Comments on: Fixing X-Plane 10.30 Performance

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:00:53 +0000

In practice it’s not that much more homogenous. On OSX we have 3 “half” drivers (The bottom half of OGL for NV, AMD, and Intel GPUs). On Windows 3 have 3 “full” drivers (the full OGL for NV, AMD, and Intel).

So there is more consistency on OS X wrt OpenGL bugs, but I think that effect is dwarfed by the different philosophy and Apple vs the IHVs…Apple focuses on stability with GL a lot more, while NV and AMD are just fighting for perf, perf, perf. So we see more regression bugs on Windows where the GPU vendor tries to make things faster, breaks something, then puts it back.

By: Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:18:01 +0000

Obviously, the Mac is a much more homogenous platform than the PC. Does this make development easier in practice? Or are you just fighting different problems?

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:46:41 +0000

Ben, in the X-Plane 11 will clear the horizon? when will the X-Plane 11?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:53:28 +0000

In reply to Gal Cohen. I'm not sure if the photoreal builder will be in the next release of WED, but the next release of WED should go beta in a week or two.

By: Gal Cohen

Gal Cohen — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:32:11 +0000

Hey Ben , great news and I’m really looking to chech the performance on my Nvidia hardware .
Sorry that it’s a bit of topic but is there any time-frame that you have to release WED 1.3 with the new automatic photoreal builder ?
Also is there any option that this new tool will support multiple Geotiff’s import? now you can import only one file per click and it’s a bit annoying 🙂

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:57:20 +0000

In reply to Sergey. At this point it is sounding like maybe 10.35...

By: Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:26:26 +0000

When correct the blurred horizon?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:48:03 +0000

In reply to Markus Borgmann.

You have to use an FDR file for the replay

X-Plane.exe –fps_test=3 –load_smo=Output/replays/test_flight_747.fdr

Also, clouds do not work right in the time demo – I’m trying to fix this now.

By: Markus Borgmann

Markus Borgmann — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:03:58 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Ah thanks. Didnt use that since v9, since it does not work anymore on win7/64.
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=55153&page=12#entry769692

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:15:15 +0000

Great news as I have been suffering with my 7950 Ice Q*2, even on the demo scenery I was getting 13 FPS!
I Sincerely hope the next update fixes this but when can we expect b6?
Are you working on other fixes as well before you release because I was kind of hoping it would be out sooner rather than later 🙂