Classic British Flight Sim

Hot off the press, 11.50 is now out of beta and is the latest official version.

Hopefully this is the start of some modernisation to X-Plane

I'll give it a go tx for the heads up, haven't used XP in forever..... pre Covid I reckon.....

WOW!! Great news and can't wait until I download it. Had copied X-Plane 11 over to my D: Drive and ran the Betas for a few weeks and boy, what a difference it was, no stutters and freezing caused by bottle necking so now going to download this update.

I see that Austin is also re-doing the weather, I should think that hopefully it will be completed.......................Before Xmas?

Regards
Nigel.

Update....... that went well...... fired up ...... CRASH. no explanation. It's on minimum settings too. Tried twice. I no longer have the patience. Oh well back to FSX.

Alex : if you are using an Nvidia Geforce card, you need driver update minimum of 440.26 to make Vulkan work, and I presume there are similar requirements for other graphics . You also need to restart the computer once you have installed the update

Having just tried it I am very impressed : not least by the fact that a/c seem to handle rather more smoothly than before

Fired up X-Plane 11 yesterday and went straight to Orbx London City Airport with the F50, well pleased with the result full blown graphics apart from Reflection Detail which I have never personally liked, lined up on runway 27 facing towards the city which was a big bottleneck on my system with around 20fps plus the odd stutter here and there but this time.........Brilliant performance, 35fps on the ground and once airborne fps increased towards the centre of London to 45fps.

As X-Plane 11 is now working so smoothly and as nearly all my flying is in the UK I think I am changing direction favouring X-Plane 11 over MS2020.

Although not discounting it permanently, I really have all I need for the time being.

Regards
Nigel.

I haven't really followed the beta discussion so I didn't really know what to expect. The update was simple and after checking the Vulkan box I restarted XP. Just to have a quick look I simply went for "Resume Current Flight" which was the Torquesim Islander in Oban on ORBX TE UK. It looked good and everything seemed very smooth, so I popped up the FPS display......where did they all come from ??????????

I rarely see much above 30 with my rig and my settings (when I actually check, if it's smooth I just ignore FPS), and here I was in the same location, with the same aircraft, looking at 50+

I need to fly over some denser areas in more complex machinery to see how things are there, but I am amazed at the difference Vulkan has made so far. I don't use VR so I can't comment on that side of things, but in my brief testing so far everything is running really well.

TTFN