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Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen. I have bird strikes off in the failure menu. Everything is set to default "always working" in failures. On my most recent XP11 beta flight I was climbing in the Turbo Goose out of CYYJ at around 1,000 ft, when I saw a small flock appear off to the right through the windscreen, followed by a sudden sound of breaking glass. No actual damage to the windscreen (the damage modeling isn't THAT good). Engines were still fine, and that's usually the damage caused by bird strikes followed by black smoke. So I thought damage was minimal. Then I noticed all the instruments had stopped working. I guess that's the sim's way of sa…

As the title says. Somewhere above Italy. For me the default clouds are not so bad, after a bit tweaking of some datarefs. What do you guys think?

While I am waiting for the gentlemen from X-Aviation to reset my MaxxFX license which may happen or not given that I first asked for this only a few weeks ago I experimented with reshade. The sharpening and vibrance effects are actually looking quite promising. However, I noticed that the built in map does not work if reshade is active and closing the sim results in a ctd. Anyone having further experience with this tool and XP? EDIT: Saw on a German forum that there seems to be an issue with reshade 3.0.6 and XP11. I tried 3.0.4 now and the map is working again.

Does anyone know if the Alabeo Saratoga II TC will work in Xplane 11? Thanks, John

Here's a great video which shows a quick comparison of a circuit in P3D and X-Plane 11 (with a surprise :-)). Both look very realistic I think, but the comments about the flight models are certainly interesting.

I was using g2xpl, but just heard and saw a few videos about this app on youtube! What I like about it over g2xpl is that it has a nice GUI, and you can easily have multiple areas with different ZL. Wow, I'm not sure but the water edges look amazing. Not sure if it's from using this app or what. Can someone confirm how we can get these beautiful water edges like in this video?

Hi all, I'm currently simulating a flight as I type this post, and I notice my frame-rates wildly fluctuating. Below is a screenshot of my GPU load with X-Plane 10: As you can see, the GPU is currently running at 967 MHz (seen along the top of the window), but its maximum frequency is 1.3 GHz (as seen where the cursor is pointing). The typical load voltage also ought to be 1.10 V rather than 0.96 V. This clock speed (and voltage) varies wildly as my flight progresses, and the GPU load bar, which is currently around at 50%, gives me a little inkling of what's going on, but I'm not sure. This is the scene that X-Plane is currently rendering: The framerate counter is a…

Hi, how are you all? Is there any option to switch to another download server or download via torrent? I just bought and i'm downloading at 120kb/sec, this will take months to download. Thanks!

I've been flying tonight, near about Clear Water, Florida...doing touch and goes, from airport to airport...over some very intense auto-gen. I am going to sit in the bush, when B10 comes along..and let all you folks, be the guinea pigs on that release. I'm hanging back, until I read that there was no degradation in any performance, seen in B9. Oh yeah....oh ........yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Back to Florida....

Can G Plan connect to X-Plane 11?

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A recent battle with determining some issues in XP had led me to remove all third party enhancements, one of which being SkyMaxx. Before I re-installed SMP, I wanted to test out some of the manual dataref settings that I've seen people play around with, along with custom clouds and custom skycolors. So, the past few nights have seen me playing around with settings and testing things out. I'm really happy with my progress, and plan on sharing some screenshots. In fact, there was one post by Murmur quite along time ago that suggested using random weather patterns with system size set to max - my gosh, it was absolutely amazing to see. I'd yet to see as nice of looking w…

Hi there! I have a huge problem! Until yesterday, my XPX install was super stable and never crashed! Today, I bought and installed DD Polish Airports 3. After that, the sim always crahes to desktop after loading has finished. Here is the log file: log.txt for X-Plane 10.51r2 (build 105101 64-bit) compiled on Oct 18 2016 23:50:47 X-Plane started on Wed Feb 01 21:30:41 2017 This log file is generated automatically by Laminar Research applications and contains diagnostics about your graphics hardware, installation, and any error conditions. If you need to contact tech support or file a bug, please send us this file. NOTE: this file is rewritten every time yo…

