I run Gentoo. I’ve spent copious quantities of time optimizing for performance. Don’t know how the other distros perform.

Thats interesting. Maybe I’ll look into dual booting my machine to run Xplane on Linux. What disto are you using?

That’s a nice mod…I’d like to see them turned into Daleks. 🙂

You make a good point about the trees Ben, but I wasn’t complaining myself. Just passing on a comment I have heard very often. In fact I have seen more complaints in various forums about not being able to turn down the trees than about the cars. The deer seem to be universally disliked, although one enterprising soul has made productive use of them by turning them into running security guards 🙂

I mean both XP10 and XP11

There are two issues:
1. The pricing has to match for cost of goods, so $25 is < $60 but it's still more than we pay in materials for DVDs. 2. When we get DVDs, we get them manufactured in bulk. Even if you can find that a box of OEM wholesale flash drives are cheap, you'd still have to get the data onto them. That might be cheap - I don't know - but it's another service that will add price.

Yup, seeing quite a difference between Windows and Linux. In Windows I see 25-30FPS on a consistent basis with sliders one notch off max. In Linux, on the other hand, the very same settings produce 50+FPS. This is on the very same hardware each time (identical, swappable drives). I’m also seeing an old bug (will be filed shortly) crept back in in Linux. All planes are being followed by a huge shadow, visible in external views from certain angles.

It will be available to X plane 10 ?

Gracias

As cheap as flash drives have gotten (128gb for around $25), would it be feasible to replace scenery DVDs with one?