Comments on: X-Plane 11.40 Beta 8 and a Roadmap Update https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Sat, 19 Oct 2019 02:08:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Elios https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34386 Sat, 19 Oct 2019 02:08:40 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34386 In reply to John.

this is related to the sim again not cleaning up after it self properly and doing garbage collection im HOPING that with Vulkan since they have manage there own stuff this gets fixed but it could just make it worse

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By: JAVIER https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34384 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:36:08 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34384 In reply to Sven.

I totally agree with you.

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By: Steven Pearce https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34383 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:47:09 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34383 In reply to Chris Hansen.

You can do this already in X-Plane. Choose, “Build Weapons” from the expert menu in Plane Maker, then and a weapon with guidance set to “TV guide”, and add the “TV guide” instrument to your panel.

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By: John https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34382 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:30:42 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34382 Hi again,

finally i switched now back to the latest stable version 11.36r2.
For me there was no stable beta above. 2-3 hours flight and then random crashes in all variants. Hard crashes without logs and then some crashes with log and started 2nd XPlane.exe instance in taskmanager. No joystick profiles was saved. Cumulus bug again displayed in weather briefing FL350-450. Cirrus ? Then i get in the latest beta in experimental and none experimental flightmodel random prop overspeeds in turboprop. Also with limiter/govenor enabled. Some tricky in departure.

Big test was 10thOctober from Seatle to Atlanta ferry flight, DO228, FL250. Eastbound. Trip planned under the bizzard for good groundspeed. But there after 3hours it kicked me out CTD.

The last step was to start vanilla without plugins. 2-3 hours also crash. I noticed that for me it was every time weather related. If i am heading bad weather. I turned weather to custom and no crash for 6hours.

Maybe the 11.36r2 is the maximum performance for XP11 stable at all ?

11.36r2 more stutters but stable.

Greetings
John

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By: Günther Wittwar https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34381 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:50:52 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34381 In reply to Elios.

I use Win 10 and 64 GByte RAM and orthos.
After a while there is no more free memory, all 64Gbyte are used.
Used?
Not really. About 40GByte are working as a file cache, holding unused but still valid data.
But for memory demands this mem wil acct like free mem, it is ready for use, no write back, no write to the pagefile.

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By: MicrosoftGamer https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34380 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 01:19:15 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34380 In reply to Ulrich.

Thats how devs can make money and last version of X-Plane 10 was 10.51.

By the sound of their plans, it really sounds like they want to release a new version of xplane (xp 12) with new visuals. I don’t think they would implement new visuals in xplane 11. It will be a long journey.

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By: Chris Hansen https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34379 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:37:18 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34379 Hi Ben Supnik.
With Vulcan coming, will it be possible to implement “heavier” graphic loads to the game?
For helicopters with SAR it would be amazing to have “external camera” viewing downwards to the ground so the pilot could see what’s going on beneath the helo (on a monitor in cockpit mode).
For now it’s not possible for the devs to make this, and flying a helo in 3rd person view isn’t optimal.
I have been working a lot at making missions for helicopters, only to find out that a monitor option like this isn’t possible yet.
Thanks in advance for any answers! 🙂

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By: Elios https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34378 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:36:14 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34378 In reply to Ben Supnik.

the issue is the sim isnt cleaning up after it self in windows ie. after it loads new textures its not UNLOADING the old ones you can OOM your self just swaping liverys if they are high enough res and you load enough of them
so when people use lots of orthos and detailed scenery it just all keeps piling up in ram and the sim never clears out the unused textures

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By: Ben Supnik https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34377 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:47:09 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34377 In reply to Javier Rollon.

Javier, I think we’re already planning to do this.
– As we have said before, we are NOT dropping OpenGL support for the entire v11 run. (Although I also expect that your aircraft will just work in Vulkan – what crazy thing have you done that would stop this? 😉 Remember, custom panel drawing in GL _works_ in Vulkan.

– The experimental FM is experimental, and even when it becomes the official one, if that happens during the v11 run, you’d have to resave your aircraft to opt into it, so legacy aircraft would be unchanged.

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By: Philipp Ringler https:/2019/10/x-plane-11-40-beta-8-anda-roadmap-update/#comment-34376 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:05:43 +0000 http://developer.x-plane.com/?p=39693#comment-34376 In reply to Peter N.

If a systems change breaks an existing add-on, that is potentially a bug on our side. We always aim to conserve behavior for existing, “sane” airplanes. So unless the aircraft is intentionally ‘lying’ to X-Plane to achieve a certain behavior relying on bugs, it should survive an upgrade like the 11.30 and 11.35 systems upgrade without problems. New autopilots require Plane-Maker opt-in and new systems like bleed air require the usage of datarefs that didn’t exist before, so they don’t become active unless the author asked for them.

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