Comments on: WED 2.1 Beta

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:19:42 +0000

I’m assuming you have seen the e3 release of the new Microsoft flight simulator already. I understand that Microsoft has a massive advantage when it comes to money but speaking honestly, after seeing it, how are you planning or expecting to retain xplane users? I was a first time 11 beta user and fell absolutely in love with it For so many reasons because it literally destroyed fsx and the 32 bit fan boys it has. Does laminar have any serious ability to compete with the graphics/scenery that flight sim clearly has? I’m going to say when it comes to flight dynamics and things like that, xplane will probably dominate but then again, Microsoft isn’t releasing it for another year so that could be plenty of time for them to throw millions of dollars at the dynamic engine to at minimum, compete with xplane. Microsoft generally doesn’t like to lose or be second best so they are clearly tackling some major issues that I feel the community has been begging for, for years. I’m not one of those simmers who demand wing flex, contrails, or really any unrealistically visible while “ in the cockpit” flying and I wouldn’t be able to see anyways type of things. Idk, it just seems like I saw actual real time 4K simulation with insane environment graphics, not limited to clouds, rain, cities, or weather that’s using insane AI ability to assist in real world scenery rendering and laminar seems to still be a year + away from efficiently using more than one or two cores to get what, 10% to 15% more efficiency with Vulkan? After seeing what Microsoft is working with, could we expect to see comparable performance or scenery/graphics of the world environment by the time it’s released from xplane or is it going to be a 15 year later updated like Microsoft did with fsx? Basically, what is laminars plans to prevent a “ what I’m going to assume is a massive “ shift away from xplane11.

By: Elios

Elios — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:32:48 +0000

In reply to Philipp Ringler. speaking of 11.35 beta still coming today?

By: BlueCitrus

BlueCitrus — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 23:35:05 +0000

Is “Glo-mo” going to be added to the current mobile X-Plane or is it going to be a seperate app?

By: Philipp Ringler

Philipp Ringler — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:48:07 +0000

In reply to Udo Thiel.

There is in fact a mismatch in 11.34 right now – for example, the new Istanbul airport LTFM is missing. We have improved the process for 11.35, doing away with such mismatches, so you can fly to the new Istanbul airport in 11.35 as expected.
For almost all airports, there will be no difference at all – the visuals match the data.
The only exception to this is where the scenery would be unusable with default navigation data, in which case a compatibility airport stays in the default data.

By: Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 13:36:58 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Right, I saw a warning about outdated data in the FMS. So with the apt.dat in Custom Scenery supposedly responsible for the visuals, and the apt.dat in Resources responsible for the GPS/FMS, isn't there the chance for a potential mismatch between the two?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:21:02 +0000

In reply to Udo Thiel. Yes - it drives the GPS/FMS.

By: Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 01:29:42 +0000

Does the system-wide apt.dat in the Resources/default scenery/ have any purpose anymore now?