Hi Wycliffe,

Please see my post on xsquawkbox.net re: 64-bit. I do not have time to deal with XSB anytime soon myself, but I also have no desire to ‘take my ball and go home’ – it doesn’t have to be “my add-on” – in fact, the most recent versions are really “Wade’s” add-on because he did all of the heavy lifting.

Unfortunately, VATSIM policy prohibits me from simply posting the entire plugin and going “anyone who wants, take a swing.”

But I was able to identify at least two development tasks that developers can take on _now_, without even having to do any VATSIM NDA/registration stuff, that will advance progress toward a 64-bit XSB. The code and tasks are already out there and described.

Cheers
Ben

No offence but I bought xplane with the specific purpose of having a better sim and flyuing on VATSIM was a major reason for the expenditure hearing you say that your not going to 64bit Xsquawkbox is a massive dissapointment. As it wil be to countless hundreds of xplane users. I know your busy but I really think you should reconsider.

You will ultimately hurt Xplane itself by neglecting your addon and force many of us back to FSX.

As a member of VATSIM since 2005 I can say with some certain knowledge that any effort made by yourself would be morethan appreciated.

Wycliffe

I’m not sure if VATSIM developers are barred from taking money.

Honestly, the most useful thing would be for VATSIM to loosen their restrictions on development. The fact that Wade and I have to get anyone who works on the code ‘registered’ is a giant PITA.

It would be very disappointing if xsb were not moved 64bit for any length of time. Could there be encouragement to help someone to take this task on? I would gladly make a financial contribution.

Look for this
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers.

Change TdrDelay: REG_DWORD to 8
Default is 2

This will allow your GPU to render more scenery before it dies (blackscreen of death. and error message below)

http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/gg487368.wddm_timeout(en-us,MSDN.10).gif

Agreed. I fly almost exclusively on VATSIM and I’m a controller on there as well – getting this working again and possibly adding some improvements would only help both communities.

Mike,

Although I would not be able to help at all, you would have my absolute support in this. I have only just gotten on board with VATSIM. Flying online seems to be the next stage for me, but it would be a great shame if I had to stick to an old version of x-plane (in the future) to enable this.

I’m sure there are many others in the same boat too.

We believe that in the long term the 64-bit version will become the default. Already most of our users are on 64-bit capable operating systems, so we figured by setting the names up this way now we won’t have to go through a second round of confusion when we change the names later.

Hi!

In Ubuntu 12.04 @64 I noticed than X-Plane 10.** (all versions) runs strange in fps. In the same airport, same plane, same weather, same options, I saw 29-30 fps in first x-plane execution. I close it, use WED, close WED, re-run X-Plane and then, 23-24 fps. Another execution, 19-20 fps…

…sixth or seventh x-plane execution, about 9-10 fps. Why? I don’t know. Maybe Ubuntu, maybe Unity, maybe nVidia drivers (310.19 at this time), maybe X-Plane…

If I want to fly, I reboot computer and cross fingers 😀