The X-Plane General Discussions Forum

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing good! As the title says, i finally decided to step away from Fsx and give X-Plane 10 a chance. Although i must say that after so many years of Fsx i feel scared of changing... Anyway, i was wondering since X-Plane 10 is more recent as a software what changes should i need in my rig in order to simulate that amazing HDR effect that we all have seen in some famous video? My current rig is: CPU: i5-2500K OC @4.2 Ghz GPU: Nvidia 560 Ti 1GB RAM: 16 GB Kingston Genesis Motherboard: Asus Maximus V Gene Z77 Cooler: Thermaltake Bigwater 760 Plus PSU: Thermaltake 750W Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos In addition, from what i …

Has anyone else noticed a random popping up of the map since the release of 10.30? Not usually a problem, except it did it during a landing today. John

As the title states, X Plane has been crashing pretty much every other flight. It was perfectly stable until I started flying the Flight Factor 757 on XSquawkBox for VATSIM use. Very frustrating to be at the end of a 2 hour flight on VATSIM only to have it crash to desk top on short final... I very well could be doing something wrong, but I need the expect to help. Attached is my log file. I see several error messages but have no idea what they mean or how to fix. Any help is much appreciated. -Phil Log.txt

Does anyone use or has used gliders in X-Plane? I've developed a small glider airfield for use with World2XPlane and thought I'd give gliding a try, but found the choices of gliders a little disappointing. Although I've never used a glider in reali-life, how is X-Plane's representation and treatment of gliders. I know it models thermals somewhat, but does it also model the airflow up the sides of hills and mountains? I didn't seem to be able to get much lift like I can in say AeroflyFS. Also, I've been having a look at some microlights as well, again there really isn't much out there for X-Plane, which is quite surprising. I know Dreamfoil are developing a trike, …

Hi guys, what do you think about the GTX 970 MSI with 4GB ? At the moment I´m using a GTX 680 card, do you think the MSI card would make a noticeable difference? Thanks, Oli

I loaded X-plane 10.30 a few days ago. Then I bought the LES Saab 340. Having come from FS and PMDG aircraft, I was looking for something along those lines. X-plane 'stops working' when I load it. The second time I try, it will give the option of loading default rendering options. If I select this, sometimes it will load up; sometimes it will crash. I installed the latest drivers for my NVIDIA card, but it hasn't solved the problem. I wanted to see if the problem was just when trying to load X-Plane with the Saab and if it would work better with default aircraft, but foolishly I unchecked the box on the Quickstartup screen, so now it will always try to loa…

How ya doing guys and girls, In the past few days I've spent hours and hours reading and watching videos about xplane and all the different add-ons and my conclusion is, I want in. I'm a long time FSX and recently P3D V2 user but I think I want to give xplane a try but I got a few questions. 1) I got 2 hard drives, both FSX and P3D are on my F drive. My computer is 64 bits but on my F drive I don't have a program files folder, just a program files x86 (I may have got the x86 wrong, I'm not in front of my computer and cant remember), what Im asking though is if I put a Program files folder on my F drive will it be 64bits or do I got to install xplane …

For those of you using PSX and the XView plugin as a bridge to X-plane 10.30, stutters and freezes when cloudy skies are injected either by PSX or through X-Plane's own weather fetch are certainly a constant when using X-Plane's default skies rendering... I have to say that using SkyMaxx v2 has brought my FPS from 12-15 ( sometimes even less... ) to 50-60 !!! Makes a WHOLE LOT of a difference! And, while I was forced to disable XView's control over X-Plane's weather, because it made my X-Plane 10 window perform even more as a slide show, with SkY Maxx I get a 30-40+ fps even under dense skies! This is all with my older PC with a Nvidia Gtx 650 1GB graphics card!!…

Look at these screenshots, and "guess" where these were taken B) You can see a lot more screenshots here (the regions name is in the link): https://picasaweb.google.com/101666907909842492197/PREVIEWAustraliaHDMeshSceneryV3?authuser=0&feat=directlink And yes, I know, that I have told for a long time, that I will not do this region because of the lack of good landclass data. But here I prove, that I never stop researching and experimenting. This time it is not based on one dataset but is a mixture of 3 (and a tiny bit of a fourth) major datasets where non of them would have worked on its own ... but when mixed in the right way (its the "special sou…

I'm not having any luck finding a working Crew announcements plugin or module. There's a few that were started but looks like they never made it out of Alpha development. Is there really no demand for this sort of thing or... It might be time to dust off my programming chops....

Title says it all. X-Plane 10 is on sale with 33% off on Steam right now.