Since loading and running XP11 B9, and AeroFly 2, I have seen that my present CPU (an i7-975 Extreme) and my GTX1070 FTW GPU, was never truly an impediment to great FPS performance. Both sims have amply displayed that! Getting near 40 plus (43-44) FPS now in B9, with the sim sliders-tricked out...(never achieved higher than 33..ever before in XP10 or 11 betas to date), and a locked down 120 constant FPS in Aerofly 2 with all settings set to Ultra. I have no need to chase FPS in P3D (whatever) or FSX-boxed (Steve's Fixer DX10), by upgrading the CPU/Motherboard combo. It was never the lack of horsepower, in my 6 year old CPU/Motherboard...nope...it was the ancient…

I seem to remember that runway numbers were shown on the VFR Sectional map in previous betas?

Go get it; see release notes. Ben: "Clouds: I am still fighting with cloud performance, so this work is not in a public beta yet, because it’s not quite ready for prime-time". Interesting!!!! http://developer.x-plane.com

Hi All, I purchased X-Plane 11 as soon as it was available but up until a few days ago didn't really bother with it. I was just following the threads. I decided to give Public Beta V9 a go with the FF767. I have been able to push the sliders pretty far and the only thing I have found is that as soon as I introduce clouds via the X-Plane menu i get micro pauses. I watch the FPS counter dip from a solid 30 (running half adaptive refresh rate) to around 15 and then it jumps back again. Admittedly this happens very quickly and is quite hard to catch but it is there. If I turn the weather off it is very smooth even pushing close to 5.5GB VRAM on my 980TI Strix. Has…

I'm thinking of a gpu upgrade, and with the recent improvements in this last beta for AMD cards, it has peaked my interest. I like their price point. I currently have a GTX 670 4gb ( 4.5 yrs with this card), and would like to get one of the newer AMD 8gb cards. I'm posting some screenshots of roughly the same test you did (I assume), same airport, similar settings (?). Can you do a test with the same settings I used, and let me know what you get for fps, sitting at ESMS, clear weather, 13:00 hour, with the default C172 running? As you can see in the screenshot I'm getting almost 64 fps, and that R9 390 should run circles around a GTX 670. So I'm still a little concern…

I thought it had been done, perhaps it was version 1.61 or similar.. but running the c172 in XP11 beta.. is it possible? I know they will release a patch after the final version, but i'd like to test in the meantime.. If it requires an older version i'm not really sure how you go about obtaining it, as the store/their site only seems to link to the current one.. Thanks in advance

This one is almost ready, Aeropro EuroFox. Nice modeling of the pilot.. :smile:

http://www.ontheglideslope.net/ His YouTube channel is very inspiring. Think I need to sign up to Pilot Edge. Cheers Peter

Well, I try to open any of my airports, and in the green airport area window, when the WED screen comes up...no airport is displayed. This is happening at all my airports in my Custom folder, whether in 10, or 11. In the green Vertex window, it states 'no current airport'. ?!?!?!? Any suggestions? Thanks.

I do frequent switching between full 5760x1080 2D and VR mode.. and also 1080p mode in XP11.. I found that the window positions prf file seems to handle the resolution switching, but i cant figure out where things like reflections and AA settings are stored.. Im basically using a batch file to copy preset prf files for each mode i launch.. Which brings me to the question of whether there is a 3rd party launcher like simstarter that would let me set all this in configuration files / profiles and launch from there? Thanks in advance for any info

As the title says it. I didn't put it up earlier because i am not good with words and didn't know what to write. Hope it's written well. Jose gave me all the DCS modules and never ever in my simming life i have studied an aircraft and it's system like I do in DCS in the Mig21 it's pure immersion , it took me almost a year to learn this aircraft at least 80% of it. DCS licenses are transferable once and they get locked to the account. Jose and I always keep discussing which sim from all there are has better dynamics and i keep winning saying DCS :Big Grin: Tony bought me a license for XP11 and XP11 looks amazing and getting better and better. With Orthos…

Does anyone know a good tutorial (text preferred to video) on orthophoto improvement? What I dislike most are the color differences. E.g., I would like get one half of the image to have the same colorization as the other half which is often not the case if the picture is composed of two or more satellite shots. I am completely unskilled when it comes to Photoshop and Gimp so looking for something intuitive. Thanks for any advice.