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Does selecting high texture setting ( not very high, or extreme) effect 3-D VC especially add-on aircraft like Jar Design a320 or FF 777, FF 757?!

I'd like to purchase a new plane. What I'm looking for ist good handling on the ground and in the air, not too heavy on frame rates. Most important, no overdone torque effect. It should be configurable for use with the new GPS of 10.30. Thanks for your input. PS: I own the F33. Torque effect is overdone and a little wind blows it off the runway if parking brake is released.

Not sure when/where/why but my water color has become too blue and I miss the darker color. Tried HDR OFF/ON no change and nothing in MAXXFX seems to have caused it, No sure if there is some tweak I mistakenly made along he way. Any Ideas? Current Color too Blue Original Darker Color

Hi! I'm trying to find a way to use the coolie-hat like the right mouse button in external view (e.g. chase-view) In virtual cockpit mode it works but I don't know how to do it in external views. This way it would work like in FSX and I prefer this kind of view-control. Second question: is there a way cycle vies (like in FSX)? Thank you!

I'm just new to X-Plane and I having some trouble getting the controls set up. I can find options to move the camera direct to a certain position, but I cant find which I need to use to pan around with the hat-switch and I cant find the pan-reset function. I already noticed that a lot of names for controls are different from FSX/P3D, what i'm used to, so I think the problem is that I dont recognise how its called in X-Plane. Which functions do I have to use to pan and reset my view in the cockpit?

500GB Samsung 840 EVO - £148 512GB Corsair Force LX - £150 512GB Samsung 850 PRO - £237 it it worth having faster read/writes?

Hi all, I've only ever used the (fantastic) HD Mesh v2, however I'm a bit confused. I've downloaded both osm_Europe and World2XPlane (+ the french scenery) - should these both be installed, what is the difference between them? Hope you can advise!

I have a good friend that lives out of state and we would like to fly on-line. We tried to connect today, but were not successful. Does anyone know if version 10.11 works in a multiplayer environment? Bill Clark

I'm trying to set up X-Plane for the first time, I'm totaly new to this and I cant find how to create a new view for the second monitor build in my hardware panel to show the main part of the panel. Can someone please explain to me to do this?

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I have been enjoying the new Carenado CT206H. I have tried flying a few RNAV approaches with the new GPS and it works fine except I can't seem to get it to do vertical guidance. I haven't flown too many RNAV approaches before and don't really know if it's possible to do with this GPS. I see that there are options to set vnav altitude data but I was under the impression that was sort of a way to help calculate descent rates. I have also tried activating appr on the AP while at the IAF and the IF but I still don't seem to get any vnav help. It's not a huge deal I was just curious. The approach I tried was at KRIC (EPICS RNAV (GPS) RNWY 16) --Jon Why is it that r…

I already have a full P3D setup, but simply because of the 64-bit structure from x-plane, I'm getting very curious to give it a try. Problem I'm having (same as with P3D and FSX before that) is the default scenery. I'm mostly fly smaller aircrafts at low altitude, because I like to sit back and enjoy the view. I find a lot of airports and small areas, but to start with a new sim, I'm not imediatelly going to spend a ton of money on so many small areas to get a little coverage. Therefor I would like to start with a base with global coverage. And I dont mean it should be cheap, or free, but more like a reasonable amount to make a decent start. Think of something comparabl…

Was looking on the Alabeo website and noticed they released the C195. Looks beautiful and will have to pick it up soon.

I'm about to purchase a new GA plane. But can't decide on which one to get. I really like the CT206H due to the fact that you can use the new and improved GNS 530 from X-Plane 10.30 right out of the box. But I also like the B200 because of the overall complexity of the aircraft. I need help on deciding on which one to get? What would be a better all around GA plane? Is the B200 faster than the CT206H in terms of speed?

