Comments on: X-Plane 10.04 Is Here

By: Mutley10G

Mutley10G — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:31:57 +0000

Running XP10 demo on mid-2009 MacBook Pro 17″; low settings (eg no HDR, no cloud) – getting circa 20 fps with the Baron / Cessna 172.

Good job! Fantastic evolution from the initial release. I’m upgrading my hardware in a few months – when Ivy Bridge hits the shelves – and will buy the full version then!

By: Brian Godwin

Brian Godwin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:54:14 +0000

In reply to Wizzboy. There are already stripped down aircraft on the Org that are AI only (V10 only) that do not suck up a lot of CPU or FPS. A user named Morten modded a bunch of XPFW birds so we could have traffic without the performance hit.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:40:21 +0000

As far as I know texture bitmap size right now is limited to 2048 x 2048 pixels.

Are there any plans to increase that limit? My impression is that a lot of stuff could look much better if it had higher resolution textures.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:22:44 +0000

Good to hear the Scenery docs and tools are coming Ben. I’ve deliberately not bugged you coz I know you mean to do it, when u CAN!

I hear wordpress is pretty good too 🙂

By: Jens

Jens — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:34:00 +0000

The download was rather big. Lots of pol and dds files not mentioned in the notes. What got updated?

By: Wizzboy

Wizzboy — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:00:26 +0000

I’ve played a bit with the AI planes and, I do recon that using multithreading to get exact aircraft performance is nice, I do feel that it might be a bit overkill. Having AI does chunk a bit of my FPS, and I’ve seen AI abort so many landings for some reason… I guess that maybe it would be more than enough for the AI to simply follow basic flying pattern, going from airport to airport, without using the full physic engine. This would allow 2 things:
– Way more AI in the sky for less CPU time.
– Having simpler aircraft models in the air, by this I mean that we could make the exterior model of an aircraft with basic flight parameters.

SuperFeature: This CPU save could help make some sort of schedule files. So you could have a file describing the flight schedule (or even downloaded from the net), so you could see the 20 Porter Q400 per day between CYTZ and CYUL, for instance.

Other than that XP10 rocks.

By: Markus

Markus — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:44:09 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. the necessity isn't known for only a week, either…

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:35:52 +0000

In reply to Markus. It is already about as high of a priority as it can be! It's just not something that can be coded in a week.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:33:44 +0000

In reply to Ravi.

The memory phrase I’ve always heard for the take-off check-list is “lights, camera, action” – as in: landing lights, transponder, then throttle. The transponder I guess is supposed to be like “camera” because it lets ATC see you.

By: Markus

Markus — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:01:14 +0000

please make 64-bit a higher priority. http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/topic/595-what-did-you-fly-today/page__view__findpost__p__32362