Comments on: X-Plane 10.50 Is Out!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:05:49 +0000

In reply to vonhinx.

I had exactly this using ZL18 photoscenery on my 3gb graphics / 16gb pc. Not so much ‘microstutters’ that can be hard to detect for many, but I was seeing huge unplayable pauses (under 5fps for seconds at a time)

Moving to a less demanding zoom level worked a treat (ZL15 with W2XP’s GBpro scenery performs well and looks amazing a couple of hundred feet off the ground).

If this is your issue, it’s not classed as a ‘microstutter’ – microstutters are more akin to a good consistent frame rate with a frequent frame (or more) drop.

By: vonhinx

vonhinx — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:45:45 +0000

The only stuttering I see is after the sim loads. At that point, or even a few seconds or minutes later, if one looks in other directions for the first time, there’s a stutter as if the sim is loading the visuals. As soon as one has scanned 360˚ and everything has “loaded”, that’s it for stutters. It doesn’t apply to flying around or arriving at a different destination but only on the initial scenery load. If that’s a fancy way of not loading unseen scenery, I’d rather a big stutter as the sim processes potential views at the beginning than the micro-stutters happening seconds or minutes later when looking at a previously unscanned direction. Overall though 10.50 is very smooth and fps friendly.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:17:15 +0000

The water reflection fix makes a big difference when flying between islands. Very nice! I think having water rendering would hide the remaining alignment issues pretty effectively. Is an update for that planned somewhere?

By: xXNightEagleXx

xXNightEagleXx — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:47:49 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. I guess i'm thinking too much as a programmer. Thanks

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:54:36 +0000

In reply to Michael Maar.

Yes, 10.50r3 is latest.

I don’t know when WED 1.5 will ship – I’m hoping to get beta 3 done within 24 hours.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:54:08 +0000

In reply to xXNightEagleXx. 1490 is non-sensical; the third digit should be 0-5.

By: Michael Maar

Michael Maar — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:21:40 +0000

Hi,

Is the Steam version 10.50r3(Build 105009 64bit – updated August 28.) the latest?

When will wed 1.5r3 be released?

By: xXNightEagleXx

xXNightEagleXx — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:55:59 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. since the value is an integer what would mean 1490 ?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:51:45 +0000

In reply to quantumac.

Hi Guys,

X-Plane can and sometimes will stutter. A stutter happens any time the video frame is “late” to show up, e.g. it’s a very short instance of very low framerate (a long frame).

1. We can’t guarantee that all of our code is stutter free. 1050 is better than 1045, in that one or two known causes of stuttering is fixed. But until we fix everything, performance is “best we can.”
2. We really can’t guarantee that the underlying driver is stutter-free. GL makes no promises about perf, so until we move to Vulkan & Metal we’re going to see all sorts of configuration-specific weirdness.
3. Plugins run synchronously and we know nothing about them. If a plugin takes too long, we stutter.

So…once we are on Vulkan with out code clean, we can consider a stutter a bug on a clean system. We are not there yet. 1050, just like 1045, does the best it can, and you will get the performance you get based on your hardware, drivers, rendering settings, and add-ons.

Lots of users have gotten smooth perf with default scenery, but others have made it stutter – the rendering settings are flexible enough to do either!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:45:53 +0000

In reply to xXNightEagleXx. There are -no- datarefs involved in airport flow rules at all. The times should be in zulu hours-minutes, e.g. 1430 for 2:30 pm zulu. If anything says otherwise, please provide an EXACT URL so we can inspect the docs.