As reported above, I originally had serious stutters with the Malibu Mirage. However, Daniel K. at Carenado pointed me to a forum thread in which Ryan reported success with the C90 after reducing the Texture Resolution setting. I did the same, and I've had no stutters or fps problems with the Malibu Mirage since making this change. I'm now very pleased with this purchase.

 

Dugald

The downside of dropping the main texture resolution to high (setting I now use) is that the rest of XP's textures look pretty bad especially when up close. I wish there was a way to load configs so only when I fly the king air I could load High and the go back to Very High when I fly other acft and especially helicopters.

I use multiple copies of the file X-Plane.prf (in the Output\Preferences folder) with different values for _tex_res, but that means selecting the particular copy for the Malibu before any X-Plane session using this aircraft, then changing it back before a session with other aircraft.

 

Dugald

Hmm Interesting,

This is a great plane, but I am finding that X-Plane for Mac crashes at some point during flight with this aircraft, though I don't have the stutters, I wonder if it is still a resolution issue.  If I flying something else like the Q400 I have no issues.

I'm a bit confused. Does this addon have rain effects, working wipers, like b200?

This video shows droplets, but I didn't see wipers clearing the windshield.

nvm, this plane doesn't have wipers  :blush:

No, no annoying torque roll.  But I did find several other annoying/frustrating things - all but one of which are resolved.  

 

• It wasn't possible to set VS, at least not in any practical sense - you had to fiddle and fidget and fuss for literal minutes, and then go to pause (!!!) to change it again - it was that hard.  Fixed by a Carenado update
• I couldn't break ALT hold - it just wouldn't release.  Deleted and re-downloaded, and now ok
• The Carenado Malibu (mine at least) opens with a black panel every time.  The only way to fix this is to go to Instructions and reenable the mouse click thing, then go to 3D view, scroll down to find the three panel lighting knobs after collapsing the yoke, followed by a return to Instructions to shut down the mouse clicks, (or you will have those white circles!)  Someone suggested adjusting gamma to 3 or better.  I'm at 3.5, and still firing up the Malibu in the dark.  Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Hmmm.... no problems with my version.  Sounds like hardware and/or driver issues.  Carenado would never release an aircraft with those major bugs so they must be platform-specific.  On the other hand, I'm using a high-end home-built PC with a fast CPU, 32GB of RAM and a 4GB video card (wish I had 6GB or more).  I lose maybe 10 fps with the Carenado aircraft - maybe not even that much.  I have a hanger full of them.

 

Another thing that I might mention is that although there are apparently download limits on the Carenado web site, I found that they are sometimes reset.  Those limits are intended (I'm sure) to discourage owners from downloading multiple copies and giving them away, which is clearly against the EULA.  However when the new torque-roll fixes were released for 10.45, I went back and asked Carenado how to obtain the updates and they reset my downloads for aircraft that I had owned and updated a few times that used up my downloads.  Perhaps that's because I bought a dozen of their aircraft, or maybe that's standard practice.  They have always been more than fair with me from way back in my old FSX days and they continue to provide outstanding products for X-Plane.

Old thread alert!  They fixed the trq roll

Yes, X-Plane has changed the torque-roll parameters in 10.45.  Additionally, Carenado has released updates to their line of aircraft (most of them) to work with the new X-Plane settings.

 

I think the current advice (correct me if I'm wrong) is to leave things alone unless you think you have a problem with excessive torque-roll.  If so, load your aircraft into PlaneMaker and save it from there.  But do not to this unless you have a problem as Carenado has already tweaked their flight dynamics and the new PlaneMaker settings may not work properly with their new tweaks.

I said above that my Malibu was opening to a dark instrument panel, requiring lots of fiddling to illuminate it.  The problem wasn't gamma, but shadows enabled in rendering.  When shadows were turned off, the panel lights turned on.  (Seems unique to this aircraft).

You can turn on "night vision" lighting to see in dark panel areas.  Shift-N.  Or simply turn on panel lights.