X-plane 10 64, my first impressions:

Hey Guys I have been chipping away at XPX64 for the last few days, after getting over some growing pains regarding the sim not starting:

http://forum.avsim.n...he-sim-to-load/

I have everything up, running, and smooth.

I am so happy that we have the continued development of XPX, despite all of the growing pains that entails version to version. This is a big leap forward for the sim.

I put together a folder of my most frequently used scenery to see how the sim would work for me. I am a ASEL private pilot, I limit my flying to the state of Florida in the USA, and I own a Vans RV-9A.

It was very important for me to render an accurate home flying area, just as important as having a high fidelity flight model, I was able to do this with FSX, but the sim itself was unfortunately quite unstable, what with all of the add-ons I had, especially when I was trying to simulate instrument flying. I know that this may all have changed by now as all of these sims are evolving, but I have gone ahead and focused on XPX.

I took some shots of typical areas I like to fly in central Florida using default XPX autogen, and a 17 LOD photoscenery of all of Florida(100 GB!) I created with G2XPL.

The shots are with the Leading Edge Simulation Beech Duchess, and my combo of photo-scenery and default scenery. I am not an artist or a screen shot enthusiast, just a guy trying to become a safer RW pilot, so please forgive any screen-shot faux pas.

Heading East on I4, at dusk on a gloomy day, looks really good, cars have lights, and the buildings seem to fit well. You have to see it in motion.

Oy, this default GPS has got to be updated from this blurry mess. At least it forces you to practice your radio-navigation

Central Florida really does look like this with lakes and subdivisions

50FPS and smooth as silk(it helps that it's gloomy and thus my viewing radius is about 10 nm, which makes a big difference to performance)

I like the panel lighting, flying at dusk or at night is a joy.

Okay, back to a brighter day, the visibility is about right for Florida summer haze, but it's not quite bright and glare-filled enough, maybe the gamma setting can improve this, maybe a bloom type plugin is available.

All in all, I really enjoyed this, the sim is smooth and infinitely configurable. All of my Saitek Plugins are broken, so that's a bummer, and Track IR has gone hyperkinetic, I don't remember it jumping around this much before. I think this is where Austin's "Plausible" world can work, when overlayed onto photoscenry. This is just the default XPX street map data(OSM data for Florida is actually worse), places with better OSM data look even better(i.e. France).

Cheers, happy simming.