Comments on: X-Plane 11.20 Beta 2 Is Out

By: spockain

spockain — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 06:45:20 +0000

Thanks for your great job. I play in VR and i am very happy to see Xplane becoming better. Wait now for Vulcan.

For those who instal Skymax pro / X enviro, after removing because there are not working in VR. You will have some bug. You must reinstall Xplane completly.

Best regards.

By: Patrick Freitag

Patrick Freitag — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:17:30 +0000

In reply to Patrick Freitag. 11.20b3 solved the problem I described on March 21, 2018 at 12:18 pm ! Thx a lot !

By: viper

viper — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:42:44 +0000

Hi Ben, can you tell me why I have cloud shadows above the clouds?

By: Patrick Freitag

Patrick Freitag — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:29:37 +0000

In reply to Patrick Freitag. 11.20b1 worked fine for me !!!!

By: David Broome

David Broome — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:16:24 +0000

Hi Ben, not tested this version yet but I have noticed micro stutters creeping into the last few updates, including in non VR whereas it used to be very smooth.
Also my 3D mouse does not appear yet if I check the 3D mouse box in VR it reduces performance by 50%! say from 50fps to 25fps.
Also, are you aware of any bug affecting water reflections?
In X plane 10 the reflections of buildings were recognisable but in X plane 11 reflections just look like dark smudges even at max, more like a shadow than reflection. I did submit a bug report and ask in the forum but got no feedback.

Thank you for all your hard work.

By: ZdenniZ

ZdenniZ — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:43:54 +0000

In reply to CDCZ. My X-Plane installation is not in a Windows-protected folder. I worked around this error by running X-Plane, choosing to quit and update, download a new installer and move the installer out of the x-plane folder. This never happened before. I wonder if Re-Shade has anything to do with this. It interferes with launch of the installer from the X-plane root folder.

By: CDCZ

CDCZ — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:15:13 +0000

In reply to ZdenniZ.

You’ve installed XPlane in a directory like C:\X-Plane or D:\X-Plane, and not C:\Program Files\X-Plane or similar system directories which are more protected (and therefore troublesome) in later versions of windows?
If you have the disk space, I would do a test and re-run the installer with the option “Install a second copy” in a different location, see if it installs fine, and then you can narrow down your problem. At the worst case you can always copy any 3rd party aircraft, scenery, plugins whatever over to the new copy and delete the last copy later.

By: Taylor Z

Taylor Z — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:19:10 +0000

In reply to Jonathan.

Yes the windshield reflections are a bit intense, especially in VR. I have made the following modifications to make things clearer:

You can reduce the dynamic reflection intensity by safely editing the 3D model properties in a text editor.

Open and edit the glass_inn.obj located in …\X-Plane\Aircraft\Laminar Research\Cessna 172SP\objects
As always, create a backup of the original file first.
Change the GLOBAL_specular value. Something as low as 0.5 should get rid of most of the reflections (including the bright spot of the sun reflection).

By: Patrick Freitag

Patrick Freitag — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:18:41 +0000

Since the last update today (03/21/2018) I have micro studders with my Oculus ! And the texture sharpness seems to be a little less than with the 11.20b1 !

By: Tim Gordine

Tim Gordine — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:37:36 +0000

experiencing some very glitchy stutters on last two betas on Mac ( been great on all previous VR versions) sounds like you’re on it as usual.
Particularly noticeable when I sym link to V10 Global scenery on non SSD disk -like its having hard time catching up .Has worked well so far.
Thanks
T