I'm going to do a video series on YouTube (some kind of Let's Play or Let's fly) where I'm using the Pipistrel Panthera by Aerobask, v2 (this update should be available soon) -- and you can tell me where I should go. For the 1st part of the series, you can tell me your wishes for departure and arrival airport, for the others it will be the next destination. Please choose airports which I have included in my "airports with good scenery" maps (https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=zKdUoyDRH6j0.k7Q3rMFgZpe4). Also, the distance should not be longer than 1,000 nm (and if you want to be nice, avoid long water routes... these are boring). You can give me your…

Hey all, I'm a user of the RealityXP stuff on the FSX side, and while it could be the best thing out there, it seems to be dead in the water. So... I'm looking for a solution for XP to do two things: 1) Create a panel to mimic the various RW aircraft I fly, but primarily a DA40 (steam w/ 430/530) 2) Incorporate a GNS430/530 combo that I can update. (430/530 needs to operate as close to real units as possible, e.g. include VNAV capabilities.) 3) Bonus thing! I would also like a properly working KAP 140. I've looked at SimAvio and while the theory seems good, it seems tough to actually create a custom panel without spending a lot more money. I don…

Hi, Firstly I am using the DH6 Twin Otter from the .org and really enjoy flying it. But I am don't know if the dynamics are correct as it is too sensitive on the stick. If someone who has flown this aircraft can confirm it that would be great. Second , I am trying to use to systems one for the scenery and the second as the cockpit but I am not following how to setup the cockpit in Plane Maker again if someone can help me here. Thnx.

Hello! I'm user who have extensively used simulators FS9 and FSX as they are the simulator of preference as they have wide userbase, great amount of freeware airports, the Tu-134s and Tu-154s which are high quality VCs... However, aircraft with VC I'm seriously lacking in FSX is the An-24! And Felis has a payware one, I have bought it many years ago when I tried to get started with X-Plane 9 but quickly gave up due FS9 somehow had the "feel". However, now I want to retry using X-Plane 9 as secondary simulator. I know where to get decent quality airports for CIS areas, but is there recomendations on set ups, configuration, tips? Will it affect the way I fly in FSX?…

Hi, I recently purchased Xplane 10 on Steam and have had some of the best time on any flight simulator thus far. The game runs perfectly, and completely mesmerizes me. However... After about 10 hours of gameplay (on 10.20), I downloaded some simple Lua plugins (Headshake, landing speed, etc), and some aircraft addons (757, and 727). So far, X-plane10 has been 1000x times better than my experience in FSX, and I play it daily. However, now that the 10.30 update has been released, after I start a flight, my Xplane says "Xplane is running out of memory: scenery loading has been disabled", then I click "understood" play for another minute, and it says that "Xplane has co…

I'm gonna buy xplane and give it a try but I'd like to know that the best graphics mods are payware or freeware doesn't matter. I'm new to the XPlane scene so bear with me lol. Thanks All.

Hi everyone, i have version 10.30Beta5 installed. I was seeing reports of stuttering and loss of fps with later versions. I would like to update to the final release version now that it's available, however I am hesitant. How is the the final release concerning the couple of things I mentioned? Thanks in advance. :-) Best, Jeff

Hi, I've been working on a plugin for FSDS that exports X-Plane .obj files. If there are any FSDS users interested in this I'm happy to share it. I'm also open to sharing the source if any programmers would like to contribute to the cause. Please drop me a line if interested. Thanks! - rundio [email protected]

Hi, I'm sure the answer to this must be remarkably obvious but... I downloaded the LES Saab 340, having installed X-Plane 10.30 Global last week. The installer for the Saab invites me to browse and select the main X-plane 10 folder. But I can't find it. All the other associated folders (Aircraft, Resources, Global scenery etc) are there under desktop, also, the folder for 'X-Plane demo', which I downloaded before buying the main programme, but of the main X-Plane 10 folder itself these is no sign. Can anyone point me in the right direction? many thanks

For those of you lucky PSX users, the author of the XView plugin, just posted the following at the Aerowinx Forums: "I have uploaded Version 1.1 of XView at the same web address but in a separate directory. The new features include: - weather updating in XView better reflects settings in PSX - options to turn off updating of weather, time and comms - all options available from settings window and XView.cfg - all options saved to XView.cfg If you run XView/X-Plane once and close it, XView will update your XView.cfg file to include the new parameters." Just tested XView 1.1 with a visual approach to Kathmandu, and it feels even smoother than before :-) I only …

Hi there Just downloaded the demo and then purchased X-Plane 10 global and updated it to 10.30. First impressions are that I love this sim. The only issue I seem to be having is that if I fly around 20000 feet and above then there is no ground displayed at all beyond about 20 miles. My visuals certain look nothing like the screenshots I see on the net with high flying aircraft. If I am over mountains I get partial mountains displayed which then pop in and out of view depending how far I am from them. Just wondering if this is normal or should I be doing some tweaking. I've got the LOD set to max but it makes no difference. Hoping for any advice as I don't…

Guys, I am still experimenting with the "ideal" settings to use XP10 with PSX. Presently I use only OSM Europe ( OSM only ), and photoscenery for LISBON from SimHeaven. One thing I noticed was that apparently it takes more time for XP10 to load when the photoscenery is active, but once loaded the ride is smoother than with default scenery ? Does this make sense? The smoother the ride the better for me, because I'm injecting the 744 data into XP10, and getting terrain elevation from it into PSX - all thanks to that mighty XView plugin :-)

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Hey, I have single engine throttle, prop and mixture control. How can I use these for a 2 engine AC? Bob