Bug fixes in beta 7: Fixed floating car in office building in airport lib. F-4 canopy does not block clouds in HDR mode. Pilots added to F-4, Kingair and Baron. Fix airplane change from IOS station. Fixed errors when auto-updating. Note that this fix will work when you update beta 7 to beta 8. Direct-To on the new GPS remembers the active point in the current flight plan. This allows you to re-center the CDI with just two clicks: -D->, ENT. Fixed GPS turn count-down. Fixed a confusing display on the new GPS direct-to page leading users to believe they cannot select the NRST airport field. Fixes to French translation. Fixes to METAR parser for thunder storms. Fixed tr…

Here I am at FL180....cruising at a steady 30 FPS...smooth as silk, unless clouds change up for that brief pause-freeze, and really lamenting that we do not have ORBX-Global for this simulator. What an amazing world it could be, with ORBX involvement for the XPX franchise. If that were the case...there would be a ton of following adopters like there's no tomorrow! XPX gives you stellar FPS performance, and only needs what ORBX already provides for FSX/P3D. What a view, I would have this very moment...and would be lovin' it..... C'mon John....time to put your big toe into the water....at least work on an ORBX-G cross-over.... Build the play field...and they…

Took me a number of adjustments, but figured it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMS_gx7tNc#t=895

Been making ZL18 satellite scenery for myself for a few regions using G2XPL (working well) but unfortunately the coloration of the scenery (from the source - Bing) isn't quite saturated enough. Really the greens mainly, but even the browns are "off" a bit. Perhaps Bing/Google do pick a certain look for the tiles for clarity of the image or something? Does anyone know if any of the Art Controls that you can tweak in the DataRef editor could do anything about that? Thanks for any thoughts.

Now that a large number of user generated airports have been submitted via WED and released into Beta 6 I am seeing a huge number of signage errors appearing in my Log.txt. If one selects an airport (within WED) that has the error, its signage does not show up within WED since APT.DATA does not show buildings, signage. Only runways, and taxiways (Before WED input). It only shows if the airport layout has been modified and is within Custom Scenery. An error within log.txt example: could not find tile 48 name is close-frame Could not find tile 47 name is open-frame (in sign '{@L}|{@Y}{^l}A6{@L}A{@Y}32-14{^u}' from airport KFRG) Could not find tile 48 name is cl…

Wow what a year for Flight Simmers. Sorry no link, I'm on my phone. www.dovetailgames.com/news

By the looks of it, this team is seriously thinking of making an impact on the X-Plane world. Check them out here;http://rotatesim.com/category/x-plane/

Wow, came back and read a thread I posted in and realized I needed to address what I wrote. It got so heated I was locked out before I could put out the fire. First off to the XPX users offended, I'd like to apologize as we all love our Sim of choice. With so much going on in our community it's easy to get carried away. I read the interview posted above my post and lost it with everything that I see companies doing when it comes to the hobby we love. Whether it's Microsoft dropping the whole series, FS11 canned/turned into Flight, DT taking FSX that may not be more than a GUI change for Steam. Basically in a nut shell companies are in an identity crisis in how …

I have installed both of these in X-Plane 10.30b5 and everything seems to be working except for the night lighting transition. I did everything that was mentioned by SLAI: I disabled this line in the RTH_clouds.lua: -- set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/ambient_gain", 1.0 ) and did a test in X-Plane by holding down SHIFT+L to fast forward the time to night and the lights all come on at the same time and doesn't slowly transition. Anyone else can get these 2 scripts to play nicely with one another?

Lot of new interest and see a few people helping out. Not sure who they have set up as moderators. http://steamcommunity.com/app/292180/discussions/

http://developer.x-plane.com/2014/07/how-to-update-x-plane-10-30-beta-5-to-x-plane-10-30-beta-6/ Bugs fixed in beta 6: Fixed problem with framerate, particularly with Windows AMD cards. Fixed slow performance with clouds – you should be able to use the same cloud settings you used in X-Plane 10.25. Fixed XPLMBindTexture2d – it now resets the the GL_TEX_ENV mode (as it used to in X-Plane 10.25 and older). This fixes incorrect reflections when MaxxFX and the A320 Neo (or FlightFactor 777 or Leading Edge Saab) are used together. Fixed issues with UDP interface: “Place user at airport” and setting COM frequencies works correctly. Fixes 3rd party apps like X-Airports Fix…