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XP10 Demo Released


Mike Burke 1145825
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Mike Burke 1145825
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http://www.x-plane.com/

 

Anxious to see how this is going to run on current gen hardware. Will report any issues I have with XSB though it should be backwards-compatible.

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Alexander Cohrs
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And the full version can also be ordered, will be shipping 5th or 7th December.

 

Alex

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Ernesto Alvarez 818262
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thanks!

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Charan Kumar
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Looks very promising, tks for da update!!

When is your next Flight||VATSIM HitSquad Member, ZOA/ZAK/GANDER/P1

 

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John Konicek 1211587
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Does anyone know how VATSIM works with X-Plane? I posted a thread on the pilot talk, but I figured I'd check here to see if anyone knows.

 

Thanks!

John Konicek

 

vZMP Controller In Training

 

X-Plane 10 Pilot

 

IRL Student Pilot - Solo - C172

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Mike Burke 1145825
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Hi John, if you want to fly on VATSIM with X-Plane you need to pick up xsquawkbox here: http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xsb/

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Wycliffe Barrett
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Hi

 

I downloaded the demo a couple of weeks ago, clearly microsoft has made me lazy as I found the interface in XP10 absolutely terrible, but Austin likes it and has stated he wont chenge it. I still cant get my X52 Throttle system to work correctly, I push the throttle forward and the throttles in the sim come back towards idle and the engines spool up. Weird.

 

I have managed to get the 747 off the ground, I must admit i like the weight and feel of the aircraft but the external model is a little shoddy, of course this is the default 747 but showing jaggies is not something I am used to looking at.

 

The weather engine is superb but and the distant visibility with fog and mist in valleys is quite impressive, but nothing I can't achieve in FSX. One thing that is a big bonus and that is sloping and bumpy runways. The whole experience is spoilt for me because of the interface I have been trying to find a framerate counter/indicator since I installed it over a week ago with no success. Also adjusting certain variables in the interface regarding graphics doesnt seem to make an awful lot of diffrence, I cant help wondering that having a high end i5 PC is the issue in as much as once you get past a certain hardware configuration you cant improve upon the best xplane provides. (hope that makes sense)

 

Finally the 10 minutes of joystick time is a pain in the butt and just makes the demo more or less unusuable. Unfortunately because of this feature alone I can't make up my mind as to whether I wish to buy the product.

 

The sim is smooth and flight is smooth, bad weather just presents you with a screen full of white so I think tweaking the weather depiction is a must.

 

I have a high pound investment into FSX, so i am perfectly happy to stay with that for the forseeable future, who knows one Aerosoft might get their flight simulator off the ground, so to speak.

 

Wycliffe

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Keith Smith
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Xp10 works with the multiplayer rendering code that is used in the xsb plugin, but I haven't tried it on vatsim yet.

 

Wycliffe, sounds like the throttle was reversed. Go to the joystick axis screen and click the reverse button to invert the mapping. Done.

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Keith Smith
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And the frame rate counter is built in, settings -> data input & output.

 

Line 1, check column 4 for output to the screen.

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Wycliffe Barrett
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Just read my post from 2011 re xplane, good grief I was such a noob when I first started with xplane lol. I have changed my views considerably since then. Wycliffe

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Keith Smith
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I remember reading those posts thinking that you'd either go straight back to FSX, or you'd make the move, whole hog, and would one day laugh at your first impressions of X-Plane.

 

Happily, it was the latter

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