Yesterday I was able to reproduce and fix a bug that several people reported against X-Plane 10.10; the bug is random, which explains why, when I tried to follow their reproduction steps, I did not get the same results. The last step in the bug report could have been “get lucky”.
The bug is: on Windows, sometimes the sim would output a ton of LOD warnings for objects (including default objects that ship with the sim) and then framerate would be reduced. Running a heavy framerate test on my PC I saw fps reduced from 25 to 15 fps when the failure happened.
The bug was 8bytes of uninitialized data deep in the OBJ engine; the impact depended on the random contents.
I will cut X-Plane 10.11r3 soon with a fix to this.
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Hey, nice work!
I’ve never stumbled across it though, but nice to know another bug got squashed!
Thanks
At least it was a dumb bug and not one of those smart ones that goes into hiding when it realizes you are hunting it. 🙂
Excellent work, this is actually why X-Plane far exceeds other simulators. You listen to the community..
Well, except for the “mouse wheel to turn knobs” thing…
We listen — but we do not always obey…
Touché 🙂