13:00 +0000

In reply to chris.

I think Randy’s being a little bit optimistic – we’ll see. I am already looking at perf, but depending on what kind of perf problem a user has, there might be a fix soon or not for a while. A perf optimization is only useful to a user who has the hw that is affected by the optimization. so YMMV.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:52:01 +0000

thanks, do you forsee the updates to reeally help the framerate /performance issues to come out possibly this week as others have quoted? randy told me within a week or so to expect quite an improvement update

where should i send you my log.txt so you have more into to gather